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Letta Tayler

Letta Tayler

Senior Researcher, Crisis and Conflict Division Follow @lettatayler

Letta Tayler is a Senior Researcher in the Crisis and Conflict Division. She leads the division's work on terrorism and counterterrorism. Her focus includes the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda, counterterrorism policy at the United Nations, drone strikes and other targeted killings, and counterterrorism measures in countries around the world. Tayler has worked in more than three dozen countries as a human rights defender and in her previous capacity as a journalist. She has been a featured guest on The BBC, CNN, Fresh Air, Al Jazeera, and Democracy Now! As a foreign correspondent with Newsday, Tayler was one of the first Western reporters to detail prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and chronicled events including the US invasion of Iraq and the bombings of Tora Bora. She also served as Latin America bureau chief. Tayler is a former rock music critic. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Barnard College and earned a Master’s in International Human Rights Law from the University of Oxford.

Articles Authored

  • May 11, 2011 Commentary

    US Needs New Counterterrorism Strategy

    Published in Global Post
  • February 15, 2011 Commentary

    India: Leading by Example at the Security Council

    Published in GlobalPost
  • December 3, 2010 Commentary

    Time to Clean House on Torture

    Published in guardian.co.uk
  • September 23, 2010 Commentary

    Friends of Yemen: Tie Aid to Human Rights

    Published in Huffington Post
  • September 12, 2010 Commentary

    Court Case Illustrates Gitmo's Failure

    Published in Global Post
  • April 19, 2010 Commentary

    Somalia Slides

    Published in Global Post

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Other Writing

  • France: Prolonged Emergency State Threatens Rights
  • Syria: Deliberate Killing of Civilians by ISIS
  • Iraqi Kurdistan: Arabs Displaced, Cordoned Off, Detained
  • Iraq: ISIS Executed Hundreds of Prison Inmates
  • Court Case Illustrates Gitmo's Failure
  • Somalia's Saviors Are Making Everything Worse
  • Somalia Slides
  • Tough on Terror?
  • Kenya Recruits Somali Refugees to Fight Islamists Back Home in Somalia
  • You Can't Go Home (to Yemen) Again

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Reports Authored

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    September 17, 2018

    “We Live in Constant Fear”

    Possession of Extremist Material in Kyrgyzstan

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    November 3, 2016

    Grounds for Concern

    Belgium’s Counterterror Responses to the Paris and Brussels Attacks

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    May 18, 2016

    “We Feel We Are Cursed”

    Life under ISIS in Sirte, Libya

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    February 19, 2014

    A Wedding That Became a Funeral

    US Drone Attack on Marriage Procession in Yemen

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    October 22, 2013

    "Between a Drone and Al-Qaeda"

    The Civilian Cost of US Targeted Killings in Yemen

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    February 12, 2013

    Unpunished Massacre

    Yemen’s Failed Response to the “Friday of Dignity” Killings

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    June 29, 2012

    In the Name of Security

    Counterterrorism Laws Worldwide since September 11

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    February 6, 2012

    “No Safe Places”

    Yemen’s Crackdown on Protests in Taizz

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    February 1, 2011

    The “Anti-Nationals”

    Arbitrary Detention and Torture of Terrorism Suspects in India

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    April 19, 2010

    Harsh War, Harsh Peace

    Abuses by al-Shabaab, the Transitional Federal Government, and AMISOM in Somalia

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    March 28, 2009

    No Direction Home

    Returns from Guantanamo to Yemen

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