Nafeez Ahmed

[1] Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed] is a London-born author and political scientist specializing in interdisciplinary security studies. He teaches International Relations at the School of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, where he is currently engaged in Doctoral research on European imperial genocides from the 15th to the 19th centuries. [2]

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, and on 22nd July 2005 he gave expert testimony in US Congress on the failure of Western security policies at the hearing, “9/11 Commission Report One Year Later: Did They Get it Right?”. In addition to his testimony, his written submissions on Western collaboration with Islamist terror networks were entered into the Congressional Record.

Ahmed’s other books are Behind the War on Terror: Western Secret Strategy and the Struggle for Iraq (2003) and The War on Freedom: How and Why America was Attacked, September 11, 2001 (2002). He is executive director of the Institute for Policy Research & Development in London, an interdisciplinary think-tank analyzing international terrorism, military interventions, as well as national and international conflicts, in the context of global ecological, energy and economic crises. He is a former Senior Researcher for the Islamic Human Rights Commission, a London-based human rights organization with UN consultative status, whose reports have been used by the Home Office, Metropolitan Police, Runnymede Trust, among other agencies. He is currently on the Executive Committee of the British Muslim Human Rights Centre at London Metropolitan University's Human Rights & Social Justice Research Institute.

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 USA, UK, and Europe.

Works

• The War on Freedom: How and Why America was Attacked, September 11, 2001 'Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, John Leonard ISBN 0-930852-40-0
• 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.

External links

• The Cutting Edge (blog)
• Video on Information Clearing House [3]
• Awaaz, 'The Islamic Right - key tendencies' (South Asia Watch, June 2006) [4]