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Individual Terrorist Actors

If you want to learn more about individual terrorists active in the jihadist movement, we have a range of material—from in-depth biographies of prominent jihadis, to shorter Sentinel profiles of individual terrorist operators and internal documents authored by individuals like Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and Saif al-Adel—to aid your search.

August 16, 2017

Britain on Alert: The Attacks in London and Manchester and the Evolving Threat

Raffaello Pantucci

A View from the CT Foxhole: Edward You, FBI Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate, Biological Countermeasures Unit

Kristina Hummel

Banning Encryption to Stop Terrorists: A Worse than Futile Exercise

Aaron Brantly

June 27, 2017

Differential Association Explaining Jihadi Radicalization in Spain: A Quantitative Study

Fernando Reinares, Carola García-Calvo, Álvaro Vicente

May 4, 2017

Lessons Learned from the Police Response to the San Bernardino and Orlando Terrorist Attacks

Frank Straub, Jennifer Zeunik, Ben Gorban

A View from the CT Foxhole: James A. Gagliano, Former FBI Hostage Rescue Team Counterterrorist Operator

Paul Cruickshank

April 14, 2017

Counterterrorism and Youth Radicalization in Jordan: Social and Political Dimensions

Sean Yom, Katrina Sammour

March 10, 2017

German Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq: The Updated Data and its Implications

Daniel H. Heinke

January 23, 2017

A View from the CT Foxhole: Peter Edge, ICE Acting Deputy Director, and Wil van Gemert, Europol Deputy Director