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Podcast: Remembering and honoring aid worker Warren Weinstein
For this week’s podcast, we’re going to re-post our interview a year ago with Alisa Weinstein – the daughter of…
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POW in the war against poverty: The case of Warren Weinstein
Warren Weinstein had been in Pakistan for some seven years, working with a contractor on local-scale economic development. Then four…
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Visiting al Shabaab – How terrorizing terrorists creates more terror
By David Francis, a freelance journalist who has been interviewing militant extremists across sub-Saharan Africa. The search for more than…
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Al Qaeda 2.0 – Boko Haram, Al Shabaab and Extremism in Africa
We don’t hear too much about al Qaeda these days, now that Osama bin Laden is dead. But perhaps that’s because what we have today is a much more dispersed, easy-to-miss phenomenon I call al Qaeda 2.0. Africa is where al Qaeda 2.0 is thriving.
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Rights abuses reported, thousands flee in Iraq
Shakir Waheib, a senior member of the al-Qaida-linked Islamic State of Iraq, on left, next to a burning police vehicle…
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Is Africa the new ‘playground’ for Al Qaeda?
Analysis That’s the gist of a new report by Global Post, which says the links between local rebel movements in…