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Thinking Like a Jihadist: Iraq’s Jordanian Connection
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World Policy Journal (2006) 23 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 March 2006
...Nir Rosen Copyright © 2006 World Policy Institute 2006 N ir Rosen, a freelance journalist, is the author of In the Belly of the Green Bird: The Triumph of the Martyrs in
Iraq (The Free Press, forthcoming).
Thinking Like a Jihadist
Iraq’s Jordanian Connection...
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Mali’s Nomads: Bulwarks Against Jihad
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (3): 65–74.
Published: 01 September 2014
..., development organizations must help them, otherwise how can they go back to their earlier lives?” But there are some signs of hope. Nomads are increasingly interacting with the army to help track down jihadists, and there is a growing recognition that development in traditionally nomadic areas...
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Choosing Jihad
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (4): 70–76.
Published: 01 December 2014
... in shock. Nobody knows what to do. A week later, sitting in the dark recesses of a Tunis café, Walid’s father, Mohamed, is still angry. He insists on displaying the phone pictures he took of the Salafists he claims recruited Walid to the jihadist cause. “They have taken over,” he declares. “After...
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Syria: The Real Stakes
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (3): 77–83.
Published: 01 September 2015
... at all desperate—rather serene and a perfect master of his thoughts. His supposedly moderate opponents in exile, supported at arm’s length by the West, cannot conceal their growing weakness on the ground and their endemic divisions. Faced with this stewpot of mediocrity, the jihadists of the Islamic...
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Don’t Look Now: Can Norway reckon with the reality of right-wing extremists
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 34–40.
Published: 01 June 2018
... conducted with himself; chilling instructions for would-be followers and fellow terrorists; and vast excerpts of the more or less coherent musings of his favorite counter-jihadist writers. The Anders Behring Breivik in these public postings was a proverbial “man without qualities,” a child of our time...
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Remember Afghanistan?: A Glass Half Full, on the Titanic
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World Policy Journal (2006) 23 (1): 17–24.
Published: 01 March 2006
... and from Tehran to Islamabad, and would pro
nodded and thanked the Americans for their vide jihadists with a highly symbolic second
generosity. Only later did the interpreter victory over a superpower.
recount that the elder had found even the The story need not have unfolded this
officer’s...
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Dancing Girls of the Swat Valley
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (3): 73–81.
Published: 01 September 2011
... little opposition from state authorities, Fazlullah stepped up his campaign against the traditional forms of recreation and entertainment in Swat. At the same time, his own production facility, known as “Al-Fateh Studio,” now with a virtual monopoly on production, began turning out jihadist CDs...
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Deadly Interactions
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (4): 83–91.
Published: 01 December 2015
... (PKK) and the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), and so little flows from Turkey to extreme jihadist groups here. The population of Şanlıurfa, Gaziantep, Kilis, and Hatay is a blend of Kurdish and Arabic elements with local Turkish populations inherited from when the Ottoman Empire ruled...
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Killing for Airtime: How Boko Haram’s Abubakar Shekau manipulates media
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 58–62.
Published: 01 June 2018
... and Boko Haram. Among the second batch was Naomi Adamu, who was 24 at the time of the abduction, one of the oldest in her class. A few months into her captivity, she and her classmate, 20-year-old Sarah Samuel, began chronicling their experiences in exercise books given to them by the jihadists for Quran...
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Morocco: In the Kingdom of Illusions
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (3): 101–112.
Published: 01 September 2011
... jihadist bombing on April 28 in the heart of Marrakesh’s tourist center. With this backdrop, a desire for radical change was developed deep within Moroccan opinion—at once fascinated by these forces and fearful as well. The king understood that he needed to make changes in appearance in order to change...
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Pakistan: With Friends Like These…
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (3): 82–90.
Published: 01 September 2011
... and Bush naively pressed Pakistan to help bring bin Laden to justice after al-Qaida bombed two American embassies in Africa in 1998 and the destroyer USS Cole in the Port of Aden in Yemen in 2000. At the time, the ISI was cooperating with bin Laden to train thousands of international jihadists...
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Faith and Hope: A Conversation with Ziauddin Sardar
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (1): 53–61.
Published: 01 March 2015
... and the alienated youth who may join jihadist movements. All that’s part of our “unthought,” and that’s what we need to do—move from the extended present and the familiar futures to the unthought arena. And start thinking about how are we going to cope with some of these complex problems that we are going to face...
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Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (4): 108–118.
Published: 01 December 2015
... in the Turkish capital of Ankara and large-scale trafficking across the Turkish-Syrian border by jihadists from across the world. In North Africa, fighters loyal to the Islamic State or various offshoots of al-Qaida and other jihadist splinter groups have turned Libya into an all but failed state...
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The Perfect Debacle
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World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (3): 101–103.
Published: 01 September 2004
... Iraqi Freedom, the most worrying
is the war’s unbidden gainer: Iran. With its 180 million people and its all-but-open border
with Iraq, Iran is now the region’s likely major power. The spread of jihadist turbulence
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Partnering Up: How to Work with Religious Leaders to Counter Violent Extremism
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 73–79.
Published: 01 December 2016
... counts, the campaign was a failure. In 2014, Rita Katz, the director of the SITE Intelligence Group, explained in TIME magazine: “Had the people behind ‘Think Again, Turn Away’ understood the jihadists’ mindsets and reasons for their behaviors, they would have known that their project of counter...
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Brothers in Arms: Why Russian Ultranationalists Confronted Their Own Government on the Battlefields of Ukraine
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 91–98.
Published: 01 June 2017
... on any other political force in Russia,” except the Islamists of the banned Central Asian Hizb ut-Tahrir group. Under pressure, Russian ultranationalists have continued taking sides. For those who oppose the Kremlin, Ukraine occupies a place like the one once held by Syria in the jihadist imagination...
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Three Faces of Fascism
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World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (3): 95–100.
Published: 01 September 2004
... in Afghanistan and other
Properly understood, after all, fascism is jihadist endeavors. And, of course, in places
a developmental disease, a political illness like Afghanistan and Iraq the lack of or
that strikes only certain types of victims at der— and the prevalence of warlords and
certain times...
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Cameroon: Africa’s Pivot
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (2): 113–119.
Published: 01 June 2015
... more than five years ago, Boko Haram has extended its operational area from northern Nigeria to include the entire Lake Chad basin. The operations of this jihadist armed group, with an announced aim of creating a new caliphate, now cover Borno state in Nigeria and the Extreme North province of Cameroon...
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The Dark Net: Policing the Internet’s Underworld
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (4): 75–82.
Published: 01 December 2015
... are not lost on terrorist groups, who use the Dark Net for propaganda websites for their supporters, such as the jihadist sites that show beheadings and other atrocities and provide guides to bomb making and counter surveillance techniques. The most notorious of the many online marketplaces was Silk Road...
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The Hidden Roots of Wahhabism in British India
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World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (2): 87–93.
Published: 01 June 2005
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belled and every Hindustani jihadist found tember he was knifed to death in his bunga
in the Vale was dragged from his prayers low by a tribesman from Swat. Nevertheless,
and put to the sword. Syed Ahmad and his the raid forced the Hindustanis to put off
companions survived the massacre and fled...
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