Home pagePress CenterIn the Media David Heyman, director of the CSIS Homeland Security Program, was quoted by Congressional Quarterly, “Al Qaeda Transferring in Leaderless Youth Movement, Author Contends."
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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.
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