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Jarret Brachman, What Role do CT Researchers and the Media Play in Creating the Monsters that We Counter?, 14 Apr 2010 Interesting dialogue between Jarret Brachman and Faqir Mohammed Darwish. As I have mentioned elsewhere, there is certainly potential impact and influence of online analysts and aggragators (including academics) of jihadi related materials on the very sphere that they write about.
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Jarret Brachman, Abu Musab al-Suri Still Matters Online, 6 Feb 2010 "Al-Suri’s work is still running rampant through the forums"
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Jarret Brachman, “Jihad For Dummies”: Shaykh Abdullah al-Faisal, 3 Jan 2010"Over the past few weeks, in the aftermath of the Anwar al-Awlaki’s rise to mainstream media prominence, I’ve been asked by several journalists to identify and discuss the role of the influential ‘online celebrity shaykhs.’ At the top of my list of Western jihadist clerics has been a guy known as Shaykh Abdullah
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Jarret Brachman, The Fresh Face of American Jihobbyism: Abdullah as-Sayf Jones, 14 Dec 09 "This is Abdullah as-Sayf Jones, the newly designated emir/leader/director/head of the RevolutionMuslim.com website. With the departure of Yousef al-Khattab, the site now falls on the shoulders of this young mujahid."
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A couple of interesting posts from Jarret Brachman that I caught up on today:(1) Jarret Brachman, Making Jihobbyists our New Secret Weapon in Combating Jihobbyism, 5 Dec 09 "Ibn Siqilli has a great post about the jihadi fascination with Lord of the Rings in response to a spoof video that a jihobbyist recently made about me. To be clear, when I called the English-language jihobbyist community a
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Also on Jarret Brachman’s blog:(2) Doh! A “Regrettable Occurrence” Indeed "Tim Stevens makes a great catch this morning about a retraction from Weimann and Van Knop in the newest Studies in Conflict and Terrorism. Apparently, a Oct 2008 article abstract published in SCT shared passages that were “nearly identical” to language used in the blurb of a 2007 book on jihadi use of the internet by Irish
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Jarret Brachman, Why the LIFG’s Revisions are Falling on Our Deaf Ears, Sep 21, 2009 "Today’s blog is a plea to my readers who are in positions to influence counterterrorism policy with regard to al-Qaida. For once, the Libyans are doing something right and everyone else is standing around staring at their shoes. In short, this is the most significant development in the war on terror this year
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