A new post for Free Rad!cals, this time using the case of Umar Patek, the Bali bomber just going on trial in Indonesia, to explore some bigger themes about terrorist networks that I wrote about in an earlier journal article. I should add that it was also sparked off by the fact that I happened [...]
Archive for February, 2012
Peripatetic Jihadi
Posted: February 13, 2012 in Free Rad!calsTags: Afghanistan, French jihad, Jemaah Islamiyah, middle managers in terrorist networks, Osama bin laden, terrorism, terrorist networks, Umar Patek
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The Dangers on the Path of Being a Large Power
Posted: February 8, 2012 in Oriental Morning PostTags: China, China and the world, China-Africa, China-Libya, Chinese foreign policy, kidnapping
A new article in today’s 东方早报 (Oriental Morning Post), a daily paper in China that I write a semi-regular column for. This was intended to come out last week talking a bit about China’s growing problems with citizens abroad and the dangerous places they are, and was meant to be pegged to the kidnapping the workers in [...]
The Perils of Leaderless Jihad
Posted: February 8, 2012 in Foreign PolicyTags: British counter-terrorism, counter-radicalization, counter-terrorism, Europe, kashmir, Pakistan, radicalization, UK
A new piece for Foreign Policy’s AfPak Channel, this time looking in some detail at a plot that was disrupted in the UK last week. The chaps are about to get sentenced this week, and I may cover another aspect of this in another upcoming piece some point soon. On another note the friendly team [...]
Muslim Integration: America Must Avoid Europe’s Mistakes
Posted: February 2, 2012 in Free Rad!calsTags: counter-radicalization, counter-terrorism, Europe, terrorism, UK, US, US foreign policy
Another short blogpost for Free Rad!cals, this time on a topic that has been bugging me for a while. It seems as though the US is making a few unfortunate choices in counter-radicalisation terms that emulate earlier mistakes Europe made, something particularly silly given how much attention they have lavished on studying and criticising Europe’s [...]
