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October 2017
Past Event
Countering Violent Extremism: Qatar, Iran, and the Muslim Brotherhood

Countering Violent Extremism: Qatar, Iran, and the Muslim Brotherhood

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Speakers:
Hillel Fradkin

Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World

Secretary Leon E. Panetta

Chairman, The Panetta Institute for Public Policy and Former Secretary of Defense

Lally Weymouth

Senior Associate Editor, Washington Post

Representative Brad Sherman (D-CA)

Member Foreign Affairs Committee

Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX)

House Homeland Security Committee

Representative Hank Johnson (D-GA)

Member House Committee on Judiciary

Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA)

House Foreign Affairs Committee

General Charles “Chuck” Wald, US Army (Ret.)

Former Deputy Commander, US EUCOM

Ambassador Alberto Fernandez

Director of Middle East Broadcasting

Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad

Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Khalilzad Associates

Ray Takeyh

Council on Foreign Relations

William Wechsler

Middle East Institute, Former DASD SpecOps and Combating Terror

Lally Weymouth

Senior Associate Editor, Washington Post

General David Petraeus, US Army (Ret.)

Former Director of the CIA

Representative Don Bacon (R-NE)

House Committee on Armed Services

Ambassador Dennis Ross

Counselor & William Davidson Distinguished Fellow, Washington Institute

Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR)

Committee on Armed Services and Select Committee on Intelligence

Catherine Herridge

Chief Intelligence Correspondent, Fox News

Representative Robert Pittenger (R-TX)

House Vice Chairman, House Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee Vice Chairman on Terrorism and Illicit Finance

Representative Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA)

Member House Committee of Foreign Affairs

Stephen K. Bannon

Former White House Chief Strategist and Executive Chairman of Breitbart News

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