🧵Salafi-Jihadist groups place an emphasis on martyrdom, a prominent example being IS soldiers shown dying within the groups own propaganda releases as well as supporters edits.
It is interesting to see the earlier manifestation of this trend in the iraqi insurgency.
Most places were like this
The western fashion boom of the 1950s-70s was a short lived phase limited to capital cities mainly (where lots of footage was taken in MENA countries), anddespite many govs pushing it it was a short lived phase and people have been more religious in the modern era for longer than the phase of the western fastion, high heels and miniskirts.
The full JTJ release commemorating Abu Anas alShami from which the Umar Hadid talking was taken from.
Features various scenes from the first battle of fallujah and preparation for the 2004 Abu Gharib attack as well as more. Check out:
@N1i0a (I dont endorse any stances here but everyone is free to their own opinion)
If such bs is referring to media releases, yes a few, which i compiled there, showing their operations against malikis army in 2014.
Compilation of rare operations released by the IAI in 2014 during the 2013-14 Iraqi Sunni uprising that would soon be dominated by the IS and known to some as the War in Iraq (2014-17).
@Canary001776756 My understanding is that there was little sunni infighting at the start however things got worse and after some fighting the IAI backed down fully as it claimed IIRC it did not want to fight the IS and end up helping maliki.
Check out now, AQI release on the attack done on Abu Gharib prison around 2004-2005. Both Abu Anas al-Shami and Abu Muhammad al-Lubnani would meet their end during the preparation for this attack.
Before Iraq, Abu Hamza aka Abu Ayyub al Masri was a veteran of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. He later joined Zarqawi's circle in Afghanistan and was arguably as central to JTJ as Z himself. He's the mysterious Abu Ismail, author of the vast majority of the Distinguished Martyrs bios.
Combat footage so legendary it could've been a socialist realist painting.
A Yemeni revolutionary hurls a Soviet RKG-3 anti-tank grenade into a Saudi bunker, 2015.