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Article: Pipes helps U.S. identify the enemy; long before Sept. 11, Daniel Pipes warned of the perils of militant Islam. Now he cautions that U.S. authorities still aren't taking the growing threat seriously enough.(Daniel Pipes)(Interview)
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- Insight on the News
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- April 15, 2002
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Daniel Pipes has the distinction of being the very first person quoted in INSIGHT. When the magazine's first issue appeared on Sept. 23, 1985, the cover story on Hafez al-Assad included in its second paragraph a description of Pipes as a leading American student of Syrian affairs. He was quoted on the Syrian regime's purposeful use of brutality against its own population.
During the last 17 years, Pipes has proved time and again just how well he understands Syria and the Middle East in general. He stood as a minority of one -- not a single other person joined him -- in publicly predicting in early 2000 that al-Assad would hot sign an anticipated agreement with ...