CIAO DATE: 11/2009

CTC Sentinel

A publication of:

The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point

Volume: 2, Issue: 10

October 2009

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• A Profile of the TTP's New Leader: Hakimullah Mehsud (PDF)

  Contents
  FEATURE ARTICLE
  1 A Profile of the TTP's New Leader:
  Hakimullah Mehsud
  By Mukhtar A. Khan

  Reports
  4 The October 2009 Terrorist Attack in
  Italy and its Wider Implications
  By Federico Bordonaro
  7 LIFG Revisions Unlikely to Reduce
  Jihadist Violence
  By Alison Pargeter
  9 Rethinking Strategies to Secure
  U.S. Critical Infrastructure
  By Charles Faddis
  12 Israel as an Al-Qa`ida Target:
  Sorting Rhetoric From Reality
  By Matthew Levitt
  15 Understanding History's Seven
  Stages of Jihad
  By Sebastian L.v. Gorka
  17 Mao Tse-tung and the Search for
  21st Century Counterinsurgency
  By Thomas A. Marks
  20 Recent Highlights in Terrorist Activity
  24 CTC Sentinel Staff & Contacts