Posted on Thu, September 10, 2015 at 22:15 pm CEST
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How the Jihadi Civil War Began

How the jihadi civil war began that is now raging in Syria and Iraq… Read more

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Global Islam • Global Jihad • Iraq • Islamic State • Jabhat al-Nusra • Religion • Sunni-Shia Conflict • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Sat, January 24, 2015 at 20:00 pm CET
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The Historical Roots and Stages in the Development of ISIS

The roots and development of ISIS… Continue reading

Topics: Global Islam • Global Jihad • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Iraq • Islamic State • Islamic Terrorism • Syria 
Posted on Thu, October 17, 2013 at 21:24 pm CEST
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Ayman al-Zawahiri, Leader of Al-Qaeda, Urges Jihadist Rebels in Syria to Unite and Establish an Islamic Caliphate

Establishing an Islamic country in Syria opens the way to the restoration of the Islamic Caliphate and the liberation of Jerusalem… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Global Jihad • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Jabhat al-Nusra • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Mon, October 14, 2013 at 19:53 pm CEST
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Explaining Everything in Washington in 600 Words

Official Washington gets the Islamist ideology wrong… Continue reading

Topics: Obamaism • Politics • U.S. Middle East Policy • United States of America 
Posted on Sun, October 13, 2013 at 14:13 pm CEST
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If Libya’s U.S.-Client Prime Minister Can be Kidnapped by Al-Qaeda, Why Should Anyone Trust America?

Twelve years after the September 11 attacks, al-Qaeda still isn’t defeated… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Arab Spring • Libya • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Thu, October 10, 2013 at 00:10 am CEST
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The Al-Nusra Front’s Battle for Hearts and Minds

Al-Nusra Front uses video sharing websites, social media and blogs as a means of disseminating information on its operations, messages and views to broad target audiences in the Muslim world… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Jabhat al-Nusra • Jihadism • Religion • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Thu, October 10, 2013 at 00:10 am CEST
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Filling the Governmental Vacuum by the Al-Nusra Front and Other Jihadist Organizations

Al-Nusra Front and other jihadist organizations place considerable importance on establishing a governmental alternative in the so-called “liberated territories”… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Jabhat al-Nusra • Jihadism • Religion • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Thu, October 10, 2013 at 00:09 am CEST
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Description of the Al-Nusra Front’s Military Activity

The Al-Nusra Front combines guerilla warfare against the Assad regime, the Syrian army and security apparatuses with indiscriminate acts of terrorism against civilians… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Jabhat al-Nusra • Jihadism • Religion • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Thu, October 10, 2013 at 00:09 am CEST
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The Human Composition of the Al-Nusra Front

The Al-Nusra Front consists of a core group of Iraqi Al-Qaeda and Syrian Salafist-jihadi operatives joined by thousands of volunteers from the Arab/Muslim world and the West… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Jabhat al-Nusra • Jihadism • Religion • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Thu, October 10, 2013 at 00:08 am CEST
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The Al-Nusra Front’s Structure, Leadership and Functioning

The military frameworks of the Al-Nusra Front may in the long run create jihadist core networks in other countries… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Jabhat al-Nusra • Jihadism • Religion • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Thu, October 10, 2013 at 00:08 am CEST
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The Al-Nusra Front’s Ideology

The Al-Nusra Front is inspired by Al-Qaeda’s ideology… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Jabhat al-Nusra • Jihadism • Religion • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Thu, October 10, 2013 at 00:07 am CEST
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The Founding of the Al-Nusra Front and its Collaboration with Other Rebel Organizations

The Syrian civil war can be viewed in the wider context of the intense upheaval that is currently gripping the Arab world… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Jabhat al-Nusra • Jihadism • Religion • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Thu, October 10, 2013 at 00:07 am CEST
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Jabhat al-Nusra, an Al-Qaeda Salafist-Jihadi network, Seeks to Establish an Islamic Caliphate in Greater Syria

The Al-Nusra Front, Al-Qaeda’s representative in Syria… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Jabhat al-Nusra • Jihadism • Religion • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Fri, October 4, 2013 at 19:33 pm CEST
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Jihadist Ritual Murder and Mutilation at the Mall

To understand the significance of Islamist mutilation they have to be analyzed in the context of Islamist honor and shame… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Shabaab • Global Jihad • Islamic Terrorism • Kenya 
Posted on Wed, October 2, 2013 at 11:22 am CEST
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The “Arab Spring” is now officially over

Al-Qaeda linked terrorism threatens Tunisia’s economy and security… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Arab Spring • Democracy • Islamic Terrorism • Jasmine Revolution • Tunisia 
Posted on Thu, September 26, 2013 at 16:01 pm CEST
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Syrian Rebels Say: We Demand Radical Islamism; U.S. Says: We Can’t Hear You!

Thirteen Syrian rebel groups demand an Islamist state in Syria… Continue reading

Topics: Sunni-Shia Conflict • Syrian Revolution • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Thu, August 29, 2013 at 21:35 pm CEST
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Writing the bin Laden Story

Reviewing the biographies of America’s late enemy number one… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Islamic Terrorism • Jihadism • War on Terrorism 
Posted on Mon, August 19, 2013 at 19:37 pm CEST
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Behind Benghazi: Muslim Brotherhood and Obama Administration

Evidence continues to mount that Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood was directly involved in the September 11, 2012 Benghazi U.S. consulate attack… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Libya • Muslim Brotherhood • Obamaism 
Posted on Thu, July 4, 2013 at 19:39 pm CEST
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Al-Qaeda’s Jihad on Anti-Morsi Egyptians

Will al-Qaeda wage a jihad to save Morsi and his Islamist agenda for Egypt… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Democracy • Egypt • Egyptian Revolution • Islamic Terrorism • Jihadism • Muslim Brotherhood • Politics 
Posted on Wed, April 17, 2013 at 12:29 pm CEST
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Some Theories on the Boston Marathon Bombing

Some thoughts on the source of the attack… Continue reading

Topics: Counter-terrorism • Islamic Terrorism • Rob Harris • Security and Defense • United States of America • War on Terrorism 
Posted on Fri, February 22, 2013 at 17:21 pm CET
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Why the CIA Director is Wrong: Rethinking al-Qaida

It’s time, a dozen years after September 11 and following Islamist coups in the Middle East, to rethink completely our view of al-Qaida… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Counter-terrorism • Muslim Brotherhood • Security and Defense • U.S. Middle East Policy • War on Terrorism 
Posted on Mon, December 10, 2012 at 23:24 pm CET
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Ayman Zawahiri and Egypt: A Trip Through Time

Around 1985, current al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri fled his homeland of Egypt, presumably never to return, he never forgot his original objective: transforming Egypt into an Islamist state that upholds and enforces the totality of Sharia law, and that works towards the resurrection of a global caliphate… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Anti-Americanism • Anti-Christianism • Anti-Israelism • Anti-Westernism • Egypt • Global Jihad • Islamic Terrorism • Religion • Salafism 
Posted on Sat, June 23, 2012 at 10:26 am CEST
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Why Should Obama Help Bring America’s Second-Worst Enemies to Power?

Here’s still another of a series of self-serving leaks from the Obama Administration. In this case, it reveals something very important about policy… Continue reading

Topics: Muslim Brotherhood • Politics • Security and Defense • Syrian Revolution • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Mon, June 11, 2012 at 16:38 pm CEST
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Is Obama Strong on National Security? Of Course Not and Here’s the Iron-Clad Case Against Him

Let me explain to you why the Obama Administration’s propaganda leak effort to prove that the president is tough on national security is nonsense… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Security and Defense • U.S. Middle East Policy • United States of America • War on Terrorism 
Posted on Tue, April 24, 2012 at 21:00 pm CEST
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Sinai Bedouin, Palestinian and al Qaeda gangs are plotting Terrorist Attacks to blow up the Egyptian-Israel Peace Accords

Their plans entail sending terrorists across the Egyptian Sinai border for attacks on Israelis to generate Israeli military incursions into Egyptian territory in hot pursuit of the perpetrators… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Israelism • Arab-Israeli Conflict • Egypt • Islamic Terrorism • Islamism • Israel • Jihadism • Palestinian Terrorism • Religion • Security and Defense