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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.

August 15, 2008

Key Factors for the Recent Growth of the Afghan Insurgency

Captain Michael Erwin, U.S. Army

July 15, 2008

The High Stakes Battle for the Future of Musa Qala

David C. Isby

An Ideological and Operational Threat

Abdul Hameed Bakier, Erich Marquardt

June 15, 2008

Al-Qa`ida in Iraq

Michael Knights

May 15, 2008

Al-Qa`ida’s Medinan Strategy

Jack F. Williams, Marisa Urgo

Combating Terrorism with Non-Lethal Weapons

John B. Alexander

April 15, 2008

After Action Report

Major Jeremy Gwinn, U.S. Army

Al-Qa`ida in Yemen’s 2008 Campaign

Gregory D. Johnsen

March 15, 2008

Lessons Learned from the September 2007 German Terrorist Plot

Petter Nesser

February 15, 2008

Deconstructing the Myth about al-Qa`ida and Khobar

Thomas Hegghammer