ISIS evolves virtually as it loses on land

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ISIS evolves virtually as it loses on land
by Joseph Lawler | June 19, 2018 12:01 AM

Jesse Morton and Mitchell Silber for New America: From December 2007 through May 2011, Revolution Muslim, a radical Salafi-jihadist organization based primarily in New York City, brought al Qaeda’s ideology to the United States. At its inception, many dismissed Revolution Muslim as amateurish. Yet the group developed an effective and deadly methodology for promoting “open-source jihad” via radicalization, recruitment, online propaganda, social media and covert communications.

The organization was linked to many of the most serious terrorism investigations opened by the New York Police Department at the time and had international links with cases touching four continents. In 2012, federal prosecutor Gordon Kromberg, who prosecuted the cases of Yousef Khattab, Jesse Morton and Zachary Chesser, all figures at the core of Revolution Muslim, said: “It is amazing from the perspective of time to look back at Revolution Muslim. In our pleading we listed … 15 different defendants … who engage[d] in terrorism or attempted to engage in terrorism [and] all were connected to Revolution Muslim.” Though the group disbanded in May 2011, it laid the foundation for jihadist organizing in the United States that the Islamic State would later copy and take advantage of.

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