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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

 

 

 

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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

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In the Pirates' Lair
For years, Somali pirates have been hijacking ships off the coast of Somalia. For years, the United States and what we credulously call “the international community” have not been able to figure out what to do about it. As a result, more and more vessels are being attacked over a widening expanse of ocean; violence is increasing while ransoms rise. ...more
Clifford D. May, Scripps Howard News Service
07/28/2011



MEDIA

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The Great Alawite Hope
Clifford D. May, Scripps Howard News Service
07/21/2011


Notes and Comments
Clifford D. May
07/19/2011


The Marilyn Monroe Doctrine
Clifford D. May, Scripps Howard News Service
07/14/2011


Press Releases

FDD Congratulates Bipartisan Group of Senators for Iran Sanctions Bill; Calls on Administration for More Sanctions Against Iran's Energy Partners and Human Rights Abusers
05/25/2011

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POLICY RESEARCH

Iranian Tools of Oppression and the Companies that Provide Them
Mark Dubowitz
05/4/2011


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


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Andrew C. McCarthy is a former federal prosecutor and a Contributor at National Review Online. From 1993 through 1996, while an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, he led the prosecution against the jihad organization of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, in which a dozen Islamic militants were convicted of conducting a war of urban terrorism against the United States...more

FROM THE BLOGS
From The Corner, NRO: The Desperate Moves of Assad's Dying Regime by Benjamin Weinthal, 06/7/2011
Berlin — Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has for the second time in three weeks desperately sought to distract world attention from his ongoing massacre of pro-democracy activists in Syria...more

From The Corner, NRO: Can Merkel Repair Fractured U.S.-German Relations? by Benjamin Weinthal, 06/6/2011
German chancellor Angela Merkel is slated to meet President Obama this evening and tomorrow in Washington for policy discussions, and for Obama to present Merkel with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the U...more

From The Weekly Standard Blog: Congress Members Confront French Company Over Iranian Weapons by Benjamin Weinthal, 06/1/2011
Berlin—In separate efforts, Republican congressmen Mike Conaway and Peter King have confronted the world's third largest shipping company—the French-owned CMA CGM—for enabling Iranian arms to be smuggled aboard container ships...more

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