Thomas Joscelyn

@thomasjoscelyn

Senior Fellow . Senior Editor . Picture is Tom Paine. Not a fan of self-licking ice cream cones, cliques or corruption.

New York
Joined July 2010

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  1. Also tweeted that Al Mouadan wasn't really an Islamic State leader, as he's been called. I think that is right.

  2. US Military confirmed Charaffe al Mouadan was dead 5 days after 's tweet. Well done.

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  3. One more than one occasion this year, has had the scoop on foreign fighters before everyone else.

  4. On Dec. 24 noted that "Abu Soulaymane al Faransi" was killed. That is Charaffe al Mouadan.

  5. PMF "threatened to persecute Christians celebrating Christmas in Baghdad" by &

  6. Retweeted

    Not shocking that the Popular Mobilization Force, with its Iranian backers, are pushing social change

  7. 5 were thought to be part of IS external ops arm targeting West & those same jihadis were located in Iraq & Syria:

  8. Updated my piece from yesterday with some additional details on the 10 IS jihadists killed in recent airstrikes:

  9. Al Tunisi was implicated as "mastermind" of 9/14/12 assault on US Embassy in Tunis. Part of reason his fate matters:

  10. Al Tunisi's fate has been a mystery for months. His death was never confirmed. New report saying he was hiding in Sinai not well-sourced.

  11. There were unconfirmed reports this past summer that Abu Iyadh al Tunisi had been killed in a US airstrike in Libya:

  12. Report claims Abu Iyadh al Tunisi (AQ veteran, head of Ansar al Sharia Tunisia) is alive & was hiding in Sinai:

  13. 5. So President Obama restricted spying that was probably the norm beforehand & our "allies" are probably doing the same to us, too.

  14. 4. And remember this detail too:

  15. 3. Recall that after Merkel's faux outrage concerning US spying we learned Germany was spying on US all along:

  16. 2. Does anyone seriously believe that Hollande/Merkel/other NATO leaders on "protected list" don't gather intel on US, including POTUS?

  17. 1. A question regarding this on NSA spying (or not) on world leaders: Specifically:

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  18. This note of caution on the significance of what has transpired in Ramadi is appropriate:

  19. Retweeted

    Thomas Joscelyn, on Islamic State “caliph” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s apocalyptic weekend speech |

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