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Abu Luqman – Father of the ISIS Emni: Its Organizational Structure, Current Leadership and Clues to its Inner Workings in Syria & Iraq

April 12, 2017
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Asaad H. Almohammad, Ph.D. & Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. Download the PDF If ISIS were the German Nazis, the Emni (al-Amnyah in proper Arabic), i.e. the ISIS security/intelligence forces would be the Gestapo and the Abwehr combined. The civilians in its…

The ISIS Emni: The Inner Workings and Origins of ISIS’s Intelligence Apparatus

December 3, 2016
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By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. and Ahmet S. Yayla, Ph.D. Thirty-eight ISIS defectors from Syria, Western Europe, and the Balkans interviewed over the last year in our ISIS Defectors Interviews Project reported about life inside ISIS and their reasons for ultimately…