KeepNet 12 June 2008

Looks like Will Hartley is back in the saddle at the Insurgency Research Group, with a new edition of UK CT & COIN Features. In more British news a London court is told of Plans to set up a secret Islamist state in Scotland [via Jihad Watch].

The Guardian sums up the current issues and concerns over al-Qaeda in New front with al-Qaida feared as terror group switches focus from Iraq (it’s better than the headline suggests). Elsewhere in the paper, Jason Burke says Al-Qaida is doomed to progressive marginalisation, but it’s a process that will take decades.

I don’t know who it was, but I know a man who does … Intelligence official suspended over al-Qaeda file left on train. Too many G&Ts after work, methinks. The U.S. release their documents through official channels, Leaderless jihad in Iraq? Not so much.

B. Raman [does anyone know his first name?] gives his Indian perspective on the Sageman/Hoffman spat – “Both are right, both are wrong” – which is pretty much how I see it.

Jeni Mitchell is off to Tajikistan – at Kings of War she addresses some of the issues facing this oft-forgotten state on Afghanistan’s northern border.

Mark Safranski’s proliferating web presence is manifest in his first post at Progressive Historians, The Virtues and Vices of Historians as Public Intellectuals.

Anand Varghese has a very well-researched piece on Naxalite use of new media at Burning Bridge.

Jim Harper reviews Michael Sheehan’s Crush the Cell: How to Defeat Terrorism Without Terrorizing Ourselves.

Fabius Maximus asks, Was 9/11 the most effective single military operation in the history of the world?

FBI special agent predicts ‘catastrophic attack’ in ‘revenge’ for torture, Abu Ghraib – U.S. continues as AQ’s best recruiting sergeant, at ThinkProgress.

National Security and government agencies embrace Web 2.0 [via Security Debrief]