Sageman says the international media's image of the jihadist as an desperate, brainwashed young bachelor with no diploma is usually false, but are all his assessments convincing? The stereotype of the ...

Marc Sageman has spent most of his career studying terrorists and extremists networks like al-Qaida. In the 1980s, as a CIA case officer in Pakistan, he worked closely with al-Qaida's precursor, the ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California man convicted of attempting to support the Islamic State does not have the attributes of an Islamic extremist despite his ...

A terrorism scholar who interviewed Portland bomb-plot suspect Mohamed Mohamud in a city jail said Friday that the young man waffled in and out of a conservative view of Islam in the year before his ...

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NEW YORK (AP) | He was a flight surgeon with the Navy and a CIA officer in Pakistan. He also has earned a doctorate in sociology and written two books. Now Marc Sageman can add a new entry to his ...

I am compelled to respond to Bruce Hoffman's review essay, "The Myth of Grass-Roots Terrorism" (May/June 2008), in which he substantially misrepresents my new book, Leaderless Jihad, ignoring all of ...

One of the world's leading terrorism experts has branded the government's proposals to muzzle Islamist hate preachers and crack down on violent extremism in the wake of the Woolwich attack as "a waste ...

The sentencing of a 23-year-old Oakland man who pleaded guilty to a terrorism charge last summer will continue into next year as a federal judge grapples with what the defense says is an overly broad ...

LEADERLESS JIHAD....Former CIA officer Marc Sageman has collected data on more than 500 Islamic terrorists in an effort to understand who they are, why they attack, and how to stop them. David ...