{"id":1629,"date":"2011-05-20T15:44:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T22:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/?p=1629"},"modified":"2011-05-21T13:27:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-21T20:27:04","slug":"mlm-cracks-the-mainstream-journos-let-go-from-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/?p=1629","title":{"rendered":"MLM Cracks the Mainstream, Journos Let Go from Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1630\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Riedel_MLM_reference.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1630\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1630\" title=\"Riedel_MLM_reference\" src=\"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Riedel_MLM_reference-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Riedel_MLM_reference-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Riedel_MLM_reference-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Riedel_MLM_reference-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Riedel_MLM_reference.jpg 1184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1630\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Proud to see this!<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>New York-<\/strong> I was pleased to see my publication <em>Militant Leadership Monitor<\/em>, referenced in the endnotes of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bruce_Riedel\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce Riedel&#8217;s<\/a> new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brookings<\/a> book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Deadly-Embrace-Pakistan-America-Future\/dp\/0815705573\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1305930052&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">Deadly Embrace: Pakistan, America, and the Future of Global Jihad<\/a>. This is the first citation of MLM in a mainstream book that I know of, not bad after less than a year and a half after starting from virtual scratch.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, Clare Gillis, James Foley, and Manuel Varela were finally freed from Tripoli today and sent across the border to Djerba. As I figured by this point, Austrian-Afrikaaner <a href=\"http:\/\/revolutionology.wordpress.com\/2011\/05\/20\/remembering-anton-hammerl\/#comment-138\" target=\"_blank\">Anton Hammerl<\/a> was not released with them and is assumed long dead. I figured as much when reports said that Clare had been able to make outgoing calls and nothing of Hammerl was mentioned. A Briton, whom I didn&#8217;t even know was captive called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisislondon.co.uk\/standard\/article-23951399-british-journalist-freed-by-libya.do\" target=\"_blank\">Nigel Chandler<\/a> was also let go. Disturbingly, a guy from Georgetown named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehoya.com\/mobile\/alumnus-missing-in-libya-1.2237508\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Van Dyk<\/a>e vanished without a trace from around Brega in mid-March and his case has received almost no publicity. God help him. Libya is a roll of the dice. There is only one consistency when you break open a tightly sealed police state and that it that you never know what the hell will happen. Look at Iraq for god&#8217;s sakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York- I was pleased to see my publication Militant Leadership Monitor, referenced in the endnotes of Bruce Riedel&#8217;s new Brookings book Deadly Embrace: Pakistan, America, and the Future of Global Jihad. 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