Featured in Evening Standard's 2015 'Progress 1000' most globally influential Londoners





Featured in Evening Standard's 2014 'Power 1,000'





Winner, Project Censored Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism, 2015





Winner, Project Censored Award, 2014





Winner, Routledge-GCPS Essay Prize, 2010





Winner, Premio Napoli (Naples Prize created by decree of President of the Republic), 2003





"International security analyst and consultant who has spent much time looking at how environmental risks and terrorism threaten our eco-security and well-being." -- The Evening Standard's Progress 1000: London's most influential people 2015





"Yes, yes, I know he is one of Them. But they often know things that we don’t – particularly about what we are up to" -- Gore Vidal, The Observer





"Ahmed is that rare breed of journalist who finds stories everyone else either misses or chooses to overlook; he regularly joins up the dots in a global system of corporate pillage... a voice from the genuine left, and one too independent to control" -- Jonathan Cook, former Guardian columnist and foreign desk editor





"If you still need something to worry about, how about a grand conflagration of climate, financial, energy, food, and civil-liberties crises, which might destroy the world as we know it before the century is out?... Forceful and well sourced" -- Steven Poole, The Guardian





"Lucid and persuasive account of how our security mandarins talked themselves into believing we could make quiet, backroom deals with terrorists" -- Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times





"Disturbing and clearly evidenced... Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed traces the unholy games played with Islamist terrorists by the US, and through acquiescence by the UK, flirting with them when it suited and then turning against them" -- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, The Independent





"Respected terror analyst Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed pulls apart the official narrative of 7/7, pointing out its gaps and contradictions... The authorities seem to be unable to answer many of the most basic questions about the 7/7 bombings ... it has taken a study by an academic outsider, Ahmed, to assess the extent of the bombers’ international terrorist connections." -- Editorial, Independent on Sunday





"One of the most illuminating voices in the British media" -- Rob Hopkins, founder, Transition Towns movement





"Nafeez Ahmed’s understanding of the post 9/11 power game, its lies, illusions and dangers, is no less than brilliant. Everyone should read this wise and powerfully illuminating book." -- John Pilger, Emmy and BAFTA award-winning journalist





"A very worthwhile read for policy-makers everywhere" -- Michael Meacher MP, UK Minister of State for the Environment (1997-2003)





"A risible individual wedded to half-baked conspiracy-mongering" -- Christopher Hitchens, Vanity Fair