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The Death of Al-Qaeda’s Leader Ayman al-Zawahiri: One Year On

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 July 2023

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This entry was posted in Al-Qaeda Terrorism, History, Jihadi Biographies and tagged 9/11 Commission, Abd al-Malek Drukdel, Abd al-Munim al-Badawi, Abd al-Rahman al-Maghrebi, Abd al-Rahman al-Qaduli, Abdallah Azzam, Abdelmalek Droukdel, Abdul Munim al-Badawi, Abdul Rahman al-Qaduli, Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam, Abdurrahman al-Qaduli, Abu al-Khayr, Abu Ali al-Anbari, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, Abu Faraj al-Libi, Abu Faraj al-Masri, Abu Hafs al-Masri, Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, Abu Khalid al-Suri, Abu Khayr al-Masri, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, Abu Musab Abd al-Wadud, Abu Musab al-Suri, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Abu Ubayda al-Panjshiri, Abu Yasser al-Masri, Abud al-Zumar, Afghanistan, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, Ahmad Mabruk, Ahmad Salama Mabruk, Al-Azhar, al-Maktab al-Khidamat, al-Masada al-Ansar, al-Qaeda, al-Qaeda al-Askariyya, al-Qaeda in Iraq, al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, al-Shabaab, Ali Amin al-Rashidi, Ansar Allah, Ansarallah, Antisemitism, Anwar al-Sadat, AQAP, AQI, AQIM, AQM, Arab League, Arab nationalism, Arab Spring, Arab-Afghans, Atiyya, Awakening, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Azza Ahmed Nuwair, Benghazi, Bosnia, Chechnya, Christopher Stevens, Cold War, Colonel Gaddafi, Communism, Dr. Fadl, East African Embassy bombings, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, EIJ, Encep Nurjaman, faith campaign, Faruq al-Suri, Faruq Hijazi, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Hambali, Harakat al-Shabab al-Mujahideen, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Hosni Mubarak, Houthis, Huthis, Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, Intelligence, Inter-Services Intelligence, Iran, Iranian Revolution, IRGC, ISI, ISIS, Islamic Group, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Islamism, Israel, Jamaat al-Islamiyya, Jamal Abd al-Nasr, Jamal al-Misrati, Jemaah Islamiyah, jihadism, Joe Biden, Khaled al-Islambuli, Khalid al-Islambouli, Kofi Annan, Lion’s Den of Supporters, Mali, Marxism, MEK, Mojahedeen-e-Khalq, Mojahedin-e-Khalq, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Muhammad Abbatay, Muhammad al-Bahaya, Muhammad al-Zawahiri, Muhammad Atef, Muhammad Saladin Zaydan, Muslim Brotherhood, Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, Mustafa al-Uzaybi, Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, nationalism, Nazism, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Palestine Liberation Organisation, pan-Arabism, PLO, Rabia al-Zawahiri, Riduan Isamuddin, Rifai Taha, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Saeed al-Masri, Sahwa, Saif al-Adl, Samir Hijazi, Saudi Arabia, Sayd al-Adl, Sayf al-Adel, Sayyed Imam al-Sharif, Sayyid Qutb, sectarianism, Services Bureau, Shah, Six-Day War, Somalia, South Vietnam, Soviet Union, Sudan, Surge, Taha Falaha, Taliban, Tamim al-Adnani, terrorism, The Blind Shaykh, U.S.S. Cole, Umar Abdurrahman, Usama bin Laden, Vietnam, weapons of mass destruction, WMD, World Trade Centre bombing, Yasin al-Suri, Yemen on July 31, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Jewish Memory and Loss

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 18 July 2023

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This entry was posted in Book Review, History and tagged Antisemitism, Batnadiv HaKarmi, Einsatzgruppen, Europe, Hebrew Bible, Holocaust, Holocaust-by-bullets, Ioudaismos, Jews, Judaism, Nazism, poems, poetry, Poland, religion, Russia, Second World War, Tanakh, The Love of Mortal Beings, Ukraine on July 18, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Did Russia Ever Start a Democratic Transition? Can It?

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 July 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Russia, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged absolute monarchy, Anglosphere, aristocracy, Atatürk, autocracy, black cash, Bolsheviks, Boris Yeltsin, Bulgaria, Captive Nations, Chechnya, Cheka, Cheka Day, Chekists, chinovnichestvo, Christianity, civil liberties, civil society, collectivisation, Communism, corruption, cyber-attacks, Czechoslovakia, dekulakisation, democracy, democratic transition, Dobrarmiya, Duma, East Germany, Ekaterina Schulmann, emancipation, espionage, Europe, far-Right terrorism, Federal Security Service, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Foreign Intelligence Service, FSB, Fundamental State Laws, Gennady Zyuganov, German Democratic Republic, Golden Horde, Homo Sovieticus, ideology, Imperialism, Joseph Stalin, Kievan Rus, liberalism, Mafia, Maria Snegovaya, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mongols, Mustafa Kemal, Narodniki, Narodniks, nationalism, Nichola II, nobility, October Manifesto, organised crime, Pereyaslav Agreement, Peter the Great, pluralism, Pyotr I, Red Army, religion, Right-wing extremism, Romania, Russia, Russian intelligentsia, Russian Orthodox Church, Russian terrorist-revolutionaries, Russian Whites, securocrats, serfdom, SIGINT, signals intelligence, siloviki, Socialist Commonwealth, Soviet Union, surveillance, SVR, Terror, terrorism, third wave of democratisation, Tsar, Turkey, Ukraine, Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Putin, Volunteer Army, Yuri Kovalchuk on July 16, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

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