The Changing Strategic Gravity of al-Qaeda Conference DVD

On December 9, The Jamestown Foundation held its third annual conference on global terrorism, entitled “The Changing Strategic Gravity of Al-Qaeda,” at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.

This full-length DVD covers the entire conference proceedings including the luncheon panel presented by keynote speaker: Bruce Riedel, Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution and Author of The Search for Al-Qaeda: Its Leadership, Ideology and Future; and introductory remarks by:Ambassador Daniel Benjamin, Coordinator for Counterterrorism, U.S. Department of State.

The speakers include:

Sebastian Gorka (National Defense University and Joint Special Operations University (USSOCOM)), Murad Batal al-Shishani (The Jamestown Foundation), Stephen Ulph (The Jamestown Foundation), Dr. Tawfik Hamid (Senior Fellow & Chair for the Study of Islamic Radicalism, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies), Frederick Kagan (American Enterprise Institute), Lieutenant General Abdul Hadi Khalid (Former First Deputy Minister of the Interior for Security, Afghanistan), Thomas Ruttig (Afghanistan Analysts Network), Dr. Hassan Abbas (Asia Society and Harvard Kennedy School of Government), Derek Henry Flood (Independent author and analyst), Dr. Zach Abuza (Simmons College), Animesh Roul (Society for the Study of Peace and Conflict), Noor Huda Ismail (Institute of International Peace Building), Dr. Gregory Alonso Pirio (Empowering Communications), Ambassador David H. Shinn (George Washington University), Brian O’Neill (Independent Analyst and Regional Security Expert), Dr. Andrew McGregor (Aberfoyle International Security &  The Jamestown Foundation), Andrew Black (Black Watch Global).