Generation Jihad

Bill and Joe discuss the latest news surrounding the war against Israel on Wednesday, October 11, 2023.

Bill is joined again by LWJ's Joe Truzman to unpack the latest developments from Israel.

Bill is joined by LWJ/FDD's Joe Truzman to talk about the war (yes, it's officially a war) happening now in Israel.

Where in the world might the next state collapse into failure?Hosts Bill and Caleb ultimately narrowed it down to two options: Somalia or Mali.Shabaab in Somalia has aptly been dubbed "The Taliban of Africa," given how well-organized, well-armed and effective it is there as a jihadist group.But Mali is actually the weaker state. To boot:— The UN has undertaken an unprecedented withdrawal of its peacekeeping forces and will no longer have a presence in Mali by the end of this year;— France, which was a major counterterrorism partner, has already completely withdrawn its troops from Mali;— There is currently an Islamic Statelet in northern Mali, where the Islamic State controls the majority of an entire province;— Al Qaeda controls huge swaths of territory in both northern and central Mali, and it increasingly threatens Bamako as it slowly encroaches on the capital;— And also in the ring: Russia's Wagner Group.Despite all of these excellent targets, the country's ruling military junta in Bamako is threatening open conflict with rebels in the north — a situation that could easily erupt into war.Bill and Caleb agree: It's Mali on the brink.

Bill is joined by Jerry Dunleavy and James Hasson to discuss their new book: Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden’s Fiasco — from the Biden administration’s deeply flawed decision to withdraw from Afghanistan to its equally disastrous execution of the withdrawal, which was completed two years ago today.

Guests Tara Candland and Ryan O'Farrell discuss Bridgeway's report on the funding behind the Islamic State's Central Africa Province, exploring the ADF's origins, the Bashir network, uncovering a safe house in Las Vegas, the ADF's financial impact and expansion, strategies to combat extremism, and the importance of de-radicalization.

Bill and Caleb are joined by expert James Barnett to make sense of the coup in Niger. They discuss the latest developments and implications.James is a Lagos-based research fellow at the Hudson Institute.

Ambassador Edmund Fitton-Brown discusses the latest UN report on al Qaeda and ISIS. Topics include the ongoing threat of terrorist attacks, targeting leadership in terrorist groups, implications of Al Qaeda leaders in Iran, and terrorist threats in Africa. Insightful discussions on financial strength of terrorist organizations and counterterrorism tools.

Is Africa the epicenter of today's jihad? Bill and Caleb discuss, including in the context of Mali, the drawdown of African Union forces in Somalia, and one of Uganda's worst terrorist attacks in more than a decade.

Bill welcomes back to the show Generation Jihad regular Ambassador Edmund Fitton-Brown. Now a member of the Counter Extremism Project's advisory board, Edmund previously served as the UK's Ambassador to Yemen and later as the coordinator of the U.N. Security Council’s Sanctions Monitoring Team. Edmund's former team at the U.N. just released its latest report on Afghanistan which details (among other troubling issues) just how embedded al Qaeda is in Afghanistan's Taliban government. Bill and Edmund dissect the report's findings.