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10. Posted on al-Minbar al-Ilami jihadist forum by “al-Mujahid al-Iliktruni,” January
20, 2015.
11. “Glad Tidings: Important Statement by the Islamic State in Wilayah al-Yemen: ‘The
Official Emergence of Islamic State in Wilayah Lahij,’” posted on al-Minbar al-
Ilami jihadist forum by Abu al-Abbas al-Dali’i, March 2, 2015.
12. Observation by BBC Monitoring, March 2, 2015.
13. “Da’esh Yu’lin An Thuhurihi al-Awwal fi al-Yaman (Wathiqa),” Sanaa al-Taghyir,
March 2, 2015.
14. See, for example, Wilayat Sana, “Bayan Tabani al-Amaliyaat al-Istishhadiyya Dud
Awkar al-Houtha,” March 20, 2015, http://washin.st/2dOS6Fg.
15. See, for example, Wilayat Sana, “Detonating a Parked Car Bomb against a House of
Worship Belonging to the Polytheist Rejectionists, the Qubbah al-Mahdi Husayniyah”
(in Arabic), June 20, 2015.
16. Wilayat Sana, “Junud al-Khilafa fi Ard al-Yaman,” April 23, 2015, http://washin.
st/2ej7aO2.
17. For examples of how Hatim figured in IS’s propaganda, see Mamun Hatim, audio
statement posted to Twitter on June 17, 2014; series of tweets from Mamum Hatim,
@mam1346, November 19, 2014; Mamun Hatim, audio message posted to Twitter
by user @u7_10, November 26, 2014.
18. Observation by BBC Monitoring, November 26, 2014.
19. Ali Saeed, “Email Declares Pro-Islamic State Group in Yemen,” Yemen Times, October
14, 2014, http://www.yementimes.com/en/1824/news/4435/Email-declares-pro-
Islamic-State-group-in-Yemen.htm.
20. Bill Roggio and Thomas Joscelyn, "Divisions Emerge within the Islamic State's
Yemen Province," Long War Journal, December 23, 2015, http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2015/12/divisions-emerge-within-the-islamic-states-yemen-province.php.
21. Taylor Luck, “In Yemen, Islamic State Is Struggling to Claim the Mantle of Sunnis’
Champion,” Christian Science Monitor, September 29, 2015, http://washin.
st/2dqWJEI.
22. Majlis Shura Shabab al-Islam bi Madinat Darnah, Facebook post, April 4, 2014.
23. See, e.g., the Twitter account of Shabab al-Islam Shura Council, July 3 and 4, 2014.
24. Ibid., August 19, 2014.
25. Ibid., August 26, 2014.
26. See “Libya’s Islamist Militants Parade with ISIS Flags,” Al-Arabiya, October 6, 2014.
27. Tweets from Prophet’s Khilafah, @PKH1974, October 31, 2014.
28. For one example of this press reporting, see Maggie Michael, “How a Libyan City
Joined the Islamic State Group,” Associated Press, November 9, 2014.
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