The following is research published today, from the MEMRI Special Dispatch Series,TV Monitor Project, and Jihad & Terrorism Threat Monitor. Special Dispatch No. 4521—Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor/Hizbullah/Lebanon/Indoctrination of Children Following are excerpts from an interview with 'Imad Mughniya, grandson of slain Hizbullah operations mastermind 'Imad Mughniya, which aired on Al-Manar TV on February 16, 2012. To view this clip on MEMRI TV, visit http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/3332.htm. Interviewer: "Leaders do not die, because their path lives on forever. With us in the studio is little 'Imad Mughniya, grandson of the martyr 'Imad. Good morning, 'Imad. How are you?" Grandmother: "Say: 'Good morning.'" To read the full report, visit http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/6117.htm. Inquiry & Analysis No. 805—Jihad and Terrorism Studies Project By: R. Green,* I. Razafimbahiny,* and Steven Stalinsky* As part of its monitoring of Islamist terrorism and fundamentalism worldwide, The MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) follows jihad online, including on social media websites such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. Twitter began as an online social networking and microblogging service in English, and has gained popularity in other languages as well, including in Arabic across the Arab and Muslim world. It is increasingly being used by terrorist organizations and media outlets, and their online followers are growing in number. Organizations now tweeting include the Taliban (twitter.com/#!/alemarahweb and twitter.com/#!/ABalkhi), the Somali Al-Qaeda-affiliated group Al-Shabaab Al-Mujahedeen (twitter.com/#!/HSMPress), Hamas (twitter.com/hamasinfo and others), Hizbullah and its Al-Manar TV (twitter.com/#!/almanarnews), Ansar Al-Mujahideen English Forum (AMEF) (ansar1.info), and others. Another region where Twitter has become popular is the Caucasus, which tweets in Russian. Tweeters there include the jihadi news agency Kavkaz Center. Established in 1999, Kavkaz Center states that it is an online Chechen news agency reporting on events in the Caucasus, Russia, and the Islamic world, in English, Arabic, Ukrainian, Russian, and Turkish. Banned in Russia, the website posts content encouraging and glorifying violent jihad in the Caucasus and elsewhere Although it purports to be an independent news agency, Kavkaz Center is closely affiliated with the Caucasus Emirate (CE), a jihad organization operating in Russia's Caucasian republics, and has posted videos featuring messages from and interviews with its leaders. The website has also featured exclusive information on developments in the CE, which could only have been obtained through close ties with CE operatives. To read the full report, visit http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/6118.htm. Special Dispatch No. 4519—Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor Note to media and government: For a full copy of this report, send an email with the title of the report in the subject line to media@memri.org. Please include your name, title, and organization in your email. On February 16, 2012, the Yemeni news website Marebpress.net reported that Tareq Al-Dhahab, the commander of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in Yemen's Al-Bayda Governorate, had been killed by his stepbrother Hazzam Al-Dhahab, and that Tareq's brother Qaid Al-Dhahab had avenged his death by killing the murderer. To read the full report, visit http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/6116.htm. To view this report, you must be a paying member of the Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor Project (JTTM). For membership information, send an email to jttmsubs@memri.org with "Membership" in the subject line. Special Dispatch No. 4518—Jihad and Terrorism Studies Project On December 15, 2011, the Al-Qaeda affiliated Kurdish group Ansar Al-Islam released the second part of the video "An Inexhaustible Weapon," in which it boasts about the group's developments in the field of weapons technology. It especially celebrates the development of a remote control car, which can be used to carry out bombing attacks against enemy targets without the need for a driver. The group notes that this development will enable it to carry out large-scale bombings without the need to sacrifice a suicide bomber. Following are excerpts from the video, which was posted on the Internet on December 15, 2011. To view this clip on MEMRI TV, visit http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/3241.htm. Narrator: "The minds of the 'lions of production' know no bounds, and they vigorously pursue the plan to become self-sufficient, and to fulfill all the needs of the mujahideen. What you see here is a practical course in electronics for some of the brothers. The director of the workshop is teaching them how to build transmission and reception circuits for explosive devices. These circuits are produced out of basic materials, abundant in the markets, by means of original production methods. Engineers and technicians specializing in this field train the mujahideen and teach them how to produce these circuits in the simplest and most efficient manner, so that they will be able to prepare them themselves at any time and in any place." To read the full report, visit http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/6115.htm. A member on the Salafi-jihadi website Minbar Al-Tawhid Wal-Jihad (MTJ) posed a query to the website's Shari'a Committee regarding the permissibility of stoking internal strife in enemy countries. The reader, who calls himself "Qanas Al-Furat" ("Sniper of the Euphrates"), gave the example of stoking racial hatred between blacks and whites in the US in order to weaken this country. Shari'a committee member Abu Mundhir Al-Shinqiti replied that this tactic is indeed recommended, citing hadiths on the use of trickery and deception in war. The following are excerpts from the query and the fatwa, which were posted on the website on February 4, 2012: To read the full report, visit www.memrijttm.org/content/en/blog_personal.htm?id=5757¶m=JT. To view this report, you must be a paying member of the Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor Project (JTTM). For membership information, send an email to jttmsubs@memri.org with "Membership" in the subject lineFamily of Hizbullah Terror Mastermind 'Imad Mughniyah Encourages Grandson to Follow in Footsteps;
Jihadi News Agency 'Kavkaz Center' Tweets Jihad & Martyrdom; AQAP:
We Have Avenged Death of Tareq Al-Dhahab By Car Bomb That Killed His Murderers
Family of Slain Hizbullah Terror Mastermind 'Imad Mughniyah, Encourages His Grandson to Follow in His Footsteps
Jihadi News Agency 'Kavkaz Center,' Affiliated With the Designated Terrorist Organization 'Caucasus Emirate,' Tweets Jihad and Martyrdom
AQAP: We Have Avenged the Death of Tareq Al-Dhahab By Detonating a Car Bomb That Killed His Murderers, 'Tearing Them Limb from Limb'
Tareq Al-DhahabAl-Qaeda-Affiliated 'Ansar Al-Islam' Video on Group's Technological Innovations, Including Remote-Controlled Car and Machine-Gun
Fatwa on MTJ: It Is Permissible to Sow Internal Strife in Enemy Countries
Friday, 24 February 2012
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