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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    Oct 22

    My latest, for : A Hayat Tahrir al-Sham video release shows how the group defines and makes sense of Syria’s war in terms of its own jihadist frame of reference – and highlights the challenge of extricating the group from its Syrian context:

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    Two interesting quotes: -Al-Shabaab "generates more than enough revenue to sustain its insurgency.” - Functions "as shadow government in areas it no longer directly controls, employing a centralized taxation system applied consistently across south-central Somalia"

    The Somalia/Eritrea Monitoring Group's ('s) final report on can be downloaded here:
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  3. 53 minutes ago

    3. “... whose consequences they’re unable to bear. The challenge at which the Syrian revolution must succeed is learning the means that can be used to deter the Nuseiriyyah and those who have aided them, not just inflict pain on them.”

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    2. Abu Shu’eib argues for developing a similar deterrent capability: “For sure, deterring the Nuseiriyyah [derog., Alawites] isn’t like deterring the Jews; so what might be deterrent for the Jews might just be fleeting news for the Nuseiriyyah. But every people has dangers...

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    1. Egyptian Tahrir al-Sham official Abu Shu’eib Talhah al-Masir compares the Syrian mujahideen’s capabilities of “tankil”/“nikayah” (inflicting pain) on their enemy – without really slowing it down – with Hamas’s more developed “rada’” (deterrence).

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    We're live tweeting from Brussels this morning the opening of a dialogue day on 'EU as a Global Peace Actor'. Speakers are HRVP of & our CEO , moderated by of .

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    This is my life

    Businessman Does His Work Lying On Bed Like Schoolgirl
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  8. Nov 13

    .: After car bomb hits Jarabulus, residents burn tires in streets to protest security situation, demand accountability for those responsible for security failure.

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    Nov 12

    . and head to the Syrian-Jordanian border one month since Naseeb reopened, and find Jordanian business owners and shopkeepers grateful for a resumption in trade - although they say it’s been slow to pick up, despite all the fanfare

    The other side of the border: Despite fanfare over Naseeb, business owners in northern Jordan await benefits from resumption in trade
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    Nov 12

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    Catch up with last week's developments in the conflicts covers round the world - with a new feature "On Our Radar", quick notes from our experts on trends you may have missed. …
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    Nov 12

    ONLY RESIDENTS WHOSE CLAIMS DO NOT EXIST OR MATCH THOSE OF GOVT RECORDS are required to produce documents to confirm their claim of ownership WITHIN A YEAR of their area being designated for development. No need for legal owners to do this

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    Nov 12

    Statement from on : "any movement should be voluntary, safe and dignified and to a place of their choosing... The UN in Syria is calling for another convoy before the end of the year focused on winterization support."

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  13. Nov 12

    New Law 42 officially amends Law 10 to allow a full year (not 30 days) for property holders to assert their rights: Also seems to add other protections, including precedence of existing records (even without a claim filed) and later recourse to courts.

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  14. Nov 11

    3. Worth considering how different or misaligned U.S. and partners' interests and objectives really were, and how unreliable America's control proved to be over the partners it had empowered.

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  15. Nov 11

    2. ... Arab T&E units that were, fairly quickly, scooped up by another state actor, one that yoked them to its own objectives and might even end up deploying them against America's Kurdish partners. (Or – if, yikes, something goes awry – might clash with U.S. troops themselves.)

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  16. Nov 11

    1. The Syrian experience ought to prompt some introspection in Washington and at the Pentagon about the complications of relying on non-state partner forces – in this case, both a Kurdish-led force outside or even opposed to the region's existing state architecture, and these...

    Noo, it's actually more ironic than that – Firqat al-Hamzah was a participant in the U.S. Department of Defense's "Train & Equip" program to fight *ISIS*, not Assad.
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  17. Nov 11

    6. "... standard contrary to the flag of the Prophet, peace be upon him, in color or shape, then that doesn't come from the jurisprudence of hadith. The Prophet – peace be upon him – had numerous flags, of differing shapes, and banners shouldn't be limited to a single color."

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  18. Nov 11

    5. But Abu Malik actually argues against imposing a single flag, which he warns is divisive; whatever Syrian factions' differing flags, he sees their basis as fighting for God, so long as they don't state otherwise. "Whoever thinks that the 'banner' is every flag, rag or...

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  19. Nov 11

    4. Tahrir al-Sham's Abu Malik al-Talli yesterday: "The banner" – and Muhammad's injunction against dying under "an obscure banner" – is figurative, not literal. That is, he was warning against (per Ibn Taimiyyah) "fighting for clannishness and power, not on the path of God."

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  20. Nov 11

    3. warns: "HTS's continued presence, without a solution, means the entrenchment of its 'civilian' and economic network as a local reality, which is no less of a danger for Idlib's residents."

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  21. Nov 11

    2. Syrian analyst of HTS's "imposition of a hybrid banner" is "a continuation of "Jabhat al-Nusrah's project, since its inception, of war on Syria's revolution and the distortion of the revolution's image and symbols."

    استكمالاً لمشروع جبهة النصرة منذ نشأتها في…
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