Summary: Readers send in questions, which we attempt to answer. Is the fear of Islam understandable? Yes. Is it reasonable? Does it warrant State action? Read below for some answers, and a guess as to the real reason for the surge of fear-mongering about Islam. (This post was revised on August 3 to make the …
“From Failed Bombings to Armed Jihadist Assaults“, Scott Stewart, Stratfor, 27 May 2010 — “This report is republished with permission of STRATFOR” One of the things we like to do in our Global Security and Intelligence Report from time to time is examine the convergence of a number of separate and unrelated developments and then analyze …
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“Setting the Record Straight on Grassroots Jihadism“, Scott Stewart, Stratfor, 13 May 2010 — This report is republished with permission of STRATFOR. In the wake of the botched May 1 Times Square attack, some observers have begun to characterize Faisal Shahzad and the threat he posed as some sort of new or different approach to …
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“Jihadists in Iraq: Down For The Count?“ By Scott Stewart, Stratfor, 29 April 2010 — This report is republished with permission of STRATFOR. On April 25, The Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) posted a statement on the Internet confirming that two of its top leaders, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayub al-Masri, had been killed …
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Here’s a typically wonderful analysis by Stratfor of al Qaeda. Except of course, for one detail: does al Qaeda exist in any substantial form? As I asked in 2005: Is al Qaeda a powerful stateless global conspiracy, like SPECTRE in Ian Fleming’s James Bond stories? Or COBRA in the GI Joe comics? A real world comparison …
