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@rcallimachi

Correspondent for The New York Times, covering ISIS. NBC contributor. Previously, seven years in West Africa. Ex-AP bureau chief. Ex-refugee.

New York, New York
Joined April 2009

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    1. Hello everyone, I wanted to share what I learned from the more than 15,000 pages of ISIS documents that my team and I unearthed over five different trips to Iraq. We recovered the records in 11 different cities and towns. First up, how we found them.

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    Check out the correction at the end of this article about corrections.

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    19 hours ago

    Wishful thinking has evidently become our new CT policy. Expect Yemen, Libya & Afghanistan next

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  4. If you need a break from all the profanity-laced news:

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    In 2014 and again in 2015 I gave expert testimony in terrorism trial against Said Mansour, highest-ranking salafi-jihadi leader in Denmark. Knew Bin Laden & Zawahiri. Received four years in jail. Stripped of Danish citizenship (dual nationality). Today he was expelled to Morocco.

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    21 hours ago

    Oxford Street ISIS plotter Lewis Ludlow, was in contact w/Philippines ISIS planner, was ALSO under British counter extremism program, PREVENT. I have spoken about latter, where ISIS will use such programs as cover to (attempt to) throw off Police.

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  7. The Coalition conducted 469 airstrikes against ISIS in Syria in a 2-week period last month. You know, because ISIS is defeated and all.

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  8. Jan 4

    And now the ISIS link becomes explicit: One of the suspects arrested in Morocco for the slaughter of two Scandinavian tourists was in touch with an ISIS operative, whom he had met in Switzerland. So often, attacks that officials rush to describe as inspired are anything but

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    Jan 3

    Notable case here of an Islamic State supporter in the UK who seems to have been in contact with the East Asian affiliate of the group re. planning attacks in London and terrorism financing

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    Jan 2

    If you want to understand the systematic and totalitarian aspects of ISIS, that make it different than many other groups and militias, one must look to such documents of and bureaucracy of the sort that the extremism of the 1930s also produced.

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    Jan 2

    Senior German politician argues for UN buffer zone to protect Syria’s Kurds

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    Jan 2

    With everything else that he said today, it may not get as much attention, but it still stands out that the president of the United States today said the Soviets were right to invade Afghanistan in 1979. Pretty sure that’s a first for an American leader.

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    Jan 2

    Zulfi Hoxha turns 27 this month. He’s the only American to be featured in ISIS propaganda beheading individuals. This is the story of the New Jersey native and how we unmasked him to the public with a combination of public records & strong-arming sources

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    Jan 2

    “I wrote for an avid readership who cared about local news, which meant that when I screwed up, readers would call and leave me profanity-laced voicemail messages on my office landline.” Now they just tweet at you, ⁦

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    Jan 2

    "Elizabeth Warren’s comparatively low approval ratings are a legitimate news story. But the bigger story is that Americans still judge women politicians far more harshly than their male competitors," argues :

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    31 Dec 2018

    Manchester Victoria stabbing: Eyewitness claims attacker shouted 'Allah', and said 'As long as you keep bombing other countries this sort of sh*t is going to keep happening" as he was held down

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    Jan 1

    2 examples of vehicular terrorism to begin 2019: & . Neither involved jihadists. As terrorism scholars, we must avoid narrowly-focused analysis. Terrorism is a tactic & it appears low-cost, opportunistic attacks will continue, irrespective of a particular ideology.

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    When we look at Auschwitz we see the end of the process. It's important to remember that the Holocaust actually did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed from words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanisation & escalating violence.

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    Jan 1

    As I, & other analysts, predicted towards the end of 2018, is amplifying its attack-and-retreat ops in & ; in areas considered vital for its resurgence. It will likely continue w/ this tactic and expand it in , N., S & SW Nineveh.

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