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by Michael Jacobson
Dec 10, 2009

Also published in Inside Defense
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Michael Jacobson
Michael Jacobson

Michael Jacobson is the Mark and Wayne Levy Senior Fellow in The Washington Institute's Jeanette and Eli Reinhard Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence.

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