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Harmony Program

The CTC launched the Harmony Program in 2005 in order to release and analyze documents from the Department of Defense’s Harmony database. The focus of this program is to contextualize the inner-functioning of al-Qa’ida, its associated movement, and other security threats through primary source documents. Harmony products released by the CTC are typically accompanied by an analytical report and the primary source material from which its conclusions are based. By releasing this material, the CTC aims to make these sources, which are captured in the course of operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other theaters, available to other scholars for further study.

While captured documents offer unique insight into the decision-making process of terrorist groups they are most valuable when contextualized with information drawn from other sources. Scholars and practitioners should be aware that analyzing such data is fraught with risk. Documents in the Harmony database were collected on the battlefield unscientifically. There is no way to know just how representative documents captured by U.S. forces are of the larger body of information produced by al‐Qa`ida or other insurgents. Likewise, the vast database in which they are stored is imperfect and virtually impossible to search systematically. Readers and researchers should therefore be wary of conclusions drawn from Harmony documents alone.

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`Atiyah’s Letter to Zarqawi

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This is a letter from `Atiyah `Abd al-Rahman, mostly known as `Atiyatullah al-Libi, to Abu Mus`ab al-Zarqawi. The letter was...

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Zawahiri’s Letter to Zarqawi

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This is a critical letter from Ayman al-Zawahiri to Abu Mus`ab al-Zarqawi in which the author presents his strategy of...

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Letter from UBL to `Atiyatullah Al-Libi 4

SOCOM-2012-0000019

This document is a long letter authored by Usama bin Ladin after the death of Sheikh Sa'id (Mustafa Abu'l-Yazid) in...

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Lessons Learned from the Jihad Ordeal in Syria

AFGP-2002-600080

This is a lengthy document that examines the jihad waged by the Muslim Brotherhood against the Syrian regime of Hafiz...

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  • Caliphate Complaint Box 362

    This is a complaint from a father against his son-in-law, who he claims beats and abuses his wife (the complainant’s...

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  • Caliphate Complaint Box 361

    The complainant says that a person he has known for a little while insulted him out of nowhere. He wants...

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  • Caliphate Complaint Box 360

    The complainant says that a man came and said he was buying food for Islamic State, but never paid. When...

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  • Caliphate Complaint Box 359

    The complainant says that a man posing as an Islamic State police officer raided his house while the complainant was...

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  • Caliphate Complaint Box 358

    The complainant says that he went to the hospital to inquire about his father’s missing pistol; the man at the...

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  • Caliphate Complaint Box 357

    This is a complaint regarding a physical altercation between two people because one of them was trying to meet women...

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  • Caliphate Complaint Box 356

    This complaint is from a checkpoint soldier, who claims that his emir took his boots, weapons, and magazines from the...

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  • Caliphate Complaint Box 355

    This is a complaint from a generator operator, who says that an individual within the Islamic State came into his...

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