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Biography
One of the world's most respected authorities on terrorism, guerrilla warfare, special operations, survival and security, Bob Newman has briefed members of Congress on matters relating to the war on terror and homeland security, and has been commended for his work by mayors, governors, senators, congressional representatives and generals, including Gen. Richard B. Myers, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Mr. Newman's comprehensive "10-Point Plan to Win the War on Terror" has raised eyebrows on Capitol Hill. He has given briefings and presentations on terrorism at the Maritime Security Council's International Maritime Security Summit, China Shipping 2004, Intersec Security Exposition, Airport-Port-Terminal Security (Middle East) Exposition & Conference, TOC-Asia (Terminal Operations Conference--Asia), U.S. Air Force Academy, US oil & gas industry, and to various business organizations, as well as an assortment of government (foreign & domestic), media, civic, and private entities, and to professional sports organizations. A terrorism, weapons of mass destruction and tactics consultant to one of the largest metropolitan police departments in the United States, he is also the Director of International Security & Counterterrorism Services for The GeoScope Group, which provides the world's foremost Vulnerability Assessment Teams from the most elite law enforcement agencies, intelligence organizations and military special operations units in existence.
The host of the "Gunny Bob Show" (Newsradio 850 KOA) and an award-winning military science & terrorism analyst for Clear Channel, Inc., Bob's hard-hitting, insightful analysis & commentary on terrorism, homeland security, guerrilla warfare and military science has resulted in his appearances on such programs as "The O'Reilly Factor," "On the Record" with Greta van Susteren, "War Zone" with Geraldo Rivera, "FOX News Live," "FOX News Sunday" and "Big Story Weekend" with Rita Cosby, "War on Terror: The Hunt for the Killers" with Linda Vester and Laurie Dhue, "The Big Story" with John Gibson, "The FOX Report" with Shepard Smith, ABC's "World News Tonight," MSNBC's "Connected Coast to Coast" (hosted by Ron Reagan Jr. and Monica Crowley), CNN, the "Today" show (interviewed by Matt Lauer), "Talkback Live," "Catherine Crier Live," "Montel Williams," "Cochran & Company," and radio stations from coast to coast, as well as in Europe and Australia.
In October of 2002, Bob was the counterterrorism consultant for an investigative report on terrorism and homeland security for CBS. In July of 2003, Newsweek 's World Wide Web edition published an extensive interview with Bob on the guerrilla war in Iraq. In January of 2004, Bob accepted the position of military science & terrorism columnist for The Denver Daily News . Bob is a popular political columnist for Frontiers of Freedom and Men's News Daily. The Chicago Tribune repeatedly consulted Bob in 2004 about interrogation techniques, the Geneva Conventions, and myriad aspects of subjects relating to Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay. While in the Middle East in March 2005, he was extensively interviewed by Reuters and Agence France-Presse regarding terrorism in the Persian Gulf.
Bob is well known for his uncanny ability to precisely predict the nature and location (by country) of terrorist attacks months, even years in advance, as well as anti-terrorist operations carried out by the U.S. Department of Defense and/or Central Intelligence Agency, and events relating to standard DoD operations, such as Operation Iraqi Freedom. He is also the most successful investigative journalist covering the war on terror, with nearly 100 accurate predictions and assessments, and stories he has broken since October 2001 (more than all other military science and terrorism analysts in the media combined).
Bob won a national-level 2002 Edward R. Murrow Award for investigative reporting on terrorism and homeland security, and won a 2001 Associated Press/Colorado Broadcasters Association Award, also for investigative reporting on terrorism and homeland security. In 2003, "Redmond & Newman" won a Colorado Broadcasters Association Award of Excellence. In 2004, Bob won another Colorado Broadcasters Association Award of Excellence for his special live broadcast on the 1 st anniversary of the beginning of the liberation of Iraq titled "365 Days of War." He is also a frequent consultant to the BBC on terrorism, interrogations and guerrilla warfare, was selected by Westword as the "Best Military Expert" in that publication's 2002 "Best of Denver" competition, and is a recipient of the Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps' Leadership Writing Award.
A correspondent for the Cybercast News Service, Mr. Newman's investigative reports on everything from terrorism to medicine are known for their depth and insight. He has reported (television, radio, the print media and on the World Wide Web) on the admitted war crimes and treason of John Forbes Kerry, the attacks of 9-11, all aspects of homeland security, US military actions around the world (Afghanistan, the Philippines, the Korean Peninsula, Iraq, Liberia, etc.), al Qaeda's global operations, the Abu Ghraib prisoner-abuse scandal, the 2004 presidential election, special operations conducted by the CIA's Special Activities Division (SAD), suspected domestic terrorist Eric Robert Rudolph, Andrew Cunanan (who murdered fashion designer Gianni Versace), Zimbabwe dictator and mass-murderer Robert Mugabe, the Iranian-Syrian link to Hezbollah, Yasser Arafat's Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, Hamas, Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army terrorist group, Thailand's burgeoning Muslim terrorist threat, the Abu Sayyaf Group, super-secret US special operations Task Force 121, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Jemaah Islamiyah, Libyan dictator Moammar Ghadafi, the Peruvian Maoist terrorist group Sendero Luminoso ("Shining Path"), the Corsican National Liberation Front, the ricin attacks on the White House and Senate, John Kerry's support of the government of North Vietnam, Gen. Wesley Clark's firing by Secretary of Defense William Cohen, the Philippines Marxist terrorist group known as the New Peoples Army, Saudi Arabia's terrorist insurgency, security at the Olympic Games in Greece, the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, Islamic terrorism in Thailand, the Colombian narco-terrorist groups known as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and National Liberation Front (NLF), Mad Cow Disease, media bias, accused sexual predator Kobe Bryant, former warlord and Liberian President Charles Taylor, the armored bulldozer attack on the Colorado town of Granby in June 2004, the Beslan (Russia) school massacre, the 2004 US elections, the 2004 tsunamis, controversial University of Colorado Professor Ward Churchill, Terri Schiavo and the euthanasia issue, the "madrassa" Muslim terrorist-indoctrination schools of the Middle East and Asia, immigration reform, the 2005 Lebanese revolution, the deadly Mara Salvatrucha international crime syndicate, the "Minuteman Project," the London "7-7" bombings, and many more subjects.
In November of 2001, Bob was the panel moderator for President George W. Bush's "Lessons of Liberty" initiative at the Denver campus of Jones Knowledge, Inc. In July of 2003, he was the panel moderator for the US Department of State's International Visitors Program during a visit by African journalists to Colorado to discuss post 9-11 interaction between the United States and Africa. In March 2005, Bob accepted the position of adjunct scholar at The Institute for Liberty, a conservative think tank. Bob is also a popular guest instructor at Metropolitan State College in Denver, where he lectures on political science, history, culture, Islam, Judaism and terrorism.
On 11 September 2004, Dave Kopel of the Rocky Mountain News , who is also an associate policy analyst for the Cato Institute and a columnist for National Review Online , said: "In the Colorado media, KOA evening radio host Bob Newman is virtually alone in presenting a sophisticated understanding of military science."
A certified hostage survival instructor, Bob is a decorated, retired parachute- and scuba-qualified United States Marine with extensive, global operational experience in reconnaissance, special operations, counterterrorism, counterguerrilla warfare, and wilderness survival, and is a ground combat veteran.
