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December 2011 BRIEFS
DISSIDENT SOUTH SUDAN LEADER KILLED IN INTERNECINE CLASH Lieutenant General George Athor Deng, a dissident South Sudanese military veteran figure, was killed in a clash with the newly formed Republic...
Derek Henry Flood Appears On France 24 International News
On December 17th, 2011 Annette Young, France 24 International News, interviewed Derek Henry Flood, the editor of Militant Leadership Monitor (mlm.jamestown.org), a Jamestown Foundation Publication. They talked about how Washington...
October 2011 BRIEFS
LASHKAR-E-ISLAM LEADER TERRORIZES KHYBER AGENCY Mangal Bagh, the warlord-leader of the militant group Lashkar-e-Islam (LeI) has been putting fear into the residents of Khyber Agency, one of the seven constituent...
Sectarian Violence Escalates in Balochistan as Shi’a Holy Month Approaches
Recent incidents in which dozens of Shi’a Hazaras have been killed by Sunni militants have put Balochistan’s religious minority on a knife’s edge. On October 4, a bus ferrying Shi’a...
Still at Large Ten Years After 9/11: Said Bahaji, Mohammed Atta’s Right Hand Man
Background On the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the United States, Said Bahaji, one of two known members of the Hamburg cell, remains at large. [1] Said Bahaji...
The Duo from Derna: Libya’s Émigré Jihadis Turned Internal Revolutionaries
During a U.S. Senate hearing on March 29, 2011 on the composition of Libya’s revolutionary rebel movement, EUCOM commander and NATO Supreme Allied Commander for Europe Admiral James Stavridis commented...
Taking Charge of Libya’s Rebels: An In-Depth Portrait of Colonel Khalifa Haftar
Background Khalifa Haftar, a dissident Libyan Army colonel and long time foe of Colonel Mu’ammar al-Qaddafi, reappeared on March 14 in Benghazi, the opposition’s supposedly temporary de facto administrative center,...
March 2011 Briefs
COUSIN OF SYRIAN PRESIDENT WARNS WINDOW FOR REFORM IS CLOSING AS REGIME LOSES GRIP Ribal al-Assad, the cousin of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, calls for significant change in Syria from...
Jamestown Terrorism Monitor Editor Andrew McGregor and Militant Leadership Monitor Editor Derek Henry Flood Cited in VOA.
Jamestown Terrorism Monitor Editor Andrew McGregor and Militant Leadership Monitor Editor Derek Henry Flood Cited in the article "Libya: a ceasefire and no-fly zone" by Erica Marat and Victoria Kupchinetskaya...
Muhammad Yasin Malik: From Underground Militant Leader to Kashmir’s Gandhi
Background Muhammad Yasin Malik, the leader of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), has undergone a 15-year transformation from underground militant leader fomenting violence to an advocate for a...
February 2011 Briefs
UFLA LEADERS MEET WITH INDIAN GOVERNMENT FOR PEACE TALKS The political leadership of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) [1] is engaging in unconditional peace talks on behalf of...
January 2011 Briefs
NEW JUNDULLAH LEADER ABDULRAUF RIGI ARRESTED IN PAKISTAN The successor to the ethnic-Balochi separatist organization Jundullah, Abdulrauf Rigi was reportedly captured in late December 2010 by Pakistani authorities who employed...
The Shining Path’s Comrade Artemio: Leader of Peru’s Narco-Maoists
Since the capture of Abimael Guzmán, the principal leader of the Shining Path (El Sendero Luminoso-SL), 18 years ago, many in Peru believed the Maoist insurgency that had plagued Peru’s...
July 2010 Briefs
PKK GUERILLA LEADER MURAT KARAYLIAN OFFERS ANKARA DEAL Murat Karayilan, the military guerrilla commander of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan-PKK) and leader of the Kurdish rebel umbrella grouping,...
June 2010 Briefs
IRAN HANGS ANOTHER RIGI, FUTURE OF JUNDULLAH UNCERTAIN On June 20, 2010, just weeks after his brother Abdolhamid Rigi was hanged by the Iranian state (see Militant Leadership Monitor, May...
From Jihad to Human Rights: The Life and Death of Taliban Middleman Khalid Khawaja
Khalid Khawaja was found dead adjacent to a stream in the town of Karam Kot, North Waziristan on April 30, 2010 with a note pinned to his bullet-pierced body that...
May 2010 Briefs
PROMINENT AL-SHABAAB LEADER WOUNDED IN MOGADISHU Shaykh Fuad Muhammad Khalaf (a.k.a. Fuad Shongole) was wounded in a large bombing in Mogadishu’s Abdallah Shidiye mosque which took the lives of at...
Kishenji: A Profile of the Leader of the Indian Maoist Insurgency
Mallojula Koteshwar Rao, better known by the nom de guerre Kishenji, is the military leader of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) and may have recently surpassed the leaders of...
April 2010 Briefs
TTP COMMANDERS PROVIDE THEIR OWN PROOF OF LIFE Several Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) commanders whom the Pakistani Interior Ministry claimed were killed in an aerial assault earlier this year have been...
March 2010 Briefs
DEAD END FOR DULMATIN On March 9, 2010 Indonesia’s most wanted man was killed in a shootout with the country’s elite counter-terrorist unit, Detachment-88. Jemaah Islamiyah’s (JI) Dulmatin (a.k.a. Ammar...
Quiet in the Sulu Sea: The Elimination of Albader Parad
Philippine media is reporting that on February 21, 2010, leading Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) commander Albader Parad was killed along with five other fighters on the island of Jolo, in...
February 2010 Briefs
END OF THE LINE FOR KUNDUZ SHADOW GOVERNOR Mullah Abdul Salam, the Taliban’s “Shadow Governor” for Kunduz Province has been captured in Pakistan after the much-touted arrest of the movement’s...
Abdul Basit Usman: Waziristan’s Filipino Connection
Abdul Basit Usman, a leading Filipino Muslim militant trained in bomb making, was reported killed, along with 11 other militants in a Predator drone strike along the North and South...
January 2010 Briefs
TOP RANKING MILITANT SURRENDERS TO ETHIOPIAN GOVERNMENT: A PROFILE OF LICHO BUKHURA Licho Bukhura (a.k.a. Lucho Burbura), a senior militant leader of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), has surrendered to...
Between the Hammer and the Anvil: An Exclusive Interview with PJAK’s Agiri Rojhilat
Agiri Rojhilat is one of the top seven members of the Partiya Jiyana Azad a Kurdistane (PJAK) which is a part of the larger umbrella organization Koma Civaken Kurdistan (KCK)...
At the Center of the Storm: An Interview with Afghanistan’s Lieutenant General Hadi Khalid – Part Two
Lieutenant General Hadi Khalid was the Afghan Deputy Minister of the Interior for Security from May 2006 to June 2008. He lost his post after a dispute with the Karzai...
At the Center of the Storm: An Interview with Afghanistan’s Lieutenant General Hadi Khalid – Part One
Lieutenant General Abdul Hadi Khalid was the Afghan First Deputy Minister of the Interior for Security from May 2006 to late June 2008. Specializing in counter-narcotics, border policing and internal...
Motivations and Methods of India’s United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA)
The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) has been terrorizing India’s northeastern states since a student-led insurgency began thirty years ago on April 7, 1979. The movement’s primary goal is...