Andrew McCarthy

Senior Fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies

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Senior Fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, an anti-terrorism think tank formed after 9/11; former federal prosecutor who led the 1995 terrorism prosecution against Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman and eleven others for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing

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