Precious experience

Education : Public Lecture

Political Science and International Relations Research Seminar : Reconsidering US Policy Against Global Terrorism

Date: Tuesday, 15 July 2008
Time: 12-1.15 Venue: HM LT002
Address: Hugh McKenzie Building Kelburn Campus

A public lecture by Chris Heffelfinger, a researcher with the Combating Terrorism Centre at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point. He is also the editor of Unmasking Terror: A Global Review of Terrorist Activities and a frequent commentator for the Jamestown Foundation’s Global Terrorism Analysis.


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Chris has said a few interesting that I would like to share here:

1. AL-QAEDA NEVER EXIST

2. WAR ON IRAQ IS A BIG MISTAKE

3. There isn't enemy in Iraq. But US invasion has created them.

4. Osama bin Laden is believed to be dead because we haven't heard anything from him for a long time.

5. Osama bin Laden is not the number one figure. But he has been the 'man' because he always appears and give messages. There are a few other names that is far more dangerous than him.

6. Bin Laden is charismatic but he is just a financier and not the strategist

7. Palestine is Muslim's third sacred place (what I'd like to point out is, he admitted that, means what Israel does is wrong)

8. Islamic World could lobby Washington as what the Isaelists do (so we might have the chance to change their policy on Palestine and Israel)

9. Chris would never engage in media because for him media has their own agenda and they are indeniably have big influence on how people around the world perceive Islam.


#that is pretty much of what I found to be shocking and very sincere that come out from Chris. Not because he seems to be on our side, but because we know, Islam never ever promotes violence and terrorism. Jihad, that we are encouraged to practice is not the jihad as what has been perceived by them, the terrorist.

p/s: there's much more to talk about this matter, and it'll be in the next post.


till then...