AFIO Counter-Jihad Symposium, 25-27 October 2007
The Resurgence of the Worldwide Islamic Jihad against the West
Understanding and Needed Response
"America...Convert to Islam, or die" – Osama bin Laden, 2007
Sheraton-Premiere Hotel
8661 Leesburg Pike, Tyson’s Corner, VA
Symposium Agenda
[Unless indicated otherwise, all speakers are CONFIRMED]
C. Emerson Cooper, Director of National Chapter Programs, corporate training expert
Peter Earnest, Chairman / Gene Poteat, President
Amb. Henry A. Crumpton, former Coordinator for Counterterrorism, State Department, CIA official
Session 2—The War on Terror: What U.S. Intelligence Is Doing About It [Kessler]; and Radical Islam [Pipes]
Ronald Kessler, bestselling intelligence author, The Terrorist Watch - Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack on the terrorists' relentless efforts to mount another devastating attack on the U.S. and the heroic efforts being made to stop those plots; Daniel Pipes, Ph.D., Director of the Middle East Forum, columnist at New York Sun, former official State Dept, on the true characteristics and motivations of Muslims -- radical or not -- regarding the West.
—Moderator: David Major, Former Director, Intelligence and Counterintelligence Programs, National Security Council; former Sr. FBI Executive, AFIO Board; founder and current President of the CI Centre.
Luncheon Keynote Address—"'Dignity' and the Eternal Present in the Muslim World"
Journalist/Speaker David Ignatius
—Moderator: Martin C. Faga, former President & CEO, MITRE, AFIO Board
Session 3—"America on the road to defeat: The unfortunate consequences of deliberately failing to understand our Islamist enemies" [Scheuer]; and "The Mosque on Red Square: The Challenges of the Coming Islamization of Russia" [Goble]
Michael F. Scheuer, former head of CIA's Bin Laden Unit and commentator on terrorism and Middle East issues; Paul Goble, Russian Terrorism expert, Professor, Institute of World Politics.
—Moderator David Major, Former Director, Intelligence and Counterintelligence Programs, National Security Council; former Sr. FBI Executive, AFIO Board; founder and current President of the CI Centre.
Walid Phares, Director of Future of Terrorism Project at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies; Adjunct Professor at the National Defense University; Author of Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies against the West and War of Ideas: Jihadism against Democracy.
Session 5—Islam vs. Islamist: Voices from the Muslim Center
Produced by Frank Gaffney as part of the PBS Crossroads Series but, at last minute, spiked by PBS in April 2007 (this important Documentary the public was never allowed to see). Includes light Buffet Dinner.
—Moderator: Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. – a mesmerizing speaker - is President of the Center for Security Policy, contributor, contributing editor, and columnist for a number of publications, including the Washington Times, National Review Online, and other papers, author of War Footing.
Peter Earnest, Gene Poteat, Elizabeth Bancroft
David Major - Former Director, Intelligence and Counterintelligence Programs, National Security Council; former Sr. FBI Executive, AFIO Board; founder and current President of the CI Centre
Session 7—Political Action and Propaganda
J. Michael Waller, Ph.D., Professor Institute of World Politics, International Communication, and directs the Institute's graduate programs on public diplomacy and political warfare, he is. a founding editor of Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization
—Moderator: John Lenczowski, Ph.D., expert on European and Soviet affairs, founder/director of The Institute of World Politics, was Director of European and Soviet Affairs at National Security Council.
Session 8—The Inside Story of a American Muslim and Apostate
Nonie Darwish, author of Now They Call Me Infidel: Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel and the War on Terror, she is a public speaker, writer, daughter of a Fedayeen leader, and founder of Arabs for Israel. The outspoken daughter of a shahid (martyr), Darwish attributes father's death to "the Middle Eastern Islamic culture and the propaganda of hatred taught to children from birth."
—Moderator: David Major, Former Director, Intelligence and Counterintelligence Programs, National Security Council; former Sr. FBI Executive, AFIO Board; founder and current President of the CI Centre
Session 9—Managing the Fallout: The Law of Unintended Consequences
Amb. Edward Walker and Frederick P. Hitz. Walker is former Ambassador to Israel and the United Arab Emirates. Hitz is former inspector general of the CIA, author/lecturer.
—Moderator: John L. Martin, Esq. former lawyer and Chief, Internal Security Section, DOJ; AFIO Board.
Gene Poteat, AFIO President, former CIA Directorate Science and Technology, Professor, Institute of World Politics
—Moderator: Peter Earnest, AFIO Chairman, former CIA DO, current Executive Director International Spy Museum