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Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
The twenty-seven-year-old former computer programmer deliberately styled himself after his hero, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, for whom he briefly served before being arrested and thrown in the Camp Bucca prison in 2006. Now he sought to replicate his mentor’s look, from the shaggy black hair, cap, and beard to his penchant for posing unmasked for cameras
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Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
Official sources later announced that years earlier, the leader, Zaydin Yusup, had begun recruiting forces for the uprising.
Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
Spotlight on fame, pressure and mental health after Liam Payne's death | The Express Tribune
Bin Laden was, in other words, an infrastructure guy. He was essentially running a mujahidin base in Pakistan. In 1988 he formed a small organization to direct the jihad. It was called, fittingly, al-Qaeda al-Askariya (“the…
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Daniel Immerwahr • How to Hide an Empire
These were the jihadis of the underground mujahedin network, whose brotherhood, bound to fight the jihad by oaths of allegiance (or bayat) to a leader (or amir), now cast off their veil of secrecy and began to mass in Delhi, ready for the holy war they had so long dreamt of.*43 Before long the jihadis would become a significant force in the Delhi U
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