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BOOKS

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

 

 

 

Every Sunday night at 9pm, FDD's Ambassador Richard Carlson hosts the groundbreaking WMAL radio show the Danger Zone ...more

PROJECTS & CASE STUDIES

FEATURED PROJECTS

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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

Hamas Doesn't Want Peace, Reconciliation, or End to Carnage
A thought experiment: Imagine that Hamas announces it will immediately cease and desist from firing missiles into Israel, that there will be no more such attacks in the future, and that it will release Gilad Shalit, the Israel soldier kidnapped two and a half years ago and held incommunicado ever since -- with not even the Red Cross allowed to see him. What would happen then? ...more
Clifford D. May, Scripps Howard News Service, Spanish translation
01/2/2009



MEDIA

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In the Media

The Next Dangerous Phase of the Gaza War
Olivier Guitta, Middle East Times
01/5/2009


Why Tehran Stokes Violence in Gaza
Dr. Walid Phares, The Washington Times
01/5/2009


A Challenge from Senegal
Dr. J. Peter Pham, The Washington Times
01/4/2009


Press Releases

FDD's Coalition Against Terrorist Media Calls Hezbollah Al Manar Guilty Plea "Sobering" and "Significant"
12/23/2008

Notes and Comments

 

POLICY RESEARCH

The Superpower and Its Courts: How the Nullified Suits against Libya Show the Weaknesses of Litigation against State Sponsors of Terror
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
01/5/2009


Syria Sets its Traps for the Obama Administration
Tony Badran
12/1/2008


The Role of Consensus in the Contemporary Struggle for Islam
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
12/8/2008


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Mark Dubowitz is FDD's executive director and co-director of its Coalition Against Terrorist Media. He has briefed special-forces officers, U.S. and European government officials, counter-terrorism experts, and private-sector executives about the role of terrorism media in the rise of Islamic extremism...more

FROM THE BLOGS
From The Rosett Report: Putting Propaganda In Its Place by Claudia Rosett, 01/4/2009
A friend sent a must-see video -- I'm not sure whether it was plucked off a blog, or straight off the Fox News web site, so thank you to whoever first put this in circulation...more

From Faster, Please!: Is Iran in Trouble? by Dr. Michael Ledeen, 01/4/2009
After years of refusing to see Iran's aggressive intentions, most sensible observers of things Middle Eastern now recognize that the most important terrorist organizations, from Islamic Jihad to Hezbollah and Hamas, are essentially Iranian proxies...more

From The Long War Journal: Ten killed in suicide bombing in northwestern Pakistan by Bill Roggio, 01/4/2009
Northwestern Pakistan was hit with a double bombing today as Pakistani security forces conduct operations to reopen NATO's supply link to Afghanistan...more

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