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This is popular front a podcast focused on the niche details of modern warfare and underreported conflict with me Jake Hanrahan.

Today we're speaking to researcher and analyst Aaron Zellin.

Zellin is in my opinion one of the best people researching when it comes to

understanding militant jihadism. He's also the guy that runs jihadology.

If you know Popular Front you probably know about jihadology. Today Aaron is

going to be speaking about Tunisian jihad something we don't actually hear that much of, but something that has had a big influence within Al Qaeda, ISIS, and even in the wars in Chechnya to some degree and the Balkans.

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So I was thinking first before we really get into kind of the modern day era with

Icyis and what have you maybe it would be useful if you can go into the history of

Tunisia and jihad there specifically because you know like I was just saying it's not really the sort of place that people think of when they think of militant jihadism.

Yeah, so you started to first see Tunisians getting involved in the

jihadi movement in the 1980s in Afghanistan.

Compared to other you know nationalities though like Egyptians or

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