FROM THE EDITOR.

AuthorCruickshank, Paul

"The January 15, 2022, hostage crisis at a Jewish synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, resurfaced a longstanding jihadi cause when the armed hostage-taker demanded the release of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist-turned-al-Qa 'ida-operative currently serving an 86-year-sentence in an American prison for attempting to murder U.S. troops in Afghanistan," writes Bennett Clifford in this month's feature article, which looks at how her case continues to motivate jihadi terror plots in the United States. Clifford argues that "the factors that initially skyrocketed her case as a cause celebre for jihadis have grown in importance. The jihadi movement, particularly in the West, has had a particularly intense focus on the plight of Western women jihadis behind bars during the past several years... [and] Siddiqui is the prototype for the 'aseerat', the female prisoners of the jihadi movement who are constantly the subject of propaganda pushes, crowdfunding campaigns, and jihadi operational activities."

Our interview is with David Caulfield, who served as Chief of the Defense Combating Terrorism Center at the Defense Intelligence Agency before his retirement earlier this year.

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