Academic Fellow Ben Sheppard, PhD, is a counterterrorism expert and analyst, and the author of the book The Psychology of Strategic Terrorism. In an interview on Washington, DC's FOX-5 News, he reacted to the latest findings about a foiled al-Qa'ida plot to bomb a US-bound airliner. Dr. Sheppard notes that the unraveling of the plot has given US authorities a valuable opportunity to study a captured example of the terrorist group's bomb-making handiwork. Click below to watch the story in full.

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