TERRORISM SALON: Peter Bergen’s Atta Follow Up
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(Peter Bergen is a Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation).
By Steve Clemons
TERRORISM SALON: Yosri Fouda on Atta’s Embodiment of the Arab/Muslim Street
(Yosri Fouda is the Chief Investigative Correspondent and Former London Bureau Chief for Al-Jazeera). This is also true. But there is a difference between ‘select’ and ‘invent’. Atta, who in my opinion epitomizes the heart of a very frustrated Arab/Muslim street, was already there for the taking.
TERRORISM SALON: Peter Bergen on Atta’s Selection
(Peter Bergen is a Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation). I agree with much of Yosri’s post. But Bin Laden selected Atta to run the 9/11 operation. This is what effective leaders do. Select the right people to carry out their plans.
TERRORISM SALON: Yosri Fouda on the Pivotal Role of the Mohammed Atta’s
(Yosri Fouda is the Chief Investigative Correspondent and Former London Bureau Chief for Al-Jazeera). Though I would largely agree with Peter as to the importance of bin Laden’s figure, I would not say that without him “9/11 would have been one of many harebrained schemes in the head of KSM.
TERRORISM SALON: Peter Bergen on Prime Movers in History
(Peter Bergen is a Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation).
TERRORISM SALON: Matthew Levitt on OBL vs. AQ
(Matthew Levitt is a Senior fellow and Director of the Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy). Peter’s is an excellent article.
TERRORISM SALON: Peter Bergen on Why bin Laden Still Matters
(Peter Bergen is a Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation).
Eisenhower: Republican Party is Running Out of Ideas
Life long Republican and granddaughter of Ike, Susan Eisenhower, said today on an Obama campaign conference call featuring campaign manager David Plouffe and herself that while she truly regrets it, the direction John McCain has been pressured to go is showing that “the Republican Party is running out of ideas.
TERRORISM SALON: Paul Cruickshank on the Limits of Home-Grown Cells
(Paul Cruickshank is a Fellow at the NYU Center on Law and Security).
STREAMING LIVE TODAY: Sidney Blumenthal on the Demise of the Republican Party
Recently, I hosted Grover Norquist speaking about the Republican party and conservative movement, and indirectly what he saw as the continued constraints on Democrats.