Marc Sageman Quotes


Support for jihadists will eventually erode just as it did for previous terrorist groups, such as the anarchists of 19th century Europe. The militants will keep pushing the envelope and committing more atrocities to the point that the dream will no longer be attractive to young people.


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Marc Sageman, CIA Official & Psychiatrist, Quoted in Philip H. Gordon, “Can the War on Terror Be Won”, Foreign Policy November/December 2007

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Marc Sageman, M.D., Ph.D., is a former CIA Operations Officer (covered as a Foreign Service officer) who was based in Islamabad from 1987 to 1989, where he worked closely with Afghanistan's mujahedin. He has advised various branches of the U.S. government in the War on Terror. He is also a forensic psychiatrist and a counter-terrorism consultant.