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102 Zachary Abuza, ‘JI’s Moneyman and Top Recruiter: A Profile of Noordin Mohammed Top’ Terrorism Focus (25 July 2006) 3, pp. 1-2 and Jay Solomon and James Hookway, ‘In Indonesia, War on Terror Shows Both Gains and Worrisome Trends’ Wall Street Journal 8 September 2006
103 ‘Terrorists Proving Harder to Profile’ Washington Post 11 March 2007
104 Michael Moss and Souad Mekhennet, ‘The Guidebook for Taking a Life’ New York Times 10 June 2007 pp. 1-4
105 See Lawrence Wright, ‘The Terror Web’ New Yorker 2 August 2004
106 Kathy Gannon, ‘Cameraman Sheds Light on al-Qaida Tactics’ Associated Press 26 June 2006
107 Douglas Farah, Blood from Stones. The Secret Financial Network of Terror (New York 2004) is the authoritative account by the Washington Post West African bureau chief
108 House of Commons Intelligence and Security Committee (Chairman Paul Murphy MP) Report into the London Terrorist Attacks on 7 July 2005 (London 2006) for these remarks on the Committee’s findings. That the Committee is heavy with MPs with intelligence and military connections tends to render it the elected version of what it is supposed to monitor rather than a forum that asks original questions. The need for secrecy (pervasive in Britain) counts for more than the ability to pose questions from beyond the security community’s conceptual horizons. An important corrective is Crispin Black, 7/7. The London Bombs. What Went Wrong? (London 2005)
109 Report of the Official Account of the Bombings in London on 7th July 2005, HM Stationery Office (London 2006) for these details
110 Sean O’Neill, ‘Silence in (and out) of Court’ The Times 12 May 2006 p. 24. This point was made by Peter Clarke in Learning from Experience. Counter-Terrorism in the UK since 9/11 Colin Cramphorn Memorial Lecture at Policy Exchange (London 2007) pp. 34-5
111 Sean O’Neill, ‘Refugees Who Tried to Wage War on London’ The Times 10 July 2007 front page and pp. 6-7
112 ‘How 7/7 killers Slipped MI5 Net’ and related stories in Daily Mail 1 May 2007
113 Anon., ‘An Army on Operations’. I am grateful to Antony Beevor for a copy of this Kermit Roosevelt address by a senior British general to a US audience
114 Terence Henry, ‘Get Out of Jihad Free’ Atlantic Monthly June 2007 pp. 39-40
115 Christopher Boucek, ‘Extremist Reeducation and Rehabilitation in Saudi Arabia’ Terrorism Monitor (2007) 5, pp. 1-4; a similar Egyptian scheme has been hampered by lack of funds, see Manal El-Jesri, ‘Given the Chance’ Egypt Today October 2007
116 Peter Coleman, A Liberal Conspiracy (New York 1989)
117 Gerald Robbins, ‘Dutch Treat. The Netherlands Tries to Assimilate its Muslim Immigrants’ Weekly Standard 13 July 2007
118 Pascale Combelles Sigel, ‘An Inside Look at France’s Mosque Surveillance Program’ Terrorism Monitor (2007) 5, pp. 1-3 is an excellent analysis of French domestic security measures
119 See Frank Gaffney and others, War Footing (Annapolis, Maryland 2006) pp. 68-70
120 See Mitchell D. Silber and Arvin Bhatt, Radicalization in the West: The Homegrown Threat New York City Police Department Intelligence Division (New York 2007)
121 Solomon and Hookway, ‘In Indonesia’
122 Peter Grier, ‘Where Does Al Qaeda Stand Now?’ Christian Science Monitor 5 March 2007; for an up-to-date assessment of where Al Qaeda is now see Fred Burton and Scott Stewart, ‘Gunning for Al Qaeda Prime’ Stratfor Terrorism Intelligence Report 27 June 2007 pp. 1-4
Afterthoughts
1 See John A. Nagl, Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife. Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam (Chicago 2005) pp. 59ff.
2 Jeffrey Imm ‘Who is America Fighting - Jihadists or Extremists?’ Counter-terrorism Blog 25 April 2008 pp. 1-6
3 For example Frederick W. Kagan, ‘How We’ll Know We’ve Won: A Definition of Success in Iraq’ Weekly Standard 5 May 2008 pp. 1-6
4 Lieutenant Colonel (Dr) David Kilcullen, ‘Countering