(2008-03-04) Sageman Terrorism Book

DavidIgnatius profiles Marc Sageman and his new Leaderless Jihad book about Dealing With Terrorism. The heart of Sageman's message is that we have been scaring ourselves into exaggerating the terrorism threat - and then by our unwise actions in Iraq making the problem worse. He attacks head-on the central thesis of the George W Bush administration, echoed increasingly by Republican presidential candidate John [[Mc Cain]], that, as Mc Cain's Web site puts it, the United States is facing "a dangerous, relentless enemy in the War against Islamic Extremists" spawned by AlQaeda... It's the third wave of terrorism that is growing, but what is it? By Sageman's account, it's a leaderless hodgepodge of thousands of what he calls "terrorist wannabes."

James Fallows cited Sageman back in 2006.

John Robb has never written anything about Sageman.