Militant Leadership Monitor – February 2019
The February 2019 Issue of Militant Leadership Monitor features a brief on the elimination of a top al-Qaeda financier and strategist in the Sahara/Sahel, Yahya Abu al-Hammam; an exclusive analysis of the Ughyur insurgent commander haunting China in Afghanistan, Haji Furqan; an in-depth look into JeM leader and the terrorist responsible for the recent Pulwama attack in Kashmir, Maulana Masood Azhar; the Taliban military commander turned lead negotiator, Mohammad Fazl; and a post-mortem analysis of Jamal al-Badawi, the accomplice to the bombing of the USS Cole, who was killed in a recent U.S. drone strike.
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