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"There is a tremendous amount of rhetorical smoke," said Brian Fishman, an expert on extremist Islam at the New America Foundation in Washington. "But it is hard to figure out their strength." Some experts say that Washington is selling the Syrian ...

“I think they illustrate that bin Laden was connected, but not necessarily that he was in control,” said Brian Fishman, a terrorism analyst at the New America Foundation. “Bin Laden was offering advice and strategic guidance, but he clearly was ...

JUDY WOODRUFF: For more, we turn to Brian Fishman, a fellow at the New America Foundation and a researcher with the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, and David Ignatius, a columnist for The Washington Post who has had access to some of the ...

So the blunt instruments that worked so well in dismantling al-Qaida — like drone strikes — won't work on this kind of terrorism, says Brian Fishman, a terrorism fellow at the New America Foundation.

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Brian Fishman, a counterterrorism fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, tracked the flow of foreign fighters, particularly Libyan fighters, during the Iraq war. He says part of the problem is that al-Qaida hasn't announced its presence in Syria. "We don't have an al-Qaida organization that is a declared al-Qaida organization saying we are operating directly in Syria," he said.

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"The context is much more volatile than when this happened a few years ago," said Brian Fishman, counter-terrorism research fellow at the New America Foundation. "It's very dangerous now because you can get in a situation where especially in Pakistan, ...

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Ray Suarez discusses the implications and legality of his killing with Brian Fishman of The New America Foundation and Juan Carlos Zarate of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. How important is the killing of Awlaki and how significant ...

Counterterrorism expert Brian Fishman at the New America Foundation in Washington says the training at the FBI highlights the challenge law enforcement faces in finding responsible instructors to provide agents with accurate information. ...

“With the death of guys like Atiyah, it's increasingly likely that the Al Qaeda affiliate groups are just going to start doing their own thing,” said Brian Fishman, a terrorism analyst at the New America Foundation. “At some point, the guys in Pakistan ...

Despite dramatic security improvements since 2006, terrorism is still rampant in Iraq. According to statistics compiled by the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), between January 2008 and the end of 2010, morethan 300 people were killed every month in 200 acts of terrorism—each figure higher than in any other country in the world. These facts might strike many people as counterintuitive, because Iraq no longer receives the attention it once did from global media.

Brian Fishman, counterterrorism research fellow at the New America Foundation, said Norway's prime minister set a good tone following the attacks. "The way we should respond to terror is by rallying around the values being attacked rather than ...

Terrorism is not a new phenomenon, but since the 9/11 and 7/7 attacks the United States and the United Kingdom have significantly altered their counterterrorism programs or created new programs, laws, and institutions to cope with changing understandings of the threat posed by individuals living in the West attracted to al-Qaeda’s cause.