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Terror Networks
Twitter Suspends Accounts Of Extremist Cleric And Al Qaeda Supporters
2016-12-29
[IBTIMES] Twitter has suspended the accounts of an holy warrior holy man and two other radical Moslem scholars believed to be associated with the terrorist outfit al Qaeda.

The accounts of Jordanian preacher and al Qaeda spiritual leader Abu Qatada
...who apparently was killed most recently in September in Kirkuk, but elsewhere several times previously, unless there's more than one by that name...
.and Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi,
...who was imprisoned in Jordan, last we heard...
another influential jihadi scholar, who is considered to be a close friend of al Qaeda leader 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 orthodx al-Qaeda spring, al-Nusra...
, and al-Siba'i
...sorry -- he doesn't seem to be in our files...
were suspended.

Qatada’s deportation in 2013 to Jordan was orchestrated by the then British Home Secretary Theresa May. Qatada, originally an asylum-seeker who had settled in the U.K., nearly two decades ago was extradited to Jordan as the latter wanted to try him on terrorism charges. However,
if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning...
 he was eventually cleared of all charges.

Cole Bunzel, scholar of jihadism at Princeton University, said that Qatada and Maqdisi, known for their attacks on Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 group (ISIS), had immense followers and estimated they had tens of thousands of supporters.
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