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Today at Chapman University School of Law I will be presenting at an event entitled “9/11 Ten Year Anniversary: Terrorism & Counter-Terrorism Since the Attack.”  The event will begin at 11:45am in Room 142 and is sponsored by the Federalist Society.

From the promotional materials:

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From the IPT: Pending revisions to an FBI operations guide could help agents more quickly and aptly perform investigations, including counterterrorism-related inquires, according to former FBI officials familiar with older and current guidelines. ... The changes could help speed up the vetting process for valuable human intelligence, said Bob Blitzer, former Chief of the FBI's Domestic Counterterrorism Section, in an interview with the Investigative Project on Terrorism.

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The Bipartisan Policy Center has released their new report Preventing Violent Radicalization in America. Last September’sreport by the Bipartisan Policy Center’s (BPC) National Security Preparedness Group, Assessing the Terrorist Threat, concluded that the lack of a coherent approach towards domestic counter-radicalization left America “vulnerable to a threat that is not only [...]

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The great Tom Joscelyn, writing at The Weekly Standard has posted The Washington Post’s Jihadist Op-Ed Contributor.

He provides 5 reasons why the Post should have thought twice before giving Moazzam Begg space to comment.  With all deference to Tom, I’m thinking they thought twice but just didn’t care, mostly because what he has to [...]

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Ashley Deeks has posted Pakistan’s Sovereignty and the Killing of Osama bin Laden.

(h/t Lawfare)

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‘Jihad Jane’ to plead guilty, lawyer says: “Colleen LaRose, the woman who authorities say called herself ‘Jihad Jane’ on YouTube, has changed her mind about fighting government charges that she was plotting to wage violent jihad overseas.“

(Via CNN.com – Crime.)

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The Daily Telegraph reports that al Qaeda’s Global Islamic Media Front has released a 102 page English language bomb making manual entitled “The Explosives Course.”  I’ve personally reviewed the document and it is amazingly well sourced and professionally prepared.  Sadly it provides all of the tools necessary for a lone wolf terrorist with [...]

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Over at The Browser, Mary Habeck, Associate Professor of Strategic Studies at Johns Hopkins University picks five books that readers must buy to understand the War on Terror.  It’s an interesting post and worth the read.

Her picks:

Inside Terrorism by Bruce Hoffman

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The admitted mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other suspects will head to New York City, blocks from Ground Zero,  to face a federal trial in civilian court and it is creating quite the controversy. 

I appeared on Lawyer2Lawyer, with co-hosts and attorneys, Bob Ambrogi and J. Craig Williams.  Also appearing [...]

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