Bio and contact details
Leah Farrall is a Research Associate at the University of Sydney’s United States Studies Centre. She was formerly a senior Counter Terrorism Intelligence Analyst with the Australian Federal Police (AFP). During her time with the AFP, Leah served as the organization’s al Qaeda subject matter specialist and worked on a range of international and domestic counter terrorism investigations. She also served as the senior Intelligence Analyst in the AFP’s Jakarta Regional Cooperation Team (JRCT) in Indonesia and at the AFP’s Forward Operating Post in response to the second Bali bombings. An experienced practitioner and trainer, Leah was involved in providing national & international counter terrorism training & curriculum development.
Prior to joining the AFP, Leah taught at the University of Queensland, where she coordinated the Terrorism and Insurgency in World Politics course. Leah’s specialisation is al Qaeda and militant salafist groups. Her broader terrorism and counter terrorism research interests are operational networks, radicalization and de-radicalization trajectories, propaganda and recruitment, social network analysis, and computer forensics.
Leah has also worked in private industry in Hong Kong SAR, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. She holds a PhD in Politics, a Master of International Relations and Asian Politics, and a Bachelor of Arts in Government.
Her work has been published in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, as well a number of other publications.
This blog features her terrorism and counter terrorism related writings. She is shortly launching another blog, which will house a wider range of topics within the general ambit of International Relations.
Contact: allthingscounterterrorism(at) gmail (dot) com
Twitter: @allthingsct
Hi Leah I came across your blog recently through ‘Making sense of jihad’.
I really enjoy reading your posts.
FREErad!cals is a blog which focuses on radicalisation, de-radicalisation and political violence. We have a team of bloggers who all blog on different topics and different regions. Tim Stevens from ubiwar is our blogger on technology.
I’d love to hear what you think about us. And come debate with us!
Hope to read you soon!
Alexandra
Great articles, following on twitter, trying to spread the word. Hope computer problems resolve shortly
Farrall
got a real job
and when you find one – tell what it is like
no surprises for where i am now….
Andy
aaah Mr A how I miss our rants. so you’re out too now huh. looking forward to hearing what you’re up to these days. cheers mate.
Hi Leah, can’t find a email address for you. really looking forward to talking to you tho. You can direct message me via twitter, I followed you so you should see the link. Peace Out.
Hello Leah,
I left a message on here for you and came back to see if you had a chance to respond but you had deleted it. Which I guess I don’t mind, since I didn’t plan for my name to be posted on. I would appreciate if you would still consider that question for me.
Kind Regards…
C.
Hi, I’m sorry my memory is a bit hazy. Please email me and I will do my best to reply when I can.
Hi Leah,
I love your blog, its very informative and weather i agree with your views or not (which i often do), it is extremely helpful, so thank you.
With that said, I have a question. Do you think it is possible, or even probable, that the situation with the US and Pakistan is either similar or leading in the same direction that the US and the Mujahedin in Afghanistan back during the Cold War? The similarities are striking if one can take several factors as givens. I won’t list everything now, though I would love to discuss it further. In the end, it seems we are only funding our “friend” now, to only have him fire the same missiles we gave him at us later on.
What do you think?
If e-mail is better please reply here and I will gladly e-mail you as soon as possible.
Thanks!
BG
Hi, feel free to send me an email.
My sister I inivite you to Islam. If you do not become Muslim you will end up in the hellfire forever. So, read islam and I am sure that if you are honest in your research you will become Muslim.
I am fascinated by the depth of your knowledge on the topic of Terrorism with reference to Al-Qaida and Salafist Jihad. I would like to keep in contact with you as I am writing a novel on the theme of Islamic Fundamentalism. I hope to get valuable help from you.