New Profiles and Articles on TRAC
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Al Muhajiroun is a jihadist group in Kenya that pledged allegiance to al Qaeda and al Shabaab. The leader is Ahmed Iman Ali (aka Abu Zinnirah), the former leader of the Muslim Youth Centre (MYC, now being referred to as Al Hijra)
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Heavily circulated March 27, 2015 - Islamic State graduation. Note the uniforms used.
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This Just Paste It series is a 5 part assessment of the importance of "good intentions: of traveling for jihad as based on the following video made last October.
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Following the attack on the Bardo Museum in Tunisia (18 March 2015), Morocco's vulnerability to terrorism is gaining renewed attention. The article concludes that there are indeed indicators of concern.
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Cells in the region were actively being apprehended as late as the day before the attack. Over a three day time frame in February (22-24) 2015 the Tunisian Ministry of the Interior claimed to have apprehended and detained approximately 100 suspected Islamist militants in counter-terrorism operations carried out across Tunisia.
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Iraqi Shiite militia Kata’ib Hezbollah (KH) posted on its website a report and a video showcasing what appears to be Iranian-made MANPADs in its possession. TRAC analyzes the implications.
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Mauritania's unprecedented activity: In the past month, 5 important jihadist leaders have been freed; rumors of an imminent AQIM attack and 3 training centers, where at 80+ Westerners are being radicalized.
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Al Muhajiroun was established to support al Shabaab’s attempts at expanding into Kenya and East Africa.
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Unnamed sources report that six individuals have been arrested in Columbus, Ohio during the first week of March 2015. Sources reported that those arrested were planning to kidnap and kill military officials in and around Columbus. Discovery of this cell indicates stepped-up recruitment campaign from the overall global jihadi movement in the United States Midwest.
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South African private soldiers supporting Nigerian Government forces against Boko Haram are estimated at 100 that include former South African Koevoet (Special Forces) members.
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Shia militia groups participating in the attacks on ISIS in Tikrit, since the end of February 2015, are fighting under the moniker of Hashid Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation Committees).
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Boko Haram's announcement has far greater implications than being a mere symbolic act.
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In addition to updating hundreds of existing TRAC group profiles, in January and February 2015, TRAC compiled 18 profiles of new and emerging groups. As a part of our on going efforts to quickly get information to our subscribers as it breaks, TRAC has created a special link TRAC Insights; there were 39 TRAC Insights created since the beginning of 2015.
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The following illustration and screenshot analysis show the differences and similarities between Boko Haram's previous execution videos and the most recent video.
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Boko Haram released a video and trailer the week of 19 February 2015 with similar effects in the introduction and in high resolution, raising suspicions that ISIS was facilitating Boko Haram media. However, the insignia in this video and its uncharacteristic self-restraint shows ISIS has accepted Boko Haram for its own purposes.
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Harakat Hazm defined itself as a revolutionary and political organisation with a military wing. The group was one of the first Syrian opposition militias to receive US-made BGM-71 TOW antitank missiles.
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A senior IS media activist and inciter, named Hamil al-Bushra, appeals to "Our People in Somalia" to declare their pledge of allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and ash Sham / Islamic State (Islamic State of Iraq, ISIS or ISIL, IS) and Caliph al-Baghdadi to become acknowledged as the provincial division similar to those recognized by Baghdadi himself.
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Call for jihadists from Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Egypt to "immigrate" to Libya (Video)
