Category: Articles of the Week

Monday April 9:
In France, a new type of lone wolf threat – Raffaello Pantucci, CNN: https://bit.ly/HyJPPZ
Tuesday April 10:
Democratization & the politicization of religious civil society in Turkey – Ani Sarkissian & Ş. İlgü Özler, Democratization: https://bit.ly/HwMZbt
Will al Qaeda continue to pursue WMD? The results of successful CVE – Clint Watts, Selected Wisdom: https://bit.ly/HwNEtt
Where Next for Egypt’s Salafis? – Ed Husain, The Arab Street: https://on.cfr.org/HECNLo
Opportunities Taken in Mali: Ethnic Dimensions & Additional Explanations on the Emergence of MUJWA – Kal, The Moor Next Door: https://bit.ly/I0qV1U
Making Sense of Jund al-Khilafah’s Claims – Jacob Zenn,Registan: https://bit.ly/IqmUbv
Wednesday April 11:
Targeting Top Terrorists: How Leadership Decapitation Contributes to Counterterrorism – Bryan C. Price, International Security: https://bit.ly/HBuWML
Assessing the Effectiveness of Leadership Targeting in Counterinsurgency Campaigns – Patrick B. Johnston, International Security: https://bit.ly/HBvh24
Thursday April 12:
Joas’ Oeuvre – Will McCants, Jihadica: https://bit.ly/HB06HE

Saturday March 31:
Al-Awlaki and the former and latter rains – Charles Cameron, ZenPundit: https://bit.ly/H2FiE2
Sunday April 1:
Tarek Maaroufi: Tunisia’s Most Notorious Jihadist, Returns Home – Aaron Y. Zelin, Tunisia Live: https://bit.ly/HqnjJ8
General Thoughts on the Tuareg rebellion and AQIM – Kal, The Moor Next Door: https://bit.ly/H5R7O2
Monday April 2:
NYPD oversight will keep us safe: Don’t penalize Ray Kelly’s ever-vigilant force – Brian Fishman, New York Daily News: https://nydn.us/HP7ET7
More General Thoughts RE: Mali, AQIM, armed groups, etc. – Kal, The Moor Next Door: https://bit.ly/H8LzlP
Wednesday April 4:
Somalia: Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys And The Politics Of The Al-Shabaab Split – Abdi Aynte, African Arguments: https://bit.ly/HUlLKv
Friday April 6:
The Black Flag Flies in Mali – Andrew Lebovich, al-Wasat: https://bit.ly/HqnCnW
Somalia’s Neighbors Making Progress against al-Shabaab Despite Threats of Retaliation – Abdullahi Ahmed Mohamed, Terrorism Monitor: https://bit.ly/I6Dn24
West Africa’s MOJWA Militants – Competition for al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb? – Dario Cristiani, Terrorism Monitor: https://bit.ly/Hv90UN

Saturday March 24:
France’s Jihadist Shooter Was No Lone Wolf – Jytte Klausen, The Wall Street Journal: https://on.wsj.com/GKHnZB
Monday March 26:
Online Attribution of the French Killer – Clement Guitton, Kings of War: https://bit.ly/H8xpMF
Kazakh connection in French killings – Jacob Zenn, Asia Times: https://bit.ly/H65NIW
Tuesday March 27:
Interesting Arrest in Spain – Yassin Musharbash, AbuSusu Blog: https://bit.ly/GTNnuh
Islamic Revival as Development: Discourses on Islam, Modernity, and Democracy since the 1950s – Ermin Sinanović, Politics, Religion & Ideology: https://bit.ly/HgNine
European Converts to Islam: Mechanisms of Radicalization – Emmanuel Karagiannis, Politics, Religion & Ideology: https://bit.ly/HgNxyo
On Terrorism Experts – Andrew Exum, AbuMuqawama Blog: https://bit.ly/H0zrz6
Wednesday March 28:
Nigeria: Boko Haram’s School Burning Campaign – Alex Thurston, Sahel Blog: https://bit.ly/GVKNso
Thursday March 29: 
Deciphering Hammami Scenarios & Shabaab Splits – Clint Watts, Selected Wisdom: https://bit.ly/H3dPEB
Friday March 30:
Uncovering the French-speaking jihadisphere: An exploratory analysis – Benjamin Ducol, Media, War & Conflict: https://bit.ly/HqrtDf
What’s love got to do with it? Framing ‘JihadJane’ in the US press – Maura Conway, Media, War & Conflict: https://bit.ly/HqrIhB

Saturday March 17: The End of a Romance? The Rise and Fall of an American Jihadi: Omar Hammami’s Relationship with Somalia’s Al-Shabab – Christopher Anzalone, al-Wasat: https://bit.ly/xmIL12 Sunday March 18: On Algeria/AQIM/MOJWA – Kal, TheMoorNextDoor: https://bit.ly/GK4miN Monday March 19:  Understanding The Al-Shabaab/Al-Qaeda ‘Merger’ – Abdi Aynte, African Arguments: https://bit.ly/FRFhni On the “head of infidelity” and the tale of Abdul-Rahman ibn Awf – Charles Cameron, ZenPundit: https://bit.ly/xFyG7s Hammami’s Plight Amidst al-Shabaab and al-Qaeda’s Game of Thrones – Clint Watts and Andrew Lebovich, Homeland Security Policy Institute: https://bit.ly/GMXHXT The Vulnerabilities of Online Terrorism – Manuel R. Torres Soriano, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism: https://bit.ly/FPWtbj Radicalization of Homegrown Sunni Militants in the United States: Comparing Converts and Non-Converts – Scott Matthew Kleinmann, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism: https://bit.ly/FPWyM8 Australian Neo-Jihadist Terrorism: Mapping the Network and Cell Analysis Using Wiretap Evidence – Shandon Harris-Hogan, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism: https://bit.ly/FPWDzr Islam and Arabic as the Rhetoric of Insurgency: The Case of the Caucasus Emirate – Alexander Knysh, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism: https://bit.ly/FQfD63 The advent of “informal” Islamists – Khalil al-Anani, The Mideast Channel: https://bit.ly/GzsBo7 Tuesday March 20: How to Deter Terrorism – Matthew Kroenig & Barry Pavel, The Washington Quarterly: https://bit.ly/GDaVIf Wednesday March 21: Are Zawahiri and Godane killing off al-Qaeda members? – Clint Watts, SelectedWisdom: https://t.co/9lQhAT1z Forsane Alizza: Background Brief – ICT’s Jihadi Website Monitoring Group: https://bit.ly/GXlLag Forsane Alizza: progenitor of the Toulouse shooter – Internet Haganah: https://bit.ly/GDGIq2 Thursday March 22: Reading the Bible in the light of Muslim sources: from isrāʾīliyyāt to islāmiyyāt – Ismail Albayrak, Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations: https://bit.ly/GEQ0kQ The impact of policing British Muslims: a qualitative exploration – Imran Awan, Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism: https://bit.ly/GEQbfU The Evidence of Al-Qa`ida’s Role in the 2004 Madrid Attack – Fernando Reinares, CTC Sentinel: https://bit.ly/GHKoeb Assessing Al-Qa`ida’s Presence in the New Libya – Aaron Y. Zelin and Andrew Lebovich, CTC Sentinel: https://bit.ly/GITVif

Monday March 12, 2012:
Muhammad Ilyâs Kashmîrî’s death has been confirmed – Mr. Orange’s War Tracker: https://bit.ly/wNAaXc
Why Did the Taliban Kill a Chinese Student in Peshawar? – Jacob Zenn, Registan: https://bit.ly/zItE35
AQIM, Nigeria, articles, numbers – Cross the Green Mountain: https://bit.ly/wDK0vg
Tuesday March 13, 2012:
Israeli Intelligence and al-Qaeda – Shlomo Shpiro, International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence: https://bit.ly/yJVJZf
Why Is President Obama Keeping a Journalist in Prison in Yemen? – Jeremy Scahill, The Nation: https://bit.ly/yTdbrx
Wednesday March 14, 2012:
“Cut Off The Head Of The Dead Body”- Al-Qaida Strategy Paper Discovered In Berlin – Florian Flade, Jih@d Blog: https://bit.ly/w0Gqga
Pakistani Taliban join Twitter, threaten rights activists – Jehangir Hafsi, Let Us Build Pakistan: https://bit.ly/xz7Um7
Thursday March 15, 2012:
(Alleged) Qaida-Documents surface in German Trial – Yassin Musharbash, Abu Susu: https://bit.ly/wLhKFK
Thursday March 16, 2012:
The Denver Post’s Astounding Coverage of the Mukhtarov Case – Joshua Foust, Registan: https://bit.ly/AEvscd

Saturday March 3:
The Classical Islamic Law of Waqf: A Concise Introduction – Muhammad Zubair Abbasi, Arab Law Quarterly: https://bit.ly/A3uyoX
The Call to Islam: Hitin Urdu Magazine Interviews al-Qa’ida’s Head of Da’wah Khalid bin ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Husaynan – Aaron Y. Zelin, al-Wasat: https://bit.ly/AhcEzw
Big Happenings in a Big Desert – Andrew Lebovich, al-Wasat: https://bit.ly/wbTu5W
Monday March 5:
What the al Shabab-al Qaeda merger means for Australia – Leah Farrall, The Conversation: https://bit.ly/y0UhT7
Thursday March 8:
The YouTube Jihadists: A Social Network Analysis of Al-Muhajiroun’s Propaganda Campaign – Jytte Klausen, Eliane Tschaen Barbieri, Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, and Aaron Y. Zelin, Perspectives on Terrorism: https://bit.ly/AbxsTq
Islamism and the Syrian uprising – Nir Rosen, The Middle East Channel: https://bit.ly/zTaB2A
Friday March 9:
Quick Thoughts on the Failed Hostage Rescue in Nigeria – Alex Thurston, Sahel Blog: https://bit.ly/wDPlzt
Libya’s Muslim Brotherhood faces the future – Omar Ashour, The Middle East Channel: https://bit.ly/xIHAqk
AQAP’s Sibling Rivalry; One of Many Potential AQ Fractures – Clint Watts, Selected Wisdom: https://bit.ly/wCdYyX

Monday February 27: 
Zachary Chesser: A Case Study in Online Islamist Radicalization and Its Meaning for the Threat of Homegrown Terrorism – Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affair: https://bit.ly/wKq3ci
A Study of Knights Under the Banner of the Prophet (2d ed) – Part 7 – Marisa Urgo, Making Sense of Jihad: https://bit.ly/wUzFYD
Wednesday February 29:
Review: Will McCants’ Founding Gods, Inventing Nations – Caitlin Fitz Gerald, Gunpowder and Lead: https://bit.ly/xkqcYs
Inside al Shabaab’s Recruitment Process in Somalia – Clint Watts, Selected Wisdom: https://bit.ly/x3q255
Should I whisper, should I scream? – Abu Musab al-Suri redux, Pt 1 – Charles Cameron, ZenPundit: https://bit.ly/xKr80q
Should I whisper, should I scream? – Abu Musab al-Suri redux, Pt 2 – Charles Cameron, ZenPundit: https://bit.ly/wA786y
Thursday March 1:
Forward Focus: Assessing al-Qaeda’s in-theater capabilities – Leah Farrall, IHS Defense, Security and Risk Consulting: https://bit.ly/yjue7y
Countering Violent Extremism, Pt. 2: Scope – Will McCants, Jihadica: https://bit.ly/xYANIp
Mauritania’s Islamists – Alex Thurston, Carnegie Papers: https://bit.ly/wX9qpS
Nigeria and Boko Haram in jihadi media discourse – Christopher Anzalone, openDemocracy: bit.ly/A5V36i

Saturday February 18:
al Qaeda & al Shabaab Merger: Why now? – Clint Watts, Selected Wisdom: https://bit.ly/A7xHHG
Signs Beyond Western Eyes: Unpacking The Announcement of the al-Bara’ ibn Malik Martyrs Brigade – Aaron Y. Zelin, al-Wasat: https://bit.ly/wiUMl0
Monday February 20:
Instability in Tajikistan? The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and the Afghanistan Factor – Christian Bleuer, Geneva Centre for Security Policy: https://bit.ly/yeLrtW
Tuesday February 21:
Jihadi Soft Power in Tunisia: Ansar al-Shari’ah’s Convoy Provides Aid to the Town of Haydrah in West Central Tunisia [WITH PICTURES] – Aaron Y. Zelin, al-Wasat: https://bit.ly/yYeihl
The Boy Who Cried Lone Wolf – J.M. Berger, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/zilF9s
Wednesday February 22:
A note on “Jihadi Soft Power in Tunisia” – Erik Churchill, A 21st Century Social Contract: https://bit.ly/xHxN0u
The Strength of al Qaeda’s Name: Stronger or Weaker? – Clint Watts, Selected Wisdom: https://bit.ly/wWtOc9
Smuggling wars in the Sahara? – Andrew Lebovich, al-Wasat: https://bit.ly/zlFNu7
Thursday February 23:
What Is Al Qaeda Doing in Syria? – Azmat Khan interviews Brian Fishman, PBS Frontline: https://to.pbs.org/yY7n1L
Friday February 24: 
Al Qaeda on the Ropes – Brian Fishman and Phil Mudd, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/yY95jd
Into Nations and Tribes: Yemen and AQAP – Brian O’Neill, Sada Journal: https://bit.ly/xCNkl5
Countering Violent Extremism, Pt. 1: Definition – Will McCants, Jihadica: https://bit.ly/xFoFHs

Sunday February 12: Against Palestinian Reconciliation – Joas Wagemakers, Jihadica: https://bit.ly/ABxUfL Monday February 13: Umar Patek: Peripatetic Jihadi – Raffaello Pantucci, Free Rad!cals: https://bit.ly/zbF6JS Tuesday February 14: Jihadism on the web, a breeding ground for jihad in the modern age – General Intelligence and Security Service of the Netherlands: https://bit.ly/A4NpNR In the Depths of Jihadist Web Forums: Understanding a Key Component of the Propaganda of Jihad – ICT’s Jihadi Websites Monitoring Group: https://bit.ly/wajV6P Edges of Radicalization: Ideas, Individuals and Networks in Violent Extremism – Scott Helfstein, Combating Terrorism Center: https://bit.ly/wc2VnV Al Qaeda’s Merger – J.M. Berger, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/zMible Wednesday February 15: Signs and Signifiers – Marisa Urgo, Making Sense of Jihad: https://bit.ly/yxJ1Jj Washington’s War in Yemen Backfires – Jeremy Scahill, The Nation: https://bit.ly/wpQVS8 Islam & Qur’anic figures in Africa: Prophets, Sages & Disciples – Abdin Chande, Journal of Islamic & Judaic Studies: https://bit.ly/AkdAyw Establishing Official Islam? The Law and Strategy of Counter-Radicalization – Samuel J. Rascoff, Stanford Law Review: https://bit.ly/xk6CDj Thursday February 16: The Merger of Al-Shabab and Qa`idat al-Jihad – Nelly Lahoud, CTC Sentinel: https://bit.ly/woUtoc Al-Qa’ida’s global reach lengthens – Leah Farrall, The Australian: https://bit.ly/zB8JCY Boko Haram in National Perspective – Alex Thurston, The Revealer: https://bit.ly/zk16lR

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