OBJECTIVE ·· RELEVANT ·· RIGOROUS || JUNE/JULYSEPTEMBER 2018 2020 · VOLUME· VOLUME 11, 13, ISSUE ISSUE 6 9 FEATURE ARTICLE A VIEWFEATURE FROM COMMENTARYTHE CT FOXHOLE The Jihadi Threat The Future The al-Mawla Files LTC(R)Role ofBryan the U.S. Price Danielto Milton Indonesia and Muhammad al-`Ubaydi Armed Forces in With further insights from Cole Bunzel, Counterterrorism Former Director, Haroro ingram,Kirsten Gina Ligon, E. Schulze and Craig Whiteside CombatingBrian Michael Terrorism Jenkins Center FEATURE ARTICLE Editor in Chief 1 Stepping Out from the Shadows: The Interrogation of the Islamic State's Future Caliph Paul Cruickshank Daniel Milton and Muhammad al-`Ubaydi Managing Editor Kristina Hummel DISCUSSION 14 The al-Mawla TIRs: An Analytical Discussion with Cole Bunzel, EDITORIAL BOARD Haroro Ingram, Gina Ligon, and Craig Whiteside Colonel Suzanne Nielsen, Ph.D. Daniel Milton Department Head Dept. of Social Sciences (West Point) FEATURE COMMENTARY Brian Dodwell 24 The Future Role of the U.S. Armed Forces in Counterterrorism Director, CTC Brian Michael Jenkins Don Rassler ANALYSIS Director of Strategic Initiatives, CTC 40 The Crisis Within Jihadism: The Islamic State's Puritanism vs. al-Qa`ida's Populism CONTACT Mohammed Hafez Combating Terrorism Center U.S. Military Academy In the September issue, it is revealed for the first time that the Islamic 607 Cullum Road, Lincoln Hall State’s new leader, publicly identified by the U.S. government as Amir Mu- West Point, NY 10996 hammad Sa’id ‘Abd-al-Rahman al-Mawla, was detained by U.S. forces in Iraq in 2008 and interrogated. The Combating Terrorism Center has made available on its website Phone: (845) 938-8495 three of his declassified interrogation reports, and these are analyzed in a feature article by Daniel Email:
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