PAUL CRUICKSHANK

September 11, 2010. Cruickshank reported new information on the post 9/11 hunt for Bin Laden on the 9/11 anniversary CNN special report "Bin Laden's New Jihadis."

September 10, 2010. Cruickshank was guest on CNN's American Morning to discuss potential worldwide security fallout if controversial Florida pastor went ahead with plans to burn Korans.

September 7, 2010. Cruickshank quoted in Reuters special report on state of Al Qaeda threat on 9th Anniversary of 9/11.

July 10, 2010. CNN re-aired Cruickshank's documentary American Al Qaeda.

May 23, 2010. Cruickshank appeared on CNN Newsroom to discuss a new video released by American-Yemeni Cleric Anwar al Awlaki.

May 15-16, 2010. Cruicksank appeared in the CNN documentary American Al Qaeda, a CNN Special Investigations and Documentaries Unit-AC360 investigation into the case of American Al Qaeda recruit Bryant Neal Vinas. Cruickshank and colleague Ken Shiffman produced the hour long documentary, which was reported by CNN Senior International Correspondent Nic Robertson, edited and directed by Cliff Hackel, and introduced by Anderson Cooper. It aired the following week on CNN International.

May 9, 2010. Cruickshank appeared on CNN Sunday Morning to discuss attempted Times Square bombing.

May 5, 2010. Cruickshank appeared on the CNN Headline News Joy Behar Show to discuss attempted bombing of Times Square.

May 6, 2010. The French Le Monde Newspaper cites Cruickshank New America Study on Western militant travel flows to Pakistan's tribal areas.

May 4, 2010. Cruickshank was guest on CNN's Larry King to discuss attempted bombing of Times Square.

Cruickshank was interviewed by John Snow on Britain's Channel 4 Evening News to discuss background behind case of alleged attempted Times Square Bomber Faisal Shahzad.

Cruickshank was also a guest on CNN's Rick List to discuss breaking developments on the case and was on set with CNN's American Morning from 5am shortly after news broke of Shahzad's arrest.  

February 25, 2010. Cruickshank was part of a panel at a conference organized by the New America Foundation in Washington DC on Al Qaeda Central.

January 24, 2010. Cruickshank appeard on CBS Evening News to discuss a new Bin Laden tape praising attempted Detroit attack. 

January 6, 2010. Cruickshank appeared on CNN's American Morning to discuss growing use of internet as recruitment tool in light of attempted attack in Detroit.

January 5, 2010. CNN aired a Nic Robertson report produced by Cruickshank and Ken Shiffman begin_of_the_skype_highlighting     end_of_the_skype_highlighting on the rise of Lashkar e Taiba.

December 30, 2009. Cruickshank appeared on CNN's Campbell Brown Show to discuss potential links between cleric Anwar al Awlaki and Detroit bomber.

December 30, 2009. Cruickshank produced (with colleague Ken Shiffman begin_of_the_skype_highlighting     end_of_the_skype_highlighting) a CNN Special Investigations Unit Report by Senior International Correspondent Nic Robertson on the possible radical influences on the Detroit bomber at college in London.

December 28, 2009. Cruickshank appeared on CNN's Campbell Brown Show - together with President Bush's Homeland Security Advisor Fran Townsend - to discuss threat from Al Qaeda in Yemen in light of attempted attack in Detroit.

December 28, 2009. Cruickshank appereard on CNN's Newsroom to discuss threat from Al Qaeda in Yemen in light of attempted attack in Detroit.

December 28, 2009. Cruickshank set up and produced (with colleague Ken Shiffman begin_of_the_skype_highlighting     end_of_the_skype_highlighting) a CNN Special Investigations Unit Report by Senior International Correspondent Nic Robertson on the explosive power of PETN, the substance used in the attempted Detroit attack.

December 26, 2009. Cruickshank appeared from London on special edition of CNN's Larry King Live to discuss attempted attack in Detroit.

December 26, 2009. Cruickshank appeared from London on CNN Special on attempted attack in Detroit.

December 22, 2009. CNN aired fifth part in in-depth series Cruickshank put together for CNN's Special Investigations Unit examing the terrorist threat to the West. The fifth part, reported by Nic Robertson and produced by Cruickshank and Ken Shiffman begin_of_the_skype_highlighting     end_of_the_skype_highlighting, focused on how Youtube and other social media sites are being increasingly used by terrorist recruiters.

December 13, 2009. CNN aired "Homegrown Terror," a 30 minute CNN Special Report presented by Drew Griffin and Nic Robertson. The program contained four reports from a CNN Special Investigations Unit series on the domestic terrorist threat which Cruickshank proposed and helped put together. Cruickshank produced two of the reports that appeared in the Special.

December 10, 2009. Cruickshank appeared on CNN's Campbell Brown Show to discuss deradicalization efforts in the U.S. in light of the arrest in Pakistan of five men from Virginia.

December 10, 2009. Cruickshank appeared on CNN's Newsroom to discuss the Virginia case.

December 9, 2009. Cruickshank appeared on CNN's Larry King Live to discuss the arrest on terrorism grounds in Pakistan of five men from Virginia.

November 20, 2009. CNN aired third part in in-depth series Cruickshank put together for CNN's Special Investigations Unit. The third part, reported by Nic Robertson and produced by Cruickshank, Ken Shiffman begin_of_the_skype_highlighting     end_of_the_skype_highlighting and Taryn Fixel, focused on American-Yemeni cleric Anwar al Awlaki. After the segment aired, Cruickshank appeared live on CNN's Cambell Brown Show to discuss the cleric's influence.

November 13, 2009 Cruickshank appeard on CNN's Larry King Live to discuss U.S. decision to transfer Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and others accused of the 9/11 attacks to New York for trial.

November 11, 2009 CNN aired second part of in-depth series Cruickshank put together for CNN's Special Investigations Unit examining the terrorist threat to the West. The second report by CNN's Nic Robertson which was produced by Cruickshank and Ken Shiffman begin_of_the_skype_highlighting     end_of_the_skype_highlighting,  focused on radical militants in the UK and Continental Europe with ties to individuals who joined up with Al Qaeda.   

November 10, 2009  CNN aired "The Jihadi Code" a documentary produced by Cruickshank on the repudiation of Al Qaeda by the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, one of the world's most prominent Jihadist groups. The documentary was the result of two years of investigative reporting during which Cruickshank and colleague Nic Robertson obtained exclusive access to Abu Salim prison in Tripoli and exclusive interviews with key players in the talks that led to the breakthrough.

November 9, 2009 Cruickshank appeared on CNN's Larry King Live to discuss whether Fort Hood shootings corresponded to an act of domestic terrorism.

November 6, 2008 CNN aired first part of in-depth series Cruickshank put together for CNN's Special Investigations Unit examining the terrorist threat to the West. The first report by CNN's Drew Griffin which was produced by Cruickshank and Kathleen Johnston, focused on two New York individuals supportive of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda with ties to individuals arrested in terrorism cases.

October 4, 2009  CNN aired part of an exclusive on camera interview that Cruickshank conducted with with Niaz Khan, an individual under surveillance in the Zazi terrorism investigation.

June 12, 2009 Cruickshank quoted by Reuters in article on funding shortfalls for Al Qaeda.

May 13, 2009. Cruickshank was a guest on the CNN International show Connect the World with Becky Anderson to discuss strategies to combat Al Qaeda recruitment in light of terrorism arrests in Bari, Italy.

Cruickshank also produced a CNN segment reported by Nic Robertson on the ties between the Italy arrests and an alleged Al Qaeda recruitment network in Brussels

May 5, 2009. Cruickshanks' CNN documentary "One Woman's War" was nominated for a Golden Nymph in the category "best documentary" in the 2009 Monte Carlo Global Television Awards.

April 24, 2009. Cruickshank was a guest on the CNN show Anderson Cooper 360 to discuss the implications of territorial gains by the Pakistani Taliban.

April 22, 2009 Cruickshank appeared on CNN's 8pm show "Roland Martin: No Bias no Bull," to discuss recent territorial gains by the Pakistani Taliban and concerns more of Pakistan might become an Al Qaeda safe-haven.

April 6, 2009 Cruickshank was interviewed by Austria's Die Presse on President Obama's counter-terrorism strategy. 

March 27, 2009 Cruickshank's Dateline NBC documentary "Inside the Cell" was awarded second place by the National Headliner Awards for "best news magazine program" on US television in 2008.

February 10, 2009 CNN International aired "One Woman's War" a documentary based on Cruickshank's profile of Malika el Aroud "Love in the Time of Terror" in the March issue of American Marie Claire. The half hour program, produced by Cruickshank, told the life story of a Belgian woman described by Belgian authorities as an "Al Qaeda Living legend." The program generated a lead story in the Daily Telegraph in the UK and a lead story on CNN.COM.  

January 22, 2009 Cruickshank quoted in Omaha World Herald Edtiorial on setbacks for Al Qaeda.  

January 9, 2009 Cruickshank's Iraq Effect study cited on CNN. 

December 12, 2008 Cruickshank quoted in the Daily Telegraph about Brussels terrorism arrests.

December 11, 2008 Cruickshank appeared on CNN International to talk about his CNN interview with Malika el Aroud in 2006. Described by Belgian authorities as an "Al Qaeda living legend" she was arrested earlier in the day for links to a suspected plot in Belgium.

December 3, 2008 Cruickshank appeared on "The Takeaway," a nationally syndicated radio program co-sponsored by the BBC and New York Times, to discuss whether a Mumbai type attack could be carried out in the West. 

December 2, 2008 Cruickshank quoted in Daily Telegraph  on Mumbai attacks.

December 1, 2008 Cruickshank appeared on the Ron Reagan show on Air America to discuss Mumbai attacks.

November 28, 2008 Cruickshank provided analysis to CNN on Mumbai terrorist attacks (Wolf Blitzer and Larry King) and was quoted in leading Dutch Daily de Volkskrant.

November 27, 2008 Cruickshank appeared on the Fox 5 Evening News in New York to discuss Mumbai attacks.

November 26, 2006 Cruickshank provided analysis to CNN (Campbell Brown, Larry King, AC360) on breaking news that Mumbai coming under terrorist attack.

November 19, 2008 Cruickshank appeared on Al Jazeera International  to discuss Ayman al Zawahiri's reaction to election of Barack Obama as President of the United States

October 30, 2008  Cruickshank's on-camera reporting was featured in the CNN documentary, "Deadly Recruits: Female Suicide Bombers." 

September 23, 2008 Cruickshank spoke about  "The Jihadist Revolt against Al Qaeda"  during a panel on Capitol Hill.

September 15, 2008 NBC aired Cruickshank's co-produced documentary "Inside the Cell" on the 2006 Al Qaeda "Airline plot."

September 11, 2008. Cruickshank was a guest on NPR "Air Talk" with Larry Mantle to discuss threat from Al Qaeda on the 7th Anniversary of 9/11.

September 11, 2008. Cruickshank a guest on BBC World Service  program "Analysis" discussing the  Al Qaeda threat seven years after 9/11 and a growing ideological challenge to the terrorist movement from within the Muslim world.

August 7, 2008. BBC World Service aired a one hour program based on Cruickshank's co-authored New Republic article "The Jihadist Revolt Against Bin Laden."

July 5, 2008. Cruickshank was a guest on BBC World Service Show Newshour to discuss the threat from Al Qaeda in light of growing ideological oppositon from fellow Jihadists.    

March 11, 2008 Cruickshank appeared on Al Jazeera International to discuss new Pentagon sponsored report on links between Saddam Hussain and Al Qaeda.