Al-Qaeda's Central Leadership -- A Discusion Panel

Al Qaeda's Central Leadership

From The Assyrian International News Agency:

What is Al-Qaeda's central leadership and is it relevant anymore? To discuss this issue with us today, Frontpage has assembled a distinguished panel. Our guests are:

Syed Adnan Ali Shah Bukhari, Associate Research Fellow and Team Leader of South and Central Asia Desk at the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research in Singapore. His specialization includes the Taliban, Al-Qaeda and other foreign militant groups in FATA as well as Al-Qaeda linked terrorist groups in Pakistan such as Harkatul Mujahideen and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. He belongs to Peshawar, the capital of North Western Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan and a border city situated 45 km from the Pak-Afghan border (also referred to as the Durand Line).

Rohan Gunaratna, the author of Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror. He is Head of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies in Singapore.

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, the vice president of research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the author of My Year Inside Radical Islam, which documents his time working for the extremist Al Haramain Islamic Foundation.

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Steve Schippert, co-founder of the Center for Threat Awareness and managing editor for ThreatsWatch.org.

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My Comment: There is a lot of meat here for everyone to chew on .... I suggest that everyone read the entire article.