Brynjar Lia is a Norwegian historian and research professor at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment

Norwegian Defence Research Establishment

The Norwegian Defence Research Establishment is a research institute that conducts research and development on behalf of the Norwegian Armed Forces and provides expert advice to political and military defence leaders...

 (FFI) where he is head of FFI's research on international terrorism and global jihadism. Lia is viewed as one of Norway's foremost experts on terrorism and is much cited in Norwegian and international media in connection to Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda is a global broad-based militant Islamist terrorist organization founded by Osama bin Laden sometime between August 1988 and late 1989. It operates as a network comprising both a multinational, stateless army and a radical Sunni Muslim movement calling for global Jihad...

 and international terrorism. Lia's last book is about Abu Musab al-Suri

Mustafa Setmariam Nasar

Mustafa bin Abd al-Qadir Sitt Maryam Nasar is a suspected al-Qaeda member and writer. He has held Spanish citizenship since the late 1980s following marriage to a Spanish woman....

, which has been reviewed in publications like Newsweek

Newsweek

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, The Economist

The Economist

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, London Review of Books

London Review of Books

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, and The New York Review of Books

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External links

• FFI explains al-Qaida document, regarding a pre-warning found on the Internet about the Madrid 2004 bombing
• Dr Brynjar Lia's "The al-Qaida Strategist Abu Mus'ab al-Suri: A Profile", from Counterterrorism blog
• Newsweek article about Abu Musab al-Suri with comments from Lia
• Book review of Architect of Global Jihad (The Economist, 2007)
• Book review of Architect of Global Jihad (London Review of Books, 2008)
• The growth of 'online Jihadism' (BBC World, 26 October 2006)
• Jihadi Suicide Bombers: The New Wave (The New York Review of Books, June 2008)