al-Jihād Foundation for Media Production presents a new video message from Nāṣir Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn Brigades (PRC): "With the Immortals #1"

New statement from Ibn Taymīyyah Center for Media’s Field Monitoring Committee: "Escape of the Salafī Brother From the Militants of the 'Internal Security' in Rafaḥ"

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Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Ibn Taymīyyah Center for Media’s Field Monitoring Committee — “Escape of the Salafī Brother From the Militants of the ‘Internal Security’ in Rafaḥ”
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al-Malāḥim Media presents a new article from al-Qā’idah in the Arabian Peninsula's Shaykh Ibrāhīm bin Sulaymān al-Rubaysh: "A Program of Adequate Answers to Needed Questions"

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Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Shaykh Ibrāhīm bin Sulaymān al-Rubaysh — “A Program of Adequate Answers to Needed Questions”
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Check out my new piece for Jamestown Foundation’s Militant Leadership Monitor: “Muhammad al-Zawahiri: Leader of the Salafi-Jihadi Revival in Post-Mubarak Egypt”


Unfortunately, this article, which can be found here, is behind a pay wall. If one is interested in reading it, send me an email ([email protected]) and I can probably get you a copy.

Minbar at-Tawḥīd wa-l-Jihād presents three new Fatāwā from Shaykh Abū al-Mundhir al-Shinqīṭī

As-Saḥāb Media presents a new video message from al-Qā’idah's Ustāẓ Aḥmad Fārūq: "On the Occasion of the Martyrdom of the Engineer Commander Aḥsan 'Azīz"

al-Malāḥim Media presents a new statement from al-Qā’idah in the Arabian Peninsula: "Denying the Validity of the Statement Posted By 'Aden Online' On February 23, 2013"

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Check out my new Foreign Policy piece co-authored with Daveed Gartenstein-Ross: "Uncharitable Organizations"


In 1997, employees of the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation (AHIF), a Saudi-based charity, were mulling how best to strike a blow against the United States in East Africa. According to the U.S. Treasury Department, one employee indicated that the plan they hatched “would be a suicide bombing carried out by crashing a vehicle into the gate at the Embassy.” A wealthy foundation official from outside the region agreed to fund the operation.
The employees’ plans would go through several iterations, but AHIF would eventually play a role in the ultimate attack. In 1998, simultaneous explosions ripped through the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya — attacks eventually traced back to al Qaeda operatives. Prior to the bombings, a former director of AHIF’s Tanzanian branch made preparations for the advance party that planned the bombings, and the Comoros Islands branch of the charity was used, according to the Treasury Department, “as a staging area and exfiltration route for the perpetrators.” The ultimate result was deadly: 224 people killed and more than 4,000 wounded.
This was, of course, before the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent crackdown on wealthy Islamist charity organizations such as AHIF, which provided a large portion of the funding that made international terrorism possible. As a monograph produced for the 9/11 Commission noted, prior to 9/11, “al Qaeda was funded, to the tune of approximately $30 million per year, by diversions of money from Islamic charities and the use of well-placed financial facilitators who gathered money from both witting and unwitting donors.”
But despite all the efforts made to shut down such groups, Islamist-leaning international charities and other NGOs are now reemerging as sponsors of jihadi activity. In countries like Tunisia and Syria, they are providing the infusion of funds that have allowed extremist groups to undertake the hard work of providing food, social services, and medical care. Jihadists, meanwhile, have discovered that they can bolster their standing within local communities, thereby increasing support for their violent activities. And governments are struggling to keep up.
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