DAVEED GARTENSTEIN-ROSS 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. 58
SOCIAL MEDIA 29. Aaron Zelin, “The Islamic State’s First Colony in Libya,” PolicyWatch 2325 (Washington Institute for Near East Policy, October 10, 2014), http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/the-islamic-states-first-colony-in-libya. 30. Thomas Joscelyn, “Veteran Jihadists Killed by Islamic State’s ‘Province’ in Derna, Libya,” Long War Journal, June 12, 2015, http://www.longwarjournal.org/ archives/2015/06/rival-jihadists-battle-derna.php. 31. See discussion in Nathaniel Barr, “The Islamic State’s Uneven Trajectory in Libya,” Terrorism Monitor 13, no. 19 (2015), http://washin.st/2eSjfLF. 32. “Libya’s Derna Is Now Free of ISIS,” Libya Observer, April 20, 2016, http://www. libyaobserver.ly/news/libyas-derna-now-free-isis. 59
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