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Contributing writer, . NYT Bestselling Author . Senior Fellow, . Email: hhassan@timep.org

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    Nov 12

    Al-Qaeda & ISIS are evolving into two distinct jihadi sects that'll be co-leading global jihad & appealing to different demographics. This competitiveness between these two rivals is not necessarily good news from a CT standpoint. I explain in this paper:

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  2. 1 minute ago

    This suggested to me that ISIS was grooming him to be a successor if Baghdadi was killed. In 2015, mentioned Anbari was in line of succession.

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  3. 7 minutes ago

    The bio mentions a story about how Anabri had an incident & someone interpreted the spiritual experience as that the young Anbari will one day have a position of leadership, “even the emir of the faithful”. This bit has two points of significance:

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  4. 10 minutes ago

    A great addition from Mosul historian To reinforce Omar’s point, I’ll share another tidbit that didn’t fit in the copy, about his “caliphal” credentials:

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    I saw him once in Mosul central Library late 2014, I also heard many ISIS fighters in Mosul debating that he should be the Caliph. His name was well known in Mosul.
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  5. 12 minutes ago

    2. But he wasn’t officer. His army training, Baath background & top role within ISIS explain our previous reporting (based on internal sourcing), like that Anbari headed the security apparatus. He did, just not in title. So not totally off mark; reporting reflects significance

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  6. 19 minutes ago

    I & first corrected the record about Anbari as a former senior Saddamist. This took away from Abari’s previously accepted importance. But this bio balances things: he was in fact an ex-Baathist, and the bio spends some time actually grappling with this fact 1/2

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  7. 25 minutes ago

    He’s the aftermath of his killing. According to ISIS, the US intercepted his car near Shaddadi, on the way back to iraq, and tried to capture him, but he blew himself up using his suicide belt.

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  8. 27 minutes ago

    Here he’s prostrating after the “breaking of the Sykes-Picot borders” between Iraq and Syria, in 2014.

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  9. 29 minutes ago

    The multiple sides of Anbari in three pictures

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  10. 30 minutes ago

    Other photos of his time working for the Islamic State, first as exclusively on sharia training / publishing, and finally as the chief of finance.

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  11. 31 minutes ago

    From an Iraqi prison a month after the Americans handed him over from Cropper prison, he was moved back and forth from Copper and Bucca prisons very regularly.

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  12. 34 minutes ago

    This is from prison (the one usually circulating)

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  13. 35 minutes ago

    This one is with his two sons, Abdullah and Imad. Imad was killed by Iraqi security forces after they captured him in Mosul. Abdullah was killed more recently.

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  14. 37 minutes ago

    Some never seen pictures of Anbari. This one is from his Islamic studies days after elementary school at an institute in Tal Afar.

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  15. 51 minutes ago

    Anyone interested in reading the document in full, please email me and I’ll gladly share it.

    This looks like a fascinating scoop
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    2 hours ago

    Lots of little nuggets in 's latest for . Amkng them, itself acknowledges: Zarqawi was not just in Iraq in the spring of 2002, but in Baghdad. The fusion of religious clerics and "repentant" officers of the Ba'thi regime formed the crucial early cells.

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  17. 1 hour ago

    I questioned my own long-held assumptions about a period we all still have to revisit. Thanks for the kind words, Oz.

    This piece by challenges my own work on Islamic State, work I won an award for, and deserves reading. Hassan is one of the most important scholars in the world on this topic, and when he publishes something like this, you listen. …
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  18. 2 hours ago

    Of many tidbits that didnt fit: Qaduli‘s maternal ancestors fled Armenia early 20th century & settled in Iraq. His paternal side traces origins to grandson of Prophet; “Qaduli,” from Qadu, a local reference to Abdulqadir. Both ironic as he oversaw genocides against Yazidis & Shia

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  19. 2 hours ago

    You remember that landmark letter Zarqawi wrote to al-Qaeda in 2004, in which he laid out his vision for methodically fighting the Shiites? I’m certain Zarqawi wasn’t the one who wrote it. It was both written & envisioned for him by senior Iraqi ideologues who influenced him.👆

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  20. 2 hours ago

    I gladly will. Sending it your way soon (re the little scoop by me )

    Will you be making this document available to other researchers?
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  21. 3 hours ago

    Grateful to the Zarqawi scholars , , , for the insights.

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