"Dr. Walid Phares" ( ) is an American scholar of Lebanon/Lebanese origins. He is a professor and commentator on global terrorism and Middle Eastern affairs.

Phares has testified before committees of the U.S. United States Department of State/State, United States Department of Justice/Justice, United States Department of Defense/Defense and United States Department of Homeland Security/Homeland Security, the United States Congress, the European Parliament, and the United Nations Security Council. Since 2007, he has served as an expert on terrorism and the Middle East for FOX News since 2007 and was a terrorism expert for NBC from 2003 to 2006. He is an Expert for Wikistrat.

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They're like two animals facing one another. Who is going to make the first move and what's it going to be?

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Name the ideology behind the terrorists.

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Americans are not fighting nor being targeted by an abstract called terrorism, but a growing body of ideological concepts. They need to know what is it they are up against.

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It works very well, (but) it will seem strange to American eyes. No lawyers doing battle with each other, no O.J.-type trial dramatics.

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