Paper Trail of Terror
Nelly Lahoud’s new book reportedly draws from 6,000 Abbottabad raid documents. But the book suffers from major analytical problems.
Author Archives: Jonathan Schanzer
‘Hasm’ claims responsibility for attack targeting Myanmar embassy in Cairo
The Egyptian militant group, Hasm, claimed responsibility yesterday for its attack against Myanmar’s embassy in Cairo a day earlier, noting that it was a response to Myanmar’s treatment of Rohingya Muslims. “This bombing served as a warning to the embassy of murderers, killers of women and children in the Muslim Rakhine State [in Myanmar], and […]
Egyptian Islamic Group plans to sue Interior Ministry over torture
The Gama’a al-Islamiyya was responsible for a wave of terror attacks in Egypt and abroad in the 1980s and 1990s, and was an original member of the al Qaeda alliance.