The other day, Steve wrote a post noting a letter from habeas counsel at Guantanamo to the effect that “all but a few” detainees are currently on hunger strike to protest searches and confiscations and alleged abuses of the Quran. … Read more »

Here it is, from Aaron Zelin of Jihadology.

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Aaron Zelin of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy—with whom we are piloting our little analytic experiment—has an important and timely report out entitled The State of Global Jihad Online: A Qualitative, Quantitative, and Cross-Lingual Analysis. … Read more »

The other day, I announced a little experiment that grew out of a conversation with Aaron Zelin, an expert on jihadist groups at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy:

Zelin pointed out that while the analytical community of which

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For the past few months, I have been thinking about how Lawfare might do more to bring readers information from non-lawyers with expertise critical to national security law and lawyering the modern age. To be a good national security lawyer … Read more »

Three more new additions to the Lawfare news feed:

• Wired‘s Threat Level blog, which covers online privacy and crime;
• Foreign Policy‘s Killer Apps blog, which will—unfortunately—only appear on the news feed as headlines because of the way Foreign

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The Associated Press is reporting that,

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says U.S. cyber experts hacked al-Qaeda propaganda online in Yemen, changing ads that bragged about killing Americans into ads that showed the death toll of al-Qaeda attacks against

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Interesting story in Foreign Policy by Aaron Zelin of the Jihadology blog reporting that Abu Musab al-Suri, the theoretician of leaderless jihad, may have been freed from prison in Syria. Al-Suri is the author of the jihadist treatise, Dawat al-Muqawamah … Read more »