How Leaderless Terrorism Led to the Attack in New Orleans

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Join MS in Intelligence Analysis Program Director Michael Ard as he welcomes seasoned protective intelligence practitioner Scott Stewart for a discussion on "How Leaderless Terrorism Led to the Attack in New Orleans" as part of the Inside Intelligence webinar series. Stewart, current vice president of intelligence at TorchStone Global, has amassed four decades of analytical, investigative, and security experience including through his former role as leader of global analysis on terrorism and security topics at Stratfor (2004-2020). He previously spent 10 years as a special agent involved with hundreds of investigations with the U.S. State Department.

The lead State Department investigator assigned to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the follow up New York City bomb plot, Stewart also led American agents in the Argentine investigation of the 1992 bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires. He also served among an investigative team following a series of attacks and attempted attacks against U.S. diplomatic targets by the Iraqi intelligence service during the first Gulf War.

Stewart formerly was responsible for embassy and diplomatic security in Guatemala City and Belize City. At Dell Technologies Inc., he served as a member of Michael Dell's executive protective team. Stewart also served as a terrorism consultant with the Texas Department of Public Safety and has been recognized as a "protective intelligence pioneer" by Ontic's Center for Protective Intelligence.

A regularly featured media contributor, Stewart's insights have been shared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, CNN International, NPR, Reuters, USA Today, The Associated Press, World magazine, Fox News, Discovery Channel, and Time magazine. He was one of the DSS special agents profiled in the book Relentless Pursuit: The DSS and the Manhunt for the Al-Qaeda Terrorists by Samuel M Katz. He was also one of the investigators featured in the Fox Nation series "The Rising Crescent."