Click here for the Friday Reading Search, a searchable archive of reading and knowledge resources

Since March 2020, Airmic has been issuing Friday Reading, a curated series of readings and knowledge resources sent by email to Airmic members. The objective of Airmic Friday Reading was initially to keep members informed during the Covid-19 pandemic. Today, Airmic Friday Reading has evolved in scope to include content on a wide range of subjects with each email edition following a theme. This page is a searchable archive of all the readings and knowledge resources that have been shared.

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Pool Re, 2nd August 2023
Friday Reading Edition 170 (15th September 2023)
This report seeks to explain and assess what the implications of a new al-Qa’ida leader could be to the group’s operational capabilities and strategic direction, and the implications for the threat posed by al-Qa’ida to people and property in the UK.
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Blackbird.AI, 30th September 2021
Friday Reading Edition 170 (15th September 2023)
The September 11 attacks and subsequent false conspiracy theories revealed the changing nature of disinformation as we entered the internet age. Blackbird.AI explores how 9/11 conspiracies have persisted over the last 20 years, and the importance of early deception detection to prevent disruptive information from taking hold.
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Council on Foreign Relations, 12th August 2021
Friday Reading Edition 170 (15th September 2023)
From 2021 – The US counterterrorism response to the September 11, 2001, attacks yielded some remarkable successes and disastrous failures in hunting al-Qaeda. The top terrorist threat today, though, is domestic rather than foreign
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House of Commons Library, 19th July 2021
Friday Reading Edition 170 (15th September 2023)
The beginning of the millennium saw an increased political focus on the threat from international terrorism, heightened by the attack on the Twin Towers on 11 September 2001. Only one year before 9/11, new counter-terrorism legislation had been passed in the UK.
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Control Risks
Friday Reading Edition 170 (15th September 2023)
Discusses the legacy of 9/11, the implications of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the shifting balance of global power
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IMF
Friday Reading Edition 170 (15th September 2023)
The IMF is concerned about the consequences of money laundering, terrorism financing, and proliferation financing, as well as related crimes that undermine the financial sector and the broader economy
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