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Latest ISIS PR Move: Jihadists and Their Cats

By Bridget Johnson 1:39 PM on June 26, 2014

The Islamist State of Iraq and the Levant, aka ISIL or ISIS, aka the successor to al-Qaeda in Iraq, has taken social media terrorism to a whole new level since the group began storming through Iraqi cities. In addition to tweeting pictures of their parades, guns, swimming parties, shopping, cupcakes and truck decals…

 

 

 

Now, apparently jihadists and their cats are a thing, because what better way to burnish their pop-culture creds than furry animals?

 

 

 

 

Still haven’t seen them issue motivational posters with the phrase “Dogs wag, cats wage jihad.”

Bridget Johnson
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Bridget Johnson is a veteran journalist whose news articles and analyses have run in dozens of news outlets across the globe. Bridget first came to Washington to be online editor at The Hill, where she wrote The World from The Hill column on foreign policy. Previously she was an opinion writer and editorial board member at the Rocky Mountain News and nation/world news columnist at the Los Angeles Daily News.

Bridget is a Senior Fellow specializing in terrorism analysis at the Haym Salomon Center. She is a Senior Risk Analyst for Gate 15, a homeland security risk management firm in the Beltway. She is an NPR contributor and has contributed to USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, National Review Online, Politico, New York Daily News, The Jerusalem Post, The Hill, New York Observer, Washington Times, RealClearWorld and more, and has myriad television and radio credits including Al-Jazeera and SiriusXM. Bridget is Washington Editor for PJ Media.
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