Petter Nesser

Senior researcher Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), associate professor @HandelshoyskBI
Author of Islamist Terrorism in Europe

[Petter Nesser @petternessern]

Islamist Terrorism in Europe 2nd edition is available via Kindle https://t.co/5cBs0aGfEE

[Magnus Ranstorp @MagnusRanstorp]

Fem gripna för terrorplaner mot julmarknad i Tyskland https://t.co/NFjrXlBFU4

[Paul Cruickshank @CruickshankPaul]

How the Islamic State digital ecosystem is fostering teenage terrorism: Important and sobering findings from Moustafa Ayad in the cover story of the February 2025 CTC Sentinel. @CTCWP
https://t.co/Kd0IKv1tFi

[Francesco Marone @f_marone]

Italy:
an Egyptian refugee injured five passers-by with a knife on New Year's Eve in a town near Rimini.
The attacker, 23, was shot dead by the police.
At the moment, the motive is unclear but reportedly the authorities have not ruled out terrorism
https://t.co/MvSGE6LpUV

[Paul Cruickshank @CruickshankPaul]

🚨 Essential reading: Wassim Nasr @SimNasr, one of the very best journalists covering Hayat Tahrir al Sham, interviews Syria's defacto new leader Ahmed al-Chareh, AKA Abu Mohammed al-Jolani.

[Paul Cruickshank @CruickshankPaul]

Smarter Counterterrorism: This is one of the most important CTC Sentinel issues we've ever published. @DonRassler in particular deserves immense credit for pulling it together @CTCWP

[CTC at West Point @CTCWP]

November analysis: “Show and Tell: Expert Perspectives on Indicators and Warning Approaches for External Terror Ops” by Brian Dodwell, @DonRassler, and @CruickshankPaul
https://t.co/EDbs4mi2Ty

[Paul Cruickshank @CruickshankPaul]

One of the worst terror attacks in history: Al Qaeda affiliate JNIM murdered 600 people in August Burkina Faso massacre, double previous estimates, according to a French security assessment. The threat is rapidly gathering in West Africa.
https://t.co/Zr6iIIDkGb

[Petter Nesser @petternessern]

@ErikSkare Please read the book y’all

[Petter Nesser @petternessern]

German police arrest boy accused of knowing about fatal knife attack in advance - BBC News https://t.co/Z3uxXhdjRm

[Wassim Nasr @SimNasr]

#France is deploying more than 30,000 policemen, 20,000 security guards & 10,000 military. The matrice of risks to tackle is wide, added a very tensed geopolitical situation. A few quotes from ⁦@CTCWP⁩ June report coauthored ⁦@petternessern⁩
https://t.co/1BTKn6hEmt

[Paul Cruickshank @CruickshankPaul]

Over the years, this has been the special power of CTC Sentinel at West Point: Highlighting and illuminating the biggest CT challenges - not just for practioners and scholars - but also for the global public. Chapeau @SimNasr and @petternessern 🇺🇸 🇫🇷

[Wassim Nasr @SimNasr]

#فرنسا ما هي التهديدات التي تواجهها الألعاب الأولمبية في #باريس؟ @France24_ar
https://t.co/szFphjqWDk

[War on the Rocks @WarOnTheRocks]

“The Islamic State today looks different than it did five years ago and is far more integrated now as an organization amongst its global network than al-Qaeda ever was,” writes Aaron Y. Zelin (@azelin). https://t.co/sbobEoiQsp

[Francesco Marone @f_marone]

'US military bases across Europe were placed on a heightened state of alert for the first time in a decade after the US received intelligence that Russian-backed actors were considering carrying out sabotage attacks against personnel or facilities'
https://t.co/7CEUFMChzD

[ترفيه بلس @Tarfiehplus]

وسيم نصر @SimNasr و بيتر نيسر @petternessern يحذران من تنامي خطر الجهاديين على ألمبياد باريس. التفاصيل في المرصد

https://t.co/t58yuEaX8c
@NihadJariri
#داعش_في_غيبوبة #داعش_ضد_داعش #اعترف_بالسر #الخليفة_الخفي

[Aaron Y. Zelin @azelin]

A 12-year-old involved in an IS plot in France 🤯

[Colin P. Clarke, Ph.D. @ColinPClarke]

I joined @BBCNewshour along with @Joana_Cook to discuss the ten-year mark of the Islamic State's declaration of a global caliphate, segment begins around 34:16 @bbcworldservice https://t.co/3d5Rfn3BHW

[Francesco Marone @f_marone]

Germany
'A court in Cologne has sentenced a 15-year-old to four years in youth custody for planning an attack on a Christmas market in a nearby city.
The court found that the Islamist-motivated youth had planned to kill apparent non-believers with a truck'
https://t.co/gPNoacejls

[Petter Nesser @petternessern]

Finally got to co-author with Wassim this Nesser & Nasr article on European threat landscape approaching the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Many thanks to @CruickshankPaul and CTC Sentinel @CTCWP editorial board. The Threat Matrix Facing the Paris Olympics https://t.co/KuH8tJZiPY

[Wassim Nasr @SimNasr]

#France Une description comparative des différents types de menaces aux jeux olympiques de Paris #JOP2024, du terrorisme jihadiste à celui des extrêmes et étatique étranger. Par @petternessern & moi-même @CTCWP édité par la main experte @CruickshankPaul https://t.co/aVxcON45EV