Publication

The main article of this issue examines the lessons learned from Afghanistan's history of Arab insurgency. It further discusses the importance of combating terrorist financing at agency and interagency levels; lessons from the September 2007 German terrorist plot; insurgent rhetoric for clarifying the factional structure of the Sunni insurgency in Iraq; the growth of militant Islamist micro-diaspora communities in Spain; and the lessons from Israel’s 2006 war with Hizbollah in Lebanon. It also includes a guest commentary on the return of Benazir Bhutto to Pakistan.