Policymakers and the public from homegrown american terrorism to the United States drone wars abroad and around the world to the challenge. The changes with the societal changes id like to first begin by introducing jessie who will begin with a presentation before we jump into the panel portion. Jesse was a propagandist who ran revolutionon muslim in new york citybased organization active in the 2000 z. Connected to a number of terrorism cases and connected the ideology and transformed it for america creating englishlanguage propaganda. The radicalized in 2011 following his arrest and incarceration in the u. S. Hes now executive director of the parallel networks and after the presentation i would like the rest of the speakers to join me on stage to provide an introduction for each of them we will discuss the new initiatives, the changing Threat Landscape future of terrorism prevention practices at the relationship between. We will save the last 30 minutes or so for the audience qanda a
Extremism and terrorism. Analysts are expected to talk about the changing Threat Landscape, the best way to combat extremism in all forms. This is live coverage on cspan2. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] so good afternoon, everyone. We will get started. Thank you so much for coming to new america and thanks to come in for a session which is ctrlaltdel hate, a simple study approach to preventing terrorism and targeted violence. My name is melissa salykvirk and im a senior policy analyst here with new Americas International security program. For those of you new to america we are a thinking action tank that connects the research institute, technology labs, solutions that were, media have an public forum. The International Security program aims to provide evidencebased analysis of some of the toughest security challenges facing american policymakers and the public. For homegrown american terrorism United States drone wars abroad and a drones around the world. To the pr
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