Geopoliticus January 7, 2015 Who attacked Charlie Hebdo in Paris? Assessing a Jihadi Attack in The West, ISIS vs al Qaeda Today’s terrorist attack in Paris killed 12 people at the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine; presumably for their perceived insults... Read more »
Geopoliticus October 9, 2014 Al Qaeda versus ISIS: In the campaign for jihad’s top slot, Yemen is a swing state. The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria’s (ISIS) rise began in the summer of 2013 but became fully evident... Read more »
Geopoliticus October 14, 2013 Zawahiri’s Latest Message: Please Listen To Me Jihadis, Stop Bickering While it’s not uncommon to see Ayman al-Zawahiri wagging his finger in a quarterly or semi-annual propaganda video spewing... Read more »
Geopoliticus August 7, 2013 External Forces Driving al-Qaeda Action and Zawahiri’s Global Conference Call Earlier this week at FPRI, I proposed the “two competing al Qaedas hypothesis” as a theory for explaining the... Read more »
Geopoliticus August 5, 2013 Al-Qaeda Plots, NSA Intercepts & the Era Of Terrorism Competition This weekend, the U.S. closed 22 of its embassies throughout the Middle East and North Africa in response to... Read more »
Geopoliticus February 12, 2013 Why al Qaeda Needs Donations More Than Ransoms For several months up to the recent French intervention in Mali, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has... Read more »