Article of the Week – 7/24-7/30

Sunday July 25:
“Stop Wahhabi Indoctrination of Syrian Youth” – Elie Elhadj, Syria Comment: https://bit.ly/a6V7aq
Monday July 26:
“Al-Qaida: severing the heads will not necessarily cut the lifeline” – Omar Ashour, FREE Rad!cals Blog: https://bit.ly/aKCc4Z
“Iranian Re-Revolution- How the Green Movement Is Repeating Iranian History” – Michael Singh, Foreign Affairs: https://bit.ly/aB1V0Q
“The Boston Cluster and Extended Connections: Case Study on Homegrown Radicalization” – Madeleine Gruen, NEFA Foundation: https://bit.ly/dlMB3m
“The Wiki leak is more and less important than you think” – Joshua Foust, PBS’s Need to Know: https://to.pbs.org/bI3spv
“The Assange Leaks- What’s new about the WikiLeaks data? – Joshua Foust, Columbia Journalism Review: https://bit.ly/dqAZkO
Tuesday July 27:
“Bury the Graveyard- If you want to figure out a way forward for Afghanistan, fake history is not the place to start” – Christian Caryl, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/ae7Gdm
“WikiLeaks Point to Iran-Al Qaeda Ties” – Thomas Joscelyn, Weekly Standard: https://bit.ly/bhePp4
“Getting Lost in the Fog of WikiLeaks” – Andrew Exum, New York Times: https://nyti.ms/9I3kP5
“A Quickie-Leak On Obama’s War” – Mosharraf Zaidi, The News: https://bit.ly/d73B1q
“Awlaki’s U.S. Sermons Foreshadow Role as Terrorist Mentor” – Investigative Project on Terrorism: https://bit.ly/d0agIu
“Somaliland: A democratic beacon of hope in a dangerous part of the world” – Chris Harnisch, The Daily Caller: https://bit.ly/c5Qf05
“Nothing New about Homegrown Terrorism” – Joshua L. Dratel, The CenterLine Blog: https://bit.ly/ddajRv
“The New Islamophobia” – Adam Serwer, The American Prospect: https://bit.ly/cIIoxw
“‘Rhetoric and Reality,’ and our understanding of the rule of law” – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, LWJ’s Threat Matrix Blog: https://bit.ly/a6rloz
Wednesday July 28:
“Somaliland and the March of Freedom” – Ambassador Richard S. Williamson, The American: https://bit.ly/csHL6q
“Afghanistan Needs Local Politics, not Local Militias” – Joshua Foust and Paul Meinshausen, World Politics Review: https://bit.ly/bZkBvu
“What I Saw at Moba Khan- The military reports highlighted by WikiLeaks don’t provide a full picture of the war” – Noah Shachtman, Wall Street Journal: https://bit.ly/bR3nxZ
“Islam in Europe now has strong local leadership” – Rasha Elass, The National: https://bit.ly/d3Qelf
“New Zawahiri tape eulogizes Mustafa Abu al Yazid” – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, LWJ’s Threat Matrix Blog: https://bit.ly/deCkks
“What Does “Reform” Mean in Saudi Arabia?” – Neil Partrick, Arab Reform Bulletin: https://bit.ly/a8zllb
Thursday July 29:
“Understanding Islamic Finance” – Adam Serwer interview with Frank Vogel at The American Prospect: https://bit.ly/cGnHtH
“Iranian Influence in Afghanistan: Imam Khomeini Relief Committee” – Ali Alfoneh and Ahmad Majidyar, AEI’s Middle East Outlook: https://bit.ly/bXyRDt
“My Pen Pal, the Jihadist” – Jarret Brachman, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/bK3173
“Al-Zawahiri Releases New Message with Focus on the Levant and Iraq” – Murad Batal al-Shishani, Terrorism Monitor: https://bit.ly/btvLF7
“Lashkar-e-Taiba’s Growing International Focus and Its Links with al-Qaeda” – Peter Chalk, Terrorism Monitor: https://bit.ly/d0eCcD
“A Lesson on Islamic Law for Newt Gingrich” – Aaron Y. Zelin, al-Maktabah Blog: https://bit.ly/9XAoye
Friday July 30:
“The Legal War on Terror for the week of 7/23-7/29” – Andrew Lebovich, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/b3YXoE
“Using the Qur’an to Justify Terrorist Violence: Analysing Selective Application of the Qur’an in English-Language Militant Islamist Discourse” – Donald Holbrook, Perspectives on Terrorism: https://bit.ly/aXYEEh
“‘Oil-Qaeda’: Jihadist Threats to the Energy Sector” – Tim Pippard, Perspectives on Terrorism: https://bit.ly/bDQd7g
“Veteran of Anti-Russian Wars named as Head of Dagestan’s Sharia Jamaat” – Mairbek Vatchagaev, North Caucasus Analysis: https://bit.ly/anKWve
“Caucasus Emirate Leader Chooses a Successor” – Mairbek Vatchagaev, North Caucasus Analysis: https://bit.ly/am7vDZ
“A Dead Posh Mauritanian Jihadi” – Nasser Weddady, Dekhnstan Blog: https://bit.ly/b0ulzX
“Islamists Grow Strong in Russian Republic” – Matthias Schepp, Der Spiegel: https://bit.ly/dvaFbh
“Gingrich Embraces A Clash Of Civilizations” – Adam Serwer, The American Prospect: https://bit.ly/dneBRV