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CIAO DATE: 09/2008

PolicyWatch #1268: Special Forum Report: Coping with Terrorism: Lessons from the British and Israeli Experiences

Leonard Cole, Toby Harnden

August 2007

The Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Abstract

On July 15, 2007, Leonard Cole and Toby Harnden addressed a Policy Forum at The Washington Institute to mark the release of Dr. Cole's book Terror: How Israel Has Coped and What America Can Learn. An adjunct professor of political science at Rutgers University, Dr. Cole is an expert on bioterrorism and the emerging discipline of "terror medicine." Mr. Harnden is U.S. editor of the London Daily Telegraph and author of Bandit Country: The IRA and South Armagh (2000). The following is a rapporteur's summary of their remarks.

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