Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed

Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is a London-born author and political scientist specialising in interdisciplinary security studies. He teaches International Relations at the School of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, where he recently completed Doctoral research on European imperial genocides from the 15th to the 19th centuries.

Career

Nafeez Ahmed is a British-born Muslim of Bangladeshi ethnicity. He is the author of The London Bombings: An Independent Inquiry (London: Duckworth, 2006) and The War on Truth: 9/11, Disinformation and the Anatomy of Terrorism (New York: Olive Branch, 2005). His research on international terrorism was officially used by the 9/11 Commission in Washington DC.^[1] On 22 July 2005 he gave testimony on the failure of Western security policies at the hearing, "The 9/11 Commission Report One Year Later: Did They Get it Right?"^[2] (This was a Congressional briefing hosted by Rep. Cynthia McKinney and Rep. Raúl Grijalva.^[3]) In addition to his testimony, his written submissions on Western collaboration with Islamist terror networks^[4] were entered into the Congressional Record<ref? Congressional Record, Proceedings and Debates of the 109th Congress, First Session, Vol. 151, Part 18. October 27, 2005 to November 7, 2005. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GZA2cvjYPUEC&pg=PA43&dq=nafeez+ahmed&hl=en&ei=qnrITOOnHZCRjAe-g4A7&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CFQQ6AEwCDgK#v=onepage&q=nafeez%20ahmed&f=false. Retrieved 2010-10-27. </ref>

Ahmed has also written for the Independent on Sunday, New Criminologist and Raw Story, among others, and has appeared as a political commentator on BBC World Today, BBC Asian Network, BBC Southern Counties Radio, Channel 4, Sky News, C-SPAN, FOX News, PBS Foreign Exchange and other radio and TV shows in the US, UK, and Europe.^{[citation needed]}

Works

• The War on Freedom: How and Why America was Attacked, September 11, 2001 'Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, ISBN 0-930852-40-0, 400 pages, Media Messenger Books
• Behind the War on Terror : Western Secret Strategy and the Struggle for Iraq ISBN 0-86571-506-8
• The War on Truth: 9/11, Disinformation, and the Anatomy of Terrorism ISBN 1-56656-596-0
• The London Bombings: An Independent Inquiry ISBN 0-7156-3583-2
• UN Humanitarian Intervention in East Timor. A Critical Appraisal. Entelequia. Revista Interdisciplinar, 2, Fall 2006. Pages 227-244.
• Structural Violence as a Form of Genocide. The Impact of the International Economic Order. Entelequia. Revista Interdisciplinar, 5, Fall 2007. Pages 3–41.
• A User's Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save it, Pluto Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0745330532

See also

• List of British Bangladeshis

References

1. ^ U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (from November 27, 2002 to Aug 21, 2004). "National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States (9-11 Commission) Collection; See Item # 28". U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. http://www.archives.gov/research/alic/special-collections/9-11-commission.html. Retrieved 2009-12-14. 
2. ^ Leni Bracken (July 25, 2005). "Critics Cite Omissions, Cover-Ups On First Anniversary of 9/11 Commission Report". 9/11 Citizen's Watch. http://911citizenswatch.org/?p=590#more-590. Retrieved 2009-12-14. 
3. ^ John Judge (July 22, 2005). "UPDATE: The 9/11 Commission Report One Year Later: Did They Get It Right? (Press Release: 7/19/05)". 9/11 Citizen's Watch. http://911citizenswatch.org/?p=588. Retrieved 2009-12-14. 
4. ^ Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed (October 2009). "Our Terrorists". New Internationalist. http://www.newint.org/features/2009/10/01/blowback-extended-version/. Retrieved 2009-12-07. 

External links

• The Cutting Edge (blog)
• [1] The Institute for Policy Research & Development (IPRD)
• C-SPAN video on Information Clearing House [2]
• Ahmed interviewed on PBS Foreign Exchange, with Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek International editor
• Palm Beach Post, October 5, 2002, "Controversial book asks the 'hard questions' about 9/11" [3]
• Missoula Independent, October 5, 2002, "Who knew?" [4]
• Vanity Fair, January 29, 2010, "Nafeez Ahmed responds to Christopher Hitchens" [5]

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