According to Dario Cristiani, writing in the Jamestown Foundation's Militant Leadership Monitor, he was radicalized by several run-ins with the Algerian authorities.

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Stephen Ulph from the Jamestown Foundation argues that the West has actually been remiss in not engaging more with the debate over Islamism.

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In the Jamestown Foundation's China Brief Mr Lam catalogues how China's vast law-enforcement apparatus amassed huge power under Zhou Yongkang, especially since the 2008 Olympics and the unrest in Tibetan areas that year.

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Jacob Zenn, a Jamestown Foundation analyst who has researched JaK, told CNN the group has a track record of quickly and credibly claiming responsibility for attacks in Kazakhstan since its founding in September 2011.

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Jamestown Foundation, good analysis, especially on Chechnya.

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Yet as Hassan Abbas, a former Pakistani police chief in the Northwest Frontier Region of Pakistan wrote in a recent paper for the Jamestown Foundation, it is unclear how US development assistance can be credibly put to good use.

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In fact, except the political elite and a small number of businessmen, professionals and experts, other disadvantaged sectors of society have virtually remained barred from the corridors of power, William Lam, a Hong Kong-based China scholar, said in a recent research report published by Washington-based Jamestown Foundation.

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