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Operations, Plots & Attacks

Learn more about specific terrorist operations, plots, and attacks through the case studies, profiles, and lessons learned articles that we have produced.

September 1, 2010

The Role and Significance of Signature Attacks in the Iraqi Insurgency

Michael Knights

August 1, 2010

Lessons Learned from the July 2010 Norwegian Terrorist Plot

Brynjar Lia, Petter Nesser

Manchester, New York and Oslo

Raffaello Pantucci

The Growing Danger from Radical Islamist Groups in the United States

Paul Cruickshank

Evaluating the Al-Qa`ida Threat to the U.S. Homeland

Phillip Mudd

July 3, 2010

The Ghazi Force

Syed Manzar Abbas Zaidi

Al-Shabab’s Agenda in the Wake of the Kampala Suicide Attacks

Tim Pippard

May 3, 2010

The Kidnapping and Execution of Khalid Khwaja in Pakistan

Rahimullah Yusufzai

April 3, 2010

Beyond the Moscow Bombings

Christopher Swift

January 13, 2010

The Pakistan Military’s Adaptation to Counterinsurgency in 2009

Sameer Lalwani