by Marisa UrgoShaalan | Apr 8, 2013 | Monitor
More thoughtful analyts know that militant Islamic momvements existed long before September 11th. I make it an effort to collect books on political Islam, Islamism, jihad-centered groups, etc that predate 2001. This, in order to view radical movements without the...
by Marisa UrgoShaalan | Jan 20, 2013 | Monitor
As I blogged yesterday, here is the 2012 list of AQIM-related events in Illizi province. My news sources didn't have reports for June or July, and so the set is incomplete. Still, I think it shows a qualitiative change in the militant activity in Illizi between...
by Marisa UrgoShaalan | Jan 19, 2013 | Monitor
The border region around En Amenas has been the scene of both criminal and AQIM-related activity for quite some time. In my day job, I call this activity microinstability: very select regions or localities in a country that experience extended periods of persistent...
by Marisa UrgoShaalan | Dec 23, 2012 | Monitor
In October, Marianne, a French weekly, reported on the existence of two training camps in Tunisia and little government interest in addressing the issue. The Tunisian government denied the report. I found a translation of the original article, excerpted below....
by Marisa UrgoShaalan | Aug 23, 2012 | Monitor
In April 2002, the FBI warned banks in northeastern states of a “physical attack”: "The United States government has received unsubstantiated information that unspecified terrorists are considering physical attacks against US financial institutions in the...
