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The Toulouse Gunman: A Portrait of French Islamist Muhammad Merah
February 27, 2013
Muhammad Merah, a 23-year-old Frenchman of Muslim faith, killed seven innocent victims and severely wounded another one in March 2012. The murder spree shocked France. The perpetrator left them bewildered. Those who knew...
Murder in Paris: Parsing the Murder of Female PKK Leader Sakine Cansiz
January 31, 2013
Sakine Cansiz, Fidan Dogan and Leyla Soylemez, three female members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (Parti Karkerani Kurdistan – PKK) were murdered in Paris on the night of January 9 (The Kurdistan Tribune, January 10). The three...
Missionary at Home, Jihadist Abroad: A Profile of Tunisia’s Abu Ayyad the Amir of Ansar al-Shari‘ah
April 30, 2012
A month ago, thousands of Salafis from various organizations demonstrated in downtown Tunis in support of the Qur‘an. Tens of individuals among them also brazenly climbed the famous clock tower and waved the black flag of Islam....
Post-Mortem Analysis: A Brief Profile of North Caucasian Militant Commander Biaslan Gochiyaev
January 31, 2012
An ethnic Karachay, Biaslan Gochiyaev was born in the city of Cherkessk, Karachay-Cherkessia in 1984. Some sources allege that he was a relative of Achemez Gochiyaev [1]. The latter was put on the international wanted list for...
A Profile of Shaykh Abdulcaadir Mumin: Al-Shabaab’s Leading Theological Guide
November 30, 2011
The appearance of Shaykh Abdulcaadir Mumin, alongside al-Shabaab’s senior leadership, in May 2011 at the group’s official press conference acknowledging Osama bin Laden’s death was something of a coming out for Mumin. Largely...
Nedžad Balkan: The Face of Southeastern Europe’s Newest Radical Threat
January 31, 2011
A Vienna-born Serbian Muslim named Nedžad Balkan (a.k.a. Ebu Muhammed) is believed to have been behind the most recent terror attack in the central Bosnian town of Bugojno and his connection to Bosnia and Herzegovina signals the...
Germany’s Imam Mamoun Darkazanli: Al-Qaeda's Alleged Financier and Logistician
August 27, 2010
Background Police in Hamburg shut down the notorious al-Quds mosque, renamed the Taiba mosque in 2008, led by German-Syrian national and voluntary imam Mamoun Darkazanli. Darkazanli (a.k.a. Abu Ilyas al-Suri) has been a...
Muhammad Porca: The Man Behind Bosnia’s Wahhabi Movement
July 30, 2010
Over the course of the past three years, Bosnia-Herzegovina has seen the organizational rise of the radical Wahhabi movement, which is now at its strongest point since the war. Strings are being pulled and recruitment is being...
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