Thomas Joscelyn

@thomasjoscelyn

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

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    Sep 12

    1) Here are Afghanistan’s architects of failure: “No longer in uniform, Gens. Stanley McChrystal, David Petraeus, Joseph Dunford, John Allen, David McKiernan, Dan McNeill, and Lt. Gens. Eikenberry and David Barno, speak frankly.”

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    1) The Darul Uloom Haqqania in Akora Khattak, Pakistan is the gift that keeps on giving - to the jihad. Note that the Taliban's Minister of Justice, Maulvi Abdul Hakim Sharia, & the Minister of Hajj/Religious Affairs, Maulvi Noor Mohammad Saqib, attended.

    Taliban Spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid “also admitted that he studied at the Haqqania seminary in Nowshera in northwest Pakistan, which has also been dubbed the Taliban University or the ‘University of Jihad’ internationally.”
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    Sep 8

    Two months after 9/11 evidence connecting Mohamed Atta’s Hamburg cell with Abu Dahdah’s Madrid cell led Spain’s police to dismantle the latter. Cell members who evaded arrest started the network behind the 3/11 2004 attacks in Madrid. vía

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    Sep 12

    The Taliban's army, on parade. Been seeing a lot of these videos. Oddly enough, the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP or ISIS-K) just doesn't seem to be able to sneak a suicide bomber into one of these parades or any other Taliban event.

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  5. Sep 12

    Taliban Spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid “also admitted that he studied at the Haqqania seminary in Nowshera in northwest Pakistan, which has also been dubbed the Taliban University or the ‘University of Jihad’ internationally.”

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  6. Sep 12

    Taliban accounts shared this new photo of Hassan Akhund, the Taliban's head of state, meeting with Qatari officials. Qatar played a big role in securing the Taliban's victory and began supporting the Islamic Emirate very quickly.

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    Sep 11

    Ayman al Zawahiri promotes 'Jerusalem Will Not Be Judaized' campaign in new video -

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    Sep 11

    I learned something from today about Flight 93 that's really affecting me. The passengers had a plausible chance of making it: not just athletes to overpower the hijackers but a person with a pilot's license for small planes and an air traffic controller. 1/2

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    Sep 11

    Afghan women at a pro-Taliban protest on 9/11 wore full burkas and shouted “death to America” as they marched with Taliban fighters standing guard.

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    He has become Zawahiri The White

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  11. Sep 11

    A lot of the commentary is completely lacking the type of basic context mentioned above. These guys don't live in a vacuum. Now that he's not dead everyone can go back to pretending he isn't relevant anyway.

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  12. Sep 11

    For instance, the U.S./Afghan forces killed Husam Abd-al-Ra’uf, one of Zawahiri's oldest and closest lieutenants, in Afghanistan in Oct. 2020. Zawahiri knew there was a real risk that the U.S. was closing in on him.

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  13. Sep 11

    Keep in mind that Zawahiri is older, a doctor, and we are living in the age of COVID. He's not dumb. That's influenced his protocols. He also knows that the U.S. orchestrated a campaign to get as many AQ leaders as possible in 2019 and 2020 - more intense than usual.

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  14. Sep 11

    Despite 20 years of war in Afghanistan and a lengthy drone campaign in northern Pakistan, the U.S. failed to kill or capture Ayman al-Zawahiri. Think about that.

    Ayman al-Zawahiri survived 20 years of America's war and countless bad takes. In the newly released video, he praises Hurras al-Din's Jan. 1, 2021 attack on a Russian base in Raqqa, Syria. So either this is his ghost or, you know, he didn't die last year.
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  15. Sep 11

    In addition, all of the promotional material for the video and his newly released 852-page book is captioned: "May Allah Protect Him." The introduction for the book he authored is dated April 2021.

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  16. Sep 11

    Ayman al-Zawahiri survived 20 years of America's war and countless bad takes. In the newly released video, he praises Hurras al-Din's Jan. 1, 2021 attack on a Russian base in Raqqa, Syria. So either this is his ghost or, you know, he didn't die last year.

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    Sep 10

    The final act of the U.S. war in Afghanistan was a drone strike in Kabul that killed 10 people. Our latest investigation shows how a man the military saw as an "imminent threat" and "ISIS facilitator" was actually an aid worker returning to his family:

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  18. Sep 11

    Al Qaeda's As Sahab did put out a video of Ayman al-Zawahiri. It shows he was alive after mid-Oct 2020, for all those who pushed speculation about his death at the time. But I don't think this was the intended 9/11 anniversary video. AQ media still faces outside disruptions.

    It looks to me as though there was some, ahem, outside interference with the distribution of As Sahab's 9/11 video.
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  19. Sep 11

    It looks to me as though there was some, ahem, outside interference with the distribution of As Sahab's 9/11 video.

    Al Qaeda accounts are also teasing a forthcoming video.
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  20. Sep 11

    Meanwhile, many in Washington and the U.S. establishment bend over backwards to make excuses for the Taliban.

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