Richard Barrett

Richard Barrett is a senior director of the Soufan Group. He was formerly the director of MI6 counter terrorist operations, and subsequently the Coordinator of the Al-Qaida and Taliban Monitoring Team at the United Nations.

His Idea

Did Tamerlan ‘Self-Radicalize’?

If the Tsarnaev brothers in fact trained themselves in terror, it would put them in an extremely rare breed of extremists. Al Qaeda expert Richard Barrett explains why.

Richard Barrett