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Al Qaeda diminished, say panelists
Affiliate movements do have ideological overlap and there is connectivity between them and core al Qaeda, said Stephen Tankel, but a sensible path for defeating them lies in a regional approach.
Alec Ross: No sympathy for al Shabaab Twitter account
Government control of the Internet is a losing proposition and al Shabaab deserves "no sympathy" from efforts to remove it from Twitter, said a State Department official during a Jan. 10 online talk .
Profile of homegrown jihadis elusive
Despite an apparent spike in homegrown jihadist plots or attacks since May 2009, no workable general profile of domestic terrorists inspired by extremist Islam exists, says the Congressional Research
Boko Haram, emerging threat from Nigeria?
Northern Nigerian radical militant group Boko Haram poses an emerging threat to the United States, say members of the House Homeland Security committee, although witnesses during a Nov. 30
RAND: Homegrown terrorist recruitment efforts tiny, inept
Terrorist recruitment in America has become increasingly important, as large-scale attacks have become harder to pull off in light of improved U.S. security, but recruitment efforts have been largely
State Dept. presents annual report on global terrorism
Worldwide terrorist attacks declined 19.3 percent from 2006 to 2010, according to statistics from the State Department's annual report to Congress on global terrorism, posted online Aug. 18. But the
Al Qaeda not recruiting jihadis in Europe, says Rand
The majority of jihadi terrorist plots in Europe are initiated independently of al Qaeda and its affiliates, finds a Rand Corp. report posted online July 5. The report, commissioned by the Defense
King Muslim radicalization hearing folds in on itself
The topic of recruitment by Somali terrorist group al Shabaab during a July 27 House Homeland Security Committee took at times second place to a more controversial topic: that of the hearing itself.
