By Patrick Poole The Institute for Economics and Peace has released its annual “Global Peace Index” for 2017, reporting some shocking findings. According to the report, global terrorism has nearly tripled since 2011, and terrorism is now at an all-time high. The Voice of America reports: Worldwide terrorism is at an all-time high, and violence cost…
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By Patrick Poole On my recent trip to Egypt, I met with Col. Khaled Okasha (ret), one of Egypt’s top former counter-terrorism officials, to discuss the developing security situation and to address a question that has received a lot of international media attention: Is the Muslim Brotherhood directly engaged in terrorism? Okasha, the director of…
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Stephen Coughlin had a paper he wrote in February 2017 published in an Egyptian periodical in April. The following is the English version. There are alarming indicators that the International Muslim Brotherhood (IMB) have successfully targeted America’s counter-terror policy with a sustained layered hostile foreign influence campaign supported by state actors, including Turkey, Qatar and Saudi…
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New Unconstrained Analytics Report: On June 28, 2016, the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights and Federal Courts held a hearing chaired by Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) investigating a series of policies established by the Obama Administration during 2011-2012 that effectively neutered FBI counterterrorism training and blinded our nation’s national security,…
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UA’s Stephen Coughlin and Patrick Poole joined Congressman Louie Gohmert, filling in for Sean Hannity on the Hannity radio show, to discuss the growing evidence that there is an ISIS threat living right outside of our nation’s capitol as well as what needs to be done to effectively combat this threat. Three ways to listen:…
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Article by UA’s Patrick Poole in PJ Media: On the evening of July 14, citizens and tourists gathered on the promenade in Nice, France, to celebrate Bastille Day, but the night would end in horror as the celebrations turned into the largest terrorist attack during 2016’s “Summer of Terror.” The Nice attack, which took place…
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Of the 14 attacks under the Obama Administration, the FBI already knew attackers at least 12 times. Article by UA’s Patrick Poole in PJ Media: FBI Director James Comey was called out by Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) this week on the growing problem of what I have termed “Known Wolf” terrorism — an act…
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Stephen Coughlin attended the 2016 OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) “Human Development Implementation Meeting” in Warsaw, Poland and spoke to this committee, as he did in 2015.The OSCE uses the language of cultural-Marxism to turn free societies into totalitarian Marxist and Communist societies. Additional: Free Speech Champions Fight Back Against OSCE ‘Islamophobia’…
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Stephen Coughlin spoke in Washington, DC at ACTCON 2016, Act for America’s “National Conference and Legislative Briefing: Taking Back America’s Security” about potential terrorist threats to the U.S. homeland. He talked about his former work and his critiques of American intelligence and homeland security agencies. Coughlin also expressed his concern about operational inadequacies at some…
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Stephen Coughlin was interviewed after his speech in Los Angeles at the American Freedom Alliance conference, “Islam and Western Civilization: Can they Coexist?” He discussed how Islamist matters have been treated under the past two administrations, and what the prospects are for improvement under either a Democrat or Republican administration.