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Special Dispatch |3320|October 26, 2010 Jihad & Terrorism Threat Monitor From the Jihad & Terrorism Threat Monitor Today

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In YouTube Clip, Sheikh Omar Bakri Suggests Jihad As Means To Free Muslims Captives

On October 6, 2010, a video by radical sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad was posted on YouTube. In the video, which is 10:22 in duration, Sheikh Bakri speaks about the issue of Muslim prisoners and calls for jihad as a means for obtaining their release.

Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad, who is Syrian-born, is the former leader of the Islamist "Al-Muhajirun" organization in Britain; he has been living in Beirut since 2005, when Britain informed him while he was on a visit there that he would not be allowed to return to the U.K.

The video was presented by Izharudeen.com, a website that posts Sheikh Bakri's sermons and lectures. Izharudeen.com is registered in the U.K. (izharudeen@hotmail.co.uk/+1.0793016766). The site is hosted from http://www.weebly.com/, a San Francisco, CA-based do-it-yourself website/blog site. They can be reached at questions@weebly.com, or phoned at (415)375-3268.

Following are excerpts from the video; the original English has been lightly edited for clarity:

"As we see the kuffar [i.e. unbelievers and polytheists] keep saying all the time that they believe in democracy [and] freedom of speech…and yet we can see how many people have been arrested without reason, without crime they committed… Check about Omar Abdul-Rahman and about those Muslims in Guantanamo, and check about Abu Qatada and Abu Hamza (Al-Masri)…

To read in full, visit http://www.memrijttm.org/content/en/blog_personal.htm?id=3934&param=GJN.

Special Dispatch No. 3320

AQAP Issues One-Hour Video on Assassination Attempts against Saudi Deputy Interior Minister Prince Muhammad bin Naif

On October 4, 2010, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) published a one-hour video giving further details on the August 28, 2009 assassination attempt against Saudi Deputy Interior Minister Prince Muhammad bin Naif, carried out by an AQAP suicide bomber by means of an explosive charge concealed within his body.

The video, produced by AQAP's media company Al-Malahim and posted on the jihadi forum Shumukh Al-Islam, is a follow-up to two other AQAP publications (a communiqué and a video) dealing with this operation. It provides many details about the operation's planning and execution, revealing how AQAP tricked the Saudi intelligence operatives into providing a direct route to the prince himself, thus allowing the AQAP assassin to target him in his own palace.

In addition, the video provides information about a previous assassination plot against Muhammad bin Naif, involving a plan to shoot down a plane carrying the prince and his father, Saudi Interior Minister Naif bin 'Abd Al-'Aziz, who were to arrive in Yemen at the head of a visiting delegation.

The film incorporates footage of AQAP commander Sheikh Abu Basir Nasser Al-Wahishi; of his deputy Sa'id Al-Shihri, aka Abu Sufyan, who warns Muhammad bin Naif that if he does not stop persecuting the mujahideen the assassination attempts will continue; and of AQAP's military commander, Sheikh Qassem Al-Rimi, aka Abu Huraira Al-San'ani, who threatens the Arab "tyrants," saying: "We advise you: before going to sleep, shake out your bedclothes, for you might find one [of the mujahideen lying in wait for you], or an explosive charge that they left there... By Allah, we will not rest until we wipe out all heresy and all religion is Allah's."

Following is a detailed description of the video and the information it presents.

The First Failed Attempt to Assassinate Prince Muhammad bin Naif and His Father, the Saudi Interior Minister

In the beginning of the video, which is titled "Fuztu Wa-Rabi Al-Ka'ba" ("By the Lord of the Ka'ba, I Have Triumphed"), a narrator states that the U.S. air strikes in Afghanistan have outraged thousands of young Muslims, and the jihad commanders urged them to join the jihad in Afghanistan. One of the young Yemenis who heeded the call was Badr Mushri', who tried to reach Afghanistan but could not cross the border. Upon returning to Yemen he was thrown into jail, where he met another young man named Salem Maqsaf Al-Nahdi. The two agreed that the Arab leaders of the region were "American agents" who had filled their prisons with decent and pious young men in order to serve the Crusaders and their plans.

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