Speakers & Organizers   

Executive Council

Dr. Norman A. Bailey
Gen. Thomas McInerney  
Cdr. Richard Marcinko
Gen. Paul E. Vallely

Executive Board

Dr. Robert Katz,
Executive Director

John J. Loftus,
President

Clare Lopez,
Vice President

Advisory Board

Talia Adar
Brent M.P. Beleskey
Ilana Freedman
Dr. Gary Katz
Eugene Lebovitz
Alex Porter

2007 SPEAKERS

Dr. Richard Benkin
Prof. Louis Rene Beres
Col. Bill Cowan

Dr. Andrew M. Colarik
Col. Gordon Cucullu
Nonie Darwish
Drs. Jill Dekker
Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld
Steve Emerson
Ilana Freedman
Dave Gaubatz
Jerry Gordon
Col. Jonathan Halevi
Joe Kaufman
Aaron Klein
Steven Lutz
Laura Mansfield
Cdr. Richard Marcinko
Ryan Mauro
Gen. Thomas G. McInerney
Richard Miniter
Bob Newman
Dr. William Radasky
Klaus Schmidt
Avi Shachar
Wayne Simmons
Khalsa Hari Singh
Gen. Paul E. Vallely

Secular Islam Summit:
(held concurrently and
in association with The
Intelligence Summit)

Whalid Phares
Shaker al-Nabulsi
Irshad Manji
Amir Taheri
Magdi Allam
Ibn Warraq
Fatemolla
Afshin Ellian
Wajeha Al-Huwaider
Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi

2006 Speaker list

ADVISORY COUNCIL
Louis Rene Beres
Yossef Bodansky
Brent Budowsky
Col. Gordon Cucullu
Col. Bill Cowan
Nonie Darwish
Drs. Jill Dekker
Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld
Brigitte Gabriel
Yoram Hessel
Tawfik Hamid
Gen. Thomas G. McInerney
Bahukutumbi Raman
Wayne Simmons
Robert Spencer
Gen. Paul E. Vallely

DIRECTORS
Dr. Robert Katz
Executive Director

John J. Loftus
President

Clare Lopez
Vice President

Lee Mason

MODERATORS
Chris Blackburn
Randall H. Lipson
Don Pitts

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Dr. Shmuel Bar
Senior Research Fellow
Institute for Policy and Strategy, Herzliya, Israel
www.HerzliyaConference.org
Biography
Speaker's Photo Dr. Bar is Director of Studies at the Institute of Policy and Strategy in Herzliya and a founder of IntuView - an Israeli start-up company which is developing artificial intuition tools for real time document exploitation of Arabic language terrorist related documents. His current areas of study include: Jordanian, Syrian and Palestinian affairs, radical Islam and Terrorism, inter-Arab Politics, the Arab-Israeli Conflict and the Peace Process; Iranian defense doctrine and negotiation behavior. He is also a member of the organizing team of the annual "Herzliya Conference" and participates in deliberations of the Israeli National Security Council on areas relating to his expertise and experience. Dr. Bar retired (2003) after 30 years from service in the in the Israeli Security and Intelligence Community as an intelligence officer in the IDF and in the Office of the Prime Minister. During this period, he filled various senior staff and operational positions, including diplomatic posting in Europe. His last post was first secretary at the Israeli embassy in the Hague (1998-2002). Dr. Bar holds a Ph.D. in History of the Middle East from Tel-Aviv University (1989), M.A. (Magna cum Laude) in History of the Middle East from Tel-Aviv University (1984) and a B.A from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1974, in Jewish and Middle Eastern History. He has published numerous books and papers on Middle Eastern affairs, terrorism and radical Islam.



Session CT35: The Religious Sources of Islamic Terror:
Wahhabi-Salafi Ideology and the Strategy of Jihad
February 20, 15:00 - 15:45
Abstract:
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