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NEW: Dead #ISIS leader was taking "extreme measures" for security prior to his death
Just released @UN report says one intel agency concluded Amir Muhammad Sa’id Abdal-Rahman al-#Mawla (aka Au Ibrahim al-Hashimi al #Qurashi) banned electronics from being carried in his vicinity
Just released @UN report says one intel agency concluded Amir Muhammad Sa’id Abdal-Rahman al-#Mawla (aka Au Ibrahim al-Hashimi al #Qurashi) banned electronics from being carried in his vicinity
Something big is going down in NW #Syria -- (a) U.S. helicopter gunships firing on a target in the #Jinderes area of #Afrin & (b) a possible SOF raid targeting Tauqir Sharif, a [former] #UK citizen in the Atmeh area of #Idlib.
Personally, I'd be amazed if such an operation was launched at Tauqir Sharif (Abu Hossam al-Britani) -- while his #UK citizenship was revoked, the cause for doing so never seemed more than tenuous. 
NEW: Just released @UN report warns of "heightened threats emerging" from #ISIS #alQaida affiliated groups worldwide
"This is especially true in parts of West and East #Africa" per the report, based on member state intelligence
"This is especially true in parts of West and East #Africa" per the report, based on member state intelligence
1. Last night, #IS published a new statement from its spokesman Abu Hamza al-Qurashi in which, among other things, he lauded the recent exploits of #ISWAP—#IS’s West Africa Province—in #Nigeria, alluding to Abubakar #Shekau's group, #JAS, as "khawarij."
NEW: 41yo #Brooklyn, New York man pleads guilty to charges he shared #ISIS propaganda, including "specific instructions for how to conduct attacks in New York City" per @TheJusticeDept Asst AG John Demers
Zachary Clark faces up to 20 years in prison. Sentencing set for Feb 2021
Zachary Clark faces up to 20 years in prison. Sentencing set for Feb 2021
"Clark pledged allegiance to #ISIS & posted calls for attacks on the public & institutions in #NewYork on encrypted pro-ISIS chatrooms" per US Attorney Audrey Strauss
Per @TheJusticeDept, Clark pledged allegiance to #ISIS leader Abu Bakr al #Baghdadi in July 2019 & to ISIS' Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al #Qurashi in Oct 2019
Per officials, he began sharing ISIS propaganda in March 2019, also shared instructions for how to carry out attacks
Per officials, he began sharing ISIS propaganda in March 2019, also shared instructions for how to carry out attacks
NEW: @UN report on #Taliban casts doubt on ability of US-Taliban agreement to succeed
"There are divisions within the group [Taliban], which make compromise with its adversaries difficult, and its messaging remains hard-line" per UN Sanctions Monitoring Team
"There are divisions within the group [Taliban], which make compromise with its adversaries difficult, and its messaging remains hard-line" per UN Sanctions Monitoring Team
US facing expanding radicalization problem - National Counterterrorism Center acting Director Russell Travers warns during talk at @WashInstitute the number of people in the #NCTC datat base has "grown by a factor of almost 20"
@WashInstitute NEW: "We have no indication that foreign terrorists have tried to exploit" the US refugee system, per #NCTC acting Dir Russell Travers
@WashInstitute Goal should be for US to have "near real time biographic & biometric screening" to keep terrorists out of the country, per #NCTC's Travers
