Archive for 'War on terrorism'
How to lose the war on terrorism
Part three: An exchange of narratives
By Mark Perry and Alastair Crooke, Asia Times, June 3, 2006
There was a time in the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001, when Western intellectuals debated the meaning of the attacks that occurred on that day and the most appropriate way to counter them. There was a welter of voices, […]
Posted: June 3rd, 2006 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, Dialogue, Hezbollah, Mark Perry, Political Islam, War on terrorism.
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How to lose the war on terrorism
Part two: Handing victory to the extremists
By Mark Perry and Alastair Crooke, Asia Times, April 1, 2006
After the writers of this article and our colleagues visited the Middle East for talks with some of the leaders of political Islam (see Part 1: Talking with the ‘terrorists’), our work was greeted warily - when even acknowledged […]
Posted: April 1st, 2006 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, Bush Administration, Dialogue, Hamas, Hezbollah, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Mark Perry, Political Islam, War on terrorism.
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How to lose the war on terrorism
Part one: Talking with the ‘terrorists’
By Mark Perry and Alastair Crooke, Asia Times, March 31, 2006
Seventy-two hours before the Iraqi people voted on a new parliament, on December 12, 2005, we were told by a senior US administration official that “detailed data received by the White House” pointed to a “decisive win” for Ayad Allawi’s […]
Posted: March 31st, 2006 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, Bush Administration, Dialogue, Hamas, Hezbollah, Mark Perry, Middle East, Political Islam, War in Iraq, War on terrorism.
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Interview: Fostering Muslim-West dialogue
Alastair Crooke interviewed by Humayun Chaudhry, Al Jazeera, August 8, 2005
Alastair Crooke is a former official with Britain’s MI6 intelligence agency who has worked in some of the world’s most dangerous hotspots.
He spent many years in the Arab and Muslim world and engaged in dialogue with Hamas and Hizb Allah, as well as facing paramilitary […]
Posted: August 8th, 2005 under ABOUT CF, Al Qaeda, Alastair Crooke, CF Interviews, Dialogue, Middle East, War in Iraq, War on terrorism.
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It is essential to talk to the ‘terrorists’
By Alastair Crooke, The Guardian, December 10, 2004
The rhetoric that we in the west are engaged in “a war on terrorism” is so embedded in our thinking that most accept the phrase without question. So people in America and Britain recoil when it is suggested that they are not facing “terrorism” in the Middle East, […]
Posted: December 10th, 2004 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, Dialogue, War on terrorism.
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