By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 July 2023
The Death of Al-Qaeda’s Leader Ayman al-Zawahiri: One Year On
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Tag Archives: Abdul Munim al-Badawi
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi: Bringing the Islamic State to Saddam’s Iraq and Joining Al-Qaeda
Afghanistan, China, and the Memory of Fallujah: The Propaganda Focus of the Islamic State
Islamic State Announces That Caliph Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi Is Dead
Islamic State Spokesman Counters “Accusations” Against the Group and Explains its Purpose in Syria
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 September 2022
The ‘Strategic Plan’ of the Islamic State
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 August 2022
The First “Interview” with the Islamic State’s War Minister (2008)
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 April 2021
The Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) released a forty-five-minute media product, “The First Audio Interview with Shaykh Abu Hamza al-Muhajir”, on 24 October 2008. A translated transcript of the interview is reproduced below, with some interesting and important sections highlighted in bold.
The First Speech of Abu Hamza al-Muhajir
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 15 March 2021
Destruction at the Sadeer Hotel in Baghdad, 9 March 2005
The Islamic State movement, then-known as Al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia (AQM), used a suicide truck bomb to blow up the Sadeer Hotel, where many foreign contractors were staying, and the next-door Agriculture Ministry, on 9 March 2005, murdering three people and wounding forty, thirty of them Americans. Reporting at the time noted that “insurgents wearing police uniforms first shot to death a guard at the Agriculture Ministry’s gate, allowing the truck to enter a compound the ministry shares with the adjacent Sadeer hotel”, and these details were confirmed in a two-minute audio message released later in the day by Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, the veteran Egyptian jihadist who would take over AQM when its founder was killed in 2006.[1] A transcript of the brief speech is reproduced below. Continue reading
Inducement and Terror: How the Islamic State Deals With Sunni Social Leaders
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 14 March 2021
Abdul Munim al-Badawi (Abu Hamza al-Muhajir), the then-leader of Al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia (AQM), released his fourth audio statement on 28 September 2006. The speech was entitled, “Come to a Just Word” (تعالوا إلى كلمة سواء); an English transcript was released by the jihadists and is reproduced below. Continue reading
The Second Cabinet of the Islamic State
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 5 March 2021
The Islamic State (IS) movement announced its second “cabinet” on 21 September 2009. The “State” had been announced in October 2006, and the first cabinet had been “appointed” in April 2007.
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