Articles of the Week – 9/1-9/7

Posted on by Aaron Y. Zelin

Saturday September 1:
Islamic State Ruling On Assassination Of Abu Hashim al-Idlibi: A Revised Account – Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi: https://bit.ly/2wQ5jcE
A Military Anthropologist Looks at Islamic Insurgency in Aceh – MontgomeryMcFate, Orbis:
Wednesday September 5:
The Demographics of Southeast Asian Jihadism – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Vivian Hagerty, and Madeline Dement, War on the Rocks: https://bit.ly/2CxaLqe
Ethics is Method, Method is Ethics: What Terrorism Researchers Should Know – Carol Winkler, Vox-Pol: https://bit.ly/2oOpqDy
Man Haron Monis and the Sydney Lindt Caf’e Siege – Not a Terrorist Attack – Russ Scott and Rodger Shanahan, Psychiatry, Psychology and Law: https://bit.ly/2NpVsnu
Thursday September 6:
Suicide Squads: The Logic of Linked Suicide Bombings – Jason Warner, Ellen Chapin, and Hilary Matfess, Security Studies: https://bit.ly/2wSaPuF
Out of the desert: ISIS’s strategy for a long war – Hassan Hassan, Middle East Institute: https://bit.ly/2QcRTiX
Friday September 7:
Mali’s elections saw some jihadist violence. Here’s what these patterns suggest. – Alexander Thurston, The Monkey Cage: https://wapo.st/2wQfyO8
New Confusion About ISKP: A case study from Sar-e Pul – Obaid Ali, Afghanistan Analysts Network:
Nine Bullets for the Traitors, One for the Enemy: The Slogans and Strategy behind the Islamic State’s Campaign to Defeat the Sunni Awakening (2006 – 2017) – Craig Whiteside, ICCT: https://bit.ly/2Nb3mSd
The Disillusioned Muhajir: Interview – Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi: https://bit.ly/2NZponp