A new outlet, CNN’s Security Clearance blog, on an old topic: Lone Wolves and how exactly to define them using a couple of cases from earlier in the month. Not exactly a very seasonal topic, but terrorism seems to never stop. Lone attacker or lone wolf? By Raffaello Pantucci, Special to CNN EDITOR’S NOTE: Raffaello [...]
Posts Tagged ‘legislation’
Lone Attacker or Lone Wolf?
Posted: December 26, 2011 in CNNTags: counter-radicalization, counter-terrorism, defining terrorism, legislation, lone wolves, radicalization, terrorism
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UK-US Face Problems in Terror Suspect Extradition
Posted: July 20, 2010 in HSTodayTags: counter-radicalization, counter-terrorism, legal, legislation, Pakistan, terrorism, UK, US
A new piece for HSToday.us, exploring an issue I believe I have mentioned before, but not in any great detail. Since this was written, it now emerges that a chap who had been listed in the SIAC judgment as being under risk of torture if he was returned to Pakistan, has now in fact returned. [...]
UK Challenge: Depoliticizing Security
Posted: May 18, 2010 in HSTodayTags: counter-radicalization, legislation, radicalization, UK, UK election, US
My latest for HSToday, looking at the British election fall-out from a counter-terrorism perspective (following my earlier post about the manifestos). This subject hopefully will get more interesting, rather than continue to fester as it is at the moment with no new ideas. Though I suppose I need to start to developing some good new [...]
Britain’s Terrorist Threats and Complacency
Posted: April 20, 2010 in HSTodayTags: counter-radicalization, legislation, online, Prevent, terrorism, UK
My latest more journalistic contribution for HSToday, providing them with an update on the situation in the UK. The timings are a little mangled, but provides some summary of recent HMG documents on terrorism. Thanks to Tim Stevens at Ubiwar for providing some very helpful insights in interview. BRITAIN’S TERRORIST THREATS AND COMPLACENCY by Raffaello [...]
The Blackburn Resistance
Posted: March 26, 2010 in Free Rad!calsTags: converts, legislation, lone wolves, online extremism, terrorism, UK
My latest for FreeRad!cals, looking at a largely unexplored case up north against a group calling themselves the Blackburn Resistance. Most of the chaps have already been released, and there is a bigger unexplored story here in how they were all picked up in the first place. Am working on something larger about this. Any [...]
Al-Shabaab Proscribed in Canada and the United Kingdom
Posted: March 20, 2010 in Terrorism MonitorTags: canada, denmark, Europe, legislation, radicalization, shabab, Somalia, terrorism, UK
New piece for Jamestown covering the proscription of the Shabaab in the UK and Canada. I am working on a much larger piece about this topic, but it is likely to be a while before that lands. Any tips in the meantime of course appreciated. http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=36175 Al-Shabaab Proscribed in Canada and the United Kingdom Publication: [...]
A Contest to democracy?
Posted: March 17, 2010 in DemocratizationTags: counter-radicalization, counter-terrorism, legislation, terrorism, UK
Another journal article, this time based on an old presentation I had the pleasure of doing up at Leeds University as part of a series organized by John Schwartzmantel and Hendrik Kraetzschmar. The paper is a bit dated now to those who follow these topics closely, but I hope it lays out some thinking that [...]
Ghost Plane
Posted: March 16, 2010 in Terrorism and Political ViolenceTags: counter-radicalization, legal, legislation, terrorism, US
I have a book review in the latest issue of the Terrorism and Political Violence journal covering Stephen Grey’s fascinating and detailed book Ghost Plane. It is behind a firewall so I cannot simply post it, but as usual if you get in touch I can help out getting a copy probably.. The book is [...]
U.K. Prosecutors Lose a Legal Option in Preventing Terrorism
Posted: February 27, 2010 in Terrorism MonitorTags: counter-radicalization, counter-terror legislation, legal, legislation, online, terrorism, UK
My latest for the Jamestown Terrorism Monitor, looking at a different aspect of the legal problems that the British government is having with some of the cases they are pursuing in the courts. This looks in particular at the case against Mohammed Atif Siddique who was recently released in Scotland, and went on to do [...]
Ban on U.K. Radical Islamist Group al-Muhajiroun Raises Free Speech Questions
Posted: January 22, 2010 in Terrorism MonitorTags: al muhajiroun, legislation, radicalization, terrorism, UK
Another piece on the Al Muhajiroun ban, this time for Jamestown looking in some detail at the rationale behind the ban and a bit of history about the group. Title a little long, though I have a feeling this will be a piece that I can reuse in a few years when we go through [...]
