SAMUEL M. KATZ is an internationally recognized expert on Middle East security issues, international terrorism, and military special operations and counterterrorism. His latest book is NY Times Best Seller Under Fire: The Untold Story of the Attack in Benghazi (St. Martin’s Press, 2013). An excerpt was featured in the August 2013 edition of Vanity Fair.Samuel M. Katz has written dozens of articles and created several award-winning documentaries for television on Israel’s special operations and counterterrorist units. He also created several publications, including Special Operations Report, a quarterly magazine dedicated to military and law enforcement special operations and counterterrorism; Katz served as the magazine’s editor-in-chief. Read by more than 25,000 decision makers in defense ministries, military and police commands, and by special operations and intelligence service unit commanders around the world, Special Operations Report became one of the subject’s most respected publications. In his duties as editor-in-chief, Katz ventured into the Gaza night with Israeli undercover commandos and has interviewed kings, government ministers and police commissioners.Katz has written more than one hundred articles for mass market, defense, and other publications ranging from Jane’s Intelligence Review to editions Playboy. His articles have been translated into more than twenty languages. He has also created documentary series for television, including several involving Israel’s top-secret special operations units.Katz has been a guest expert and commentator on Fox News, MSNBC, ABC, al-Jazeera, and the BBC World News, and on television networks around the world. Katz has lectured law enforcement agencies and military commands around the world on tactical and counter-terrorism subjects, as well as the history of Palestinian and Islamic fundamentalist terrorism.