TSG Report Featured in WaPo: Charting the Murky Leadership Structure of the Islamic State

October 30, 2014

Charting the Murky Leadership Structure of the Islamic State

Washington Post
By: Adam Taylor

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While it’s tempting to imagine them as a disorganized horde, the reality of the Islamic State — the extremist Islamist group who have taken over vast swathes of Syria and Iraq — is that the sheer scale of their military operations, not to mention their Caliphate ambitions, are not possible without some kind of organized leadership structure.

In a new report on Islamic State, The Soufan Group has broken down graphically what we know about ISIS’s leadership structure. It’s a fascinating glimpse of how the group that has captured so much of the world actually operates.

We’ll break it out further (if the chart is hard to read, please check the pdf of Soufan Group’s full report).

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First, there’s the leadership. At the top there is the Caliph, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi (also known as Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim al Badri al Samarrai), who is no doubt the best known member of the Islamic State so far. He is the overall leader of the Islamic State…

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To download a full copy of the “The Islamic State” report please click here.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/10/30/charting-the-murky-leadership-structure-of-the-islamic-state/?tid=HP_world?tid=HP_world

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