FIASCO IN BASILAN
Philippine President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino faced a dilemma last week after the deaths of 19 soldiers in Al-Barka, Basilan. Despite the public outcry and mourning, he resisted numerous calls to...
View ArticleWHY THE FIASCO IN BASILAN
How could good men with good intentions go so horribly wrong? You’ve seen my summary of what actually went wrong. This is my attempt to figure out WHY it did. Keep in mind that just because the October...
View ArticleNew Threats in a Peer-Networked World – From Chechnya to Boston
When the Chechen roots of Boston bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev became public, it threw me back in time to the end of September 2002 when I delved into Chechnya’s links to al-Qaeda’s...
View ArticleSorry for being gone so long!
I realized my last blog was before I came back home to the Philippines to start our new baby, Rappler. What an incredible year it’s been! Since 2011, I finished that book! There are 2 editions out now:...
View ArticleFROM BIN LADEN TO FACEBOOK now on Kindle!
I learned something from the 2003 release of “Seeds of Terror: An Eyewitness Account of al-Qaeda’s Newest Center of Operations in Southeast Asia.” It was published by Free Press, a division of Simon...
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