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Anwar al-Awlaki and his British Friends

A shortened version of this article has been published on Comment is Free **** It is now clear US Army Major Nidal Hasan had a series of connections to the Islamist cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki . For those of us who have studied, with increasing concern, the extreme teachings of this cleric, this tragedy is the inevitable consequence [...]
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al-Qaeda would use Pakistani nuclear weapons – surprised?

The leader of al-Qaeda (AQ) in Afghanistan, Abu al-Yazid (aka Abu Saeed al-Misri – the Egyptian), has said they would use Pakistan’s nuclear weapons to fight against the ‘Serpent’ United States of America. God willing, the nuclear weapons will not fall into the hands of the Americans and the mujahideen would take them and use them [...]
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Saudi Arabia’s double standards

Sadiq Khan, Minister of Cohesion, visited Saudi Arabia last week and became the first western minister to make the pilgramage to Mecca. He also visited Medina, where he had this to say about the University of Medina: “I was encouraged by the university’s obvious commitment to ensure that the students have sufficient expertise and knowledge to [...]
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Jihadi Recruitment for Dummies

Since its ‘publication’ last year, users have been able to download a PDF called A Course in the Art of Recruitment, by the suitably named Abu-Amr al-Qaidi (al-Qaidi means ‘of al-Qaeda’), after it was made available on various jihadi websites. The 51-page Arabic manual has been described by Brian Fishman and Abdullah Warius in the CTC [...]
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Al-Qa’ida Cool

Jamie Bartlett, leader of Demos’s violent radicalism project “From Threat To Opportunity”, has a piece in Prospect Magazine this month. In it he makes some interesting observations
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