The Al-Qaeda Factor: Assessing Al-Qaeda's Role in Attacks on the U.S. Homeland

Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Speaker
Mitchell Silber
Director, Intelligence Analysis, New York Police Department
Presider
Ed Husain
Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

This session was a meeting of the Civil Society, Democracy, and Countering Radicalism Roundtable.

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