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...
by Marisa UrgoShaalan | Jul 30, 2012 | Monitor
In May 2009, Abu Abdullah Ahmed, leader of al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb’s (AQIM) then newly-established "political committee" ("Comité Médiatique" in the French release), sat down for an interview with AQIM’s media wing, al-Andalus Media. The...
by Marisa UrgoShaalan | Jul 11, 2012 | Monitor
Lessons Learned and Taught In the second edition of his autobiography – Knights Under the Banner of the Prophet – Zawahiri comes to a logical mid-point in this the first part of his narrative: September 11th. As a I noted here, Knights isn’t a linear...
by Marisa UrgoShaalan | Jul 6, 2012 | Monitor
I tweeted this last week, but I forgot to post it to the blog. Consider it a curio from a different time. It's an English-language periodical, published in 1990 through a Cairo-based Muslim Brotherhood publishing house – Ummah Press Service. The Library...
