RISK ASSESSMENT AND TERRORISM

Risk Assessment and Terrorism

Risk Assessment and Terrorism

Al-Jihad has had a hand in nearly every foremost terrorist strike against the United States and its partners over the past 20 years. Its foremost, Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, is Osama receptacle Laden's right-hand man. Al-Zawahiri is reputedly the thoughtful and ideological foremost of the International Front for Jihad against Jews and Crusaders, an coalition formed in 1998 of al-Jihad, al Qaeda, and a slew of other terrorist assemblies from the Muslim world. (Tucker 2008)

Egyptian security administration started a ruthless crackdown on al-Jihad in the 1980s, imprisoning, torturing and executing its members. Under ...