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From Energy Crisis to Energy Security

Edited by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Clifford D. May

Energy BookAmerican dependence on oil sends hundreds of billions of dollars overseas every year, forces the U.S. to put its troops in harm's way, and undermines American diplomatic efforts... more

 

PROJECTS & CASE STUDIES

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The U.S. is vulnerable to an emerging threat. An electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack could "cripple military and civilian communications, power, transportation, water, food, and other infrastructure."

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The Center for Terrorism Research (CTR) is dedicated to identifying effective strategies and techniques to combat the threat of terrorism.

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The Center for Law & Counterterrorism puts FDD in the forefront of legal aspects of the war on terrorism – finding the proper, shifting balance that protects both our freedoms and our safety.

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The Future of Terrorism Project examines the strategies that will be needed to defeat new, more lethal strains of terrorism that now threaten America and the free world.

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We are sending hundreds of billions of dollars in oil money to regimes hostile to our interests and our way of life. Our national and economic security is at risk as long as oil has a monopoly in the transportation sector.

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The Coalition Against Terrorist Media (CATM) brings together Muslim, Christian, Jewish and secular groups -- American and European -- concerned about the threat posed by terrorist-owned media outlets.

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The Committee on the Present Danger's goal is to stiffen American resolve to confront the challenge presented by terrorism and the ideologies that drive it.

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Africa, often called the “forgotten front” in the global war on terror, has become the next major front in the war by militant Islamism.

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A Pandora's box of corruption and incompetence at the United Nations has been exposed since FDD hired Claudia Rosett as its own investigative reporter and assigned her to the beat.

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Through educating the policy community and the public about the deadly activities of the Iranian-Hezbollah-Syrian axis, FDD attacks its most vulnerable points: its worldwide media operations, its standing in the United States and Europe, its finances, and its efforts to support terror around the world.

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MEDIA & RESEARCH

IN FOCUS

Notes and Comments
COUNTERING THE IRANIAN THREAT: Last week, FDD hosted its annual Washington Forum, bringing leading experts from across the globe to discuss the nature of the Iranian regime, its intentions and how the West should respond to its nuclear program. Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL) kicked off the event by discussing his work to design and implement aggressive sanctions against the Iranian regime. Senator Kirk said: Thank you to the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies for having me here today. FDD is doing good work -- my staff worked closely with the Foundation as we developed our gasoline sanctions legislation -- and you continue to be a resource to the Congress. His full remarks are here.  ...more
Noah Chestnut
12/14/2010



MEDIA

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In the Media

Cyber Wakeup Call?
Clifford D. May, Scripps Howard News Service
12/9/2010


Election Rigging Leads to Egypt's First Major Opposition Boycott
Khairi Abaza, The Daily Caller
12/7/2010


Mohamud Was Not Entrapped
Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review Online
12/7/2010


Press Releases

FDD Applauds Senators Casey and Brown for New Iran Sanctions Act
12/3/2010

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POLICY RESEARCH

Palestinian Pulse: What Policymakers Can Learn From Palestinian Social Media
Jonathan Schanzer, Mark Dubowitz
10/19/2010


FDD Report on Iran's Energy Partners
Mark Dubowitz, Laura Grossman
08/5/2010


Testimony Before The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on The Impact of U.S. And European Sanctions on Iran
Mark Dubowitz
07/29/2010


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FEATURED EXPERT

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, author of My Year Inside Radical Islam, is the  is the Director of the Center for the Study of Terrorist Radicalization, a widely published expert on radical Islam, and a contributing expert at CounterterrorismBlog.org...more

EVENTS
Dr. Walid Phares speaks about major security and terror challenges to the US
December 17, 2010 —
Future Strategic Threats: From the Middle East to the Middle West

Recipient of the LLS 1999 Excellence in Teaching Award

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FROM THE BLOGS
From NRO The Corner: Suspect in Baltimore Bombing Plot Is an American Convert to Islam by Andrew C. McCarthy, 12/8/2010
ABC-7 News in Baltimore is reporting on Twitter that the suspect in custody for plotting to blow up a military recruitment center is Antonio Martinez, an American convert to Islam who is now known as Muhammad Hussein...more

From NRO The Corner: Tomorrow Is National Student Day in Iran by Dr. Michael Ledeen, 12/6/2010
We are coming up on National Student Day in Iran on the 7th (Tuesday, tomorrow), our Pearl Harbor Day...more

From The Long War Journal: Yemeni al Qaeda Commander Reported Killed in Mogadishu Clash by Bill Roggio, 12/6/2010
An al Qaeda commander from Yemen who led a group of foreign fighters battling the Somali government and African Union forces was reported killed in Mogadishu...more

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