A longer post for Free Rad!cals, looking in detail at the case of the Tipton Taliban (the title I had initially gone with) in the wake of the latest Wikileaks information dump. I do not think that these chaps were very serious jihadists, but more likely your archetypal jihadi tourists. Be very interested to hear [...]
Posts Tagged ‘guantanamo’
The Tipton Three: Things Not Quite Adding Up
Posted: April 27, 2011 in Free Rad!calsTags: Afghanistan, counter-radicalization, counter-terrorism, guantanamo, Pakistan, radicalization, tipton, UK, US foreign policy
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Heartland
Posted: December 4, 2009 in Free Rad!calsTags: book review, far right, guantanamo, terrorism, UK
Busy day today. Here is a second post, this time for FreeRad!cals, providing a book review of a rather fun piece of fiction I just finished. I used to read so much more fiction… http://icsr.info/blog/Heartland Heartland Filed under: Radicalisation, Terrorism, UK I’ve just had the pleasure of finishing reading Heartland by Anthony Cartwright. It is [...]
European Views on the First 100 Days
Posted: May 8, 2009 in HSTodayTags: counter-radicalization, Europe, guantanamo, legal, terrorism, UK, US foreign policy
This is a slightly older piece that I actually missed when it first ran, which I suppose is quite embarrassing. It was originally meant to run in the monthly magazine I write for Homeland Security today (www.hstoday.us), but in the end it got shunted to the website. It is in essence a counter-terrorism perspective from [...]
How to end an extraditions roadblock
Posted: December 28, 2008 in Washington PostTags: guantanamo, legal, terrorism
Another epistolary contribution, this time in the Washington Post in reaction to an article in last week’s paper by Craig Whitlock on “Extradition of Terror Suspects Flounders” – I see they ran it after another letter by someone from Human Rights Watch so maybe I should’ve used my title. My original was a bit longer, [...]
What to do with detainees?
Posted: November 20, 2008 in International Herald TribuneTags: guantanamo, legal
A rather more modest contribution today, in the form of a letter in today’s International Herald Tribune, also since they chose to cut my initial text down, I am using this opportunity to publish the whole thing after the jump for those interested in reading the whole thing. http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/19/opinion/edlet.php (and here is the article I [...]
