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It has been an awful few weeks.  Terrorist attacks in Munich, Ansbach, Nice, Kabul, Baghdad…and those are just the major ones.  Thousands killed and wounded.   In what is more frightening to many, the tools of the terrorist have evolved from guns and bombs to knives, axes and even a truck.  The banal has become […]

Every day we seem to read about yet another terrorist attack attributed to Islamic State.  Whether or not the group claims the event – and there is a lot of analysis over when it does and when it doesn’t – there is no question that in the minds of most people IS is the world’s […]

I see that one of the greatest terrorism scholars alive, Bruce Hoffman, has just published a piece in Foreign Affairs predicting an eventual alliance between Al Qaeda (AQ) and Islamic State (IS).  I see this article as Mr. Hoffman’s attempt to remind us,  as he so often has, that AQ is not dead and cannot […]