Written by Stratfor

The identities of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing -- Chechen brothers Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26 -- appear tentatively to confirm several of Stratfor's suspicions. From this profile, the simple nature of the attack, their efforts to rob a convenience store ... Read more: Boston Bombing Suspects: Grassroots Militants from Chechnya
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Written by Memri

Egyptian Salafi Cleric Murgan Salem: Boston Bombing Was Meant To Deliver A Message; Similar Attacks Expected In France Read more: Egyptian Cleric: Boston Bombing Was A Message, Attacks Expected In France
Interviewer: "Today, we will be talking about the Boston bombings, which took place yesterday, during the marathon. There were casualties. People were wounded and killed. What is ...
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Written by Stratfor

Balkanization of Cartels
Since the late 1980s demise of the Guadalajara cartel, which controlled drug trade routes into the United States through most of Mexico, Mexican cartels have followed a trend of fracturing into more geographically compact, regional crime networks. This trend, which we are ... Read more: Mexico's Drug War: Balkanization Leads to Regional Challenges
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Written by Raymond Ibrahim

While it is easy to confuse the recent jihadi attack on Egypt’s St. Mark Cathedral in Cairo as just more of the usual, this attack has great symbolic significance, and in many ways bodes great evil for Egypt’s millions of Christians.
Consider some facts: St. Mark Cathedral—named after the author of ...
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Written by Evelyn Gordon

This past February, the New York Times reported on a love affair gone sour. For months, Algeria had courted an Islamist warlord in Mali. The Algerians knew, as the Timesput it, that he was "the leader of one of the militant Islamist groups holding northern Mali captive," but they thought he was ...
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Written by Raymond Ibrahim

In Pictures: Savage Islamic Attack on St. Mark Cathedral Allowed by Egyptian Forces in US Supplied Armored Vehicles
Egypt’s Coptic Christians frequently accuse State Security and police of overlooking Muslim attacks on Christians and their places of worship, especially monasteries and churches. ...
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Written by Right Side News

On the afternoon of Sunday, April 7, Egyptian police surrounded and protected Saint Mark’s Coptic Cathedral of Cairo, the headquarters of the Coptic Pope, after four hours of attacks on the church by Muslims throwing Molotov cocktails, rocks, and firearms, and where Christians gathered to mourn ...
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Written by Daniel Greenfield

When Tuaregs and Islamists swarmed in to seize Northern Mali, one of the old grievances animating their campaign was slavery. The Tuaregs were not former slaves, they were, and in some cases still are, slaveholders.
The French invasion of Northern Mali, liberating towns and villages under Islamist ...
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Written by Tufail Ahmad

Introduction Read more: The Afghan Taliban's Internet Media Empire – Hosted In Malaysia, Singapore, America
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, the Taliban's shadow government in the country, operates a network of websites and social media accounts to connect with potential jihadists, report the Taliban activities in Afghanistan, and advance the cause of global jihad by means of audio, video ...
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