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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.

January 3, 2010

AQAP in Yemen and the Christmas Day Terrorist Attack

Gregory D. Johnsen

December 3, 2009

Assessing the Progress of Pakistan’s South Waziristan Offensive

Rahimullah Yusufzai

November 3, 2009

Jihadist Radicalization and the 2004 Madrid Bombing Network

Fernando Reinares

Lashkar-i-Tayyiba- One Year After Mumbai

Stephen Tankel

October 3, 2009

Understanding History’s Seven Stages of Jihad

Sebastian Gorka

The October 2009 Terrorist Attack in Italy and its Wider Implications

Federico Bordonaro

Israel as an Al-Qa`ida Target- Sorting Rhetoric From Reality

Matthew Levitt

September 3, 2009

The July 17 Jakarta Suicide Attacks and the Death of Noordin Top

Noor Huda Ismail

August 15, 2009

The Absence of Shi`a Suicide Attacks in Iraq

Babak Rahimi

July 15, 2009

The Terrorist Threat to Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons

Shaun Gregory