You want to send in at any point you will see a q a box down at the bottom right of your screen. You can send us a question in the latter part of this event, alex will answer some of them. So to start us off, as im sure many of you know is a Research Director of the Great Program of extremism at George Washington university which has become the go to resource for many people studying this topic. And so why dont we start by asking how you came to take an interest in Anwar Alawlaki and maybe you can fill us in a little bit on the background as you explain that. Guest thank you scott thanks for doing this we had the shared interest of the New York Times in particular the back in the two thousands in the last decade were incredibly helpful for me and that is the book objective choice and my pleasure to do this. So this came across my radar in around 2007. I just started as a junior researcher, looking at activism and jihad in the uk in particular. As a look at the individuals and networks
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