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The British and 9/11

The British and 9/11

Cipher Brief Expert Tim Willasey-Wilsey is a Visiting Professor at King’s College, London and a former senior British diplomat. From 1996 to 1999 he [...] More

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The Release of Anjem Choudary

Bottom Line Up FrontOn October 19, al-Muhajiroun co-founder Anjem Choudary was released from prison in the U.K. after serving over two years for [...] More

Russian Cyber Espionage, Crimes, and Hooliganism

Bottom Line Up FrontRussia continues to attack the data and computer networks of Western countries and organizations.Moscow will target any [...] More

The Brazen Tradecraft of Russia's Novichok Operation

Bottom Line Up Front: On September 5, the U.K. charged two men it says are Russian military intelligence officers, with the March assassination [...] More

Is the US Still a Reliable Ally?

Is the US Still a Reliable Ally?

Cipher Brief experts Matt Olsen and Nick Fishwick tackled the state of the U.S. alliance with the “5 Eyes” – the U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia and [...] More

UK National Security Adviser: Russia Expulsions Just First Step

UK National Security Adviser: Russia Expulsions Just First Step

As Russia was announcing who it would kick out over the mass expulsion of Russian spies over a nerve agent attack in Britain, the U.K.’s National [...] More

Will US Join UK in Challenging Russia over Nerve Agent Spy Attack?

Will US Join UK in Challenging Russia over Nerve Agent Spy Attack?

In a speech before Parliament, British Prime Minister Theresa May said it was “highly likely” Russia was behind a “military grade” nerve agent [...] More

Network Take: The UK Meltdown over Trump Tweets

Network Take: The UK Meltdown over Trump Tweets

The fallout continued Thursday over President Donald Trump’s retweeting of anti-Islam videos originally posted by a British far-right fringe group. [...] More

Counterterrorism and the Costs of a Free Society

This morning’s detonation of an improvised explosive device onboard the London Tube has once again pushed the issue of online terrorist recruitment [...] More

London Attacker 'May Not Have Fancied Martyrdom'

In an incident the British government has called a terrorist attack, a bomb detonated at Parsons Green tube station Friday morning. 29 people were [...] More

Panic as Bomb Attack Rocks London Underground

Panic as Bomb Attack Rocks London Underground

A bomb exploded on a London subway train Friday morning injuring at least 29 people, most of them suffering flash burns from the blast, none [...] More

Terrorists Learn Tactics by Watching Each Other

Earlier today, an improvised explosive device was detonated on the London underground railway, known as the Tube, injuring more than 20 people in [...] More

Allying Public and Private Forces on the Front Lines of Cybersecurity

Allying Public and Private Forces on the Front Lines of Cybersecurity

Few security challenges muddle the distinction between government and business roles as those emanating from cyberspace. National security issues no [...] More