Draft Program for al Qaeda conference in DC on Dec 2

DRAFT PROGRAM THE NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION AND THE NEW YORK UNIVERSITY CENTER ON LAW & SECURITY AL QAEDA 2.0: TRANSNATIONAL TERRORISM AFTER 9/11 THURSDAY, 2 DECEMBER 2004 CAUCUS ROOM (SR-325), RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING UNITED STATES SENATE 8:00 A.M. PUBLIC REGISTRATION & COFFEE 8:30 A.M. AL QAEDA 2.0: THE CURRENT STATE OF AL-QAEDA AS AN ORGANIZATION Peter Bergen* Fellow, New America Foundation; terrorism analyst, CNN and author, Holy War Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden Bruce Hoffman* Vice President, External Affairs, RAND Corporation; author Inside Terrorism Steve Simon* Senior Analyst, RAND Corporation; former Senior Director for Transnational Threats, National Security Council; author, The Age of Sacred Terror Moderator James Fallows* National Correspondent, Atlantic Monthly; Chairman, New America Foundation 10:00 A.M. WHO JOINS AL-QAEDA? Yosri Fouda* Lead Investigative Reporter, Al Jazeera Television Network, author, Masterminds of Terror; In 2002, interviewed Khalid Sheik Muhammad, operational planner of 9/11. Jessica Stern* Lecturer in Public Policy and Fellow in the International Security Program at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government and faculty affiliate at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, author, Terror in the Name of God. Marc Sageman* Forensic psychiatrist, former CIA case officer, worked with the mujahideen in Islamabad from 1987-1989, author, Understanding Terror Networks. Abdel Bari Atwan* Managing Editor, Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper and interviewer of Osama bin Laden Moderator Peter Bergen* Fellow, New America Foundation; terrorism analyst, CNN and author, Holy War Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden 11:30 A.M. AL QAEDA IN EUROPE: A CRITICAL BACKGROUND Rohan Gunaratna* Director, Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies in Singapore author, Inside Al Qaeda: A Global Network Terror Ursula Mueller* Counterterrorism Expert; and Minister, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United States Moderator: Steven Clemons* Senior Fellow, New America Foundation 12:30 P.M. LUNCHEON PROGRAM MILITANT ISLAM: ON THE WANE OR ON THE RISE? Michael Scheuer* Former chief of the CIA Counterterrorist Center?s Bin Laden unit; and author, as Anonymous, of Through Our Enemies? Eyes: Osama Bin Laden, Radical Islam & the Future of America Salameh Nematt* Washington Bureau Chief, Al-Hayat newspaper Gilles Kepel Professor, Institute for Political Studies in Paris; and author, Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam 2:00 P.M. THE UNITED STATES VS. AL-QAEDA: AN ASSESSMENT Daniel Benjamin* Senior Analyst, CSIS; former Director for Transnational Threats, National Security Council; author, The Age of Sacred Terror Col. Pat Lang* Former Chief of Human Intelligence, Defense Intelligence Agency Department of Defense Reuel Gerecht* Director, Middle East Initiative, Project for the Next American Century; former Middle Eastern Specialist, Central Intelligence Agency; and former Political and Consular Officer, Department of State Moderator Karen J. Greenberg* Executive Director, Center on Law and Security, NYU School of Law 3:15 P.M. AL QAEDA?s MEDIA STRATEGY Octavia Nasr* CNN Arab Affairs Senior Editor Henry Schuster* CNN Senior Producer, author of the forthcoming book, Hunting Eric Rudolph Paul Eedle* Founder, Out There News, former Middle East Correspondent, Reuters; and expert on al Qaeda?s use of the Internet. Moderator David Ignatius* Columnist, Washington Post; former Editor, International Herald Tribune 4:30 P.M. THE REAL TWIN TOWERS: AL QAEDA AND ITS INFLUENCE ON PAKISTAN AND SAUDI ARABIA Hamid Mir* Anchor, GEO television, Pakistan; and author, forthcoming biography of Osama bin Laden; was the last journalist to interview bin Laden in October 2001. Anatol Lieven* Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; author, America Right Or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism Lawrence Wright* Author and New Yorker staff writer, author, ?The Man Behind Bin Laden,? which won the 2002 Overseas Press Club Award for best magazine reporting. Moderator Arif Lalani* Director, South Asia Division, Department of Foreign Affairs of Canada 6:00 P.M. CLOSING RECEPTION * CONFIRMED