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Our strategy is to identify unmet needs and fill them through a wide variety of targeted programs, projects, and campaigns.
.jpg) Americans are fighting a war and funding our enemies as well as ourselves. A percentage of the money motorists spend to fill their automobiles with gasoline goes to regimes and individuals funding Islamist terrorism. The way out of this dilemma is to break the oil monopoly—to encourage a competitive market in transportation fuels, to give consumers a choice at the pump. The FDD Energy Security Project educates policymakers and the American public about the national security and environmental benefits from terror-free alternatives to oil and other transportation innovations. ...More
.png "Image")  The war of ideas is as critical as the war of arms. Terrorist leaders and terrorism-sponsoring governments such as the Iranian regime understand the powerful role of media. They have established media outlets that radicalize Arab and Muslim populations, facilitate deadly attacks, and extend their brand of militant Islam throughout the world. The Coalition Against Terrorist Media (CATM)—with a membership that includes Muslim, Christian, Jewish, and secular organizations in America and Europe—fights on this front. It wages a campaign to remove terrorist outlets from the airwaves. ...More
  Africa, often called the “forgotten front” in the global war on terror, has long been on FDD's radar screen. The six countries that make up the Horn of Africa—Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and Sudan—have become the next major front in the war being waged by militant Islamism. Radical Islamists in Somalia and Ethiopia threaten fierce guerilla warfare to impose a Taliban-like theocracy. In the Sudan, the genocide of Black Muslim Sudanese by the Arab Islamist national government continues unhindered. And oil-rich Nigeria has found itself in the terrorist crosshairs as radical Islamist activity targets Christians, threatening national unity and increasing violence. ...More
  A Pandora’s box of corruption and incompetence at the United Nations has been exposed since the Foundation for Defense of Democracies hired its own investigative reporter and assigned her to the beat. Since joining FDD in 2003, Journalist-in-Residence Claudia Rosett has generated international headlines with award-winning investigative reporting that revealed the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal, how the United Nations helps advance North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, the risks of relying on the United Nations to enforce anctions against Iran for its nuclear bomb program, and a plethora of scandals that have led to a series of convictions of high U.N. officials for bribery, graft, and money laundering schemes. ...More
  Though world leaders questioned Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s genocidal threats against America and Israel, neither the United Nations nor the world powers have imposed significant penalties against Iran or taken meaningful action to halt its nuclear program. Recognizing the danger posed by Iran, FDD launched an ongoing campaign to ensure Iran’s vow to destroy Israel and create “a world without America” is—contrary to Ahmadinejad’s assertion—neither “obtainable” nor “achievable.” ...More
  An electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack could be triggered by a nuclear warhead detonated at high altitude over America. The resulting blast would create an EMP, a shockwave that could "cripple military and civilian communications, power, transportation, water, food, and other infrastructure." Even if a high-altitude EMP kills nobody at first, it would paralyze a large section of the United States. The lingering practical and economic effects would take anywhere from hours to years to resolve: when secondary effects are considered, an EMP could be even deadlier than a direct nuclear strike against the mainland. Indeed, Rep. Roscoe Bartlett has written: "Where the terrorist airliner attacks of 9/11 killed thousands, a terrorist EMP attack could indirectly kill millions and conceivably cause the permanent collapse of our entire society." ...More
  Leading Thinkers, FDD’s annual Workshop on Ideas, Issues and Policies, brings together the top minds from different vantage points to tackle the most pressing security issues. The forum is focused on identifying pragmatic policy solutions. Experts from academia, government, civil society, industry and the media gather for two days in an isolated setting. Leading Thinkers connects different stakeholders in an environment that promotes consideration of other’s views and encourages networking among key players. Past workshop topics include exploring the nexus of democracy and terrorism, confronting the Iranian threat and tackling American oil dependence....More
Despite international condemnation and ongoing diplomatic efforts, Iran's ruling regime in Tehran continues to press ahead with its nuclear weapons program. According to many defense and intelligence analysts, the time in which the program can be stopped is quickly running out.
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The Center for Terrorism Research (CTR) comprises the core of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ research and analysis on terrorist movements and ideologies. It identifies effective strategies and techniques to combat these threats. CTR uniquely combines academic and policy research, training programs, strategic communications, and investigative journalism to create cutting-edge analysis of what the U.S. military has dubbed the “long war.” Center co-directors Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Dr. Walid Phares lead a group of experts with a range of knowledge and skills that afford us unparalleled insights. ...
In 2006, FDD tasked FDD Senior Fellow Andrew C. McCarthy, one of the nation’s leading experts on prosecuting the war against terrorists while protecting the civil liberties of Americans, with laying the groundwork for the Center for Law & Counterterrorism (CLC). This program examines the inevitable tension between civil liberties and national security. The CLC advisors Mr. McCarthy recruited include former Education Secretary William Bennett, former Deputy Attorney General George J. Terwilliger III, National Review Editor Rich Lowry, Columbia Law School Professor Daniel C. Richman, and FDD Senior Fellow Victoria Toensing, a top litigator and former Justice Department official. ...
How long will the war on terror last? Can it be won? How do the terrorists view and exploit Western weaknesses? How do we prepare for future terrorist attacks? What form might those attacks take? What are the most effective counterterrorist strategies? What is the current state of Jihad around the globe? What is “mutant Jihadism,” how dangerous is it, and what can be done to stop it? ....png "Image")
The Committee on the Present Danger (CPD) is a non-partisan organization that seeks to stiffen U.S. resolve to confront and defeat the ideologies that drive terrorism. It moved to FDD in late 2006 to develop an aggressive strategy of public education about Islamist totalitarianism. Now implementing that strategy, the CPD is focused primarily on Capitol Hill, where it sponsors events with U.S. senators, representatives, and congressional staff. Kicking off these activities, CPD sponsored a briefing and discussion for lawmakers and staff in early 2007 with Bernard Lewis, the world’s foremost historian on Islam and the Middle East. ...
The Foundation for Defense of Democracies is researching what is perhaps the last, best chance to peacefully prevent the Iranian regime from acquiring nuclear weapons: Using a cutoff of gasoline sales to exploit Iran's Achilles' heel. Although a major producer of crude oil, Iran must import 40% of the gasoline it needs to power its economy and military because it lacks the refining capacity to meet its internal consumption... 
Dr. J. Peter Pham,
Non-Resident Senior Fellow, is Senior Fellow and Director of the Africa Project at the National Committee on American Foreign Policy in New York City. He also holds an academic appointment as Associate Professor of Justice Studies, Political Science, and African Studies at James Madison University ...more
From The Weekly Standard Blog: Inside the Gitmo Task Force's Final Report by Thomas Joscelyn, 05/27/2010
From NRO The Corner: The Grand Jihad by Andrew C. McCarthy, 05/26/2010
