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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.

April 27, 2022

The Urgent Need for an Overhaul of Global Biorisk Management

Filippa Lentzos, Gregory D. Koblentz, Joseph Rodgers

A View from the CT Foxhole: Lawrence Kerr, Former Director, Office of Pandemics and Emerging Threats, Office of Global Affairs, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Paul Cruickshank, Don Rassler, Kristina Hummel

A New Age of Bioterror: Anticipating Exploitation of Tunable Viral Agents

Stephen Hummel, F. John Burpo, Jeremy Hershfield, Andrew Kick, Kevin J. O’Donovan, Jason Barnhill

March 31, 2022

The Security Threat Posed by the Corona-skeptic Querdenken Movement in Germany

Daniel H. Heinke

The Colleyville Hostage Crisis: Aafia Siddiqui’s Continued Pertinence in Jihadi Terror Plots against the United States

Bennett Clifford

February 24, 2022

A Prison Attack and the Death of its Leader: Weighing Up the Islamic State’s Trajectory in Syria

Charlie Winter, Abdullah Alrhmoun

A View from the CT Foxhole: Randall Blake, Former National Intelligence Officer for Transnational Threats, National Intelligence Council

Paul Cruickshank, Kristina Hummel, Don Rassler

Trends in Iranian External Assassination, Surveillance, and Abduction Plots

Matthew Levitt

January 27, 2022

The Islamic State Threat in Taliban Afghanistan: Tracing the Resurgence of Islamic State Khorasan

Amira Jadoon, Abdul Sayed, Andrew Mines

The Islamic State at Low Ebb in Iraq: The Insurgent Tide Recedes Again

Michael Knights, Alex Almeida