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The Kaspersky Kidnapping - Lessons Learned
On April 24, officers from the anti-kidnapping unit of Moscow’s Criminal
Investigation Department and the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB)
rescued 20-year-old Ivan Kaspersky from a dacha in Sergiev Posad, a
small town about 40 miles northeast of Moscow. Kaspersky, the son of
Russian computer software services billionaire Eugene Kaspersky (founder
of Kaspersky Lab), was kidnapped on April 19 as he was walking to work
from his Moscow apartment. A fourth-year computer student at Moscow
State University, Kaspersky was working as an intern at a software
company located near Moscow’s Strogino metro station.
The prospect of Saleh’s political struggle providing a boon to Al Qaeda
in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) is understandably producing anxiety in
Washington, where U.S. officials have spent the past few months trying
to envision what a post-Saleh Yemen would mean for U.S. counterterrorism
efforts in the Arabian Peninsula. Read more »
Dispatch: Politics Behind Thai-Cambodian Conflict
Analyst Matt Gertken examines Thailand’s internal politics and explains
how they directly affect the current military conflict between that
country and Cambodia. Watch the Video »
