In the past week, there have been a spate of terrorist attacks in Xinjiang, the Muslim-majority province in China. On Aug. 4, militants killed 16 police in Kashgar, Xinjiang Province, which is near the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan. On Sunday, bombers attacked 17 sites in Kuqa, west-central Xianjiang. Although I haven’t seen any claim [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Shaykh `Isa’
Al-Qaeda Cleric Linked to Chinese Terrorist Group
Posted: 11th August 2008 by Will McCants in Afghanistan, AQ Leadership, China, PakistanTags: China, Islamic Party of Turkistan, Pakistan, Shaykh `Isa, Taliban
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Shaykh `Isa on Near Enemy vs. Far Enemy
Posted: 12th June 2008 by Will McCants in Afghanistan, AQ Leadership, StrategyTags: Shaykh `Isa, Strategy
In a first effort to pin down Shaykh `Isa on the big Jihadi questions of the day, I read through his opinion on the near enemy/far enemy debate: “Are jihadi operations in the abodes of the original infidels preferable? Or in the lands of Muslims that are ruled by infidels?” The “original infidels” in the [...]
Important al-Qaeda Scholar Identified
Posted: 4th June 2008 by Will McCants in AQ Leadership, Pakistan, UncategorizedTags: Shaykh `Isa, Zawahiri
In the Tabri’a (Exoneration), released a few months ago, Zawahiri mentions several clerics he admires and who continue to support al-Qaeda. One of them is an Egyptian named Abu `Amr `Abd al-Hakim Hassan, whom he describes this way: He has a long history in hijra, ribat, and jihad. He was arrested and tortured in Egypt, [...]