Jessica Stern

professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, who studies terrorist groups across religions and ideologies

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Terrorism policy consultant and lecturer on terrorism at Harvard University; co-author of the book ISIS: The State of Terror

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Jessica Stern on KCRW

Last month’s shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival is now being investigated as a domestic terrorism incident.

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Today or tomorrow, an 18-year-old Somali-American is expected to be transferred from jail to a halfway house in Minnesota—to await trial on federal charges of terrorism.

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