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But the drone strikes, once a daily occurrence, appear to have been on hold since mid-November, and it is unclear when they will resume, said Andrew Liebovitch, an expert at the New America Foundation. “US and Pakistani officials have said that Shamsi ...

“I'm concerned about heavy weapons mounted on technicals (armed commercial vehicles) far more than [surface-to-air missiles],” says Andrew Lebovich, an analyst who covers the Middle East and North Africa for the New America Foundation. ...

Andrew Lebovich, an analyst at the New America Foundation, a non-partisan Washington think tank, says "the public evidence" of collaboration "is too thin to draw that kind of conclusion." "The US and other governments seem pretty convinced, ...

A new study issued by the New America Foundation and Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Public Policy documents and compares cases of homegrown jihadist versus right-and left-wing terrorism in the United States since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

New America’s Peter Bergen and Andrew Lebovich write, “In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, one of the fears of ordinary citizens and terrorism experts alike was that a new wave of terrorists would strike, some of them armed with chemical, biological, radiological or even nuclear materials.

... "Increased sophistication and operational tempo ... could depend in part on a few members who have received training and then return to construct explosives and possibly disseminate their knowledge," AQIM expert Andrew Lebovich wrote on the al-Wasat blog last month.

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There's a possibility that a relationship between them could open up access for the Boko," says Andrew Lebovich, a policy analyst for the National Security Studies Program at the New America Foundation, who specializes in studying AQIM. ...

If the report that the bombing was linked to extremists trained in AQIM camps is confirmed, it will be “an important data point,” said Andrew Lebovich, a policy analyst with the New America Foundation. “It is one of the pieces of hard evidence we have ...

A more plausible scenario, according to New America Foundation researcher Andrew Lebovich, is that al Qaeda's revenues from kidnapping, drug smuggling and human trafficking have enabled it to buy such weaponry on the black market.

Terrorism is not a new phenomenon, but since the 9/11 and 7/7 attacks the United States and the United Kingdom have significantly altered their counterterrorism programs or created new programs, laws, and institutions to cope with changing understandings of the threat posed by individuals living in the West attracted to al-Qaeda’s cause.

Andrew Lebovich, a researcher at the New America Foundation who tracks AQIM, says that, while the Thursday attack fits the al-Qaida pattern, one cannot ignore the existence of other militant groups in Morocco. It is too early to pin the blame on AQIM. ...