by Charles Cameron | Feb 6, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a bullet train of thought re Daesh from the New Yorker ] . Kenji Goto, friend of Syrians ** George Packer, in Why ISIS Murdered Kenji Goto a couple of days ago, connects a longer distance between ideas faster than the bullet train from...
by Charles Cameron | Jul 10, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — as Karl Sharro notes, the Guardian piece “says it all” ] . British jihadis bought 'Islam for Dummies' and 'Koran for dummies' before heading off to Syria. Says it all: http://t.co/sJ1Dp7sNEj — Karl Sharro...
by Nico Prucha | Aug 20, 2013 | Monitor
In this part of our series for Jihadica on the Jihadi Twitter phenomenon, Ali Fisher and Nico Prucha take a closer look at 66 Twitter accounts recommended by a Jihadi online forum user. To be clear, we are analyzing these accounts that are defined in this posting as...
by Nico Prucha | May 13, 2013 | Monitor
For the second installment of our Jihadi Twitter Activism series Ali Fisher and Nico Prucha explore data collected from Twitter related to the Syrian AQ branch Jabhat al-Nusra. This post identifies key ‘influence multipliers’ for Jabhat al-Nusra’s strategic...
by Charles Cameron | Jan 31, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — Hegghammer on testing and trusting as precursors to AQ recuitment ] . I’ve been having trouble finding any of the anasheed Ibn Siqilli was posting on his site, many of which have been taken down — but this one, found in a...
