The Complete Infidel's Guide to ISIS (60 page)

14
.
      
“Terrorists ‘Praise Allah’ for Twitter,” Worthy News, June 12, 2014.

15
.
      
Banco, “Why Do People Join ISIS?”

16
.
      
Mullen, “What Is ISIS’ Appeal for Young People?”

17
.
      
Kevin Sullivan, “Three American Teens, Recruited Online, Are Caught Trying to Join the Islamic State,”
Washington Post,
December 8, 2014.

18
.
      
“‘ISIS Good at Propaganda & Marketing and Youngsters Buy into It,’” RT, April 15, 2015.

19
.
      
Christoph Reuter, Raniah Salloum and Samiha Shafy, “Digital Jihad: Inside Islamic State’s Savvy PR War,”
Spiegel,
October 8, 2014.

20
.
      
Ibid.

21
.
      
Maya Gebeily, “Shit ISIS Says,”
Matter,
February 25, 2015.

22
.
      
Ibid.

23
.
      
Lachlan Markay, “Islamic State Hacks CENTCOM Twitter Feed as Obama Talks Cybersecurity,” Washington Free Beacon, January 12, 2015.

24
.
      
Oliver Darcy, “‘Islamic State Hacking Division’ Posts Kill List with Purported Addresses of U.S. Military Members,” TheBlaze, March 21, 2015.

25
.
      
Michael S. Schmidt and Helene Cooper, “ISIS Urges Sympathizers to Kill U.S. Service Members It Identifies on Website,”
New York Times,
March 21, 2015.

26
.
      
Bill Briggs, “Military Spouses Hacked, Threatened by Alleged ISIS Sympathizer,” NBC News, February 10, 2015.

27
.
      
Banco, “Why Do People Join ISIS?”

28
.
      
Maha Yahya, “The Ultimate Fatal Attraction: 5 Reasons People Join ISIS,”
National Interest,
November 7, 2014.

29
.
      
Arie W. Kruglanski, “Joining Islamic State Is about ‘Sex and Aggression,’ Not Religion,” Reuters, October 16, 2014.

30
.
      
Banco, “Why Do People Join ISIS?”

31
.
      
Holly Yan, “How Is ISIS Luring Westerners?,” CNN, March 23, 2015.

32
.
      
Ibid.

33
.
      
Ibid.

34
.
      
Kruglanski, “Joining Islamic State Is about ‘Sex and Aggression.’”

35
.
      
Gebeily, “Shit ISIS Says.”

36
.
      
Ibid.

37
.
      
Ibid.

38
.
      
Graeme Wood, “What ISIS Really Wants,”
Atlantic,
March 2015.

39
.
      
Ibid.

40
.
      
“Founder of Hizb Al-Tahrir in Chicago: The Caliphate Is Coming, and Britain and America Can Go to Hell,” Middle East Media Research Institute, June 21, 2013.

41
.
      
Sullivan, “Three American Teens.”

42
.
      
Ibid.

43
.
      
Ibid.

44
.
      
Lee Keath and Hamza Hendawi, “How Islamic Is Islamic State Group? Not Very, Experts Say,” Associated Press, March 2, 2015.

45
.
      
Sullivan, “Three American Teens.”

46
.
      
Ibid.

47
.
      
Michael Zennie, “Somali-American Who Died Fighting for ISIS Cleaned Planes for Delta Airlines at Minneapolis Airport before He Joined Terrorist Group,”
Daily Mail,
September 3, 2014.

48
.
      
Mukhtar Ibrahim, “Jihad in Syria Lures Somalis from Minnesota,” MPR News, June 12, 2014.

49
.
      
Meg Wagner, “Minnesota Dad-of-Nine Abdirahmaan Muhumed Killed Fighting for ISIS in Syria: Report,”
New York Daily News,
August 28, 2014.

50
.
      
Ibrahim, “Jihad in Syria Lures.”

51
.
      
Maury Glover, “‘Challenges, Lack of Opportunity’ Drove Suspected ISIS Fighter,” KMSP, August 28, 2014.

52
.
      
Kruglanski, “Joining Islamic State Is about ‘Sex and Aggression’”; Luke Salked, “UK Is Afraid I Will Come Back with the Skills I’ve Gained: Chilling Tweet of British Jihadist Fighting in Syria,”
Daily Mail,
July 2, 2014.

53
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Kruglanski, “Joining Islamic State Is about ‘Sex and Aggression’”; Rob Williams, “British ‘Primark Jihadist’ from Portsmouth Is Killed while Fighting with Isis in Syria,”
Independent,
August 11, 2014.

54
.
      
Michael S. Schmidt, “Canadian Killed in Syria Lives On as Pitchman for Jihadis,”
New York Times,
July 15, 2014.

55
.
      
Ibid.

56
.
      
Ibid.

57
.
      
Banco, “Why Do People Join ISIS?”

58
.
      
Schmidt, “Canadian Killed in Syria.”

59
.
      
Sullivan, “Three American Teens.”

60
.
      
Mullen, “What Is ISIS’ Appeal for Young People?”

61
.
      
Schmidt, “Canadian Killed in Syria.”

62
.
      
Chris Greenwood, “Revealed: Benefits Mother-of-Two from Kent Once in All-Girl Rock Band Who Is Now Jihadi in Syria—and Wants to ‘Behead Christians with a Blunt Knife,’”
Daily Mail,
August 31, 2014.

63
.
      
“Craigieburn ISIS Recruit Jake Bilardi Co-Founder of Children’s Charity Soccer for Hope,” Hume Leader, March 12, 2015.

64
.
      
Heather Saul, “Australian ‘Isis Suicide Bomber’ Jake Bilardi Wrote 4,300 Word Manifesto Vowing to Launch ‘String of Bombing Attacks across Melbourne,’”
Independent,
March 12, 2015.

65
.
      
Jake Bilardi, “From Melbourne to Ramadi: My Journey,” originally published at Bilardi’s blog
From the Eyes of a Muhajir,
deleted from there and republished at slackbastard, March 12, 2015,
http://slackbastard.anarchobase.com/?p=37774
.

66
.
      
“Terror Teen: ‘We’ll Make 9/11 Look like Child’s Play,’”
News.com.au
, March 10, 2015.

67
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Hamish MacDonald, Dan Good, Rym Momtaz, and Meghan Keneally, “Gunman and Two Others Dead in Sydney Hostage Crisis,” ABC, December 15, 2014.

68
.
      
Matt Brown, “Islamic State: Australian Teenager Jake Bilardi Believed to Be Involved in Suicide Bombing in Iraq,”
ABC.net.au
, March 11, 2015.

69
.
      
Jenny Deam, “Colorado Woman’s Quest for Jihad Baffles Neighbors,”
Los Angeles Times,
July 25, 2014.

70
.
      
Ibid.

71
.
      
Ibid.

72
.
      
P. Solomon Banda and Dan Elliott, “Shock, Sadness after Teen’s Arrest in Terror Case,” Associated Press, July 3, 2014.

73
.
      
“Woman Calls Self ‘Servant of Allah,’ Faces Sentencing for ISIS Plan,” CNN, January 23, 2015.

74
.
      
Deam, “Colorado Woman’s Quest for Jihad.”

75
.
      
Ibid.

76
.
      
Ibid.; “Coloradan in Terror Investigation Agrees to Change Plea to Guilty,” CBS4Denver, August 11, 2014.

77
.
      
“Woman Calls Self ‘Servant of Allah.’”

78
.
      
Deam, “Colorado Woman’s Quest for Jihad.”

79
.
      
“Judge Hands Down 4 Year Sentence to ‘Jihad Shannon,’” CBSDenver, January 23, 2015. “Woman Calls Self ‘Servant of Allah.’”

80
.
      
Deam, “Colorado Woman’s Quest for Jihad.”

81
.
      
Michael Kosnar and Daniel Arkin, “Tairod Nathan Webster Pugh, U.S. Air Force Veteran, Charged with Trying to Join ISIS,” NBC News, March 17, 2015.

82
.
      
Pierre Thomas, Mike Levine, and Jack Cloherty, “Tairod Nathan Webster Pugh: Former US Air Force Mechanic Charged with Trying to Join ISIS in Syria,” ABC News, March 17, 2015.

83
.
      
Ibid.

84
.
      
Sanchez and Bruer, “Two Illinois Men Arrested.”

85
.
      
“Islamic State in Illinois Planned Another Ft. Hood,” Investor’s Business Daily, March 27, 2015.

86
.
      
Ibid.

87
.
      
“Bangalore Police Arrest Pro-Jihad Twitter Handle User Mehdi Biswas, Book Him under Unlawful Activities Act,” Indian Express, December 13, 2014.

88
.
      
Subrata Nagchowdhury, “He Knew the Quran by Heart, Often Gave Us Lessons: Parents,” Indian Express, December 14, 2014.

89
.
      
Barney Guiton and Damien Sharkov, “Islamic State Supporters Hand Out Leaflets in Central London Promising ‘Dawn of a New Era,’”
Newsweek,
August 12, 2014.

90
.
      
Pamela Brown and Wesley Bruer, “FBI Official: ISIS Is Recruiting U.S. Teens,” CNN, February 4, 2015.

91
.
      
Andrew Kirell, “State Dept Spokeswoman Marie Harf: We Can’t Beat ISIS Just by Killing Them,” Mediaite, February 17, 2015.

92
.
      
Samantha Rollins, “France Says the Name ISIS Offensive, Will Call It ‘Daesh’ Instead,”
Week,
September 17, 2014.

93
.
      
Nima Elbagir, Paul Cruickshank, and Mohammed Tawfiq, “Boko Haram Purportedly Pledges Allegiance to ISIS,” CNN, March 9, 2015.

94
.
      
Charlie Spiering, “Obama: Climate Change Fueled Rise of Boko Haram, War in Syria,” Breitbart, May 20, 2015.

95
.
      
Patrick Goodenough, “Kerry: Extremism Not Linked to Islam; Factors Include Deprivation, Climate Change,” CNS News, October 17, 2014; John Kerry, “Remarks at a Reception in Honor of Eid al-Adha,” U.S. Department of State, October 16, 2014.

96
.
      
Patrick Goodenough, “Kerry: Potential Terror Recruits Need ‘More Economic Opportunities,’” CNS News, September 30, 2013.

97
.
      
Pamela Geller, “Shocking Video: Muslim Students at Brooklyn College Shout Support for ISIS,”
PamelaGeller.com
, April 22, 2015.

98
.
      
Ibid.

99
.
      
Ibid.

100
.
    
Ibid.

101
.
    
Ibid.

102
.
    
Ibid.

103
.
    
Ibid.

104
.
    
“Exploding Misconceptions,”
Economist,
December 16, 2010.

105
.
    
Carlos Lozada, “Does Poverty Cause Terrorism,” National Bureau of Economic Research, n.d.

106
.
    
Abu Bakr al-Husayni al-Qurashi al-Baghdadi, “A Message to the Mujahidin and the Muslim Ummah in the Month of Ramadan,” Al-Hayat Media Center, n.d.

Chapter Four: How They Did It—and Who’s Trying to Stop Them

1
.
        
“How Can Isis Afford Its Own Currency?,”
Guardian,
November 16, 2014.

2
.
        
Agence France Presse, “Iraq Lost 2,300 Humvees in Mosul: PM,”
Daily Star
(Lebanon), May 31, 2015.

3
.
        
Associated Press, “US Defense Secretary Says Fall of Ramadi Shows Iraqi Forces Lack Will to Fight ISIS,”
Guardian,
May 24, 2015.

4
.
        
Dexter Filkins, “The Real Problem in Iraq,”
New Yorker,
May 19, 2015.

5
.
        
Janine di Giovanni, Leah McGrath Goodman, and Damien Sharkov, “How Does ISIS Fund Its Reign of Terror?,”
Newsweek,
November 6, 2014.