Tue Mar 30, 2010 16:59 GMT |
Monday’s twin bombings in the Moscow Metro demonstrate that the war in the North Caucasus is neither over nor just a conflict in a peripheral part of Russia. The Moscow attacks came just four months after the Moscow-St Petersburg railway was bombed, showing that Islamist terrorists are capable of carrying out their threats to take… [Read more]
Tags: Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia, insurgency, Moscow Metro, North Caucasus, Policy, Russia, scenarios, Terror
Posted in: Emerging Europe, General, Geopolitics, Political Risk
Thu Sep 11, 2008 12:52 GMT |
As we mark the seventh anniversary of the ‘9/11’ terror attacks, the only real conclusion I have is that the outcome of the subsequent ‘War on Terror’ is inconclusive. Part of the confusion stems from the fact that it is not clear what ‘victory’ is. For the West, is victory merely preventing further terror attacks,… [Read more]
Tags: 911, Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Iraq, Terror, War
Posted in: Asia, General, Geopolitics, Middle East, Political Risk, UK, US