Category: Articles of the Week

Saturday August 21:
The Shiites of Saudi Arabia – Joshua Teitelbaum, Current Trends in Islamist Ideology: https://bit.ly/b3uTA1
Sunday August 22:
Summary & Analysis of AQIM’s new video release “On The Occasion of Ramadan Fighting is Ordained for You” – Aaron Y. Zelin, al-Maktabah Blog: https://bit.ly/9PqTWq
A guide to the global jihad on Facebook – Aaron Weisburd, Internet Haganah: https://bit.ly/cXYImt
ICT’s Jihadi Websites Monitoring Group release its Periodical Review August 2010 – No. 1 https://bit.ly/cx8W6T
Monday August 23:
Constructing the Revolution: The Social Psychological Development of Radical Spiritual Leaders – John Ty Grubbs, Small Wars Journal: https://bit.ly/bGlMpK
Tuesday August 24:
How Arab Governments Resist the Trend to Democracy – Amr Hamzawy, U.S. News & World Report: https://bit.ly/cnoICD
A Litmus Test for Yemen – Chris Harnisch, The National Review Online: https://bit.ly/a1PV0i
Terrorism in China? – Joshua Foust, PBS Need to Know: https://to.pbs.org/bXohhy
Wednesday August 25:
Mauritania Car Bombing at Nema – Kal, The Moor Next Door: https://bit.ly/c4JkCS
Jihadi Forums Silent on Cordoba Controversy – Max Fisher, The Atlantic: https://bit.ly/a6rhPc
Cordoba House frenzy fuels terrorists’ extremist agenda – Malcolm Nance, The National: https://bit.ly/bCLJZT
How Arabs view the anti-mosque movement – Marc Lynch, Abu Aardvark: https://bit.ly/9seKNX
From ‘Martyrdom’ Videos to Jihadi Journalism in Somalia – Christopher Anzalone, Informed Comment: https://bit.ly/byfsIQ
How to Handle Hamas- The Perils of Ignoring Gaza’s Leadership – Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs: https://bit.ly/aDKW1D
The Anarchic Republic of Pakistan – Ahmed Rashid, National Interest: https://bit.ly/bL7S8g
Thursday August 26:
From the floods, Pakistan’s next generation emerges – Amil Khan, AfPak Channel: https://bit.ly/dvj9e2
The Legal War on Terror for the week of 8/20-8/26 – Andrew Lebovich, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/9kcwPt
Friday August 27:
Bitter religious fighting over mosque plays right into al-Qaeda’s hands – Evan F. Kohlmann, The Washington Post: https://bit.ly/aZRYy5
Removal of N.Ossetian Mufti Sparks Fears its Muslims May Choose Radical Path – Valery Dzutsev, North Caucasus Analysis: https://bit.ly/daRs9J

Saturday August 14:
“The Strait of Hormuz: al-Qaeda’s Newest Jihad Zone?” – Malcolm Nance, Small Wars Journal: https://bit.ly/afOoPU
Sunday August 15:
“Drama on the high seas – The tribulations of the S.S. Faloja” – Aaron Weisburd, The Internet Haganah: https://bit.ly/9T51vo
Monday August 16:
“Al Qaeda’s Ramadan Gifts” – Florian Flade: https://bit.ly/avT47F
“Last Chance for Pakistan” – Ahmed Rashid, New York Review of Books: https://bit.ly/cqNwg6
“On Maps dealing with AQIM, North Africa, and Terrorism” – Kal, The Moor Next Door: https://bit.ly/dw3vfM
Tuesday August 17:
“Uzbek jihadist leader Yuldashev officially dead” – Florian Flade: https://bit.ly/bx3Zhy
Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Volume 33 Issue 9 2010 released https://bit.ly/96ORqx
Wednesday August 18:
“Darul Islams Ongoing Appeal” – Sidney Jones, Tempo Magazine: https://bit.ly/9PwtCn
“Al-Wala ‘wa-l-Bara’ – part 3 – German Taliban Mujahideen” – Ahmad al-Zaky, Ma’alim fi al-Tariq Blog: https://bit.ly/9BbSCj
Thursday August 19:
“Al-Wala ‘wa-l-Bara’ – According to the Aqeedah of the Salaf” – Ahmad al-Zaky, Ma’alim fi al-Tariq Blog: https://bit.ly/d03F5s
“Migrating violence in the Caucasus” – Joshua Foust, PBS Need to Know: https://to.pbs.org/agaQ40
“Will the Turkish Flotilla Group Be Named as Terrorists?” – Jonathan Schanzer, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/9LHSid
“Autumn of Kashmir’s Islamist Patriarch?” – Praveen Swami, The Hindu: https://bit.ly/9r2Thv
“Loyalty to the Believers by Abu Zubair Adel b. Abdullah al-Abab” – Ahmad al-Zaky, Ma’alim fi al-Tariq Blog: https://bit.ly/aMPyWh
“Al-Shabaab’s Unavoidable Clash with Somaliland Democracy” – Jacob Zenn, Terrorism Monitor: https://bit.ly/cRFZUk
“Round Seven? The Houthi Rebellion in Northern Yemen” – Michael Horton, Terrorism Monitor: https://bit.ly/98rE6Y
“The Legal War on Terror for the week of 8/14- 8/19 – Andrew Lebovich, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/axeopQ
Friday August 20:
“Jihad’s Ugly American Face” – The Investigative Project on Terrorism: https://bit.ly/9qmhzB
“Journal Roundup for August 2010” – Marisa Urgo, Making Sense of Jihad: https://bit.ly/cKlnic

Saturday August 7:
“Rise of al-Qaeda’s New Operations Chief Increases Threat to U.S.” – Charlie Szrom, The National Review Online: https://bit.ly/9IfOdz
Monday August 9:
ICT’s Jihadi Websites Monitoring Group releases its Periodical Review July 2010 – No. 2: https://bit.ly/dqcdMU
“Will Pakistan Ever Be a Dependable Ally?” – Nicholas Schmidle, The New Republic: https://bit.ly/cowmVq
“Continuity in a Time of Flux: Pakistan Army Chief’s Term Extended” – Reza Jan, Critical Threats Project: https://bit.ly/deRNcN
Tuesday August 10:
“A Jihadist Gets a Promotion” – Bruce Riedel, The Daily Beast: https://bit.ly/aQgoPP
“Status Check on the Struggle against Global Terrorism’ – Matthew Levitt, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy: https://bit.ly/a3BzHE
“Life and Death of a Radical Mosque” – Ian Johnson, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/bf3Zek
“After the Flood, A Stream of Radical Islamists” – Reza Jan, The American: https://bit.ly/cFxPif
“Promoting Radical Ideas – What ICNA Demands of its Members” – The Investigative Project on Terrorism: https://bit.ly/9EEMbZ
“”Welcome to the land of jihad” – German Islamist welcomes new recruits” – Florian Flade: https://bit.ly/9Eals9
Wednesday August 11:
“Soil of honor” – New IMU Video (Analysis) – Ahmad al-Zaky, Ma’alim fi al-Tariq Blog: https://bit.ly/9GvL9x
“Yemen: not on the verge of collapse” – Steven C. Caton, The Middle East Channel: https://bit.ly/aAI5XZ
“Al Shabaab Effectively Recruits Americans” – Chris Harnisch and Katherine Zimmerman, The Weekly Standard: https://bit.ly/aMHrVH
Thursday August 12:
“The Islamist Response to Repression: Are Mainstream Islamist Groups Radicalizing?” – Shadi Hamid, Brookings Institution: https://bit.ly/akLsrd
“Why the UN won’t solve Western Sahara (until it becomes a crisis)” – Anna Theofilopoulou and Jacob Mundy, The Middle East Channel: https://bit.ly/cpiBEM
Friday August 13:
The Legal War on Terror for the week of 8/6-8/12 – Andrew Lebovich, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/aSbyhB

Sunday August 1:
“Thoughts on the 22 July France/Mauritanian raid on AQIM in Mali” – Kal, The Moor Next Door: https://bit.ly/bh2ZT5
Monday August 2:
“Germany: As Some Young Muslims Turn to Radicalism, Concern Grows” – Souad Mekhennet, The New York Times: https://nyti.ms/cvlIOy
“The al Qaeda Threat from West Africa and the Maghreb: French Hostage Execution and Beyond” – Charlie Szrom, Critical Threats Project: https://bit.ly/crsiFg
“Al Qaeda Brigade 313 website goes online” – Bill Roggio, The Long War Journal: https://bit.ly/9jB0kM
Tuesday August 3:
July issue of the CTC Sentinel released: https://bit.ly/bmI23V
“Ahmadinejad in West Africa: What Iranian Outreach to the Region Reveals about Tehran’s Foreign Policy” – Charlie Szrom, Iran Tracker: https://bit.ly/bJIpdJ
“Anwar Al Awlaki’s Global Reach” – Raff Pantucci, FREE Rad!cals Blog: https://bit.ly/cKxVzm
“The Iranian Revolution in the New Era” – Said Amir Arjomand, Current Trends in Islamist Ideology: https://bit.ly/9V0zMb
” The Internet- Avenue for Women Jihadi “Participation”” – Tuty Raihanah Mostarom and Nur Azlin Mohamed Yasin, RSIS Commentaries: https://bit.ly/ajplpr
Wednesday August 4:
“Straight Outta Kandahar” – Gretchen Peters, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/9tOEH7
“The De-Radicalization Process of Terrorist Organizations: The Libyan Case” – ICT’s Jihadi Websites Monitoring Group: https://bit.ly/bQLQCg
Thursday August 5:
“Al Shabaab’s First “News” Video: Effort to Recruit Westerners and Expel Peacekeepers” – Chris Harnisch, Critical Threats Project: https://bit.ly/dA2z77
“Al-Qaeda’s Ambitions in Pakistan: Changing Goals, Changing Strategies” – Zafar Imran, Terrorism Monitor: https://bit.ly/auxfks
“The war for the soul of Pakistan” – Mosharraf Zaidi, The National: https://bit.ly/d5J5NM
“The Legal War on Terror for the week of 7/30-8/5” – Andrew Lebovich, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/bWgji7
Friday August 6:
“To Close Gitmo, Stability Needed in Yemen” – Alice Fordham, Global Post: https://bit.ly/dfjgtO
“Beyond a military solution for Pakistan” – Amil Khan, The AfPak Channel: https://bit.ly/a4qLAu
Interview with Dr. Nageh Ibrahim, who wrote most of the Islamic Group’s revisions after their violence in Egypt in the 1990s: https://bit.ly/9pc4tb

Sunday July 25:
“Stop Wahhabi Indoctrination of Syrian Youth” – Elie Elhadj, Syria Comment: https://bit.ly/a6V7aq
Monday July 26:
“Al-Qaida: severing the heads will not necessarily cut the lifeline” – Omar Ashour, FREE Rad!cals Blog: https://bit.ly/aKCc4Z
“Iranian Re-Revolution- How the Green Movement Is Repeating Iranian History” – Michael Singh, Foreign Affairs: https://bit.ly/aB1V0Q
“The Boston Cluster and Extended Connections: Case Study on Homegrown Radicalization” – Madeleine Gruen, NEFA Foundation: https://bit.ly/dlMB3m
“The Wiki leak is more and less important than you think” – Joshua Foust, PBS’s Need to Know: https://to.pbs.org/bI3spv
“The Assange Leaks- What’s new about the WikiLeaks data? – Joshua Foust, Columbia Journalism Review: https://bit.ly/dqAZkO
Tuesday July 27:
“Bury the Graveyard- If you want to figure out a way forward for Afghanistan, fake history is not the place to start” – Christian Caryl, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/ae7Gdm
“WikiLeaks Point to Iran-Al Qaeda Ties” – Thomas Joscelyn, Weekly Standard: https://bit.ly/bhePp4
“Getting Lost in the Fog of WikiLeaks” – Andrew Exum, New York Times: https://nyti.ms/9I3kP5
“A Quickie-Leak On Obama’s War” – Mosharraf Zaidi, The News: https://bit.ly/d73B1q
“Awlaki’s U.S. Sermons Foreshadow Role as Terrorist Mentor” – Investigative Project on Terrorism: https://bit.ly/d0agIu
“Somaliland: A democratic beacon of hope in a dangerous part of the world” – Chris Harnisch, The Daily Caller: https://bit.ly/c5Qf05
“Nothing New about Homegrown Terrorism” – Joshua L. Dratel, The CenterLine Blog: https://bit.ly/ddajRv
“The New Islamophobia” – Adam Serwer, The American Prospect: https://bit.ly/cIIoxw
“‘Rhetoric and Reality,’ and our understanding of the rule of law” – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, LWJ’s Threat Matrix Blog: https://bit.ly/a6rloz
Wednesday July 28:
“Somaliland and the March of Freedom” – Ambassador Richard S. Williamson, The American: https://bit.ly/csHL6q
“Afghanistan Needs Local Politics, not Local Militias” – Joshua Foust and Paul Meinshausen, World Politics Review: https://bit.ly/bZkBvu
“What I Saw at Moba Khan- The military reports highlighted by WikiLeaks don’t provide a full picture of the war” – Noah Shachtman, Wall Street Journal: https://bit.ly/bR3nxZ
“Islam in Europe now has strong local leadership” – Rasha Elass, The National: https://bit.ly/d3Qelf
“New Zawahiri tape eulogizes Mustafa Abu al Yazid” – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, LWJ’s Threat Matrix Blog: https://bit.ly/deCkks
“What Does “Reform” Mean in Saudi Arabia?” – Neil Partrick, Arab Reform Bulletin: https://bit.ly/a8zllb
Thursday July 29:
“Understanding Islamic Finance” – Adam Serwer interview with Frank Vogel at The American Prospect: https://bit.ly/cGnHtH
“Iranian Influence in Afghanistan: Imam Khomeini Relief Committee” – Ali Alfoneh and Ahmad Majidyar, AEI’s Middle East Outlook: https://bit.ly/bXyRDt
“My Pen Pal, the Jihadist” – Jarret Brachman, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/bK3173
“Al-Zawahiri Releases New Message with Focus on the Levant and Iraq” – Murad Batal al-Shishani, Terrorism Monitor: https://bit.ly/btvLF7
“Lashkar-e-Taiba’s Growing International Focus and Its Links with al-Qaeda” – Peter Chalk, Terrorism Monitor: https://bit.ly/d0eCcD
“A Lesson on Islamic Law for Newt Gingrich” – Aaron Y. Zelin, al-Maktabah Blog: https://bit.ly/9XAoye
Friday July 30:
“The Legal War on Terror for the week of 7/23-7/29” – Andrew Lebovich, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/b3YXoE
“Using the Qur’an to Justify Terrorist Violence: Analysing Selective Application of the Qur’an in English-Language Militant Islamist Discourse” – Donald Holbrook, Perspectives on Terrorism: https://bit.ly/aXYEEh
“‘Oil-Qaeda’: Jihadist Threats to the Energy Sector” – Tim Pippard, Perspectives on Terrorism: https://bit.ly/bDQd7g
“Veteran of Anti-Russian Wars named as Head of Dagestan’s Sharia Jamaat” – Mairbek Vatchagaev, North Caucasus Analysis: https://bit.ly/anKWve
“Caucasus Emirate Leader Chooses a Successor” – Mairbek Vatchagaev, North Caucasus Analysis: https://bit.ly/am7vDZ
“A Dead Posh Mauritanian Jihadi” – Nasser Weddady, Dekhnstan Blog: https://bit.ly/b0ulzX
“Islamists Grow Strong in Russian Republic” – Matthias Schepp, Der Spiegel: https://bit.ly/dvaFbh
“Gingrich Embraces A Clash Of Civilizations” – Adam Serwer, The American Prospect: https://bit.ly/dneBRV

Sunday July 18:
“Jihad Recipe Book is Inevitable” – Marisa Urgo, Making Sense of Jihad: https://bit.ly/a6TtrZ
“Al-Wala ‘wa-l-Bara’ – Part 2 – Al-Maqdisi” – Ahmad al-Zaky, Ma’alim fi al-Tariq Blog: https://bit.ly/b74whC
Monday July 19:
“A Portrait of the Terrorist as a Young Man” – Joas Wagemakers, Jihadica: https://bit.ly/ctMGz6
Tuesday July 20:
“How Long Can Al Qaeda In Iraq Last?” – Musings on Iraq Blog: https://bit.ly/d66lPr
“Lashkar e Tayyiba, Al Qaeda, and Pakistan: Time to Clean House” – Bruce Riedel, Brookings Institution: https://bit.ly/9EERYp
Wednesday July 21:
ICT’s Jihadi Websites Monitoring Group releases its Periodical Review July 2010 – No. 1: https://bit.ly/aIFRvX
“The African Union’s beleaguered Somalia mission” – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross & Seungwon Chung – LWJ’s Threat Matrix Blog: https://bit.ly/9c8B4r
“American Jihad, Part II” – Bruce Hoffman, The National Interest: https://bit.ly/ben7rY
“Following the al Qaeda thread from Norway to Denver” – Mary Habeck, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/9fh80f
Thursday July 22:
“Engaging Pakistan’s moderate majority” – Amil Khan, The AfPak Channel: https://bit.ly/cTl1fW
“Abu Talhah Al-Amrikee: An Extensive Online Footprint” – Anti-Defamation League: https://bit.ly/cpcG4L
“Why the Clash of Civilizations Won’t Go Away” – Marc Lynch, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/9xMLZp
“Operation Roll Back Kuwaiti Freedom” – Priyanka Motaparthy, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/91wFYx
“A Federal Court at GTMO? Get Serious.” – Joshua L. Dratel, The CenterLine Blog: https://bit.ly/d0VAGD
Friday July 23:
“The Legal War on Terror for the week of 7/17-7/22”  – Andrew Lebovich, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/dsngmW
“Tawhid al-Hakimiyah – A Jihadi Achilles Heel?” – Jack Barclay, Terrorism Monitor: https://bit.ly/aY5IHI

Saturday July 10:
“Is Nothing Sacred in the Islamic Republic of Iran?” – Naghmeh Sohrabi, The Crown Center for Middle East Studies: https://bit.ly/crspht
“We Must Not Forget about Yemen” – Chris Harnisch, The National Review: https://bit.ly/d5nWe6
Sunday July 11:
“Counting al Qaeda- Leon Panetta’s numbers aren’t to be trusted” – Bill Roggio & Daveed Gatenstein-Ross, The Weekly Standard: https://bit.ly/a1LzIz
“Full AQAP Inspire Issue Posted Online” – J.M. Berger, IntelWire: https://bit.ly/cLcvhm
Monday July 12:
“Inspire Magazine, This Time it’s for real” – Aaron Weisburd, The Internet Haganah: https://bit.ly/czTlsk
“The Homegrown Terror Threat” – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, inFocus: https://bit.ly/cvKbQA
“How Al-Qaeda Prepares Attacks Against the West: What the July 7-8 Rollup Revealed – Charlie Szrom, Critical Threats Project: https://bit.ly/aHmU8Q
Tuesday July 13:
“Al Qaeda in Norway”  – B. Raman, International Terrorism Monitor: https://bit.ly/b5UfkP
“Thoughts on the attacks in Uganda” – Leah Farrall, All Things Counterterrorism: https://bit.ly/agwfgc
“Expanding the Campaign of Violence: al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s English-Language Magazine” – Katherine Zimmerman, Critical Threats Project: https://bit.ly/9Vbpf9
“Why Does al-Qaeda have a problem with Norway?” – Thomas Hegghammer & Dominic Tierney, The Atlantic: https://bit.ly/cIsMgB
“What’s the Minbar doing in Moscow? (Part 3)” – Joas Wagemakers, Jihadica: https://bit.ly/dBWYva
“Lions, SalafiMedia.Com, Oh My…” – Jarret Brachman: https://bit.ly/ckJvML
Exclusive Interview with Abū Talḥah al-Amrīkī of Revolution Muslim – The al-Maktabah Blog: https://bit.ly/9DyYAe
“Democracy on Hold in Yemen” – Ginny Hill, Arab Reform Bulletin: https://bit.ly/ccWz4k
Wednesday July 14:
“Is al-Qaeda Racist?” – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, LWJ’s Threat Matrix Blog: https://bit.ly/9J1Xgx
Interview with the wife of Abu Mus’ab al-Suri: https://bit.ly/ccmxCh
“Al Shabaab’s First International Strike: Analysis of the July 11 Uganda Bombings” – Chris Harnisch, Critical Threats Project: https://bit.ly/agnurS
“Why We Should Care About Hizb ut-Tahrir in the United States” – Madeleine Gruen, Investigative Project on Terrorism: https://bit.ly/apieB5
“Al Shabaab’s Grim Milestone In Uganda” Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, FOX News: https://bit.ly/av5up7
Thursday July 15:
New issue of CTC Sentinel released: https://bit.ly/b8yLPF
Friday July 16:
This week in the Legal War on Terror – 7/10-7/16 – Andrew Lebovich, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/cq3RNC