He has been consulted as an expert by major media outlets including Al Jazeera, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post, and others.
In an otherwise scathing 2014 Business Insider article, Armin Rosen described then 21-year-old Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi as one of "the fastest rising stars in his field — his online connections and self-presentation to jihadists he was attempting to mine for information."
[8] An in-depth 30 December 2015 report in the Washington Post, which included an interview with Al-Tamimi, presented extensive evidence that documents that were leaked and purported to prove that the Islamic State was weakening were fake.
"Just as the best histories of Nazi Germany have been written well after the Second World War with archives of documents made available to researchers, so I apply the same reasoning to analyzing the Islamic State.
[10][11][12] A March 2020 report entitled "Honored, Not Contained: The Future of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces", which he co-authored with Michael Knights and Hamdi Malik, was published by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP or TWI).
[3] Armin Rosen, who was then Business Insider's senior writer for defense and the military, wrote a scathing article that the "young terrorism analyst's" career had come "apart in public".
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi admitted in a 22 July 2014 blog post entitled, Reflections on Methods" that, "[While] this indeed garnered some valuable information (eg it helped [him] first identify Moroccan ex-Gitmo detainee Muhammad Mizouz and his presence in Syria), it was also unethical, pure and simple."
[citation needed] Among other posts Al-Tamimi made on Twitter were ones claiming "one day even the Kaaba in Mecca will be covered with the ISIS banner" and "Dawla Islamiya (Islamic State) will take over the whole world".
[2] Rosen reported that academics and researchers, including Aaron Zelin, Phillip Smyth, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Eliot Higgins condemned Al-Tamimi's actions.
"[2] Rosen cited Aaron Zelin, who had blacklisted Al-Tamimi and removed all his work from his website Jihadology, as saying that Tamimi's analysis had become "more and more just pushing that narrative of the groups [ISIS] themselves.
In his 2016 Bellingcat report, investigative journalist, Christiaan Triebert cited Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi, a "fellow at the Middle East Forum," to clarify any confusion about the management of water infrastructure in Raqqa.