Mario Coccia (ASU): General Causes of Terrorism: High Population Growth in Problematic Society. Saeed Bragheri (Akdeniz): The Military Use of Children by the Syrian-Iraqi Salafi-Jihadist Group. The Blackwater of jihad: A consortium of elite, well-paid fighters from across the former Soviet Union are training jihadis in Syria — their business model could go global. The first chapter from Terror in France: The Rise of Jihad in the West by Gilles Kepel. The myth of the “lone wolf” terrorist: In recent years, references to such attacks have become inescapable — but this lazy term obscures the real nature of the threat against us.
