NYPD Expert Breaks Down Al Qaeda's Plots

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• Mitchell Silber, director of intelligence analysis for the NYPD Analytical and Cyber Units, lectures at the Ronald Tutor Campus Center.

By: Matthew Kredell

February 7, 2012 9:20 AM

Perceptions of Al Qaeda as a highly organized, rigidly centralized group that spanned the globe and exercised a precise strategy to defeat the West have proven to be untrue, Mitchell Silber said on Jan. 17 at the first of an ongoing lecture forum offered by the USC National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events.

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