Victory in Death: The Political Use of Islamist Martyrs
                   
jamestown.org     May 13, 2008          

By Michael Scheuer The past week once again saw the international media intensely focus on the capture and death of prominent Islamist leaders. On May 8, hundreds of reports appeared that al-Qaeda’s commander in Iraq Abu Ayub al-Masri (a.k.a. Abu Hamza al-Muhajir) had been captured by U.S. and... [read full story]                    


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