CTC Sentinel’s January Edition

The always fantastic Sentinel, a publication of West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center is now available on-line, here. 

There is an interesting line up of articles on al Qaeda specifically, and the jihadist threat more broadly.  Included are:

• The Façade of Allegiance: Bin Ladin’s Dubious Pledge to Mullah Omar by Vahid Brown
• Assessing the Al-Qa`ida Threat to the United States by Martha Crenshaw
• The Pakistan Military’s Adaptation to Counterinsurgency in 2009 by Sameer Lalwani
• Karachi Becoming a Taliban Safe Haven? By Imtiaz Ali
• Uighur Dissent and Militancy in China’s Xinjiang Province by Chris Zambelis
• Ninawa Province: Al-Qa`ida’s Remaining Stronghold by Andrea Plebani
• The French Approach to Counterterrorism by Charles Rault