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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes Philippe Errera, ‘Three Circles of Threat’, Survival, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 71–88. Ibid., p. 74. Rohan Gunaratna and Anders Nielsen, ‘Al Qaeda in the Tribal Areas of Pakistan and Beyond’, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, vol. 31, no. 9, 2008, pp. 775–807. Joseph Felter and Brian Fishman, Al Qa'ida's Foreign Fighters in Iraq: A First Look at the Sinjar Records, The Harmony Project, December 2007, http://ctc.usma.edu/harmony/pdf/CTCForeignFighter.19.Dec07.pdf. Guido Steinberg, ‘The Islamic Jihad Union: On the Internationalization of Uzbek Jihadism’, SWP Comments, April 2008, http://www.swp-berlin.org/en/common/get_document.php?asset_id=4883. Audrey Kurth Cronin, ‘Cyber-mobilization: The New Levee en Masse’, Parameters, Summer 2006, p. 81. For a definition of the ‘4Ps’, see the British Home Office website, http://security.homeoffice.gov.uk/counter-terrorism-strategy/about-the-strategy/. ‘Press Statement issued jointly by Ministers of UK, Finland, Germany, Portugal, Slovenia, France and the Vice President of the European Commission’, 16 August 2006. Jon Boone, ‘Upwardly mobile in Afghanistan’, Financial Times, 2 June 2008, http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto060220081539062870. ‘A New Beginning: Zain in Iraq’, 6 January 2008, http://www.zain.com/muse/obj/lang.default/portal.view/content/About_us/Worldwide_Presence/Iraq. A recent BBC report seems to indicate that a strategy very similar to the one outlined by the book is being tried out in Afghanistan. ‘New Media Plan to Combat Taleban’, BBC News, 10 October 2008, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7662549.stm. Additional informationNotes on contributorsRaffaello PantucciA Research Associate in the Transnational Threats Programme at the IISS

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