Sam Heller

@AbuJamajem

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

Beirut, Lebanon
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Joined September 2011
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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. 1 minute ago

    A reminder of how twisty and weird things eventually got: When I save and tag this article, I still have the circa-2013 label "Saddam al-Jamal (SMC Eastern Front)."

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  3. 2 hours ago

    Oh, I forgot: It’s Iba “Network” now, not “Agency.” Output now seems to include relatively straight takes on national/regional news, in addition to HTS-related updates and reports refuting anti-HTS rumors.

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  4. 2 hours ago

    Syrian MoFA: "Entrance of the Zionist entity and its supporters to the confrontation directly, after they had hid behind their terrorist tools, indicates beginning of new phase of the aggression on Syria – with the originals, after their proxies' defeat."

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  5. 3 hours ago

    Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s Iba Agency reports on Turkey’s refusal to allow convoys of deportees from north Homs into “Euphrates Shield” north Aleppo, uses one convoy’s redirection to Qal’at al-Madiq to highlight Idlib’s “sovereignty” by contrast.

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  6. 6 hours ago

    2. That is, the idea that indefinite economic strangulation would break the Syrian government's back and oblige its backers to sue for a negotiated, regime-decapitating settlement, a theory of change basically no one else thought would work.

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  7. 6 hours ago

    1. Faith in efficacy of sanctions and economic pressure (thread) is giving me flashbacks to the United States' (short-lived, and now seemingly defunct) "Tillerson strategy" in Syria.

    1.The basic assumption in DC, which I just visited, is that the JCPOA is unacceptable and will bring Iran to the nuclear threshold where it would be unstoppable.
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  8. 7 hours ago

    The north African version of al-Qaeda’s “far enemy” focus – a target (foreign multinationals) that facilitates projection of “Crusader” power and, for locals, is clearly alien; with at least a rhetorical effort to warn off local Muslims and avoid controversial collateral damage.

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  9. 7 hours ago

    AQIM statement declaring French/Western companies and institutions a “legitimate target” a striking example of al-Qaeda affiliates’ hybridism. Taps into local economic grievance, frames it in terms that are simultaneously anti-capitalist/-colonialist and pan-Islamist/jihadist.

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  10. 8 hours ago

    Ha, new favorite podcast signoff, from the latest episode of ’s : “I appreciate you guys paying attention to these issues and caring. Tell your friends about the show! Rate and review us. I’m still pretty depressed. Have a good one.”

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    10 hours ago

    skyline as Syrian army air defenses deployed against strikes

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  12. May 9

    Tahrir al-Sham claims responsibility for blowing up Syrian military van on Damascus-Suweida highway. Tahrir al-Sham has agitated for the resumption of conflict in the south and the end of the de-escalation, but, at least so far, has failed to drag in a critical mass of rebels.

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  13. May 9

    . on Lebanon's parliamentary elections, which mostly perpetuated the country's political status quo:

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    May 9

    Thread: A few thoughts on ’s decision to put the US in non-compliance with its commitments under the

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  15. May 8

    With the U.S. now out of the JCPOA, calls on Europe to work with Iran to salvage the deal:

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    May 8

    Murky line between & Ansar al-Sharia in is demonstrated by yday's informal claim of battle vs Houthis in Walad al-Rabi', al-Bayda'. AQAP likes to latch onto local issues & claim the lead. Local press report the same battle as tribal action to protect villages

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  17. May 8

    So we're all on the same page that Kacey Musgraves is kind of super, right?

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  18. May 8

    . in on how Sahelian jihadists' attacks on formal education aim for a cleavage with political, social, and economic dimensions:

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  19. May 7

    . and on Ansaroul Islam, both a specifically Burkinabe insurgent faction and, apparently, another instance of AQIM networking and replicating itself in west Africa:

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    May 7

    Finally got round to launching that podcast I said I'd do. If you want to know how suicide car bombs are built by ISIS, which paramilitary factions are operating in Syria, or why American militias hoard machine guns, this podcast is for you. Subscribe:

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  21. May 7

    . on the drawbacks of the "state sponsor of terrorism" label, both in terms of its intended purpose and as a too-ready means to punish countries America doesn't like:

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