Category: Articles of the Week

Saturday April 2:
Global Jihad: Summary from Arabic Sources – 2nd Half of January 2011 – ICT’s Jihadi Websites Monitoring Group: https://bit.ly/hDfSyQ
Global Jihad: Summary from Arabic Sources – 1st Half of February 2011 – ICT’s Jihadi Websites Monitoring Group: https://bit.ly/gG7F0E
Of the Mahdi and the Matrix – Charles Cameron, Zenpundit: https://bit.ly/f4kyle
Sunday April 3:
Top jihadi forums of 03 April, 2011 – Aaron Weisburd, Internet Haganah: https://bit.ly/fMe2Bz
Plotting an attack on a jihadi forum, AMAF edition – Aaron Weisburd, Internet Haganah: https://bit.ly/htlTiz
Monday April 4:
AQIM Statement Hoax? – Aaron Y. Zelin, al-Wasat: https://bit.ly/ieqWsD
USA v. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed et al.: The Trial That Might Have Been – J.M. Berger, IntelWire: https://intelwire.net/hdXylf
AQIM and Libya’s missing weapons – Andrew Lebovich, al-Wasat: https://bit.ly/dRPhpK
Tuesday April 5:
A Typology of Lone Wolves: Preliminary Analysis of Lone Islamist Terrorists – Raffaello Pantucci, The International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation: https://bit.ly/dJpUt2
The Han on Haj — Chinese Foreign Policy and its Middle East Applications – Jordan Reimer, Kulna: https://bit.ly/gPPve4
Thursday April 7:
State Department Put ‘Political Pressure’ On FBI To Deport Brother-in-Law Of Osama Bin Laden In 1995 – J.M. Berger, IntelWire: https://bit.ly/hwuOGr
The fall of Egypt’s symbol of progressive Islam – Osama Diab, New Statesman: https://ow.ly/4vEx6
Friday April 8:
Death of Umarov’s Successor Is a Major Setback to Rebel Movement – Mairbek Vatchagaev, North Caucasus Analysis: https://bit.ly/feKsrw

Saturday March 26:
Like it Or Not, Inspire Matters: Part 1 – Jarret Brachman, Cronus Global Blog: https://bit.ly/eBq7YI
Tuesday March 29:
Radical Islam in Gaza – International Crisis Group: https://bit.ly/h5tQxa
l’elephant est un probleme polonais – Aaron Weisburd, Internet Haganah: https://bit.ly/gDPaaS
Wednesday March 30:
New issue of the CTC Sentinel released: https://bit.ly/fAPCcd
New Issue of Al Qaeda’s Inspire Magazine Aims For Rapid Repositioning – J.M. Berger, IntelWire: https://bit.ly/f2LfDe
Inspire Magazine: Tiger Beat for Terrorists* – Aaron Weisburd, Internet Haganah: https://bit.ly/hIxD3b
The Enemies of Our Enemy – Joseph Felter and Brian Fishman, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/hlEWEm
Of War & Miracle: The Poetics, Spirituality & Narratives of Jihad – Charles Cameron, Zenpundit: https://bit.ly/eO8VPJ
Inspire #5: Between Front and Back covers – Charles Cameron, Zenpundit: https://bit.ly/fLs96A
Friday April 1:
“We Serve the People”: Hamas Policing in Gaza – Yezid Sayigh, The Crown Center for Middle East Studies: https://bit.ly/hbiKDB
AQAP did NOT take over Abyan, Yemen or even the city of Ja’ar – Jane Novack, Armies of Liberation: https://bit.ly/gCp1eW

Sunday March 20:
Has The FSB Penetrated The Kabardino-Balkaria Insurgency? – Liz Fuller, Caucasus Report: https://bit.ly/fKgzJd
binyamine: a “bridging weak tie” – Internet Haganah: https://bit.ly/eMWzT0
Monday March 21:
al-Shabab Continues to Court Somalia’s Clans as Hasan Dahir Aweys Assumes a More Public Role – Christopher Anzalone, al-Wasat:https://bit.ly/dOph0Q
Tuesday March 22:
Entering a new dimension – Jihad via Bluetooth (Part 2) – Nico Prucha, Jihadica: https://bit.ly/gzVikt
Wednesday March 23:
Spy or Intermediary? – Rahimullah Yusufzai, Newsline: https://bit.ly/f73pyN
AQ’s Future in Libya, Part 1- Foreign Fighters – Clint Watts, Selected Wisdom: https://bit.ly/gGOOsb
Britain’s camera-shy jihadis – Raffaello Pantucci, The AfPak Channel: https://bit.ly/h1s2Ar
Thursday March 24:
Jihad forum status – Internet Haganah: https://bit.ly/htQ4L5
The jihadist threat in Libya – Noman Benotman and James Brando, Quilliam Foundation: https://bit.ly/gBeScC

Saturday March 12:
Still a Vanguard – Marisa Urgo, Making Sense of Jihad: https://bit.ly/dQmy16
Tuesday March 15:
Building an Insurgent State in Somalia? – Christopher Anzalone, Informed Comment: https://bit.ly/fTMOwm
Wednesday March 16:
Terror in Germany: An interview with Guido Steinberg – conducted by Raffaello Pantucci, Free Rad!cals: https://bit.ly/eYmvuw
Thursday March 17:
Global Jihad: Summary from Arabic Sources – The First Half of January 2011 – ICT’s Jihadi Websites Monitoring Group: https://bit.ly/dO2Xh9
Remembering Mansur – Liz Fuller, Caucasus Report:https://bit.ly/gvdLr1
Jihad in China? Marketing the Turkistan Islamic Party – Jacob Zenn, Terrorism Monitor: https://bit.ly/dNdKSg

Saturday March 5:
The Sickness of Islam, the Doctor of the Believers, and the Cure-All Qurʾān: Al-Ghazālī and His Case-Specific Qurʾānic Commentaries – Hamilton Cook, Kulna: https://bit.ly/fvTs0g
Monday March 7:
Global Jihad: Summary from Arabic Sources – 2nd Half of December 10 – ICT’s Jihadi Websites Monitoring Group: https://bit.ly/eI9vPu
Tuesday March 8:
Interview: Terror in Russia with Ces Moore – conducted by Raffaello Panntucci, Free Rad!cals: https://bit.ly/gvjOJG
Even If It’s Not True It’s True: Using Unreliable Hadīths in Sunni Islam – Jonathan A.C. Brown, Islamic Law and Society: https://bit.ly/ezeQIu
Harakat al-Shabab & Somalia’s Clans – Christopher Anzalone, al-Wasat: https://bit.ly/h3ywvK
Wednesday March 9:
Jamāl al-Dīn al-Qāsimī and the Salafi Approach to Sufism – Mun’im Sirry, Welt des Islams: https://bit.ly/eSoUSA
Ideologies of Jihad in Europe – Petter Nesser, Terrorism and Political Violence: https://bit.ly/g0OUK8
Terrorism-Free Zone in East Central Europe? – Miroslav Mares, Terrorism and Political Violence: https://bit.ly/i5VQ1o
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula: Framing Narratives & Prescriptions – Michael Page, Lara Challita, and Alistair Harris, Terrorism and Political Violence: https://bit.ly/eWQBJu
The Strength of Weak Terrorist Ties – Jonathan Kennedy and Gabriel Weimann, Terrorism and Political Violence: https://bit.ly/dXbx5T
Islamist Terrorism & Australia: An Empirical Examination of the “Home-Grown” Threat – Sam Mullins, Terrorism & Political Violence: https://bit.ly/gwNAfp
Summary from the Jihadi Forums – The Second Half of January 2011 – ICT’s Jihadi Websites Monitoring Group: https://bit.ly/hebynt

Sunday February 27:
Asrar al-Mujahideen has been trojaned? – Aaron Weisburd, Internet Haganah:
https://bit.ly/fjnO45
Monday February 28:
New issue of the CTC Sentinel released: https://bit.ly/fDoxOk
Wednesday March 2:
Al-Shabab: 1977-78 War Veterans Recalled – Mogadishu Man: https://wp.me/pRV7y-9q
Thursday March 3:
“How I Joined Jihad”: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in His Own Words (Part 2) – Murad Batal al-Shishani, Terrorism Monitor:https://bit.ly/h4xrsG
The Frankfurt shooter’s Facebook page, and a little color commentary – Aaron Weisburd, Internet Haganah: https://bit.ly/fpaOuX
Friday March 4:
SWP Conference Summary – Nico Prucha, Jihadica: https://bit.ly/elGz42
Wahhabi Self-Examination Post-9/11: Rethinking the ‘Other’, ‘Otherness’ and Tolerance – Muhammad Atawneh, Middle Eastern Studies Journal: https://bit.ly/eyhl64
What’s Super Angry and Really Hates Juice? – Jarret Brachman, Cronus Global: https://bit.ly/g2qbny

Monday February 21:
ICT’s Jihadi Websites Monitoring Group releases its Periodical Review: Fatwas – January 2011: https://bit.ly/ec0s62
Tuesday February 22:
Talking Terrorism – Brian Fishman, LA Times: https://lat.ms/dLsgKv
Interfaith tolerance challenges Indonesian Islam, democracy – Iqra Anugrah, Japan Times: https://bit.ly/h7HDlp
How al Qaeda Works: What the Organization’s Subsidiaries Say About Its Strength – Leah Farrall, Foreign Affairs: https://fam.ag/g6Y3aP
Wednesday February 23:
Frankfurt Cleric A Jihadi Recruiter? – Florian Flade, Jih@d Blog: https://bit.ly/ijZxq0
ICT’s Jihadi Websites Monitoring Group releases its Global Jihad: Summary from Arabic Sources – 1st Half of December 10: https://bit.ly/hBx7pj
Abu Malik – Nasheed – Wofür wir stehen – Ahmad al-Zaky, Ma’alim fi al-Tariq: https://bit.ly/fy8GHR
Al Qaeda’s Foot Soldiers: A Study of the Biographies of Foreign Fighters Killed in Afghanistan and Pakistan Between 2002 and 2006 – Anne Stenersen, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism: https://bit.ly/gDO9RM
Thursday February 24:
A Note on Usama Bin Ladin’s 1998 Declaration of War: al-Kisa’i vs. al-Kasani – Sayeed Rahman, Jihadica: https://is.gd/WD7N3P
“Make Jihad Easy For Me” – Saudi Student of Texas University Planned Terror Attack in US – Florian Flade, Jih@d Blog: https://is.gd/y8kwUE
Friday February 25:
Boko Haram Update – Alex Thurston, Sahel Blog: https://is.gd/qV4hTt

Sunday February 13:
IMU – Unser Weg zur IMU – Abu Ibraheem al-Almani – Ahmad al-Zaky, Ma’alim fi al-Taqriq Blog: https://bit.ly/hRfSkZ
German Jihadi Brothers Met Anwar al-Awlaki – Florian Flade, Jih@d Blog: https://bit.ly/ijDBh0
Monday February 14:
Top 10 Jihadi Forums (Updated) – Aaron Weisburd, Internet Haganah: https://bit.ly/fsi4ba
Chechnya’s Youngest Insurgents – Liz Fuller, The Caucasus Report: https://bit.ly/gyZYBO
A Crash Course in Jihadi Theory (Part 4) – Joas Wagemakers, Jihadica: https://bit.ly/fshJVd
Tuesday February 15:
AQAP on the Revolution in Tunisia – Gregory Johnsen, Waq al-Waq: https://bit.ly/h5qwbn
At a Loss for Words- Why is al-Qaeda keeping quiet about the Egyptian and Tunisian revolutions? – Brian Fishman, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/fsgijp
Wednesday February 16:
New Insurgent Group Emerges In North Caucasus – Liz Fuller, The Caucasus Report: https://bit.ly/frpsG5
Thursday February 17:
Global Ambitions: An Analysis of al Shabaab’s Evolving Rhetoric – Cody Curran, Critical Threats Project: https://bit.ly/dMDNHx
ICT’s Jihadi Websites Monitoring Group releases its Summary from the Jihadi Forums – The First Half of January 2011: https://bit.ly/dkKa9W
Russian Policies in the North Caucasus Fuels a New Generation of Insurgents – Murad Batal al-Shishani, CACI Analyst: https://bit.ly/fp4O0o
The dwindling Kashmir-Britain militant pipeline – Raffaello Pantucci, The AfPak Channel: https://bit.ly/hPz4cn
“How I Joined Jihad”: Nigerian Bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in His Own Words (Part 1) – Murad Batal al-Shishani, Terrorism Monitor: https://bit.ly/etAcfw

Sunday February 6:
Jihadi Forums: Open Forum w/Sheikh Abu Sa‘ad Al-‘Amili – ICT’s Jihadi Websites Monitoring Group: https://bit.ly/h9x6Pk
Terrorism, not radicalization. Counterterrorism, not counter-radicalization -Aaron Weisburd, Society for Internet Research: https://bit.ly/hI8yk2
Monday February 7:
Jihadis Debate Egypt (3) – Brynjar Lia, Jihadica: https://bit.ly/dIwvl6
Separating the Taliban from al Qa’eda – Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn, NYU Center for International Cooperation: https://bit.ly/hWTDfe
Tuesday February 8:
AQAP Makes off with Drone wreckage – Gregory Johnsen, Waq al-Waq: https://bit.ly/g3N1MF
Wednesday February 9:
ICT’s Jihadi Websites Monitoring Group releases its Periodical Review January 2011 – No. 1: https://bit.ly/erzYS0
Review of Manuel R. Torres Soriano’s “The Road to Media Jihad- The Propaganda Actions of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb” – Aaron Y. Zelin, al-Wasat: https://bit.ly/guiXs8
The Muslim Brotherhood Myth – Christopher Anzalone, Informed Comment: https://bit.ly/hLaK5x

Thursday February 10: Debate over “jihad” in Saudi Arabia (Review of Thomas Hegghammer’s Jihad in Saudi Arabia: Violence and Pan-Islamism since 1979) – Murad Batal Al-Shishani, Open Democracy: https://bit.ly/fyEnWT Makati City Bombing Brings Abu Sayyaf Terrorism to Manila – Jacob Zenn, Terrorism Monitor: https://bit.ly/ghgjBX Al-Qa’ida Revisions: The Five Letters of Sayf al-‘Adl – Vahid Brown, Jihadica: https://bit.ly/facc87

Monday January 31:
Identity Of Domodedovo Suicide Bomber Reportedly Established – Liz Fuller, The Caucasus Report: https://bit.ly/dPGND7
Fears of a Muslim Brotherhood takeover of Egypt are overblown – Chris Harnisch, The Daily Caller: https://bit.ly/gxwn3g
Tuesday February 1:
Why Egypt revolt threatens al Qaeda – Paul Cruickshank, CNN: https://bit.ly/flaPFr
Wednesday February 2:
Dr. Zawahiri: Your Silence is Deafening – Jarret Brachman, Cronus Global:
https://bit.ly/gBwQQb
Jihad in Pakistan – Notes On IMU´s Latest Video – Florian Flade, Jih@d Blog: https://bit.ly/e0Ipt9
Thursday February 3:
Mapping Awlaki’s 9/11 Social Network – J.M. Berger, IntelWire: https://intelwire.net/fxTWHX
Friday February 4:
Mapping Awlaki’s Current Social Network And Influence On Radical Actors – J.M. Berger, IntelWire: https://bit.ly/gXAkiF
Jihadis Debate Egypt (1) – Brynjar Lia, Jihadica: https://bit.ly/dZ5ePt
Jihadis Debate Egypt (2) – Brynjar Lia, Jihadica: https://bit.ly/f5GtAD
Sahelian Kidnappings: Preventive Solutions – Alex Thurston, Sahel Blog: https://bit.ly/gUbe2j