Paul
Cruickshank is a Fellow at the Center on Law and
Security at New York University's School of Law. He previously worked as an investigative
journalist in London, reporting on al Qaeda and its European affiliates and was
part of the CNN reporting team that covered the London July 7, 2005 attacks.
Cruickshank has
written about al Qaeda and Islamist groups for a variety
of international publications and news outlets including The New
Republic, The Guardian, The Washington Post, CNN.COM, MSNBC.COM, The New
York Times, Mother Jones, Marie Claire, The Independent, Die
Welt, The National Post, The New York Daily News, The
Australian, and Studies in Conflict and Terrorism.
Cruickshank is
the author of the introductory guide "Al
Qaeda: the Current Threat," (Pocket Issue, October 2008).
Cruickshank has
frequently been a guest on CNN programs such as Anderson Cooper 360 and Larry
King Live to provide on-air analysis on al Qaeda and has also provided
commentary on national security issues to the BBC, NBC Nightly News, CBS
Evening News, NPR, Sky News, Fox News, and Al Jazeera International.
Cruickshank has
worked on several television programs on the subject of Al Qaeda. In February
2009 Cruickshank produced a half hour CNN documentary "One
Woman's War," which profiled alleged Belgian terrorist Malika el
Aroud. The program was nominated
in the category of "best documentary" in the 2009 Monte Carlo Global Television Awards. In
October 2008 Cruickshank's on-camera reporting was featured in the
CNN International half-hour documentary "Deadly Recruits:
Female Suicide Bombers."
Cruickshank was
the co-producer of an hour-long Dateline NBC documentary on the 2006 "Airline Plot," which
aired in September 2008. The report was awarded second place in the National
Headliner Awards for the "best news magazine program" of the year
on US network television.
In
2006 Cruickshank worked with CNN on a two-hour Emmy-nominated documentary "In the
footsteps of bin Laden," based on Peter Bergen's 2006 Oral History
"The Osama Bin Laden I Know," which he helped research.
In June 2008
Cruickshank co-authored a cover story in the New Republic with Peter Bergen
entitled "The
Jihadist Revolt against Bin Laden." The story was reprinted in several
leading newspapers around the world and helped generate a Congressional
Hearing and a Capitol
Hill Panel on Al Qaeda's ideological vulnerabilities.
Cruickshank
graduated from Cambridge University with a degree in history, and has a Masters
degree with Honors in International Relations from the Paul. H. Nitze School of
Advanced International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University. He has also
worked in the European Parliament in Brussels and at the Center for Strategic
and International Studies in Washington D.C.
