Category: Articles of the Week

Saturday October 30:
Bombs from Yemen – Gregory D. Johnsen, Waq al-Waq: https://bit.ly/b6wST1
Shari’ah is not the law – Amina Wadud, Religion Dispatches: https://bit.ly/aC1SEK
Sunday October 31:
Top jihadi forums of 31 October, 2010 – Aaron Weisburd, Internet Haganah: https://bit.ly/avA1xl
Ignoring Yemen at Our Peril – Gregory D. Johnsen, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/cp9gSU
Monday November 1:
Some thoughts on the printer plot and AQAP – Leah Farrall, All Things Counter Terrorism: https://bit.ly/b2Uuok
Looking Ahead in Mogadishu: Tough Decisions – Katherine Zimmerman, Critical Threats Project: https://bit.ly/cpNtBd
Tuesday November 2:

What Yemen Wants – Steven Sotloff, The National Interest: https://bit.ly/aphbEP

Wednesday November 3:
Terrorism and Politics in Mauritania – Alex Thurston, Sahel Blog: https://bit.ly/cW2pSy
Is There a Significant Distinction Between “al Qaeda” & “al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula”? – Robert Chesney, Lawfare: https://bit.ly/bCvBHG
Assessing “The Vision of the Jihaadi Movement” – Mark Stout, On War and Words: https://bit.ly/bjNu8a
Thursday November 4:
Reflections on Osama bin Laden, and his continuing relevance – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, LWJ Threat Matrix: https://bit.ly/cgfMh5
Friday November 5:
10 Reasons Why Blocking Awlaki Youtube Speeches is Counter-Productive – Howard G. Clark, Free Rad!cals: https://bit.ly/cp5NRw

Saturday October 23:
Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Volume 33 Issue 11 released: https://bit.ly/9I8NwA
Gadahn and Awlaki, Together At Last? – J.M. Berger, IntelWire: https://bit.ly/9JlCoq
Things We don’t know – Gregory D. Johnsen, Waq al-Waq: https://bit.ly/dywTAW
Thoughts and Analysis on Gadahn’s new video – Aaron Y. Zelin, Jihadology: https://bit.ly/9shHKM
Monday October 25:
Militancy in Pakistan’s Borderlands – Hassan Abbas, The Century Foundation: https://bit.ly/9Thz91
Al Qaeda’s media plays follow the leader – Christopher Anzalone, The AfPak Channel: https://bit.ly/avNAz1
Awlaki Visited the Pentagon in 2001: Was This A Security Failure? – Mark Stout, Spy Blog: https://bit.ly/bo8zSW
Tuesday October 26:
A Crash Course in Jihadi Theory (Part 2) – Joas Wagemakers, Jihadica: https://bit.ly/bV0UW4

Experiments in Map-Making – Kal, The Moor Next Door: https://bit.ly/bFegpb

Wednesday October 27:
Al-Qaeda and the Coptic Converts – Florian Flade, Jih@d Blog: https://bit.ly/be1sbH
Saudi Fatwa Restrictions and the State-Clerical Relationship – Christopher Boucek, Arab Reform Bulletin: https://bit.ly/cj0u2j
Thursday October 28:
Dusting Off a Forgotten Counter-Narrative – Howard G. Clark, Free Rad!cals: https://bit.ly/bmpfn5
Grozny Attack Indicates Revival of Chechen Nationalist Insurgency – Murad Batal Al-Shishani, Central Asia – Caucasus Institute Analyst: https://bit.ly/djHEF9
Charting the Revival of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan – Roman Muzalevsky, Terrorism Monitor: https://bit.ly/cG0B1I
Why Is Osama bin Laden Going After the French? – Andrew Lebovich, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/cYgUEN
The German martyrs and the Turkish groups – Mr. Orange’s War Tracker: https://bit.ly/cb2vM6
Friday October 29:
Death Toll In Grozny Parliament Attack May Have Been Far Higher – Liz Fuller, Caucasus Report: https://bit.ly/91WE4v
Osama at the Top of His Game – Michael Scheuer, The National Interest: https://bit.ly/aaUaol
Factional Divisions within the Chechen Separatist Movement – Mairbek Vatchagaev, North Caucasus Analysis: https://bit.ly/dtv5eV

Sunday October 17:
Top “Ten” Jihadi Forums 17 October 2010 – Aaron Weisburd, Internet Haganah: https://bit.ly/9yeXg1
Review of Contemporary Arab Thought: Cultural Critique In Comparative Perspective – Yoav Di-Capua, Current Intelligence: https://bit.ly/cRiG6i
Monday October 18:
Radicalisation on British University Campuses: a case study – Quilliam Foundation: https://bit.ly/bMFxJz
Saudi Disinformation? – Gregory D. Johnsen, Waq al-Waq: https://bit.ly/c6OAmC
Umarov Again Lambastes Dissident Field Commanders – Liz Full, The Caucasus Report: https://bit.ly/c257kq
Tuesday October 19:
Writings of Saeed Obeid al-Jamhi: A Fresh Yemeni Attack on al-Qaida Ideology – Youssef Aboul-Enein, Small Wars Journal: https://bit.ly/9vIsit
Prominent European Islamic Terrorist Renounces Extremism – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, The Atlantic: https://bit.ly/93u7ET
Why U.S. Can’t Find Osama Bin Laden – Peter Bergen, CNN: https://bit.ly/bvaNUt
Thursday October 21:
Somalia: The Ethiopian Factor – Mogadishu Man Blog: https://bit.ly/aTnsNX
Nigerian Authorities Escalate Fight with Boko Haram – Alex Thurston, Sahel Blog: https://bit.ly/ag6BJT
AQAP’s Former Foreign Fighters – Clint Watts, Selected Wisdom: https://bit.ly/d3f8xB
Somalia: The Ethiopian Factor II – Mogadishu Man Blog: https://bit.ly/aK3ynB
The New Ideologues of the North Caucasus Jihadists – Murad Batal al-Shishani, Terrorism Monitor: https://bit.ly/9TrD6S
Analysis: Anwar Awlaki’s message to Inspire readers – Thomas Joscelyn, The Long War Journal: https://bit.ly/aY9ky0
Friday October 22:
Demilitarizing Jihad – J.M. Berger, Veterans Vision: https://bit.ly/acN5I9
Intelligence is Cramping al Qaeda’s Style – Mark Stout, Spy Blog: https://bit.ly/92xWEl
Somalia: The Ethiopian Factor III – Mogadishu Man Blog: https://bit.ly/drZ4HC
Is It Islamic or Islamist?: The West’s confusion spells trouble – Hayri Abaza & Soner Cagaptay, Newsweek: https://bit.ly/93jD8J

Sunday October 10:
Meet a Jihobbyist: My (Surprising) Final Reflections – Jarret Brachman, Cronus Global: https://bit.ly/cre7x5
Monday October 11:
Inspire 2 Lives Up to Its Name – Jarret Brachman, Cronus Global: https://bit.ly/a88isL
Inside Talibanistan – Peter Bergen, Brian Fishman and Katherine Tiedemann, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/c8QbU5
Watching the Watchers – Jarret Brachman, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/cjXaB0
Al Qaeda Wants to Be Friends – Jarret Brachman, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/aOfjzS
The Internet Jihad – Jarret Brachman, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/aGK0E6
Tuesday October 12:
Inspiring Idolatry – Aaron Weisburd, Internet Haganah: https://bit.ly/911bew
Inspire 2 – Thomas Hegghammer, Jihadica: https://bit.ly/biSoY2
The AQ-AQAP Distinction, State Secrets, and the Al-Awlaki Suit – Robert Chesney, Lawfare: https://bit.ly/drxqWz
The 10th Anniversary of the USS Cole bombing – Jane Novack, Armies of Liberation: https://bit.ly/aM8OHv
Super-Lawnmower Death Cars and the Banal Petulance Of American Jihadis – Brian O’Neil, Always Judged Guilty:https://bit.ly/cEbRow
Wednesday October 13:
Mowing Machines And Other Circus Acts – J.M. Berger, IntelWire: https://bit.ly/aviCnP
ICT’s Jihadi Websites Monitoring Group releases its Periodical Review September 2010 – No. 2 https://bit.ly/dk2LII
The Year of the Motorbike Assassination in Yemen – Gregory Johnsen, Waq al-Waq: https://bit.ly/cZeeJg
Somalia’s Second Islamist Threat: A Backgrounder on Hizb al Islam – Nathaniel Horadam, Critical Threats Project: https://bit.ly/dcAEOv
Thursday October 14:
War reporting in Yemen – Gregory Johnsen, Waq al-Waq: https://bit.ly/ck81o5
Friday October 15:
An Ex-Jihadi in the Arctic – Thomas Hegghammer, Jihadica: https://bit.ly/cziVZA
A Financial Profile of the Terrorism of AQ and its Affiliates – Juan Miguel del Cid Gómez, Perspectives on Terrorism: https://bit.ly/awmsV3
Review of Assaf Moghadam’s The Globalization of Martyrdom: Al Qaeda, Salafi Jihad, and the Diffusion of Suicide Attacks – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa: https://bit.ly/cn1W8Q
Reflections on the al Qaeda plot in Europe – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Long War Journal: https://bit.ly/aTBV5c

Saturday October 2:
America’s Dangerous Drone Addiction – Micah Zenko, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/9ZZ2gU
Reflections on al-Maqdisi’s Arrest – Joas Wagemakers, Jihadica: https://bit.ly/bIgVun
Why Two Osama bin Laden Messages Instead Of One? – J.M. Berger, IntelWire: https://bit.ly/cdGGw6
Monday October 4:
Can Recantations Prevent Radicalisation? – Howard G. Clark, FREE Rad!cals: https://bit.ly/8YcyMT
Thoughts on “Open” Space and AQIM – Kal, The Moor Next Door: https://bit.ly/ceLBoZ
Wednesday October 6:
Fahd al-Qusa’: Survey Says.. – Gregory D. Johnsen, Waq al-Waq: https://bit.ly/aiiwV4
Kings, clerics and the paradox of Saudi society – Ian Siperco, The Middle East Channel: https://bit.ly/bJQzgu
Thursday October 7:
Should the U.S. Help Break Up Somalia? – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, The Atlantic: https://bit.ly/cuwSo3
How We’ve Changed al-Qaeda – Aaron Y. Zelin, The Atlantic: https://bit.ly/cgoB4E
Friday October 8:
Chechen Insurgency Commanders Appeal To Compatriots – Liz Fuller, Caucasus Report: https://bit.ly/bO37rn
Yemen ought to be a full member of the GCC – Steve C. Caton, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/9wjx9K

Monday September 27:
Al-Qaeda Victory in Yemen – Howard Clark – FREE Rad!cals: https://bit.ly/cqtwfN
Cheering for Osama: How jihadists use internet discussion forums – Mohammed Ali Musawi, Quilliam Foundation: https://bit.ly/aI8jDZ
Critical Questions Regarding the Role of Foreign Fighters in al Shabaab – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Threat Matrix: https://bit.ly/c9DumW
Tuesday September 28:
Mysterious Al-Qaeda leader killed in Pakistan – Florian Flade, Jih@d Blog: https://bit.ly/bmQF7K
The Ideological-Political Training of Iran’s Basij – Dr. Saeid Golkar, The Crown Center for Middle East Studies: https://bit.ly/9qLMc9
Wednesday September 29:
The New Amnesia – Bruce Hoffman, The National Interest: https://bit.ly/aguiyJ
Thursday September 30:
The ‘Spillover’ Fallacy: Islamic Militants in Central Asia – Lois Kapila, World Politics Review: https://bit.ly/d2bbSY
Are al Qaeda capacities on the rise? – Mary Habeck, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/akjItA
Meet a Jihobbyist: Week 1 Analysis – Jarret Brachman: https://bit.ly/bf27DN
Friday October 1:
New video statement from Usāmah Bin Lāden: “Stop the Method of Relief Work” – Aaron Y. Zelin, Jihadology: https://bit.ly/d6VWpf
Comparative Counterinsurgency in Yemen – Jane Novack, The Middle East Review of International Affairs Journal: https://bit.ly/b5JkQK
Our Man in Sanaa- Why the West’s favorite Yemeni strongman must go – Ellen Knickmeyer, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/aAvNxZ
Foreign Fighters- Trends, Trajectories & Conflict Zones – Frank J. Cilluffo, Jeffrey B. Cozzens, and Magnus Ranstorp, Homeland Security Policy Institute: https://bit.ly/9ppBbQ
Bin Laden’s Rebranding Campaign – Jarret Brachman: https://bit.ly/aJC65f

Saturday September 18:
Kashmir’s New Islamist Movement – Praveen Swami, The Hindu: https://bit.ly/9NYe8X
Mauritanian raid against AQIM – Kal, The Moor Next Door: https://bit.ly/d3SF1B
Sunday September 19:
German Al-Qaeda spokesman Bekkay Harrach dead? – Florian Flade, Jih@d Blog: https://bit.ly/chSaFn
Monday September 20:
Thinking Outside the Box – Bruce Hoffman, The National Interest: https://bit.ly/9ZPZSB
Walking back (slightly) on Anwar al-Awlaki – Brian O’Neill, Always Judged Guilty: https://bit.ly/9mqr8Y
Strange Times – Gregory D. Johnsen, Waq al-Waq: https://bit.ly/b1O2eZ
Tuesday September 21:
A Crash Course in Jihadi Theory (Part 1) – Joas Wagemakers, Jihadica: https://bit.ly/blPTjP
The irrelevance of the international Muslim Brotherhood – Nathan J. Brown, The Middle East Channel: https://bit.ly/8X28r8
Germany’s Ground-Zero Mosque – Florian Flade, Jih@d Blog: https://bit.ly/d46N8f
Wednesday September 22:
Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Volume 33 Issue 10 2010 just released: https://bit.ly/aaeVeC
What if Obama’s Yemen policy works? – Aaron Y. Zelin, The Middle East Channel: https://bit.ly/ccoVL3
Al Qaeda-Affiliated and ‘Homegrown’ Jihadism in the UK: 1999-2010 – Jytte Klausen, Institute for Strategic Dialogue:
Thursday September 23:
ICT’s Jihadi Websites Monitoring Group releases its Periodical Review September 2010 – No. 1: https://bit.ly/dmdpup
These Terrorists Aren’t Playing Games – Praveen Swami, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/aomy7m
Terrorism Out of Somalia – Q&A w/Ken Menkhaus & Christopher Boucek, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: https://bit.ly/bFl5Yr
Mogadishu Map: al Shabaab’s Ramadan Offensive – Katherine Zimmerman, Critical Threats Project: https://bit.ly/dwpFGX
French Counterterrorism Operations in the Sahara – Jean-Luc Marret, Terrorism Monitor: https://bit.ly/aBmYyK
Friday September 24:
The Legal War on Terror for the week of 9/18-9/24 – Andrew Lebovich, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/9XVpLG

Saturday September 11:
Al-Qaeda leaders leave Iran – Return to the Frontline? – Florian Flade, Jih@d Blog: https://bit.ly/amc9FH
The Afghanistan Study Group Report: An Exercise in Determined Ignorance – Joshua Foust, Registan: https://bit.ly/9ZjWuu
Is “constructive disengagement” the solution in Somalia? – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, LWJ Threat Matrix: https://bit.ly/99CM5c
Sunday September 12:
Hagiography, Bomb-Making, And A Dejeuner Sur L’Herbe – Liz Fuller, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: https://bit.ly/bcenlI
Wednesday September 15:
I’m Back! And so is Ayman al-Zawahiri – Jarret Brachman: https://bit.ly/dxz5mg
What the new Zawahiri tape means – Brian Fishman, The AfPak Channel: https://bit.ly/bBIWGH
Today’s Highly Educated Terrorists – Bruce Hoffman, The National Interest: https://bit.ly/9h9NCC
Thursday September 16:
Zawahiri’s New Video: Why No Mention of September 11? – J.M. Berger, IntelWire: https://bit.ly/bkA3nk
Salafists Challenge al-Azhar for Ideological Supremacy in Egypt – Hani Nasira, Terrorism Monitor: https://bit.ly/apblhM
Friday September 17:
Sayyid Qutb, man of his era – Frederick Deknatel, The National: https://bit.ly/a7Xbw1

Saturday September 4:
Inside Al Qaeda – Sami Yousafzai and Ron Moreau, Newsweek: https://bit.ly/9XKRq2
Why Bin Laden Still Matters – Peter Bergen, Newsweek: https://bit.ly/axr3A4
Top Ten Jihadi forums (Updated) – Aaron Weisburd, Internet Haganah: https://bit.ly/c33j4M
Monday September 6:
Saif al Adel – Where is al-Qaeda´s General? – Florian Flade, Jih@d Blog: https://bit.ly/cWN1sC
Wednesday September 8:
Terror in the Balkans – Gordon N. Bardos, The National Interest: https://bit.ly/bn14eJ
Thursday September 9:
Terrorism and Political Violence, Volume 22 Issue 4 2010 released: https://bit.ly/cwX5wa
Why Do Terrorists Blow Themselves Up? – Riaz Hassan, Yale Global: https://bit.ly/9wo62r
New Syrian Brotherhood Leader: Continuity or Change? – Najib Ghadbian, Arab Reform Bulletin: https://bit.ly/b5l7pk
Al-Qaeda’s Sa’id al-Shihri Seeks to Revolutionize the Saudi Military – Murad Batal al-Shishani, Terrorism Monitor: https://bit.ly/aL5iWP
Al-Tatarrus: al-Qaeda’s Justification for Killing Muslim Civilians – Jack Barclay, Terrorism Monitor: https://bit.ly/b0jMsm
This Sept. 11, Will Terror Sites Get Hacked Again? – Adam Rawnsley, Wired: https://bit.ly/9x5Hg8
Friday September 10:
Assessing the Terrorist Threat – Peter Bergen and Bruce Hoffman, Bipartisan Policy Center: https://bit.ly/ab83iu
Letter from Noman Benotman to Usāmah Bin Lāden: https://bit.ly/aq7frV

Sunday August 29:
Thoughts Re: Recent AQIM Video – Kal, The Moor Next Door: https://bit.ly/bm86xt
Monday August 30:
Will Israel Remain a Jewish State? – Gadi Taub, New York Times: https://nyti.ms/9AXt8R
The 14th anniversary of a war we refuse to understand – Michael Scheuer, Non-Intervention: https://bit.ly/bAutsJ
New CTC Sentinel: https://bit.ly/bRJAoC
More RE: Nema Suicide Attack – – Kal, The Moor Next Door: wp.me/pcRa9-1gS
Tuesday August 31:
Sharia: You Don’t Know What It Means. – Adam Serwer, The American Prospect: https://bit.ly/cdz0zM
Why the Iraq milestone matters – Marc Lynch, Abu Aardvark Blog: https://bit.ly/bdpYYx
Western Sahara, the Maghreb’s Separator – Anouar Boukhars, Daily Star: https://bit.ly/bSGsK9
Wednesday September 1:
Homegrown Mujahideen – Jamelle Bouie, The American Prospect: https://bit.ly/aaUUKf
Meta-terrorism – Brian O’Neil, Always Judged Guilty: https://bit.ly/bXcAhZ
Why We Fight – Bruce Hoffman, The National Interest: https://bit.ly/cnr1fA
Thursday September 2:
First Blood- Was Meir Kahane’s murder al-Qaida’s earliest attack on U.S. soil? – Peter Lance, Tablet Magazine: https://bit.ly/9HKFHn
ICT’s Jihadi Websites Monitoring Group release its Periodical Review August 2010 – No. 2 https://bit.ly/cWn25w
Reflections on Algeria’s Islamist Experiences, Past and Present – Youssef Aboul-Enein, Small Wars Journal: https://bit.ly/a5yox6
The Legal War on Terror for the week of 8/27-9/2 – Andrew Lebovich, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/boitiU
The Moderate Muslim’s Fate – Faisal Devji, Current Intelligence: https://bit.ly/aSCANr
Friday September 3:
How Different Is Obama from Bush on Terrorism? – Noah Feldman, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/c76szq
Al Qaeda and the Pakistan Floods – Syed Saleem Shahzad, Boston Review: https://bit.ly/aWVdZo
The National Security Mosque – Ali Soufan, Forbes: https://bit.ly/b1y4ZT