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Articles of the author Steve Hewitt
Drones Fuel Extremism in Pakistan
On November 23, thousands of people rallied in Pakistan, along with sympathy gatherings around the globe including outside the United States' embassy in London; they were protesting a weapon they had never viewed. What they had seen was the (...)

01 - 12 - 2015
The Terror of Guns
Imagine in the United States nearly the equivalent of the death toll of 9-11 occurring three times in ten months as a result of terrorism. Envision what would follow in the wake of such violence: civil unrest; new laws; political posturing; (...)

22 - 11 - 2015
How Islamist Terrorists Become Tech-Savvy
The United Kingdom has a 21st century Chicken Little who has used a public platform to officially proclaim that the sky is falling. He is Andrew Parker, a graduate of Cambridge University who 30 years after joining Britain's domestic security (...)

18 - 10 - 2015
How to Defeat Terrorists Aiming at 'Soft Targets'?
In the midst of the continuing uncertainty over whether all the Westgate attackers have been killed, there is an opportunity to reflect on what the attack means in the broader terms of international terrorism and counter-terrorism. In terms of (...)

29 - 09 - 2015
The Terror of Guns or How Terrorists Might Save America from Guns
Imagine in the United States nearly the equivalent of the death toll of 9-11 occurring three times in ten months as a result of terrorism. Envision what would follow in the wake of such violence: civil unrest; new laws; political posturing; (...)

28 - 09 - 2015
Future of Terrorism Threat in US, UK
In mid-July, the UK reviewer of terrorism laws, David Anderson, issued a report that received some media attention. The key finding that generated the chatter was that domestically there was a clear movement toward "less-organised plots" involving (...)

28 - 09 - 2015
Obama and Islamic State: A Cautionary Note
Recently, President Barack Obama admitted that his administration didn't have a strategy for dealing with the Islamic State (IS). Now, apparently, it does, Well, at least it has a direct goal: "Our objective is clear: We will degrade, and (...)

19 - 09 - 2015
The Future is Now: Obama's Counter-Terrorism Doctrine
"Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail." Thus opined President Barack Obama in a May 2014 commencement speech at the United States Army's famous officer cadet academy, West Point. Perhaps because of the (...)

12 - 06 - 2015
How al-Qaeda Feeds off Blair's Speeches?
Every once in a while, like an unwanted guest at a wedding, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair pops up to provide words of his wisdom in relation to international terrorism and how to respond to it. So it was in April when Blair made a public (...)

01 - 06 - 2015
The FBI Informer Who Met Bin Laden
Despite even making it to the celebrity obsessed British tabloid, the Daily Mail, it has hardly been perceived as Earth-shattering news. Nor has it received widespread coverage because as a story it deviates from overriding media narratives over the (...)

27 - 04 - 2015
The Trial of Bin Laden's Son-in-Law
A trial in New York City that is currently underway is generating international headlines. It is the on-going prosecution of Suleiman Abu Ghaith. Ghaith is more popularly known as the son-in-law of the late head of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, through (...)

07 - 04 - 2015
Al-Qaeda Operatives: To Kill or Not to Kill
According to various media sources, including the Associated Press where the story first broke and the New York Times, there is a debate going on at the highest levels of the Obama administration. That discussion is not one on broad policy issues (...)

28 - 02 - 2015
Iraq: US Drones to Dislodge Al-Qaeda
The inevitable has occurred. In the face of an al-Qaeda surge in Iraq that has seen militants linked to the international terrorist group seize parts of the city of Ramadi and much of the city of Falluja over the last few days, the White House has (...)

11 - 01 - 2015
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