#Alqaeda

I'm seeing lots of commentary on the state of #AlQaeda, 19yrs after 9/11 -- my take: - Everything has changed since 2001; we can't judge AQ in 2020 by 2001
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I was thinking again this morning about the argument to rapidly withdraw from #Afghanistan (& #Syria, #Somalia...) emanating from the Trump White House & was reminded of a conference I
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Short thread:1/ #AlQaeda-linked Thabat Media has released 9 pages of charts summarizing #jihad operations across al-Qaeda branches during 2020. Alleged total = 6,999. Data accuracy can’t be verified, but relative
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Abu Yusuf was a known, hard critic of #HTS -- its ties to #Turkey, openness to dialogue, enforcement of #Idlib's ceasefire etc.His departure from Huras al-Din (I'm told) took place
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Who is this person and how is someone so ignorant and also so confident about the MENA at the same time? Sunni dictatorships have supported Shia groups and Shia dictatorships
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/THREAD/ Pompeo is using his last days in office to hold press conferences to undermine any chance of peace & diplomacy between the US & Iran.Just as he and Trump
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Short thread.1/ Last night, #AQAP's formal wire released new lecture material by the leader of #AlQaeda in #Yemen, Khalid Batarfi. What might this signal? Probably weakness more than strength… 2/
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Preliminary insights on the targeted killing of a senior al-Qaeda figure in Iran (1/20)@INSSIsrael https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/world/middleeast/al-masri-abdullah-qaeda-dead.html (2/20)1. He was a central senior leader in al-Qaeda
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FACT: #Israel helped #AlQaeda and #ISIS in #Syria.In fact, let's do a THREAD on ISRAEL'S sponsoring of TERRORISTS in SYRIA:https://twitter.com/IAJ24I/status/1342338567478145024 Israel has been supporting both #ISIS and #AlQaeda in S
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Very, very interesting.#HTS & its leader Abu Mohammed al-Jolani have just finished hosting @FrontlinePBS's @Martin28Smith in #Idlib for 3 days.How times change -- quite a difference from 2014/15.https://twitter.com/Martin28Smith/sta
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1. Did the #BBC interview anyone from the REAL Syrian Civil Defence for their #MaydayRescue propaganda? Established in 1953, in #Syria - #WhiteHelmets stole equipment fm centers when they were
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I've seen a lot of confusion about these points relative to the US-#Taliban agreement, so let's delve into them a bit more in this THREAD. 1/n #Afghanistan https://twitter.com/AlexWardVox/status/1355198054668906498 (First, a
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1. Why is @markrutte PM of Netherlands personally preventing investigation into Netherlands Foreign Ministry funding of Labib Al Nahhas, an Ahrar Al Sham spokesperson. Educated in Birmingham, UK - was
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The intra-jihadi dynamic in #Idlib is rapidly intensifying, as #HTS is seeking to re-assert itself vis-a-vis (1) the opposition, (2) local civil society, (3) #Turkey & (4) increasingly exasperated #AlQaeda-leaning
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#Yémen (1) jusqu’à l’h je n’ai pas pu avoir une confirmation fiable concernant l’arrestation de Khaled #Batterfi émir #AQPA, ni de la part du groupe, ni de la part de
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Thread: On the 19th anniversary of 9/11, #AlQaeda is in a state of disarray... Its Syria branch was silenced in Jun by a rival force; its branch in Yemen suffered
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