Thomas Hegghammer

Thomas Hegghammer is Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo. He is the author of The Caravan: Abdallah Azzam and the Rise of Global Jihad.

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Why Jihadists Loved America in the 1980s

Islamists exploited the United States’ political freedoms to attract fighters for the Afghan War in the 1980s.
- Thomas Hegghammer
- March 6, 2020
Why Does Al-Qaeda Have a Problem With Norway?

After all, it's an international peacemaker
- Thomas Hegghammer and Dominic Tierney
- July 13, 2010

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Thomas Hegghammer

Why Jihadists Loved America in the 1980s

Why Does Al-Qaeda Have a Problem With Norway?