17: Leah Farrall

Our guest this week was Leah Farrall, a Research Associate in Counter Terrorism at the University of Sydney’s United States Studies Centre (USSC) and also a Senior Lecturer in Security Studies at Massey University. Leah was formerly a senior Counter Terrorism Intelligence Analyst with the Australian Federal Police and served as the organization’s al Qaeda subject matter specialist while working on a range of international and domestic counter terrorism investigations. She also served as the senior Intelligence Analyst on the Jakarta Regional Cooperation Team (JRCT) in Indonesia and at the Australian Federal Police’s Forward Operating Post after the second Bali bombings. She holds a PhD in Politics, and her work has been published in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, and numerous other publications. She has just published a book together with Mustafa Hamid entitled 'The Arabs at War in Afghanistan'. Show notes are available at sourcesandmethods.com. We also wish to thank Tinderbox (eastgate.com/tinderbox) for sponsoring this week's episode.