Articles of the Week – 2/4-2/10

Saturday February 4:
Islam and Government: How It Can Be – Ed Husain, The Arab Street: https://on.cfr.org/x1iSfV
Monday February 6:
Countering Local Violent Extremism Around the Globe – Clint Watts, Selected Wisdom: https://bit.ly/zWGDfD
Iran, al-Qaeda, and missing information – Andrew Lebovich, al-Wasat: https://bit.ly/xuGL1m
Tuesday February 7:
The perils of leaderless jihad – Raffaello Pantucci, The AfPak Channel: https://bit.ly/wBydBC
Who is Abu Zarr al-Burmi? – Florian Flade, Jih@d: https://bit.ly/zZkXPo
Thursday February 9:
Yemen’s Islamists and the revolution – Laurent Bonnefoy, The Middle East Channel: https://bit.ly/yfZBy2
Oops, My Facebook Friend Just Joined Al Qaeda – J.M. Berger, IntelWire: https://bit.ly/wHB3ja
The Formalizing of an Affiliation: Somalia’s Harakat al-Shabab al-Mujahideen & Al-Qa’ida Central – Christopher Anzalone, al-Wasat: https://bit.ly/yJvf1G