Investigative Researcher on Extremism

Mira Boland

1 article 2002

Mira Boland is a researcher and investigative writer who has focused on extremism and national security issues. She contributed to The Weekly Standard in 2002 with reporting on the American followers of Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani, drawing on her expertise in domestic and international terrorist networks.

Sheikh Gilani's American Disciples

March 18, 2002 · Features, Magazine

WALL STREET JOURNAL reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped when he went looking for the leader of a group called Jamaat al-Fuqra in the terrorist bazaar of Pakistan. At the time he disappeared, Pearl was tracking reports that Fuqra had hosted would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid at its walled compound in…