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Think Tank Essay Gives Chilling Narration of Origins and Rise of IS's Supreme Commander
September 04, 2015
A newly released essay on the biography of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the ruler of the Islamic State ("IS"), is a chilling narrative window into the totalitarian worldview, brutal alliance-making, and lethal military approach of the self-styled caliph's successful strategy for building a global Islamist caliphate centered in Iraq and Syria.
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Islamic State's Totalitarianism on Display in Social Media Posts on Chemical Weapons and Candy
September 04, 2015
The Islamic State's ("IS") online propaganda machine reflects the totalitarian ideology and practices of the group's approach to building a transnational sharia caliphate, with recent social media proclamations running the surreal gamut from justification (and admissions) of the use of chemical weapons in the war in Syria to instructions on candies permissible according to Islamic law.
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IS Uses Economic Persecution to Expand Caliphate
September 04, 2015
On-the-ground reports from Iraq and Syria detail how Islamic State ("IS") militants are using economic persecution, including dual price structures and access to basic foodstuffs and jobs, as a population-control mechanism, a wealth-extraction policy, and a coercive recruitment tool to expand the resources and territory of their Islamic caliphate.
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Iran Nuke Deal Lays Bare Saudi Sponsorship of Global Islamist Extremism
September 02, 2015
The policy debates over the proposed Iranian nuclear deal, whose opponents cite as a major rationale Tehran's support for Shiite Islamist violence, have also shown that the most committed financier and ideological sponsor of globalized Islamist radicalism and terror, in the name of orthodox Sunni belief, is the Wahhabi regime in Saudi Arabia.
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Militant Islamists Strike African Union Peacekeepers in Somalia
September 02, 2015
In their ongoing guerrilla war to spread sharia rule throughout Somalia and beyond, to all of East Africa, militants from al-Shabaab struck an African Union ("AU") peacekeeping base in Southern Somalia and forced a tactical retreat by the peacekeepers.
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