A new piece for Jamestown about the latest Europol annual terrorism report, focusing on the elements linked to North Africa and specifically Libya. There are a whole raft of issues in here that I really only touch on. The tensions this is causing within Schengen are fascinating to me. I wonder if retrospectively Libya is [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Italy’
Europol Identifies Security Threat to Europe from North Africa’s “Arab Spring”
Posted: May 13, 2011 in Terrorism MonitorTags: arab spring, counter-radicalization, counter-terrorism, Europe, France, immigration to Europe, Italy, Libya, north africa, terrorism
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A Typology of Lone Wolves: Preliminary Analysis of Lone Islamist Terrorists
Posted: April 5, 2011 in International Center for the Study of RadicalisationTags: Al Qaeda, AQAP, counter-radicalization, Europe, Germany, Italy, lone wolves, radicalization, terrorism, UK
At last this long-awaited (at least in my mind) paper lands. It provides what I hope is a useful initial scoping exercise into the phenomenon of Lone Wolf terrorism that with further support could be developed into a framework for better understanding and countering this problem – both in its Islamist incarnation, but also in [...]
Europe in the Crosshairs
Posted: November 16, 2010 in HSTodayTags: Afghanistan, al muhajiroun, AQIM, counter-terrorism, Europe, France, Germany, Italy, Pakistan, radicalization, terrorism, UK, Yemen
A new piece for HS Today, this one looking in some greater detail at the alleged Mumbai-style attack that had agencies in a great worry. Unsure this one is all over yet, and the information might ultimately have come out for just this reason. Am also going to try to do some more digging on [...]
Europe on High Alert
Posted: October 14, 2010 in HSTodayTags: Al Qaeda, AQIM, counter-terrorism, denmark, Europe, Germany, Italy, shabab, Somalia, terrorism, UK
A new post for HSToday, a bit delayed as I have been traveling somewhere even more remote than usual. My computer has also come crashing down which has set me up with some serious problems. More on this plot to come. Europe on High Alert by Raffaello Pantucci Wednesday, 29 September 2010 Recent string of [...]
Terrorism at the movies
Posted: September 24, 2010 in Free Rad!calsTags: converts, counter-radicalization, Italy, movies, radicalization, terrorism, UK
A new post over at Free Rad!cals, which is in the middle of a relaunch. Lets hope it goes well! In the meantime, the piece looks at two films I recently saw about terrorism in the West – both worth watching. One thing I would add is that I provide a link in it to [...]
Italian Lone Wolf Cells
Posted: May 23, 2010 in Free Rad!calsTags: AQIM, counter-terrorism, Italy, lone wolves, radicalization, terrorism
More for Free Rad!cals, this time returning to my previous theme of Lone Wolves in Italy. It covers a bit more ground around the theme, and the trials will be worth watching as they go forwards as they present a possible irritant that security services will be having to watch for a while. It has [...]
Somalia’s foreign legions
Posted: December 16, 2009 in Free Rad!calsTags: denmark, Europe, Italy, shabab, Somalia, terrorism
My latest for FreeRadicals about Shabaab its European recruits. The links at the end don’t work, but you can find the articles referred to elsewhere on this blog. Am planning more on this topic in the near future, so watch this space… http://icsr.info/blog/Somalias-foreign-legions Somalia’s foreign legions View more articles by Raff Pantucci Filed under: Radicalisation, Somalia, [...]
Lone Wolves and Free Radicals
Posted: October 29, 2009 in Free Rad!calsTags: Europe, Italy, lone wolves, radicalization, terrorism
Well, for those of you who are avid followers, good news! I will now be producing more regularly over at the FreeRad!cals website run by the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (tidily abbreviated to ICSR) – in fact, I have now already gotten started, here is a brief bio/introductory piece [...]
Boston Globe Op-edding
Posted: May 29, 2008 in Boston GlobeTags: Europe, Italy, Transatlantic Affairs
Am finally getting around to posting some old op-eds i wrote – here is one i wrote for the Boston Globe (http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/) a while back about not this but the previous Italian election. Not that anything has really changed. sorry this is old, but i had vowed to make this a repository for all my writing. [...]
