The Blood-Rep
Journalism, fiction and analysis by investigative journalist Tam Hussein
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September Roundup (opens the original)
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September has been a big month for me given that it is the 25th anniversary of 9/11 and the wars that followed. I wrote a piece on the jihadi ideologue Abu Musab al-Suri for Unherd entitled The Man Who Made Bin Laden. You can read an extended version here. I include a rarely seen photo of him from my archives.
The Architect Of Global Jihad (opens the original)
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As we approach the 25th anniversary of 9/11, Osama bin Laden will inevitably be seen as the attack’s bloody architect. Yet if the Saudi remains a jihadi icon, those that came after him were far more influenced by Abu Musab al-Suri — a little-known ideologue living in the suburbs of north London. Known in Spain as El Pelirrojo (“the Ginger”), Suri was not the sort of ginger jihadi Britain produced, the kind who chased you around Whitechapel distributing leaflets proclaiming “sharia-controlled zon
August Roundup (opens the original)
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The Plunder of Syria (opens the original)
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The Misfortune of Fools- A Novel (opens the original)
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