Foreign Podicy

Yaya Fanusie is the director of analysis at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance (CSIF). He spent seven years as both an economic and counterterrorism analyst in the CIA, where he regularly briefed White House policy makers, U.S. military personnel, and federal law enforcement. In 2009, he spent three months in Afghanistan providing analytic support to senior military officials. He joins FDD president and Foreign Podicy host Clifford D. May for a discussion of the Long War, terrorism, ideology, religion and other issues. Episode resources: What it’s like to be a Muslim in the CIA — Yaya J. Fanusie; Vox How to Neutralize the Violent Jihadist Pull — Yaya J. Fanusie; Muslim Matters Anwar Al-Awlaki’s American Journey — Clifford D. May; Scripps Howard News Service Clifford D. May is president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), host of FDD's Foreign Podicy, and the foreign desk columnist for the Washington Times. Follow him on twitter @CliffordDMay. Yay