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Marc Sageman
Date 05/03/08
Nicola Zichella intervew Mr to Marc Sageman
Dear Marc,
neither Hillary and neither Obama will reach the quorum of votes for winning
the democrat nomination and all will be decided on august 2008 by the the
democratic convention, senator Mc Cain will be running the white house
presidency while we need to wait august to see Hillary or Obama running the
white house.
Is this a negative factor that democrats still do not have a representant to
to run the white house?
In your opinion who will be the next President of United States?
Nicola,
Yes, it is a negative factor that the Democrats will smear each other with
negative messages for the next few months, while McCain will try to capture
the moral high ground.
At this point, it is impossible to predict who will win the election in
November. Any prediction is wishful thinking at this point.
Best,
Marc
Marc Sageman, M.D., Ph.D.
Sageman Consulting LLC
402 King Farm Blvd, Suite 125-222
Rockville, MD 20850
Tel 301 208 6772
Biography Marc Sageman
"Marc Sageman is an independent researcher on terrorism and the founder of Sageman Consulting, LLC. He holds various academic positions at the George Washington University, the University of Maryland and national think tanks, like the Foreign Policy Research Institute, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the Homeland Security Policy Institute. He is the New York Police Department's first “scholar in residence.” He is director of research at ARTIS and a consultant for RTI International. After graduating from Harvard, he obtained an M.D. and a Ph.D. in sociology from New York University. After a tour as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Navy, he joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1984. He spent a year on the Afghan Task Force then went to Islamabad from 1987 to 1989, where he ran the U.S. unilateral programs with the Afghan Mujahedin, and New Delhi from 1989 to 1991. In 1991, he resigned from the agency to return to medicine. He completed a residency in psychiatry at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Since 1994, he has been in the private practice of forensic and clinical psychiatry, and had the opportunity to evaluate about 500 murderers. After 9/11/01, he started collecting biographical material on about 400 al Qaeda terrorists to test the validity of the conventional wisdom on terrorism. This research has been published as Understanding Terror Networks (University of Pennsylvania Press 2004). He may be the only individual to have testified before both the 9/11 Commission in the U.S. and the Beslan Commission in Russia. As an expert on al Qaeda and related terrorist organizations, he has consulted with various branches of the U.S. government, including the National Security Council, the Department of Defense, the Combatant Commanders, the National Laboratories, the Department of Homeland Security, various agencies in the U.S. Intelligence Community, the U.S. Secret Service, the New York Police Department and various other law enforcement agencies. He has lectured at many universities, including Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, MIT, the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan, the University of California at Berkeley, and Johns Hopkins University. He has also consulted with foreign government (France, Australia, Spain, Canada, Germany, Britain) and lectured extensively at foreign universities. His new book Leaderless Jihad describes how the process of radicalization in a hostile environment and enabled by the Internet evolved into a disconnected network, the Leaderless Jihad."
Marc Sageman, M.D., Ph.D.
Sageman Consulting LLC
402 King Farm Blvd, Suite 125-222
Rockville, MD 20850
Tel 301 208 6772