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Future Jihad

By Walid Phares
This Foreign Affairs bestseller from MSNBC terrorism expert Walid Phares allows a frightening look into the future of jihad...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

The Pirates of Somalia
Not long after achieving independence, the United States faced its first foreign threat: pirates off the coast of Africa seizing American merchant ships. As Michael Oren recounts in Power, Faith and Fantasy, his sweeping history of America’s involvement in the Middle East, beginning in 1784, American vessels were abducted, their crews enslaved and held for ransom. One local despot, Hassan Dey, paraded his American captives “past jeering crowds” and “spat at them, ‘Now I have got you, you Christian dogs, you shall eat stones.’” ...more
Clifford D. May, Scripps Howard News Service
03/3/2011



MEDIA

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In the Media

Nations United Against Israel
Clifford D. May, Scripps Howard News Service
02/24/2011


The Egyptian Army and Obama
Reuel Marc Gerecht, The Weekly Standard
02/21/2011


The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan
Dr. Jonathan Schanzer, The Wall Street Journal
02/22/2011


Press Releases

FDD Praises Senators Gillibrand and Kirk, Reps. Deutch and Burton for New Iran Sanctions Legislation
02/16/2011

Notes and Comments

 

POLICY RESEARCH

Palestinian Pulse: What Policymakers Can Learn From Palestinian Social Media
Dr. 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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Claudia Rosett, a former foreign correspondent and member of The Wall Street Journal's editorial board, is FDD's full-time journalist-in-residence. She won a national journalism award for exposing the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal...more

FROM THE BLOGS
From The Weekly Standard Blog: The Value of Guantanamo's Intelligence by Thomas Joscelyn, 03/3/2011
Judicial Watch, a conservative foundation that seeks to improve government transparency, has obtained two important Guantanamo-related documents from the Department of Defense via a Freedom of Information Act request...more

From The Weekly Standard Blog: Qaddafi vs. Reality by Thomas Joscelyn, 03/2/2011
Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi just can’t accept the fact that anyone other than al Qaeda wants him gone...more

From Faster, Please: The Iranian Civil War by Dr. Michael Ledeen, 03/2/2011
According to the Daily Beast, yesterday’s demonstrations against the Iranian regime were smaller than those on February 14th, but in fact they were both larger and more aggressive...more

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