Ambassador Alberto M. Fernandez
Former Coordinator for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications, U.S. Department of State
Ambassador Alberto M. Fernandez is Vice-President of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). He was a career Foreign Service Officer with the Department of State for three decades specializing on the Middle East and Africa and served as the Coordinator for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications until his retirement in 2015.
As with comedy, timing is everything for the politics of being a state sponsor of terrorism. Political considerations, as much as supposed improvements in counterterrorism efforts, saw Cuba, North [...] More
German U-Boat commanders called a period in 1940-41 when they were more or less unfettered and free to attack at will, “the happy time.” For the Islamic State, the “happiest time” was certainly the [...] More
