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Major Reports

October 20, 2016

Remotely Piloted Innovation: Terrorism, Drones and Supportive Technology

Don Rassler

March 1, 2015

Abu al-Layth al-Libi (Jihadi Bios Project)

Kevin Jackson

June 4, 2012

Beware of Imitators: Al-Qa`ida through the Lens of its Confidential Secretary

Nelly Lahoud

May 3, 2012

Letters from Abbottabad: Bin Ladin Sidelined?

Nelly Lahoud, Stuart Caudill, Liam Collins, Gabriel Koehler-Derrick, Don Rassler, Muhammad al-`Ubaydi

July 13, 2011

The Haqqani Nexus and the Evolution of al-Qa’ida

Don Rassler, Vahid Brown

December 16, 2010

Self Inflicted Wounds

Anne Stenersen, Bernard Haykel, Brynjar Lia, Marc Lynch, Mohammed M. Hafez, Reuven Paz, Steven Brooke, Vahid Brown

February 25, 2010

The Failure of Jihad in Saudi Arabia

Thomas Hegghammer

December 1, 2009

Deadly Vanguards

Muhammad al-Obaidi, Nassir Abdullah, Scott Helfstein

July 10, 2009

The Power of Truth

Brian Fishman, Jarret Brachman, Joseph Felter

July 2, 2007

Al-Qa’ida’s (Mis)Adventures in the Horn of Africa

Clint Watts, Jacob Shapiro, Vahid Brown

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