CTC Sentinel. Volume 3, Issue 1, January 2010. The Facade of Allegiance: Bin Ladin's Dubious Pledge to Mullah Omar

Abstract

The Combating Terrorism Center is an independent educational and research institution based in the Department of Social Sciences at the United States Military Academy, West Point. The CTC Sentinel harnesses the Center's global network of scholars and practitioners to understand and confront contemporary threats posed by terrorism and other forms of political violence. The feature article in this issue concerns the Facade of Allegiance: Bin Ladin's Dubious Pledge to Mullah Omar. Other articles include: Assessing the Al-Qaida Threat to the United States; the Pakistan Military's Adaptation to Counterinsurgency in 2009; Karachi Becoming a Taliban Safe Haven? ;Uighur Dissent and Militancy in China's Xinjiang Province ;Ninawa Province: Al Qaida's Remaining Stronghold and The French Approach to Counterterrorism.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA516602

Entities

People

  • Vahid Brown

Organizations

  • United States Military Academy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Criminals
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Geography
  • Human Population
  • International Organizations
  • International Relations
  • Man Borne Improvised Explosive Devices
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Societies
  • Terrorism
  • Terrorists
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.