Abu Muqawama has a great piece in the New Republic today. Given his very kind words for Will and myself, I am biased, but the article makes an extremely important point about the importance of virtual safe havens. Although I just posted and don’t really have the time to blog, I felt compelled to add [...]
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Virtual safe havens and the war of ideas
Posted: 31st March 2009 by Thomas Hegghammer in Afghanistan, Pakistan, propaganda4
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Posted: 26th March 2009 by Thomas Hegghammer in AQ in Iraq, Bin Laden, China, Islamic State of Iraq, Jihadi media, Jordan, Lebanon, Pakistan, Palestinian Territories, propaganda, Somalia, Yemen, ZawahiriI have been busy the past two weeks, but the jihadis have been busier. Bin Ladin has issued two audio statements, one proposing practical steps to liberate Palestine and the other about the treacherous government in Somalia. Al-Zawahiri warned against the forthcoming Crusader attack on Sudan, while Mustafa Abu al-Yazid has addressed the people of [...]
Child Martyrs
Posted: 11th March 2009 by Qandeel Siddique in Jihadi journals, Pakistan, propaganda, Recruitment[Editor's note: I am very proud to introduce a new contributor, FFI researcher Qandeel Siddique, who will be covering Urdu-language jihadi websites for Jihadica]. The Pakistani militant group Jaish-e-Mohammad, led by the famous Masood Azhar, has a strong presence on the Urdu-language wing of the jihadi internet. Among its less savory operations is an online [...]
New Jihadi Mags Analyze Mumbai, Somali Pirates
Posted: 18th December 2008 by Will McCants in Pakistan, Somalia, UncategorizedTags: Mumbai, Pirates
Issue 31 of Sada al-Jihad is out, as well as issue 4 of Qadaya Jihadiyya. In Sada, Ta Ha al-Miqdad argues that the Mumbai attacks demonstrated that Jihadis have a “strategic awareness” because: They hit the commercial center of India at a time of great global economic instability. All of the attacks were from Pakistan, [...]
The Connection Between Sayyid Imam And The Mumbai Attacks
Posted: 5th December 2008 by Will McCants in PakistanTags: Mumbai, Sayyid Imam
Khalil al-Anani wrote an article two days ago about the ideological connection between Sayyid Imam and the Mumbai attackers. There are bits I disagree with, but he’s right to highlight the contribution of Sayyid Imam’s earlier works to the attackers and the contribution of his current revision to our understanding of those attacks. A paraphrastic [...]
The Denudation Of The Exoneration: Part 8
Posted: 28th November 2008 by Will McCants in AQ Leadership, Bin Laden, Egypt, Hamas, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Pakistan, Palestinian Territories, Saudi Arabia, Syria, WMD, ZawahiriTags: Bin Laden, Sayyid Imam, Zawahiri
In part 8, Sayyid Imam continues to hammer al-Qaeda for bringing disaster to the Middle East and for the hypocrisy of its leaders. He puts forward the odd claim that AQ lied to the U.S. about WMD in Iraq and about AQ ties with Iraq to push the U.S. to invade observes that Iran and [...]
The Denudation Of The Exoneration: Part 3
Posted: 21st November 2008 by Will McCants in AQ Leadership, Egypt, Pakistan, Uncategorized, ZawahiriTags: Bin Laden, Pakistani Intelligence, Sayyid Imam, Zawahiri
As with Wednesday’s installment, Sayyid Imam saves the good stuff for last. He obliquely chides Mullah Omar for not turning over Bin Laden to the U.S. Imam also discloses that Bin Laden was plotting with Pakistani intelligence before 9/11 without the permission of Mullah Omar and alleges that he worked with ISI head Gen. Mahmud [...]
New Issue of Urdu-Language Jihadi Journal
Posted: 3rd November 2008 by Will McCants in Jihadi journals, Pakistan, Uncategorized[by Chipotle Mystery] Issue 3 of Hittin, an Urdu-language Jihadi journal, has been released. The issue includes: short reports on the Islamic State of Iraq and the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan a eulogy of Mullah Dadullah, a major Taliban commander who was killed in May of 2007 several articles that refer to the Red [...]
The Strategic Effects of 9/11, Part 5: The Jihadi Domino Theory
Posted: 23rd September 2008 by Will McCants in AQ Leadership, Kuwait, Nuclear, Oil, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, StrategyTags: al-Qaeda, nuclear weapons, Oil, Strategy
Continuing… Why did al-Qaeda attack the U.S.? Was it to drive the U.S. out of the Middle East? Or was it to strike the far enemy for the sake of destroying the near enemy (i.e. regimes in the Arab and Islamic world)? Regardless of the intent of al-Qaeda’s leaders, the sequence of events gives weight [...]
Pakistani Taliban Videos Posted On Mainstream News Site
Posted: 27th August 2008 by Will McCants in Afghanistan, Jihadi media, Pakistan, propaganda, RecruitmentTags: Afghanistan, media, Pakistan, Pakistani Taliban, Taliban
[Chipotle Mystery] One of the difficulties in studying militant groups in Pakistan is that there aren’t a lot, if any, forums dedicated to these groups that are affiliated with the Taliban. Most Taliban-related information that is available in forums comes through Al-Qaeda clearinghouses like Al-Sahab, though smaller studios occasionally have videos that make it to [...]