Terrorist Groups in Africa
Farah, Douglas, Senior Fellow, National Strategy Information Center
Description of NSIC from disinfopedia:
http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=National_Strategy_Information_CenterMr. Farah will talk about the rise of Al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups in Africa and use of conflict diamonds to finance terrorist activities. He has recently co-authored an opinion piece on this topic and is the author of Blood From Stones: The Secret Financial Network of Terror, published by Broadway. He will respond to telephone calls, faxes, and electronic mail from viewers.
Group Watch identifies the National Strategy Information Center (NSIC0 as "a rightwing think tank for military strategy. It has a history of working with hard-line, anti-Soviet groups promoting an aggressive U. S. foreign policy."<1>
Frank R. Barnett, founder and president of the NSIC, founded the organization in 1962 with Morris Liebman. "Other founding directors and advisers of the NSIC include ultra-rightist beer baron Joseph Coors; Frank Shakespeare, chair of the conservative think tank, the Heritage Foundation; and former CIA director William J. Casey. Barnett was also a prominent member of the Committee on the Present Danger. Before founding the NSIC, he served as the director of research for the ultra-rightwing Smith Richardson Foundation, and a program director of the Institute for American Strategy."<2>