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2019-11-26 Terror Networks

Next in Line to Lead al-Qa`ida: A Profile of Abu Muhammad al-Masri

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-11-26 12:06|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top
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"You're just another motherfucker we're gonna have to deal with." - blind Elijah, Red Heat(1988)

Posted by Dron66046 2019-11-26 12:55|| 2019-11-26 12:55|| Front Page Top

#2 If ~~0bama~~Holder had a brother~~son~~.

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#3 He looks like the guy sitting next to Obama on the couch in college.

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#4 If ~~Holder~~ 0bama and the guy sitting next to 0bama on the couch in college had a son.

Posted by Lex 2019-11-26 14:17|| 2019-11-26 14:17|| Front Page Top

#5 This is interesting:

In late 2015 or early 2016, Abu al-Khair, having been named as “general deputy” to al-Zawahiri, was sent to Syria to serve as al-Zawahiri’s personal representative to al-Qa`ida-aligned jihadi groups fighting in that conflict. Abu al-Khair was killed in Idlib province in February 2017 when a missile from a U.S. drone struck his car.12 According to what is known about al-Qa`ida’s succession, that leaves Abu Muhammad al-Masri first in line to inherit the leadership.

The death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the so-called “caliph” of the Islamic State, further raises the stakes for the next emir of al-Qa`ida. The Islamic State began life as an al-Qa`ida franchise, and only split from the parent organization in 2014. Since then, scholars and analysts have speculated on whether and how the two groups might merge once more. Ayman al-Zawahiri is unlikely to be capable of leading such a reconciliation, given the perception of him as an interloper who spent most of his career with a different organization, Egyptian Islamic Jihad. But Abu Muhammad, as will be outlined, has been with al-Qa`ida from the very beginning and would therefore face no such impediment. Moreover, al-Baghdadi’s death bequeaths the Islamic State its own succession challenge: with so many of its senior leaders dead or captured, the group has resorted to promoting virtual unknowns. Its new leader, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Quraishi, had no name recognition among global jihadis when the group announced he had become ‘caliph’ and has not yet been seen nor heard from.13 a Moreover, much of the animosity between the Islamic State and al-Qa`ida has built up around a war of words between al-Zawahiri and al-Baghdadi personally; with both of them gone, reconciliation could become markedly easier. Abu Muhammad, should he succeed al-Zawahiri relatively soon, will therefore potentially enjoy an unprecedented opportunity to bring former Islamic State members into the al-Qa`ida fold.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-11-26 21:35|| 2019-11-26 21:35|| Front Page Top

#6 And, of course, this:

Abu Muhammad was born Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah in June 1963 in Gharbia, a governorate of Lower Egypt in the central Nile Delta. As a young man, he played soccer professionally for a club in the Egyptian premier league.

...of the founding — Afghan war — generation of Al Qaeda.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-11-26 21:42|| 2019-11-26 21:42|| Front Page Top

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