Militant Leadership Monitor – January 2019

The January 2019 issue of the Militant Leadership Monitor features a brief on Zakir Musa, the leader of the Kashmir-based, al-Qaeda affiliate Ansar Ghazwa tul Hind; an assessment of the Sunni, Salafist, Lebanese ally of Hezbollah, Ahmad Abd al-Karim al-Saadi; an analysis of the recently captured wali of Islamic State, Jamal al-Mashhadani, and what his arrest tells us of the IS organization; a profile of the powerful Libyan militia leader Salah Badi; and a look into the Chadian rebel leader, Dr. Abakar Tollimi.