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2021-03-07 Terror Networks
Saif al-`Adl, an Egyptian charter al-Qa`ida member who could soon become the group’s third emir, and more
Every so often we take a look at what West Point’s monthly terrorism magazine has to say.
[CTC Sentinal] February 2021 Issue, From the Editor

In this month’s feature article, Ali Soufan provides a comprehensive profile of Saif al-`Adl, an Egyptian charter al-Qa`ida member who could soon become the group’s third emir. Soufan writes that "with the confirmed deaths of Hamza bin Ladin and Abu Muhammad al-Masri, as well as the reported (but as yet unconfirmed) demise of al-Qa`ida’s second emir, Ayman al-Zawahiri
...Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area assuming he's not dead like Mullah Omar. He lost major face when he ordered the nascent Islamic State to cease and desist and merge with the orthodox al-Qaeda spring, al-Nusra...
, the likely next in line to inherit the leadership is ... Saif al-`Adl. Like the late Abu Muhammad, Saif lives in Iran

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...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and is apparently restricted from leaving the country. Little is known about his current movements or activities. Nevertheless, Saif’s revered status within the movement, as well as his deep experience as a military, intelligence, and security leader and a terrorist planner, make him a potentially dangerous emir."

In this month’s feature analysis, Matthew Kriner and Jon Lewis assess that the Boogaloo movement "has quickly evolved into a significant domestic violent mostly peaceful turban threat" with "an accelerationist faction within Boogaloo" seeking to "instigate decentralized insurrectionary violence." They write that the movement "is best conceptualized as a decentralized, anti-authority movement composed of a diverse range of actors," including white supremacists, neo-Nazi
...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously and purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both....
s, militia movement members, accelerationists, and ultra-libertarians, who are mobilized in part by the "belief that they are following in the footsteps of the United States’ founders and participating in a revolution against tyranny."

Johannes Saal and Felix Lippe provide a case study of the November 2020 Vienna terrorist attack. They write that "the Vienna attacker, Kujtim Fejzulai, grew up in the city he attacked and had longstanding connections within the jihadi turban milieu in Austria as well as jihadi contacts in other European countries and further afield. His two failed attempt
...Curses! Foiled again!...
s to join the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
overseas and the failure of efforts to deradicalize him after he was convicted for seeking to join the group underline the threat that can be posed by failed jihadi travelers and terrorist convicts after their release, as well as the difficulties in rehabilitating jihadi prisoners."

Hassan Abbas writes that "even as Pakistain has made progress in reducing the threat from terrorist sanctuaries in the Pakistain-Afghanistan tribal areas, an increased crime-terror nexus in urban centers and a new terrorist recruitment drive by Islamic State Khorasan province, or ISK, in Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
has raised alarms. Tehrik-e-Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
Pakistain (TTP) is trying to stage a comeback, and sectarianism is also rising, creating a congenial environment for terrorist and turban organizations, including some Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
-focused groups that have evaded counterterrorism scrutiny."

Paul Cruickshank, Editor in Chief

While having the greatest respect for the analysts at West Point with regard to ISIS, Al Qaeda, and international jihadi terrorism in general, I am concerned that the CTC group has chosen to don conventional wisdom blinders with regard to the far left domestic groups that have been tormenting various Democrat-run cities around the country. While they did devote an entire section to domestic terrorism in the January 2021 Terrorism and Counterterrorism Challenges for the Biden Administration report, the writers concurred with last fall’s Homeland Security homeland threat assessment, dismissing —at length — systemic and sustained Antifa/BLM Black Bloc violence as “mostly disorganized and uncoordinated violence that has occurred over the past months in Portland, Seattle, Chicago, New York, and other cities”, when while using only open source information we here at Rantburg concluded the complete opposite, filing Black Bloc actions and plans as Fifth Column and War on Terror or WoT Background/Politics because its actions so clearly follow domestic insurrection patterns. Instead, the CTC is exercised by the threat posed by white supremacist groups like the boogaloo bois and the January 6th invasion of the Capitol building.
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