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Lashkar-e-Taiba is not the next al Qaeda but remains a threat to the U.S.

Terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba poses a threat to U.S. interests but probably will not become "al Qaeda 2.0," according to Stephel Tankel, who spoke Dec. 6 at the New America Foundation in

What a former prosecutor learned interviewing hundreds of jihadis

What drives Islamic radicals--and what could change their minds--is still widely misunderstood, said Ken Ballen, a former federal prosecutor who interviewed hundreds of them for his book Terrorists

Islamic State of Iraq likely to launch terrorist attacks in West, says paper

The successor organization to al Qaeda in Iraq, the Islamic State of Iraq, is increasingly likely to attempt terrorist attacks in the West, says a paper from Brian Fishman, a counterterrorism

Agency politics can reduce opening data to a communications exercise

Opening data for public use is as much a political issue as a technological issue, said panelists on June 14 at OpenGovDC in Washington. The idea of openness is encouraged government-wide, and

White House: Problem of online trust has no government solution

The prevailing, certificate-based web browsing model is a significant cybersecurity threat for Internet users, but this multi-jurisdictional, multi-stakeholder problem has no governmental solution,