Archive for the ‘training camps’ Category

An Ex-Jihadi in the Arctic

Posted: 15th October 2010 by Thomas Hegghammer in Australia, Converts, Indonesia, Recruitment, training camps
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I grew up in the far north of Norway, hundreds of kilometers above the Arctic Circle. As you might expect, my research interests and arctic origin do not intersect very often. Last time was back in 2004 when a plane on the way from my home town Narvik to Bodø was nearly brought down by an axe-swinging Algerian Islamist. [...]

Guest Post: The Story of Eric Breininger

Posted: 11th May 2010 by Thomas Hegghammer in Afghanistan, Germany, training camps, Travel Routes
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[Editor's note: This post was written by Christopher Radler and Behnam Said, who are intelligence analysts based in Hamburg, Germany. For links to the original document, see the comments to the preview post.] On 3 May a message announcing the death of Eric Breininger (b. 3 August 1987) and three of his fellow combatants was [...]

New Issues of Two Jihadi Journals

Posted: 14th August 2008 by Will McCants in Afghanistan, Hamas, Iraq, Islamic State of Iraq, Jihadi journals, Strategy, training camps
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Issue 28 of Sada al-Jihad is out.  Articles include, “Hamas Responds Negatively to the Invitation of Shaykh Ayman al-Zawahiri” and “The Intellectual Pollution of the Followers of the Salafi-Jihadi Method.” A new journal, Qadaya Jihadiyya (Jihadi Issues), has also be released.  The production quality is better than most of the Jihadi journals and the articles [...]