Matthew Levitt

American academic

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It seems like a poor decision to provide terrorist groups with a video clip they can effectively splice into radicalization propaganda,
Perhaps this is the new normal, and Iran wants to demonstrate that it can exact a higher cost,
Typically Iran does not admit that it's involved in these types of attacks because it wants reasonable deniability,
Once the war ends, the threat is maybe not as immediately acute, but it’ll hang over us,
When the FBI asked him, under what circumstances would he expect to be called upon to act on the pre-operational surveillance he’d done all over New York City and elsewhere, he said definitely if the United States was ever in direct conflict with Iran,
The fact that many of the plots do not seem particularly capable doesn’t mean that they won’t ultimately succeed,

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Pope Leo declares death penalty 'inadmissible' as his native US plans to livestream execution

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