Dr. Emile A. Nakhleh

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  Emile Nakhleh Retired Senior Intelligence Service Officer and Director of the Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program in the Directorate of Intelligence at the CIA
  
  Dr. Emile A. Nakhleh retired from the Central Intelligence Agency on June 30, 2006, after fifteen years of service. He was a Senior Intelligence Service Officer and Director of the Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program in the Directorate of Intelligence at the CIA. Before that he was Chief of the Regional Analysis Unit in the Office of Near Eastern and South Asian Analysis where he also served as Senior Analyst and Scholar in Residence since September 1993. Dr. Nakhleh was a founding member of the Senior Analytic Service and chaired the first SAS Council. He was awarded several senior intelligence commendation medals, including the Intelligence Commendation Medal (1997), the William Langer Award (2004), the Director's Medal (2004), and the Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal (2006). His research has focused on political Islam in the Middle East and the rest of the Muslim world as well as on political and educational reform, regime stability, and governance in the greater Middle East. Dr. Nakhleh holds a Ph.D. from the American University, a M.A. from Georgetown University, and a B.A. from Saint John's University.

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  Emile Nakhleh, A Necessary Engagement: Reinventing America’s Relations with the Muslim World (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008), 184 pp., $26.95.
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  In an informative and revealing book, A Necessary Engagement, Emile Nakhleh, a former director of the Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program in the CIA’s Directorate of Intelligence, says that although midlevel U.S. officials knew better than to frame the war in black-and-white terms, ever-expanding the territory of the enemy, they had little say and input in decision making.
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  Nakhleh paints a grim and stark portrait of the failures of U.S. policy makers to understand the most basic attitudes that Muslims have of themselves, each other and the West. He is bitter about the resistance of senior Bush officials to learning about the complexity and diversity of religiously based movements in the Muslim world, despite the numerous efforts he and top CIA analysts undertook to better guide them.
  
  One of Nakhleh’s central arguments is that there are qualitative, dramatic differences and distinctions between bin Laden’s violent global jihadists and mainstream political-Islamist parties with a huge social base, like the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Palestine. Nakhleh argues that while the former should be confronted and excluded, the latter “should be welcomed as potentially credible partners in the political transformation of their societies.â€
  
  Instead, the Bush team viewed the Muslim world with its 1.4 billion citizens through “the prism of terrorism,†lumping al-Qaeda terrorists with religious activists who have shown “their commitment to the democratic process and their pragmatic approach to politics and political change.†According to Nakhleh, this was the worst thing the United States could do.
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  1 On the Iraq threat, for example, Nakhleh writes that before and during the invasion, “briefings informed the administration that defeating Saddam’s army and toppling his regime were not the real challenge to the United States; planning for the ‘morning after’ was the true challenge.â€

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  Emile Nakhleh, former Director, Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program, Central Intelligence Agency and former Professor of Middle East Studies, Mount St. Mary's University

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  Thursday, February 26 at 7 p.m. - Emile Nakhleh reads and signs his new book, A Necessary Engagement: Reinventing America's Relations with the Muslim World (Princeton University Press, $26.95) In A Necessary Engagement, the CIA's former point man on Islam makes a vigorous case for a renewal of American public diplomacy in the Muslim world. Offering a unique balance between in-depth analysis, personal memoir, and foreign policy remedies, the book injects much-needed wisdom into the public discussion of long-term U.S.-Muslim relations. Intelligence insider Emile Nakhleh argues that an engagement with the Muslim world benefits the national interest of the United States. Therefore, the next administration should discard the terrorism prism through which the country has viewed political Islam since 9/11 and focus instead on the common interests of America and mainstream Muslims. Nakhleh investigates recent U.S. policy toward Islamic nations and offers the new administration a ten-point plan for rebuilding America's relationship with the Muslim world. Emile Nakhleh was a senior intelligence service officer and director of the Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program in the Directorate of Intelligence at the Central Intelligence Agency. He holds a PhD in international relations and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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  Dr. Emile Nakhleh is a former Senior Intelligence Service officer who was in charge of the political Islam project within the intelligence community. He is the author of A Necessary Engagement: Reinventing America's Relations with the Muslim World (Princeton University Press, 2009).

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  Emile Nakhleh Political Cortex: Emile Nakhleh
  
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  Reinventing Our Relations With the Muslim World: An Interview With Former CIA Analyst Emile Nakhleh

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  IPS News & Reuters report on a new Harper's interview with the former senior CIA official, Emile Nakhleh, who retired at the end of June as director of the agency's Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program.It's a terrifying look into the mind of the senior IC community leadership:
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  But the CIA program's former director, Emile Nakhleh, played down the problem and estimated only two to three percent of the world's 1.4 billion Muslims were politically active."Political Islam is not a threat," Nakhleh, who retired from the CIA in June, said in an interview posted on the web site of Harper's magazine.
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  In an interview published this week by the online edition of Harper's Magazine, Emile Nakhleh, who retired at the end of June as director of the agency's Political Islam Strategic Analysis Programme, said that the Bush administration's tactics had "lost a generation of goodwill in the Muslim world" and its Middle East democratisation programme "has all but disappeared, except for official rhetoric".
  
  I'm sorry, but did I miss the last 36 years of Middle East history or something?What "good will" is he talking about?
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  And to be honest, neither do folks like Mr. Nakhleh.

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  l Emile A. Nakhleh
  
  Retired Senior Intelligence Service Officer and Director of the Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program in the Directorate of Intelligence at the CIA. During his fifteen years of service at the CIA, Dr. Emile A. Nakhleh held a variety of key positions, including Director of the Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program in the Directorate of Intelligence and Chief of the Regional Analysis Unit in the Office of Near Eastern and South Asian Analysis. Dr. Nakhleh was a founding member of the Senior Analytic Service and chaired the first SAS Council. He was awarded several senior intelligence commendation medals, including the Intelligence Commendation Medal (1997), the William Langer Award (2004), the Director's Medal (2004), and the Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal (2006). His research has focused on political Islam in the Middle East and the rest of the Muslim world as well as on political and educational reform, regime stability, and governance in the greater Middle East.

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  Emile A. Nakhleh Retired Senior Intelligence Service Officer and Director of the Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program in the Directorate of Intelligence at the CIA
  
  During his fifteen years of service at the CIA, Dr. Emile A. Nakhleh held a variety of key positions, including Director of the Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program in the Directorate of Intelligence and Chief of the Regional Analysis Unit in the Office of Near Eastern and South Asian Analysis. Dr. Nakhleh was a founding member of the Senior Analytic Service and chaired the first SAS Council. He was awarded several senior intelligence commendation medals, including the Intelligence Commendation Medal (1997), the William Langer Award (2004), the Director's Medal (2004), and the Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal (2006). His research has focused on political Islam in the Middle East and the rest of the Muslim world as well as on political and educational reform, regime stability, and governance in the greater Middle East.
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  Emile Nakhleh
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  Emile Nakhleh Retired Senior Intelligence Service Officer and Director of the Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program in the Directorate of Intelligence at the CIA
  
  Dr. Emile A. Nakhleh retired from the Central Intelligence Agency on June 30, 2006, after fifteen years of service. He was a Senior Intelligence Service Officer and Director of the Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program in the Directorate of Intelligence at the CIA. Before that he was Chief of the Regional Analysis Unit in the Office of Near Eastern and South Asian Analysis where he also served as Senior Analyst and Scholar in Residence since September 1993. Dr. Nakhleh was a founding member of the Senior Analytic Service and chaired the first SAS Council. He was awarded several senior intelligence commendation medals, including the Intelligence Commendation Medal (1997), the William Langer Award (2004), the Director's Medal (2004), and the Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal (2006). His research has focused on political Islam in the Middle East and the rest of the Muslim world as well as on political and educational reform, regime stability, and governance in the greater Middle East. Dr. Nakhleh holds a Ph.D. from the American University, a M.A. from Georgetown University, and a B.A. from Saint John's University.

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  That information, coupled with an interview in Harper's Magazine of Dr. Emile A. Nakhleh, the former director of the Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program at the CIA, seems to me to point a fundamental, residual problem in the government and intelligence community's approach to Islamists.
  
  The House report, while disputed in its timing and presentation by Democrats, nonetheless presents some interesting findings, some that are particularly critical of the administration.The report found "significant shortfalls" in the government's knowledge of Islamist militancy at home or abroad.It concluded that there are "still gaps in our understanding of Islamist extremist groups, which leave America vulnerable."
  
  At the same time, Nakhleh is saying that political Islam "is not a threat."
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  Nakhleh, seeking to keep the artificial distinction between political Islam and religious Islam, helps strengthen the belief that jihadi actions are not caused by the fundamental belif system embraced by much of Islam, but rather by external, Western-created circumstances.

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