Volume 2 Issue 8

Articles from Volume 2 Issue 8

Boko Haram’s Radical Ideologue: An In-Depth Look At Northern Nigeria’s Abu Shekau

08.31.2011 Jacob Zenn

Imam Abu Muhammad Abubakar bin Muhammad Shekau (a.k.a. Abu Shekau) has made clear that he is the sole leader of the northern Nigeria-based Islamist movement...

Publication Militant Leadership Monitor Africa

A Threat to the Khyber Pass: An Extended Portrait of Mangal Bagh Afridi

08.31.2011 Syed Adnan Ali Shah Bukhari

Coming from obscurity, Mangal Bagh Afridi rose to power and notoriety by controlling Lashkar-e-Islam (LI- the Army of Islam), the biggest and most influential militant group...

Publication Militant Leadership Monitor Afghanistan

Jihad in Bangladesh: Profiling Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami’s Maulana Shaykh Farid

08.31.2011 Animesh Roul

Bangladesh’s Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) forces, the country’s elite anti-terror police, achieved a much awaited breakthrough barely within a week’s time in late April this...

Publication Militant Leadership Monitor Southeast Asia

Still at Large Ten Years After 9/11: Said Bahaji, Mohammed Atta’s Right Hand Man

08.31.2011 Derek Henry Flood

Background On the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the United States, Said Bahaji, one of two known members of the Hamburg cell, remains...

Publication Militant Leadership Monitor

August 2011 Briefs

08.31.2011

PAKISTANIS DOUBT LIBYAN AL-QAEDA LEADER KILLED After the United States announced the death of Attiyah Abd al-Rehman - the Libyan national Washington describes as al-Qaeda’s...

Publication Militant Leadership Monitor