Daniele Raineri

@DanieleRaineri

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    8 Jun 2015

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  2. 3 hours ago

    Typical. Promotion by killing. Abu Luqman kidnapping and personally killing his JN boss in Raqqa in 2013 – thus proving his loyalty to Baghdadi and becoming the Wali of the Islamic State in Raqqa (from this report: )

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  3. Jul 24

    We are not supposed to believe the Islamic State in Mozambique (first screenshot, twenty men) is stronger than the cells shown in Turkey or Tunisia (2nd and 3rd). For now.

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  4. Jul 20

    Videos of various groups pledging allegiance to Baghdadi from many countries – released as chapters of the series "And the Best Outcome Is for the Righteous" – are not directly proportional to the actual strength of the groups. They are symbolic. Turkey is the most egregious case

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  5. Jul 20

    Save the name, al Jadah just south of Qayyarah. We'll see this name coming up in many propaganda releases of the Islamic State and in many future reports about them. By the way, that area between Qayyarah and Shirqat has always been risky

    Iraqi authorities are preparing what will effectively be a confinement camp for tens of thousands of Iraqis with perceived links to ISIS who are currently stuck in Syria:
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    Jul 16

    Musings On Can The Islamic State Make A Comeback In Iraq Part 2? Interview With Il Foglio’s Daniele Raineri

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  7. Jul 13

    Quite long but tight and sterilized: two pages without naming other figures of the Islamic State in Libya.

    - latest al-Naba newsletter (#190) includes an unusually long eulogy and biography of Abu Assem al-Sudani (from ), who was a media officer and killed in a battle with the in southern Libya
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    Jul 10

    We have obtained a secret audio recording of a Moscow meeting between three Russian operatives and a close aide to Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini negotiating a plan to pump money from a Russian oil deal into Salvini’s far-right Lega party

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  9. Jul 9

    A name to mention – Abu Barakat, aka Salem Dangou. Allegedly he is the real leader of all the sarayas of the Islamic State in Libya, which allegedly were three in 2017 (source: Reuters, September 28, 2017) – – – End for now

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  10. Jul 9

    And the sarayas from Sirte? My understanding is they met those from Benghazi and then were wiped off in the double US airstrike in January and February 2017 south of Sirte. That could explain how we have footage showing a meeting (see screenshots, same video September 2017)

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  11. Jul 9

    Also, his saraya is now allegedly named after a jihadi killed in Benghazi 20 years ago. The choice makes sense somehow

    That saraya is named after "Abu Tariq al Dernawi". Thought he was an Islamic State leader, but I checked and the name comes from a jihadist who fought against Gheddafi: Hamza Abu Chartila, born in Derna in 1967…
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  12. Jul 9

    Here he is speaking in a video released in September 2017. Now you can see why Abu Musab al Libi / Mahmoud al Bar'asi was the obvious choice to lead the bay'a released from Libya a few days ago

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  13. Jul 9

    Here Abu Musab al Libi / Mahmoud al Bar'asi during the bay'a of the Islamic State in Libya – video released in July 2018

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  14. Jul 9

    Now, let's take a look at Abu Musab al Libi / Mahmoud al Bar'asi. Here seen during two separate attacks, footage of both released in a single video in July 2018

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  15. Jul 9

    [Please discard this wrong tweet, it's the same guy and has been killed in 2018]

    We don't know much about the dead, maybe one or two were important, maybe not. One allegedly is "Ahmad bin Naser", from Benghazi, a veteran – according to one of the facebook pages of LNA's Battalion 128. Never heard…
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  16. Jul 9

    Look at this guy. Abu Abdullah Khadrawan aka Ahmad Naser, another well known veteran of the Islamic State in Benghazi. Here carrying a head during a joint attack of saraya houda and saraya Abu Zubayr al Tunisi near al Fuqaha on August 23 2017

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  17. Jul 9

    Hamza al 'Quri was killed in a US drone strike in November 2018 near al Fuqaha. They were targeting "concentrations of forces", probably discovered his saraya. Here he is speaking in a video released in September 2017

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  18. Jul 9

    The saraya "Abu Zubayr al Tunisi” was led by the former deputy of al Bar'asi in Benghazi (of course). His name was Hamza al'Quri aka Abu Uthman here speaking after an attack near Ajdabiya's Gate 60 in 2018

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  19. Jul 9

    According to a report published in 2018, the sarayas we see in the videos released in 2017 and 2018 are "saraya houda", named after Mahmoud al Bar'asi's nickname, and "saraya Abu Zubayr al Tunisi" – I believe Al Tunisi was an Islamic State fighter killed in Benghazi in late 2015

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  20. Jul 9

    The presence of Abu Musab al Libi / Mahmoud al Bar'asi now opened my eyes.The "desert sarayas" of the Libyan Islamic State are not the remnants of Sirte – they mainly are the veterans of Benghazi, plus a lot of recruits from Tebu clans and from abroad

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  21. Jul 9

    We know that after the defeats in Sirte and Benghazi the Islamic State survivors reorganized in small platoons waging a sporadic guerrilla in Libya. A platoon is generically known as a "company of the desert", سرايا الصحراء, saraya al sahra

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