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Bruce Riedel

Bruce Riedel is a senior fellow in the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. He has advised four presidents on the National Security Council staff in the White House. His latest book is Deadly Embrace: Pakistan, America, and the Future of Global Jihad.

  • Abottabad, Pakistan.(Getty Images)
    Abottabad, Pakistan.(Getty Images)
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    On the Line

    Al-Qaida cell phones confirmed Pakistani complicity in the hiding of Osama Bin Laden. That country’s military and intelligence patronage of terrorism requires the United States to take a harder line there.

    byBruce Riedel
  • Islamic end-of-days pulp novels.(Collage from Apocalypse in Islam by Jean-Pierre Filliu (University of California Press, 2011))
    Islamic end-of-days pulp novels.(Collage from Apocalypse in Islam by Jean-Pierre Filliu (University of California Press, 2011))
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    Pulp Fictions

    A top Obama Afghanistan adviser reviews a new book examining the end-of-days pulp novels popular in the Islamic world, potboilers that mix Western science-fiction tropes with classic anti-Semitism

    byBruce Riedel
  • Posters of Osama Bin Laden at a road-side book stall in Pakistan.(Tariq Mahmood/AFP/Getty Images)
    Posters of Osama Bin Laden at a road-side book stall in Pakistan.(Tariq Mahmood/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Unholy Anger

    One of Obama’s top advisers on Afghanistan reviews two new books on Osama Bin Laden and the U.S. approach to al-Qaida that put Israel at the center of the conflict

    byBruce Riedel
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