The conventional wisdom today is that Al-Qaeda the organization is more or less finished and Al-Qaeda the ideological movement has risen in its place. The London bombings raise questions about the conventional wisdom.

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Board of Advisors

Peter Bergen is a Fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington D.C., an adjunct professor at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, CNN's terrorism analyst and the author of Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Bin Laden.  His most recent book is The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al Qaeda's Leader.

Rachel Bronson, Middle East Specialist, and Vice President of Programs and Studies at The Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

Roger Cressey is the president of Good Harbor Consulting, LLC, which advises clients on homeland security, cyber security and counterterrorism matters.

Viet Dinh is a Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center and Director of Asian Law and Policy Studies.

Joshua Dratel specializes in criminal defense law and was lead counsel for Australian detainee David Hicks.  He is the co-editor of The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib (Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Richard Greenberg is an award-winning producer for the NBC News magazine, Dateline. He specializes in investigative reporting on security issues, terrorism, organized crime, and human rights. 

Martin Gross is founder and president of Sandalwood Securities, Inc. A former corporate and tax attorney, he has written numerous articles for The Wall Street Journal, Barron's and other financial publications.

Bernard Haykel is professor of Near Eastern studies at Princeton University. A specialist in Islamic law, politics and history, he has been a faculty member at New York University since 1998.

Scott Horton is a lecturer at Columbia Law School and a contributing editor at Harper's Magazine. He is also an attorney known for his work in emerging markets, military law, and international public law.

Judge Kenneth Karas is the United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York.

Dr. Priscilla Kauff is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst specializing in analytic group psychotherapy.

Farhad Kazemi is a professor of politics and Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at New York University's Wilf Department of Politics.

Dana Priest is a staff writer for the Washington Post and a 2006 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Beat Reporting for her stories on the CIA and the war on terror. 

Keith Weston is the detective chief superintendent of the Metropolitan Police Anti Terrorist Branch at New Scotland Yard.