Our man in Pakistan, Ali K.Chishti, returns to LoD to make a case for overlooking terror attacks. A road map for peace that goes through Islamabad.

Globalized, deterritorialized terrorism turns a whiter shade of pale in Norway. The medium is the message, my friends. Some thoughts on terrorism, subversion, online radicalization and Pittsburgh.

No, it’s not a spoof by The Onion. Small Wars Journal features an op-ed so giddily optimistic, you’d almost think the author wasn’t in Afghanistan.

Think like a terrorist. Their best already know how you think.

Who is Ali K. Chisti? And why does he love our freedoms? And why doesn’t he get enough sleep?

The smartest person you will hear from today: Yemen expert Christopher Swift talks terror, the crumbling regime in Sana’a and whether Zbigniew Brzezinski is handy with the favored blade of the blood feud.

Here in the bucolic shadow of the Rocky Mountains I’m attending a conference sponsored by the Heritage Foundation on one the most important and intractable issues facing civilized society: combating terrorists and more importantly preventing terrorist attacks. The main takeaway? “The prevention of terrorism in the final analysis is the use of actionable intelligence.”

But what Yemen underscores is that al Qaida no longer needs Afghanistan as a base of operations. It can, and does, operate from any number of countries. In this Internet age, it can be anywhere. So the massive investment in rebuilding Afghanistan provide only the same false sense of security and accomplishment, as did the Maginot line after WW1.

“I looked into his eyes, and he scared me… I don’t think he flipped out… I think what he did was an act of terrorism.”