Anne Stenersen is a research fellow at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI). She specializes in militant Islamism, in particular al-Qaida’s use of the internet and militancy in Afghanistan and Pakistan. She has an MPhil in Arabic and a PhD in history from the University of Oslo. Her recent publications include “‘Bomb-making for Beginners’: Inside an al-Qaida E-Learning course” in Perspectives on Terrorism (Vol. 7, Iss. 1, 2013), and the chapter “The Relationship between al-Qaeda and the Taliban” in Talibanistan: Negotiating the Borders Between Terror, Politics, and Religion, edited by Peter Bergen and Katherine Tiedemann (Oxford 2013).