Asia Times (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
New York readies for the 'Gitmo Five'By Ben West and Fred Burton United States Attorney General Eric Holder announced on November 13 that the US Justice Department had decided to try five suspected terrorists, currently being held at Guantanamo Bay, in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, located in Lower Manhattan. The five suspects - Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid...
The Nixatron Blog-Times (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
The Hasan Case: Overt Clues and Tactical Challengesby Scott Stewart and Fred Burton...Despite the intelligence reforms put in place after the 9/11 attacks, the U.S. government still faces large obstacles when it comes to sharing intelligence information with law enforcement personnel...
Vlad Tepes (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
By Scott Stewart and Fred Burton In last week’s global security and intelligence report, we discussed the recent call by the leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Nasir al-Wahayshi, for jihadists to conduct simple attacks against a variety of targets in the Muslim world and the West. We also noted how it is relatively [...]
The Nixatron Blog-Times (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Counterterrorism: Shifting from 'Who' to 'How'by Scott Stewart and Fred Burton...The threat posed by grassroots operatives, and the difficulty identifying them, highlight the need for counterterrorism programs to adopt a proactive, protective intelligence approach to the problem -- an approach that focuses on "the how" of militant attacks instead of just "the who"...
