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...Leaderless Jihad, the latest book by the author of 2004's Understanding Terror Networks, forensic psychiatrist Marc Sageman attempts to unravel the psychological profile of Islamist terrorists. Like his earlier book, Leaderless Jihad discredits conventional wisdom about terrorists by eschewing anecdotes and conjecture in favor of hard data and statistics. And statistically, the enemy...
...Sageman, is on the wane, its leaders on the run or dead and increasingly isolated. It is the informal al-Qaeda - born after the attacks on September 11, 2001, and exploding into raging adolescence after the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 - that is the real threat, waging the "leaderless jihad" of the book's title chapter. Poverty and lack of opportunity are not necessarily the factors that drive young men to commit violence in its name. Middle-class and educated at a private school, Sheikh exemplifies another kind of motivation. "They view themselves as warriors willing to sacrifice themselves...
...Leaderless Jihad, the latest book by the author of 2004's Understanding Terror Networks, forensic psychiatrist Marc Sageman attempts to unravel the psychological profile of Islamist terrorists. Like his earlier book, Leaderless Jihad discredits conventional wisdom about terrorists by eschewing anecdotes and conjecture in favor of hard data and statistics. And statistically, the enemy...
...this setting, a committee is a leaderless power-sharing team, but it's not exactly a democracy. Sitting in a conference room, the team discusses and asks questions--How are executives incentivized? What would boost margins?--and then, going around the table, each member voices an opinion. "It's not a strict vote. Just because five agree and four don't doesn't mean an idea will go through," says Roger Kuo, an analyst who covers media companies and sits on the policy committee for international stocks. Four strong objectors and five moderately enthusiastic supporters will probably nix an idea...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences William C. Kirby orphaned the Core Curriculum in 2003, without a vision of what should replace it. When a dazzling replacement did not develop quickly, the President disappeared from the discussion and was not heard from again. A year ago, an increasingly leaderless Faculty proposed a simple distribution requirement...