There seated but first hassan hassan, senior fellow at the Tahrir Institute for middle east policy is written an excellent analysis of the situation in syria and iraq as well as the dates within militant islam. Nibras kazimi who if youre not familiar with his monograph at the Hoover Institute in 2010 syria to jihadist eyes was the first analysis that isolate even preceding the Syrian Civil War which identified the groundwork for possible secretary jihadist conflict in syria. It was really a prescient analysis and he remains one of the best an analyst of the situation in syria and iraq that i know of. He walks kristen lord, president and ceo of irex whos had a long and distinguished career including acting president and Vice President of the trade institute for peace, and is a director of studies at the center for new american studies. I should add they both are members of our task force and finally, Katherine Zimmerman from the critical threat project at American Enterprise institute.
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