Author Archives for Clint Watts

Smarter Counterterrorism in The Age of Competing Al Qaeda’s

February 10, 2014 5:34 pm Published by Clint Watts Comments Off Last week Ayman al- Zawahiri, al Qaeda’s global leader publicly dissolved the relationship between al Qaeda Central and the...

Israel: Has ‘Old Guard’ al Qaeda Shifted Focus?

January 23, 2014 4:32 pm Published by Clint Watts Comments Off Yesterday, the Jerusalem Post followed later by the New York Times reported that three Palestinians seeking to attack targets...

In Syria, an al Qaeda group falls victim to other Islamists and jihadists

January 6, 2014 3:01 pm Published by Clint Watts Comments Off The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (a.k.a. ISIS) for many months dominated the jihadi landscape in Syria. ...

Post-Snowden: The Hypocrisy of Tech Company Calls for Surveillance Reform

December 22, 2013 7:04 pm Published by Clint Watts Comments Off The recent call by certain technology corporations to reform government surveillance makes for great public relations, but underneath these calls...

Do al Qaeda Affiliates Actually Have a Plan?

December 2, 2013 2:14 pm Published by Clint Watts Comments Off The rise of many jihadi affiliates around the Africa and the Middle East has renewed the American media quest...

Zawahiri’s Latest Message: Please Listen To Me Jihadis, Stop Bickering

October 14, 2013 5:13 pm Published by Clint Watts Comments Off While it’s not uncommon to see Ayman al-Zawahiri wagging his finger in a quarterly or semi-annual propaganda video spewing...

External Forces Driving al-Qaeda Action and Zawahiri’s Global Conference Call

August 7, 2013 9:47 pm Published by Clint Watts Comments Off Earlier this week at FPRI, I proposed the “two competing al Qaedas hypothesis” as a theory for explaining the...

Al-Qaeda Plots, NSA Intercepts & the Era Of Terrorism Competition

August 5, 2013 4:41 pm Published by Clint Watts Comments Off This weekend, the U.S. closed 22 of its embassies throughout the Middle East and North Africa in response to...

Foreign Fighters and Ants: How they form their colonies

July 16, 2013 1:35 pm Published by Clint Watts Comments Off Swarm intelligence has proven particularly useful over the past two decades in identifying more efficient methods for computer engineering,...

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Author Archives for Clint Watts

Smarter Counterterrorism in The Age of Competing Al Qaeda’s

Israel: Has ‘Old Guard’ al Qaeda Shifted Focus?

In Syria, an al Qaeda group falls victim to other Islamists and jihadists

Post-Snowden: The Hypocrisy of Tech Company Calls for Surveillance Reform

Do al Qaeda Affiliates Actually Have a Plan?

Zawahiri’s Latest Message: Please Listen To Me Jihadis, Stop Bickering

External Forces Driving al-Qaeda Action and Zawahiri’s Global Conference Call

Al-Qaeda Plots, NSA Intercepts & the Era Of Terrorism Competition

Foreign Fighters and Ants: How they form their colonies

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