Patrick Dunleavy
ARTICLES BY: Patrick Dunleavy
UK’s Flawed Solution to Prison Radicalization: Group Therapy
While much attention has been given to the military successes against ISIS in Mosul and Syria, the recent failures by authorities to effectively deal with homegrown Islamists...
Fox in the Hen House: Allowing Terrorists to Re-enter Prisons
Recent articles by the Investigative Project on Terrorism and other news organizations have addressed the growing concerns regarding the upcoming release of more than one hundred inmates who have been...
London Terrorist Followed Familiar Path From Prison to Jihad
Before he drove violently into the crowd on Westminster Bridge, and before plunging his knives into a police officer's body, Khalid Masood's twisted path to terrorism followed an...
Bowing to Political Pressure, New York Cedes Ground in the Fight Against Terrorism
Capitulation in a time of conflict is demoralizing to the rank and file who protect the public. Yet capitulation is what has occurred in the latest legal...
Is the Criminal Justice System Prepared for the Deluge of Terrorists in US Jails?
The old adage, "Out of sight, out of mind" does not apply to dealing effectively with radical Islamists, especially in the case of terrorists who have...
How We Allow Terrorist Attacks to Happen
The terrorist attack in Berlin earlier this month by radical Islamist Anis Amri is leading to continued questions about what authorities knew and when they knew it. Amri was...
Funding Terrorism: The Buck Stops Here
"Follow the money" -- the fundamental rule for investigating organized crime -- also holds true for fighting terrorism. But when the search leads to your own doorstep, immediate...
France’s Program, Like All Others Aimed at Deradicalizing Jihadists in Prison, Has Failed
The latest attempt by Western democracies to deal with the ever-growing threat of Islamic radicalization in the prison system has been deemed an utter failure. Last...
An Absurd Sentence in the UK for a Radical Islamic Cleric Tied to ISIS
Law enforcement and counter-terrorism experts in the United States and around the world are shaking their heads in collective disbelief after convicted Islamic terrorist Anjem...
The Choudary Quandary, a Fox-in-the-Hen-House Redux
With the United Kingdom's successful prosecution of noted radical Islamic preacher Anjem Choudary for providing material support to ISIS, British officials are now faced with the dilemma...
Who’s Teaching the Prison Class? A Lesson in Islamic Radicalization
Ask any successful individual, "Who was one of the most influential people in your life?" and very often the answer is a teacher. A good...
Disconnecting the Dots: Blurring the Lines
In my childhood, one of the fun games in the daily newspaper was a "connecting the dots" puzzle -- a simple system of drawing a line from...
Belgium Uses ‘Help Wanted’ Ads to Fight Terrorism
The theater of the absurd seems to have found a place to perform in the current atmosphere created by the threat of Islamic terrorism in...
What Are We Doing With Captured Terrorists?
Captured terror suspect Salah Abdeslam now sits in an isolated cell inside a French maximum security prison. Before his extradition from Belgium this week, the individual responsible...
My Journey to Zionism
There Aren’t Two Sides: Conspiratorial Antisemitism, From Charlottesville to Palestine
Barcelona Synagogue, Jewish Institutions Protectively Shuttered Following Terrorist Atrocity
13 Dead, More Than 80 Wounded, As ISIS Claims Responsibility For Barcelona Day Of Terror
Synagogue Receives Flowers and Love From Anonymous Well-Wisher After Charlottesville Violence