Today we continue our look at a Kuwaiti cell and how its members transitioned from forum fighters to foreign fighters. When we left off, Badr al-Harbi and Bawasil had returned to Kuwait from the front in Afghanistan via Iran, entrusted with a special mission by Abu al-Layth al-Libi, a senior al-Qaeda leader. They were delayed [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Iraq’
Walking the Talk: Forum Members Travel to Afghanistan and Iraq (Pt. 3)
Posted: 6th July 2008 by Will McCants in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Recruitment, Travel RoutesTags: Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, martyrdom, UAE
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Walking the Talk: Forum Members Travel to Afghanistan and Iraq (Part 1)
Posted: 30th June 2008 by Will McCants in Afghanistan, Iraq, Recruitment, Travel RoutesTags: Afghanistan, Iraq, Recruitment, Travel Routes
On the Firdaws forum yesterday, a member posted a message informing fellow Firdawsians that one of their own, asdasd99, had joined the caravan of jihad in Afghanistan. Asdasd99, who also goes by al-Miskin al-Muhajir (The Lowly Emigrant) on the Ekhlaas forum, had tried to go to Iraq a month ago with a group from Kuwait [...]
New Iraq Foreign Fighter Study
Posted: 25th June 2008 by Will McCants in Iraq, RecruitmentTags: Clint Watts, foreign fighters, Iraq, Sinjar
Clint Watts of PJ Sage has released part two of his study of the foreign fighter data from Sinjar, Iraq. The CTC at West Point was the initial conduit for the data and they wrote a useful accompanying report. Clint has gone further by recoding the data (all of which he makes freely available on [...]
Letter from a Jihadi in Iraq
Posted: 22nd May 2008 by Will McCants in IraqTags: Baghdadi, Iraq, Islamic State of Iraq, Mosul
On May 10, Ekhlaas member Muhibb al-Amir al-Baghdidi (Fan of Commander Baghdadi) posted a letter he received from a certain Abu Hurayra. Muhibb claims that Abu Hurayra is “one of the soldiers of the Islamic State of Iraq.” Here’s the letter: In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. My dear brother, precious to [...]
Death of a Sulayman
Posted: 13th May 2008 by Will McCants in UncategorizedTags: Abu al-Yazid, Abu Sulayman al-`Utaybi, Afghanistan, Iraq, ISI
Abu Sulayman al-`Utaybi that is. On May 11, al-Fajr Media Center (one of the main distribution points for AQ material) posted a statement on the forums by Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, a senior AQ leader in Afghanistan. Abu al-Yazid announced the death of al-`Utaybi, who was killed fighting U.S. forces in Paktia Province, Afghanistan. A sympathetic [...]