Sam Heller

@AbuJamajem

Senior Analyst, Non-State Armed Groups, . Looking at jihadism, one eye still on Syria. Jamajem means ☠️☠️☠️. Contact:

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    Apr 25

    New: , , and I talk to at 's Diwan and answer: "Can the International Community Breathe New Life into the Geneva Process for Syria?"

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  2. 2 hours ago

    Khaled al-Khatib writes for on the latest shootout in al-Bab and on a “Euphrates Shield” pocket still awash with weapons and not under control: (ع)

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  3. 6 hours ago

    Osama bin Laden: “Al-Qaeda Central,” you say.

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  4. 19 hours ago

    Remains to be seen whether south Damascus is sui generis because of the unique sensitivity of the Palestinian issue, but nonetheless attention-getting that the Syrian government is using a (part-Palestinian) force apparently engineered deliberately to match the battlefield.

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  5. 20 hours ago

    Oh hey, did you guys know there used to be New York Hisbah?

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  6. 23 hours ago

    Actually an incredible burn of Joe Biden by bin Laden.

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  7. Retweeted
    May 6

    It's Election Day in Lebanon! Here's a poster advertising Deadpool as a candidate, which includes a penis joke.

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  8. May 5

    .’s Magdalena Grono: Mistrust runs deep enough between Russia and the West that there seem few near-term prospects for rapprochement – in the meantime, best to ensure the standoff doesn’t turn into open confrontation:

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  9. May 5

    4. That said, insofar as U.S. policy in Syria's northeast and southwest is currently premised on ramping up that stabilization effort and marshaling allies to contribute, that's going to be a tough sell if the Americans themselves aren't leading the way.

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  10. May 5

    3. If the freeze isn't reversed, it doesn't hit everything all at once, and it doesn't mean all this programming just disappears. U.S. allies are co-invested in much of it. Even if they're not capable of surging to fill the gap left by the Americans, they likely won't just quit.

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  11. May 5

    2. The scope and duration of the freeze seems unclear, even to USG people/stabilization implementers, and the outcome of this ongoing review is unknown. So who knows, maybe this all gets undone.

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  12. May 5

    1. The freeze hits stabilization, not humanitarian assistance (HA). There's some overlap between them, but, broadly, HA is pure relief while stabilization has a political dimension and is meant to empower local actors – local councils, municipal services, police, Civil Defense.

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  13. May 5

    Some additional thoughts on the U.S. stabilization freeze, per my best understanding: (thread)

    ., "Trump freezes funding for 'White Helmet' volunteers as part of larger cut to Syrian aid" Include…
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  14. May 4

    ., "Trump freezes funding for 'White Helmet' volunteers as part of larger cut to Syrian aid" Includes my thoughts on the stabilization freeze.

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  15. May 4

    . on efforts to rehabilitate and reintegrate al-Shabab defectors:

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    May 4

    For the first time in many months, the Syrian Air Force has bombed Tal Al-Harrah in western Daraa. This is the most important town in western Daraa and the key to southern Quneitra.

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  17. May 4

    . on how al-Qaeda won and lost hegemonic control over the jihadist movement worldwide: On the apparent contradiction between al-Qaeda's need to project through local affiliates and the threat that affiliation poses to local groups' survival:

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  18. Retweeted
    May 3
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    Add to that the license that the war has given to many, and that will carry over into the "post-war", as it did in the 1980s.

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    May 3
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    If "navigating the administrative bureaucracy" means what it used to mean before the war, there is reason to believe that while critics may be misrepresenting the letter of the law, they largely are correct about its impact.

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  20. May 3

    And still putting out the fire from Zakharova's critical remarks on 19 April.

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  21. May 3

    From Petra account of Safadi and Lavrov joint presser in Sochi: Jordan seemingly still working to assuage Russian concerns about a separatist project in the southwest.

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