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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.

June 28, 2024

The Threat Matrix Facing the Paris Olympics

Petter Nesser, Wassim Nasr

May 30, 2024

Rising Threats to Public Officials: A Review of 10 Years of Federal Data

Pete Simi, Gina Ligon, Seamus Hughes, Natalie Standridge

A View from the CT Foxhole: Ahmad Zia Saraj, Former General Director of the National Directorate of Security of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

Paul Cruickshank

From Tajikistan to Moscow and Iran: Mapping the Local and Transnational Threat of Islamic State Khorasan

Amira Jadoon, Abdul Sayed, Lucas Webber, Riccardo Valle

May 3, 2011

Ali Soufan Cites Deadly Vanguards Report in NYTimes Op-Ed

Scott Helfstein

May 10, 2010

Times Square bomb: Did Pakistan Taliban send its ‘C’ team?

April 22, 2010

CTC-FDNY-HBO Panel and Presenation of “Terror in Mumbai” Documentary

Ambassador Michael Sheehan, John Abizaid, Reid Sawyer

February 2, 2010

Dr. Scott Helfstein on Fox News