Follow the money... connect the dots!!

MATTHEW LEVITT of the The Washington Institute's Stein program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence states that while traditional efforts to combat terror financing focused on "seizing and freezing" terrorist assets, terrorist tactics were continuing to evolve and financial intelligence would continue to be an integral component of international efforts to confront transnational threats.
In an article for the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, "Follow the Money: Leveraging Financial Intelligence to Combat Transnational Threats", he states that financial intelligence and analytics could track financial footprints up and down the financial pipelines providing critical intelligence to constrain terrorists’ operating environment, deter donors, interdict potential threats, and identify illicit conduct.
He lauds the recent renewal of the SWIFT agreement as an important step in maintaining one of the international community's most effective financial intelligence tools.

Analysis of online jihadism

MOHAMMED ALI MUSAWI of the Quilliam Foundation states that counter-extremism initiatives needed to make a clear distinction between attempting to de-radicalise existing extremists and preventing new generations from adopting such ideologies in the first place and calls for greater efforts to challenge the ideology, rhetoric and worldview of pro-Jihadists forums in both the ‘cyber’ and the ‘real’ worlds, with special focus on countering wahhabism, publicizing refutation of jihadism by reputed Islamic scholars as well as former jihadists.

In a Quilliam Foundation report, "Cheering for Osama: How Jihadis Use Discussion Forums",based on an he provides fresh insights into the workings of Arabic-language pro-jihadist web forums, shedding new light on the ideologies, recruitment strategies and social dynamics of these forums and illuminating the role that these forums play in distributing and popularising Jihadist texts, videos and statements.

India's strategic role against global jihad

WALID PHARES, Director of the Future Terrorism Project at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies states the global salafist jihadi network would continue to expand, co-ordinate and assist each other against their foes most of whom were constrained by a lack of similar co-operation against jihadi terror as well as confusion regarding separatist conflicts which were often construed as resistance movements and not terrorism. In a speech to the Asian Security Conference 2010 at New Delhi, "The Future of Terrorism: Jihadi threat in the Indian Subcontinent", he proposes internationalization of the counter-jihadi strategy where India could play a significant part in the region in integrating the resources of democracies in the region and eventually of all jihadi-targeted countries.

Battling terrorist ideology

Michael Jacobson, fellow at The Washington Institute of Near East Policy’s Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence states that former terrorists were best-placed to deliver a narrative to terrorists that could contradict Al-Qaeda’s single narrative. In an article “Terrorist Drop-outs: One Way of Promoting a Counter-Narrative” he presents various examples where former terrorists and extremists contributed to reducing terrorist violence and present the terror drop-outs as a potent weapon for Governments in their battle of ideas against terrorist ideologies.