by Charles Cameron | Feb 13, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — it’s so awkward when the top jihadist scholar in your own lineage doesn’t like your caliphate or your behavior! ] . Maqdisi on Roya TV Jordan via MEMRI ** In the Foreword to issue 7 of the IS magazine Dabiq, we find mention of...
by Charles Cameron | Oct 24, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — we’ve ignored the apocalyptic aspect of Khorasan for years, now we’re admitting it, but still overlooking the second prong ] . ** Introducing the first English language issue of Ihya-e-Khilafat — which is in effect a new...
by Charles Cameron | Feb 13, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — in which the “second shoe” of Islamist eschatology will land on India ] . . Bill Roggio, over in Long Wars Journal a day or two ago, posted an article titled Pakistani jihadists form Ahrar-ul-Hind, vow to continue attacks. In...
by Charles Cameron | Jul 30, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a quick round up of prison breaks in Iraq, Libya and NW Pakistan ] . Mourners pray at the coffin of a victim killed during an attack on a prison in Taji, during a funeral at the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of...
by Charles Cameron | Apr 26, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — dying more than once in hadith, in press reports, in Rumi and John of the Cross ] . The American mujahid in Somalia, Omar Hammami [see his Wikipedia bio], who has been tweeting back and forth with various “U.S. national security...
