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April 5
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David Heyman, director of the CSIS Homeland Security Program, appeared on NBC's Nightly News, "New Details Emerge in Airline Terrorism Plot."
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March 20
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David Heyman, director of the CSIS Homeland Security Program, was quoted by the Washington Post, “Bush Fills Key Posts In Homeland Security."
President Bush yesterday tapped veteran prosecutor Kenneth L. Wainstein to serve as his White House homeland security adviser as he moved to name another key counterterrorism official and defuse criticism that he has left important positions unfilled. Bush also named Michael E. Leiter to be director of the National Counterterrorism Center, the principal intelligence organization for analyzing terrorist threats and conducting operational planning for counterterrorism efforts. Leiter, previously the center's deputy director, has been serving as the acting director since his predecessor, John Scott Redd, resigned last fall. "It's about time," said David Heyman, director of the Homeland Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. While competent officials have been minding the store for the last several months, he said, "two things the president doesn't want are new threats or even a new attack at a time when he has two chairs empty next to him. . . . That doesn't look good."Read the article
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February 20
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David Heyman, director of the CSIS Homeland Security Program, was quoted by Congressional Quarterly, “Al Qaeda Transferring in Leaderless Youth Movement, Author Contends."
Those predicting a long war against al Qaeda might be surprised by what Marc Sageman has to say. The former CIA agent believes if the current set of circumstances continues, the war might be a lot shorter than people expect. Sageman, a forensic psychiatrist and senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute who ran U.S. unilateral programs with the Mujahedin from Islamabad in the late 1980s, made that prediction during a discussion of his new book “Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-First Century” at the Center for National Policy Tuesday.[...] Contacted Tuesday evening, David Heyman, director of the homeland security program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, agreed that al Qaeda should be broken down into a few factions to be properly understood: the core group operating under bin Laden; the disciples at work in places such as Iraq, the border region of Pakistan, and the strip of northern Africa known as the Maghreb; and the groups who, to use a marketing analogy, have adopted the al Qaeda brand for themselves.Read the article
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January 31
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David Heyman, director of the CSIS Homeland Security Program, was quoted by Reuters, "Senior Afghanistan Qaeda Leader Libi Killed."
A senior Al-Qaeda leader in Afghanistan, described by Western authorities as one of Osama bin Laden's top six lieutenants, has been killed, U.S. officials and an al-Qaeda-linked Web site said on Thursday. The Web site said Abu Laith al-Libi had been killed in Pakistan, suggesting he may have died in a suspected U.S. missile strike that killed up to 13 foreign militants in Pakistan's North Waziristan border area this week. [...] Libi may have been linked to a suicide bomb attack at the Bagram military base during a visit by U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney last February, said Security analyst David Heyman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The Western official, who asked not to be identified, said it was "certainly plausible to think that at a minimum he had knowledge of it if not active involvement." Read the article
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January 11
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David Heyman, director of the CSIS Homeland Security Program, was quoted by the Washington Times, "White House Yet to Fill Homeland Security Vacancy."
Today is the last day for the president's top homeland security advisor, and the White House has not announced any replacement, raising questions about the future of the position. There is speculation that the office headed by Frances F. Townsend, the Homeland Security Council, might be brought under the National Security Council, the White House office created in 1947. [...] David Heyman, director of the homeland security program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said that many outside experts as well as presidential campaigns favor moving HSC under NSC. "The question is whether the Bush administration wants to do that now and get credit for it," Mr. Heyman said. Mr. Heyman said that the HSC and NSC staffs are "working in fairly integrated way right now."Read the article
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