Bin Laden's Recruiting Strategy
Jamie Rubin is the former assistant secretary of State for public affairs and chief spokesman for the State Department (1997-2000). He was also a top policy adviser to Madeleine K. Albright and served as a special negotiator during the Kosovo war. He is an adjunct professor at Columbia University.
Reza Aslan's How to Win a Cosmic War chronicles the history of jihadism and asks if the election of Obama has transformed our thinking about the war on terror?
How to Win the War on Terror
Reza Aslan, a contributor to the Daily Beast, is assistant professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside and senior fellow at the Orfalea Center on Global and International Studies at UC Santa Barbara. He is the author of the bestseller No god but God and How to Win a Cosmic War.
In an exclusive excerpt, The Daily Beast's Reza Aslan lays out a battle plan that addresses Islamic world social grievances rather than missile targets.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
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