INTERVIEW: Terrorism Expert Randall Law
Birmingham– Recently our education reporter needed a terrorism expert for a story about a new type of bomb-sniffing dogs being developed at Auburn University, so he sat down with Birmingham-Southern College’s Randall Law, an author and a terrorism historian. Their rolling conversation covered profiling, politics, the psychology of terror and more. It was so interesting we thought we’d bring it to you as a stand-alone interview. It starts with Dr. Law’s thoughts on those new super-sensitive dogs that can track bombs from afar as they’re being transported. The five-minute on-air version is above. The extended 18-minute version is below.
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