Laura Mansfield is the

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author specializing in counter-terrorism, the

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, and

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. She is the former Associate Director of the Northeast Intelligence Network. Mansfield writes for various online publications including

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Background

Mansfield is fluent in written and spoken

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, and has spent nearly seven years living in the Middle East, working for a wide range of clients including a U.S.

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, and international corporations. She was active in the embassy warden system, acting as a liaison between the Embassy security office and her employer during the 1985 Beirut hijacking. Mansfield heads the '' Strategic Translations and Analysis service'' which specializes in monitoring and translating

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s from alleged radical Islamists.

Media and Public Forums

Mansfield frequently appears on a wide array of mainly-US networks such as

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, Fox News UK, Israel National Radio,

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as well as numerous radio stations across the US such as KGO Radio News in

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, America at Night, WDEL, WFED, WTOP, the Laurie Roth Show, the Tom Bauerle Show, and the Carl Wigglesworth Show, as well as working for many unnamed Fortune 500 companies. She was featured in the headlines in May 2004, as the investigator alleged to have originally downloaded the videotape of Nick Berg's murder from the Al-Ansar website. Mansfield was the subject of a prominent feature on Arabiya TV in 2005 and was involved in communications with the web-based radical

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In 2006, Mansfield spoke on the dangers of teaching about Islam in public schools. In 2007, Mansfield was featured on Yahoo! front page. CNN has featured purported Osama Bin Laden videos
from Laura Mansfield.

Attitudes on Islam

Mansfield believes that "the War on Terror began nearly a quarter of a century earlier (than Sept 11th 2001), with the Islamic Revolution in Iran" and that " dical Islam had declared War on America"America too impatient to win?

and has stated her belief that Islamists were behind the

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Ramzi Yousef, Oklahoma City, and Al Qaeda
based on what she said was a "daily planner" from "Boot Camp - Class of 2000", although the judge in Timothy McVeigh's trial

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a defence on these grounds inadmissible as speculation.

Bibliography

*His Own Words: Translation and Analysis of the Writings of Dr. Ayman Al Zawahiri July 25, 2006 *Inshallah: My Journey Into the World of Islam, and My Escape, Greene Leaf Publishing; 2006 . *One Nation Under Allah. The Islamic Invasion of America, Greene Leaf Publishing; November 2005 ASIN B000F0BDG0.

References

External links

America's Truth Forum Conference Laura Mansfield web siteLaura Mansfield's blog
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