Live: New America and FP co-host event on al Qaeda

Posted By Joshua Keating Thursday, February 25, 2010 - 10:02 AM Share

Two strikingly different but simultaneously accurate pictures of al-Qaeda have dominated recent discussion of the terrorist group: one, a resilient foe still determined to attack the United States and its interests abroad, and the other, a wounded organization whose leaders are being hunted down and killed. Join the New America Foundation’s Counterterrorism Strategy Initiative and Foreign Policy magazinet this morning for a conference on the current state of the threat from al-Qaeda’s Afghanistan- and Pakistan-based central leadership, its allies, and messaging strategies.

You can watch the event live in this post starting at 9:30. Here's the full schedule and panelists:

9:30am- Introductions

Steve Coll
President, New America Foundation
Author, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001

9:40am- Panel 1: Al-Qaeda Central: A Threat Assessment

Paul Cruickshank
Alumni Fellow, New York University Center on Law and Security

Barbara Sude
Senior Political Scientist, RAND Corporation
Former Senior al-Qaeda Analyst, Central Intelligence Agency

moderator
Peter Bergen
Senior Fellow, New America Foundation
Author, The Osama bin Laden I Know

10:35am- Panel 2: Al-Qaeda Central: Drones and Allies

Peter Bergen
Senior Fellow, New America Foundation
Author, The Osama bin Laden I Know

Stephen Tankel
Visiting Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Author, Storming the World Stage: The Story of Lashkar-e-Taiba (forthcoming)

Anne Stenersen
Research Fellow, Norwegian Defense Research Establishment (FFI)
Author, Al-Qaeda's Quest for Weapons of Mass Destruction

moderator
Susan Glasser
Executive Editor, Foreign Policy Magazine

11:30am- Panel 3: Al-Qaeda Central: Strategic Communication

Daniel Kimmage
Senior Fellow, Homeland Security Policy Institute

Joshua Geltzer
Editor-in-Chief, Yale Law Journal
Author, U.S. Counter-Terrorism Strategy and al-Qaeda: Signalling and the Terrorist World-View

moderator
Steve Coll
President, New America Foundation
Author, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001

Update: Thanks to everyone who watched. If you missed it, the whole thing's on YouTube here. To read more from the panelists, click here to read papers from Cruickshank, Sude, Tankel, and the AfPak Channel's Bergen and Tiedemann.

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February 25, 2010

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February 25, 2010

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