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In New Video, Al-Qaeda Leader Al-Zawahiri Urges Afghans: Join Taliban Now That You've Seen How U.S. Treats You
On March 21, 2012, the Al-Qaeda media company Al-Sahab released an audio message from Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri to the Afghan people about the January 2012 incident in which U.S. soldiers were filmed urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters, and the February incident in which U.S. troops burned copies of the Koran in Afghanistan. In the message, which was almost 12 minutes long, Al-Zawahiri doesn't mention the recent killing of 16 Afghan civilians by U.S. soldier. To read the full report, visit http://www.memrijttm.org/content/en/blog_personal.htm?id=5865¶m=APT.
AQAP Claims Responsibility for Killing of U.S. Citizen Joel Shrum, Threatens Missionaries and U.S. Targets in YemenOn March 22, 2012, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) published a communiqué claiming responsibility for the killing of Joel Shrum, a U.S. citizen working as an English teacher in Ta'iz, Yemen. The communiqué reads: "Allah has blessed the mujahideen with the killing of the American Joel Shrum, who worked as a missionary, under the guise of a teacher, in the city of Ta'iz." To read the full report, visit http://www.memrijttm.org/content/en/blog_personal.htm?id=5866¶m=APT.
New Video Documents Siege by Bedouin on Multinational Force Mission in Sinai, Indicates Links to Salafi-Jihadis in GazaOn March 9, 2012, the blog Ansar Al-Shari'a, which chiefly follows Salafi-jihadi activities in Egypt, reported that the same day, armed Bedouins had surrounded the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) base in Sinai and laid siege to it. According to the report, they blocked access to the base from all four directions, in an attempt to pressure Egypt's "apostate government" to release jihadis from its prisons, chiefly Muhammad Al-Raba', Younis Abu Jurair, Osama Al-Nakhlawi, and Muhammad Gaiz. The following day, the jihadi forum Shumoukh Al-Islam picked up the story, reporting that dozens of Bedouin were protesting on the roads leading to the base, blocking personnel and supplies from reaching the international forces there, and that they had even set up portable roadblocks, turning back anyone who was not a local resident. According to the report on Shumoukh,, the demonstration came in response to the Egyptian authorities' violation of a commitment to release jihadis from its prisons – a commitment made by the commander of the Egyptian 2nd Army during the Bedouin's previous round of demonstrations in late January 2012, in northern Sinai's Bir Lahfan area, in which they demanded, among other things, to halt natural gas exports to Israel and to release their prisoners. To read the full report, visit http://www.memrijttm.org/content/en/blog_personal.htm?id=5852¶m=GJN.
Al-Qaeda Video Traces Pakistan Army's Role 'Against Muslims' In Iraq, Palestine, Delhi, Pakistani Tribal Region, Bangladesh
Al-Qaeda militant Sher Alam A new video released by Al-Qaeda traces the Pakistan Army's role "against Muslims" over the past century in Iraq, Palestine, Delhi, Pakistani tribal region and Bangladesh, and accuses it of killing Muslims and causing wounds to the Muslim Ummah. The video is produced by Al-Sahab, the media arm of Al-Qaeda, and was released in two parts on a jihadist internet forum. The video starts with an interview of a mother, whose son was kidnapped by the Pakistani intelligence agencies six years ago and about whom there are no reports available to the family members. Similar clips from Pakistani television channels showing the relatives of "missing persons" kidnapped and killed by Pakistan intelligence agencies are shown. To read the full report, visit http://www.memrijttm.org/content/en/blog_personal.htm?id=5837¶m=UPP.
No Arab Al-Qaeda Fighters in Latest 'Mujahid's Diary' VideoOn March 20, 2012, Al-Qaeda's media company Al-Sahab released the sixth video in the "Mujahid's Diary" series. Large portions of the 32-minute video, which was posted on Al-Fida' (www.alfiaa.info), are devoted to anti-U.S. propaganda, including scenes in which U.S. soldiers describe the hardships of the Afghanistan war and express pessimism regarding its outcome, and footage of U.S. Marines demolishing buildings in an Afghan village.
To read the full report, visit http://www.memrijttm.org/content/en/blog_personal.htm?id=5855¶m=GJN
ISI Claims Responsibility for Wave of Attacks in Iraq, Warns Leaders of Arab Countries Against Participating in Arab League Summit in Baghdad
The jihadi forum Shumoukh Al-Islam published a communiqué from Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), dated March 20, 2012, in which the Al-Qaeda affiliated organization claimed responsibility for the simultaneous car bomb attacks that struck several Iraqi cities on the same day. In the communiqué, the organization also warned the leaders of the Arab countries not to take part in the upcoming Arab League Summit, set to be held in Baghdad on March 29, stressing that the wave of bombings was only a small taste of what awaited them if they did take part. It added that the mujahideenwould not shy away from targeting these leaders individually. To read the full report, visit http://www.memrijttm.org/content/en/blog_personal.htm?id=5861¶m=GJN.
Pakistan Bans 31 Terror Organizations, Excludes Influential Groups
Following is the list of 31 terror organizations recently banned by the Pakistani interior ministry. The ministry's list excludes some of the key militant groups: for example, Jamaatud Dawa (JuD), a front organization for Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT); Difa-e-Pakistan Council (DPC), a new network of banned militant organizations in Pakistan; and Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ), the new name of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP). Following is the list of the banned terror groups: 1. Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) 2. Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan 3. Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) 4. Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT 5. Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) 6. Tehreek-e-Jaafria Pakistan (TJP) 7. Tehreek Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM) 8. Tehreek-e-Islami 9. Al-Qaeda To read the full report, visit http://www.memrijttm.org/content/en/blog_personal.htm?id=5872¶m=UPP.
Al-Shabab Commander: Our Declaration of Allegiance to Al-Qaeda is 'a Key to Renewing the Caliphate, Expelling the Crusaders from the Muslim World, and Liberating Jerusalem'In a new audio recording, the commander of the Somali jihad organization Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen, Mukhtar Abu Al-Zubair, declared that the Muslims' victory over the Crusaders is near, and that last month's London Conference on Somalia was aimed at erasing this country from the map of the world. He also expressed satisfaction over his organization's declaration of allegiance to Al-Qaeda, calling it "a key to renewing the Caliphate, expelling the crusaders from the Muslim world, and liberating Jerusalem." He urged all Muslims to join the jihad, for it is an individual religious duty incumbent upon every believer. Al-Zubair's address was aired on Al-Shabab's radio station, Al-Andalus, on March 22, 2012, and a transcript was posted the same day on the jihadi forum Shumoukh Al-Islam. The following are the main points of the transcript. To read the full report, visit http://www.memrijttm.org/content/en/blog_personal.htm?id=5874¶m=GJN. |
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