Michael Delefortrie grew up in a secular Christian household in Antwerp, Belgium, but secretly converted to Islam in 2006, when he was seventeen. One day, he came home from the mosque to discover that his father…
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Ali Soufan Featured on Witness to Guantanamo: We Need a Strategy Against Terrorism
The United States is creating more terrorists than it is capturing because it is only using tactics–arresting individuals, disrupting a single plot, using drones, etc.–rather than using a comprehensive strategy to combat a spreading ideology
Read MorePatrick Skinner Op-Ed on The Cipher Brief: The Power of ISIS’ Message
A great deal of attention in the U.S. has understandably been paid to how ISIS promotes its ideology, with a focus on ISIS’ social media prowess and its ability to reach a potentially limitless supply of lone wolf actors.
Read MoreTSG Report Quoted on Al Arabiya: David Cameron Blamed for Rise of ISIS in Syria
The former head of Britain’s Armed Forces has blamed Prime Minster David Cameron for the rise of ISIS, the Daily Mail reported on Saturday…
Read MoreAli Soufan Quoted in The Christian Science Monitor: Have US Laws Created an Online Haven for Islamic State Propaganda?
Arab hacktivists dedicated to ‘taking down’ the jihadists’ sites say US laws and bureaucracy impede their work, making US-hosted sites attractive to the Islamic State.
Read MoreRichard Barrett Quoted on Associated Press: Train Heroes Highlight a Security Concern: How to Stop the ‘Lone Wolf’ Attacks
PARIS — The gunman had an arsenal that he claims to have stumbled upon in a park near the train station. Like three other men accused of drawing up failed plans for attacks in France recently, the suspect denied any links to terrorism, telling his lawyer he was homeless and only wanted to rob a train “to eat.”
Read MorePatrick Skinner Quoted by Agence France-Presse: Libya in Tatters After Bloody Year of Rival Governments
Tripoli (AFP) – Torn apart by a year of fighting between two rival governments, Libya is now in tatters with hopes sparked by the ouster of dictator Moamer Kadhafi having fizzled out…
Read MoreTSG IntelBrief Quoted on Business Insider: Syria’s Assad is Unleashing ‘A Systematic Campaign of Attacks Against Hospitals’
In an absolutely horrific drive to undermine Syrian rebels at any cost, the regime of President Assad has launched a concerted and systematic campaign of airstrikes against hospitals in opposition-controlled territory, Mike Giglio and Munzer al-Awad report for BuzzFeed…
Read MoreTSG IntelBrief Quoted on Christian Science Monitor: Ignoring Wrongs in Syria to Battle Islamic State
The US cannot hope the Assad regime will contain Islamic State because the regime’s atrocities are a prime recruiting tool for IS.
Read MorePatrick Skinner Quoted on Defense One: The Ashley Madison Hack Is Not OPM (But the Government May Be Watching It Anyway)
Thousands of the site’s affair-seeking users registered from .mil and .gov domains — at least ostensibly.
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