Ali on canceled Taylor Swift concert in Vienna

Ford School professor Javed Ali, shared some insight into why the Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna may have been canceled. He said "it must have been out of some combination of an abundance of caution and the potential risk that there might be other individuals connected to the two who'd been arrested." He went on to explain the history of the Islamic State and ISIS operating in Europe.

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Javed Ali

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Ali is a former senior director for counterterrorism at the National Security Council, with over 20 years of professional experience in national security and intelligence issues in Washington, D.C. He served in the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, where he also held senior positions on joint duty assignments at the National Intelligence Council, the National Counterterrorism Center, and the National Security Council.

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