TERRORISM SALON: Yosri Fouda on Challenges for the Next President
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(Yosri Fouda is the Chief Investigative Correspondent and Former London Bureau Chief for Al-Jazeera).
By Steve Clemons
TERRORISM SALON: Peter Bergen on AQ Leadership
(Peter Bergen is a Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation). For what its worth none of the AQ leadership are in urban areas. That was a very costly mistake for them. Since 2004 they are all in the FATA.
TERRORISM SALON: Stephanie Kaplan on Bin Laden’s Whereabouts
(Stephanie Kaplan is a Visiting Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center). In regards to Greg’s query — Briefly, I don’t assume that Bin Ladin and al-Zawahiri are hiding in urban areas (but, of course, I have no intelligence upon which to base this assumption).
Julia Sweig: DC’s Go-To Latin America Diva
Julia Sweig in one of DC’s finest Latin America policy divas — and she appeared recently on The Colbert Show. It’s a great segment.
TERRORISM SALON: Peter Bergen on Afghan Polling
(Peter Bergen is a Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation). For a detailed snap shot of what Afghans really think take a look at the third yearly survery of Afghan opinion by BBC News and ABC News. If you don’t trust polling data no need to read it. December 2007 poll (ABC News/BBC)….
TERRORISM SALON: Greg Djerejian on Tactics Versus Strategy
(Greg Djerejian is a financial services professional and publishes the popular blog The Belgravia Dispatch) With all due respect (and I sincerely mean this, not meant just as the requisite boiler-plate), I find Peter a tad too cock-sure in how he portrays more boots on the ground as a total no-brainer (“well, do the math”)….
TERRORISM SALON: Peter Bergen on Security Deliverables for Afghans
(Peter Bergen is a Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation). The question about more boots on the ground is a relatively easy one to answer.
TERRORISM SALON: Greg Djerejian on Rethinking Afghanistan Strategy
(Greg Djerejian is a financial services professional and publishes the popular blog The Belgravia Dispatch) I agree with almost everything Peter writes below (particularly his “second” mistake, the clever subtlety he flags in his “third mistake”, and then too his last paragraph-to which I’d add the need to effectively engage with Syria too).
TERRORISM SALON: Peter Bergen on What “Winning” the War Means
(Peter Bergen is a Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation). I wanted to respond to the idea that somehow we are making the same mistake in Afghanistan that the Soviets did. This is a real misreading of history. The Soviets killed at least 1.
TERRORISM SALON: Alistair Millar on Diversifying Counterterrorism Efforts
(Alistair Millar is the Director of the Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation.