About
By Will McCantsJihadica is a clearinghouse for materials related to militant, transnational Sunni Islamism, commonly known as Jihadism. At the moment, much of this material is diffuse, known only to a few specialists, and inaccessible to the public and policymakers unless they pay a fee. Jihadica provides this material for free and keeps a daily record of its dissemination that can be easily searched and studied. These records are accompanied by the expert commentary of people who have the requisite language training to understand the primary source material and advanced degrees in relevant fields.
The Team
William McCants (@will_mccants), the founder and co-editor of Jihadica, directs the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World at the Brookings Institution and teaches at Johns Hopkins University. He previously served as senior adviser for countering violent extremism at the U.S. Department of State. Will has a PhD from Princeton University and is the author of Founding Gods, Inventing Nations, and The ISIS Apocalypse.
Thomas Hegghammer (@hegghammer) is a fellow at Harvard Kennedy School and a senior research fellow at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI). He has a PhD from Sciences-Po in Paris and is the author of Jihad in Saudi Arabia.
Joas Wagemakers is a lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies of Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and a research fellow at the Netherlands Institute of International Affairs Clingendael in the Hague. He has a PhD in Islam & Arabic and has published widely on Islamism, Salafism, particularly the ideological side of these phenomena. He also co-edits ZemZem, a Dutch-language journal on the Middle East, North Africa and Islam.
Vahid Brown is a former Harmony Fellow at the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, a senior instructor for the CTC’s FBI program, and now pursuing a PhD in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. He is the author of Cracks in the Foundation: Leadership Schisms in al-Qa’ida, 1989-2006. His research focuses on the history of transnational Islamist militancy, particularly in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Cole Bunzel (@colebunzel) is a PhD candidate in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. A former fellow with the Center for Arabic Study Abroad in Damascus, Syria, he has worked for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and the Department of Defense, and holds an MA from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
Alumni
Brynjar Lia is the director of terrorism research at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI). He holds a PhD from the University of Oslo. He is the author of several books on terrorism and Islamism, including Architect of Global Jihad: The Life of Al-Qaida Strategist Abu Mus`ab al-Suri.
Hanna Rogan is a research fellow at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) and a PhD candidate at the University of Oslo. She wrote a Master’s thesis on al-Qaida’s media strategy and is currently working on jihadism in North Africa.
Scott Sanford is a graduate student at George Washington University, Washington D.C. His research focus is militant movements in the Levant.
Anne Stenersen is a research fellow at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) and a PhD candidate at the University of Oslo. She is the author of the book Al-Qaida’s Quest for Weapons of Mass Destruction. Her current research focuses on the history of the Arabs in Afghanistan and Pakistan after 9/11.
Truls Tønnessen is also a research fellow at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment and a PhD candidate in History at the University of Oslo. His MA degree focused on Islamism in Egypt, while his doctoral research centers on the Iraqi insurgency.
All contributors are writing in a private capacity; the views expressed here do not represent those of their employers, their affiliate institutions, or the governments of the countries in which they live.
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How many of these phony ‘jihd’ policy papers were actually written by western imperialist covert ops? 98% of them I’d wager.
My friend, PTSD in the US Army has won adherents to our cause. Do not drive them away. Every individual can be utilized.
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I wanted to thank Mr. Mccants and company for very insightful reading on Twitter, this afternoon. I was asking questions from the perspective of someone wanting to better understand what was going on, and much of what was thrown back and forth was very informative. I appreciate it.
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Your credibility has just gone away. The commments of Will McCants about the Oslo events has disinformed the people around the world. The terrorism has no religion. I am curious if you rae going to give information about the extreemist Christian groups one day. You are just menaging the perceptions of the people on purpose.
Go back to school and learn to spell.
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Book review (short)
The Siege of Mecca
Yaroslav Trofimov
Doubleday, 2007. ISBN
9780385519250
The forgotten uprising in Islam’s holiest shrine and the birth of Al Qaeda.
two interesting sentences:
p. 96-97
“…the new paradigm that began to take hold and that would dominate Western thinking about Islam for decades, with disastrous consequences. Shiite, because of Khomeini’s appeal to this minority sect of Islam, were now deemed to be America’s, and the West’s natural enemies. Majority Sunnis – including Wahhabi zealots- were by default seen as benign, if not outright friends…”
p. 243-244 “…In a stunning cognitive failure, policy makers were so obsessed with Iran, and so wedded to the to the simplistic motion that Shiites were the West’s enemies and the Sunnis, by default, allies, that many persisted in referring to Juhayman as a Shiite. The Grand mosque affair was described as a ‘Shiite uprising in Mecca in 1979’ and the ‘Shiite assault on the sacred Kaaba’…”
In other words, Saudi Arabia, Gulf states, will be our enemies and Iran and Iraq might/may/or whatever be our friends……
Mike
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I think extremists go about it in the wrong way. You can be a radical extremist and make your message heard without harming people. The use of explosives on objects, places and etc. are only harmful when done in an area that’s populated. If you want to make your statement, do so when no one is around to get caught in the crossfire. This is a movement that I believe could easily be accepted.
The information is in volumes throughout the web. How extreme of an
Action is it going to take to make the U.S. realize where it’s gone wrong? The kind of radical action that’s going to make the U.S. realize how to make it right….
My existence is militant
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Good day! This is my comment here so I just wanted to give a quick shout out.
Thank you for the post.
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To settle for this advice makes us impotent. Very very impotent. We are discriminated. We are marginalized. It’s high time we teach the infidels a lesson or two. My mother is Christian. But she, according to the imam, is a believer. She wants me to marry an Islamist. Somebody holy and good unlike the Christians who parade their naked bodies in the beaches of Florida.
“And God gathered them in a place called Armeggadon, naked…”- Apocalypse.
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Friends in high places. They believe in Allah, believe me. They just don’t flaunt it. “Be wise as serpents and harmless as doves”….. And they hate America for all her excesses..(human rights violations in Guantanamo, entrapment, torture, racism, imperialism..etc..)
You leader was a child rapist
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They were entrapped. Believe me!
We don’t forget
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Uh haven’t written anything about the Indian Occupied Kashmir….
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Good day Sirs,
May Allah place a loving hand on your shoulders. I wish you love and peace for the New Year.
Please listen to the quiet voices of the children all around the world, for they are wiser than us. Their message is that they want all of us to take a deep breath and to step back from our hate and disrespect.
The children ask us to please embrace our differences and get to sit around a table or fire or group of camels and spread the love which is in all our hearts.
I think it has already changed for the better. We are citizens of earth, and I love you and so do we all including yourselves. I step back. Please may I love you? Please accept me into your heart.
Thank you for this mercy you have shown us. We have so much amazing work to do – ALL OF US to save our Mother Earth and all of its magnificent life forms. You started an amazing thing and it is snow-balling in all-encompassing love. Thank you for embracing us and our differences, and likewise we give you our soft warm love back – and so forth.
We are all special and have a great future TOGETHER.
The children of Earth say hello in all the different languages. Hi.
Love,
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Bin laden now alive still a long life
Bin laden was captured alive. He is not dead. Yesterday I was run over by a car. Bruises, broken hips, knees and ribs because I was one among few who knows that bin laden is still alive and tortured. I am blaming the CIA. Cowards!
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ISIS is divided between genuine ISISs and Mossad agents posing as ISIS. Purges are ongoing right now compromising genuine ISISs while Mossad ISISs are spared. How did I know? Blew in, and blew out. Banning pigeon racers is the handiwork of Mossad ISISs. What is wrong with pigeon racing. Racing pigeons are good conduits of communications! Mossad ISISs are discouraging them because they want genuine ISISs to communicate through blackberries, computers and cell phones thus making them more vulnerable to compromise by tracing radio chatter. The mother of all bombs was made possible because of traced radio chatter. Kill all ISISs who favour banning racing pigeons. They are Mossad and CIA ISISs.
ISIS stands for Israel Security Intelligence Service. It is a coded message among the Mossad ISISs. Even Al Qaeda is infiltrated by an Egyptian soldier. Egyptian army officers are suspect. They are loyal to their oaths. Once they come in from the cold, a mere recital of their army oaths causes them “to wake up from hibernation and sleeping”. We call them army sleeper agents. I know of two who appointed three from bin Laden’s personal security group. How was bin laden traced in Abbostad? Egyptian army officer. Direct from a sleeper agent inside the CIA counter-terrorism unit. Me!
Why was Egyptian army officer-second in command in Al Qaeda left to remain alive in Abbostad when bin Laden was captured? The answer was simple. So that he can get away. Kill all anti-racing pigeons in ISIS. They are Mossad and CIA.
Confirmed by Al Qaeda members who entered coffee shop 30 seconds ago. They “cannot look at us straight in the eye: ISIS Mossad. Coded message.
Brothers and sisters of Al Qaeda and ISIS. I am now in a convenient position in Canada’s spy agency. I have the capability to steal its secrets, put our brothers and sisters into top positions and destroy the whole spy agency. Allah Abu bakr!
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