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The following are this week's reports from the MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Project, which translates and analyzes content from sources monitored around the clock – among them the most important jihadi websites and blogs. (To view these reports in full, you must be a paying member of the JTTM; for membership information, send an email to jttmsubs@memri.orgwith "Membership" in the subject line.) MEMRI offers an additional option for jihad and terrorism news – the Global Jihad News (GJN) website (http://www.memriglobaljihadnews.org/). Access is by annual subscription, available for $360 at the MEMRI E-Store. Note to media and government: For a full copy of these reports, 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. INSIDE:
In Tenth Installment Of Message To People Of Egypt, Al-Qaeda Leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri Calls On Egyptians To Enact Shari'a, Establish Caliphate, Unite Against 'American Secular Plot'
On June 18, 2012, Al-Qaeda's media company Al-Sahab released the tenth installment of a series of recordings by Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri titled "Message of Hope and Glad Tidings to Our People in Egypt." This installment deals with "Israel's persistent attempts to Judaize Jerusalem." Al-Zawahiri first condemns the demolishing of Osama bin Laden's home in Pakistan, saying that the disposal of his body in the ocean and the demolishing of his home attest to the U.S.'s deep-seated fear of him, whether alive or dead. Turning to the topic of Egypt, Zawahiri says that, because of its peace agreement with Israel, Egypt has done nothing in the face of growing "crimes committed by the Jews in Palestine." He calls on Muslims in Egypt to confront the "crime" of Judaizing Jerusalem by combining the efforts of all Muslim organizations to enact the shari'aand make it Egypt's source of legislation, and to establish an Islamic caliphate. According to Al-Zawahiri, the West is fighting the principles of Islam because they threaten its interests in Muslim lands. Therefore, the West encourages Muslims to establish secular national states, and discourages them from enacting the shari'a and establishing a caliphate. To read the full report, visit http://www.memrijttm.org/content/en/blog_personal.htm?id=6119¶m=APT. Battered by U.S. Drones, Al-Qaeda Releases Audio Lecture Of Ustad Ahmad Farooq On 'Patience' As Taught By The Koran
In a new audio lecture, Ustad Ahmad Farooq, the Head of Al-Qaeda's Media and Dawah Department for Pakistan, conveys to the mujahideen the message of "patience" as taught by the Koran. The audio lecture, which comes amid the consistent U.S. drone strikes on the militant hideouts in the Pakistani tribal region, has been released by Al-Sahab, the media arm of Al-Qaeda. "Sabr [patience] means a state in which the heart is peaceful even if the body is being cut into pieces," Ustad Ahmad Farooq states, speaking in Urdu.
Pakistani Daily: Al-Qaeda Militant Naamen Meziche Entered Pakistan From Iran, Was Headed For Somalia
Al-Qaeda militant Naamen Meziche, who was part of the Hamburg Cell that plotted the 9/11 attacks, entered Pakistan's border province of Baluchistan from Iran, according to a Pakistani daily. Naamen Meziche is a French national of Algerian origin and was arrested sometime in May 2012 by Pakistani officials on the basis of information disclosed by captured Al-Qaeda militant Younis al-Mauritani. Some reports indicated that he might have been arrested sometime in September 2011. According to a report in The Express Tribune daily, an unidentified Pakistani security official said that Younis al-Mauritani told interrogators that Naamen Meziche had entered Pakistan from Iran and intended to travel on to Africa. Another media report said that he was headed to Somalia. To read the full report, visit http://www.memrijttm.org/content/en/blog_personal.htm?id=6128¶m=UPP. In His Second Message In 10 Days, Abu Yahya Al-Libi Criticizes U.S. Soldiers' Declining War Ethics
On June 22, 2012, Al-Qaeda's media wing, Al-Sahab, released a new video message by Abu Yahya Al-Libi in which he criticizes the U.S. soldiers' deteriorating war ethics and their crimes against Islam and the Muslims. This is Al-Libi's second appearance in the past 10 days. Like his first message, of June 12, the video neither confirms nor denies Al-Libi's death, following an official U.S. declaration that he had been killed in a June 4 drone attack. In the message, almost 17 minutes in duration, Al-Libi discusses several specific instances of crimes perpetrated by U.S. and Western soldiers against Islam and Muslims. In particular, he mentions the February 2012 burning of Korans by NATO troops in Afghanistan and the March 2012 incident in which U.S. soldiers killed 16 Afghan civilians in Kandahar. It is worth noting that Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri addressed the topic of Koran burning in a separate message posted online on March 9, 2012. To read the full report, visit http://www.memrijttm.org/content/en/blog_personal.htm?id=6130¶m=APT.
In New Audio Message, Senior AQAP Cleric Attempts To Sway Yemeni Soldiers From Supporting Anti-AQAP Efforts In Yemen
On June 13, 2012, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) released an audio message by Sheikh Abu Al-Zubair, aka 'Adel bin 'Abdallah Al-'Abbab, addressed to Yemen's soldiers. Abu Al-Zubair is a top authority within AQAP on Islamic law. AQAP, it should be noted, has in the past addressed the issue of how properly to deal with the Yemeni military on multiple occasions. However, this latest message is the second in the past year dedicated entirely to the issue. Last year, AQAP's mufti, Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Rubaish, legitimized the targeting of Yemeni soldiers by the mujahideen. He also argued against the notion that these soldiers were merely "doing their job" and trying to make a living. To read the full report, visit http://www.memrijttm.org/content/en/blog_personal.htm?id=6115¶m=GJN.
Ansar Al-Shari'a Threatens 'Swift Action And Painful Blows' Against Western Countries, Guerilla War Against Americans And Their Allies In Yemen
After it lost control of the cities of Zinjibar (capital of the Abyan Governorate) and Ja'ar, which had been recaptured by the Yemeni army on June 12, 2012, the AQAP-affiliated organization Ansar Al-Shari'a (AS) issued a communiqué to the citizens of Ja'ar. In it, the organization claimed that it had not withdrawn out of weakness "but in order to confound the enemy" – namely "the Americans, French, British, and other Crusaders" and the "apostate" Yemeni government – and threatened to take the war to Western countries and to the palaces of the Yemeni regime. The communiqué was posted June 13, 2012 on the jihadi message board Shumoukh Al-Islam. To read the full report, visit http://www.memrijttm.org/content/en/blog_personal.htm?id=6109¶m=GJN.
AQAP Takes Responsibility For Killing Yemen's Army Commander In South – Warning: Graphic Images
In a June 21, 2012 statement, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) took responsibility for the killing of Maj. Gen. Salem Ali Al-Quton, the commander of Yemen's army in the south. Al-Quton's convoy was targeted by a suicide bomber on June 18 in the city of Aden. Though various news reports indicated that the suicide bomber was of Somali background, images documenting the aftermath of the attack showed a fair skin man. AQAP itself did not provide any information about the identity of the attacker. To read the full report, visit http://www.memrijttm.org/content/en/blog_personal.htm?id=6126¶m=GJN.
Newly Revealed Emir Of 'Abdallah 'Azzam Brigades Expresses Opposition To Bombings In Syria's Cities
On June 20, 2012, the Al-Qaeda media company Al-Fajr released a new audio message by the 'Abdallah 'Azzam Brigades (AAB), an Al-Qaeda affiliate in the Syria-Lebanon region that was recently designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. In the message, the group reveals for the first time that its emir is Majid bin Muhammad Al-Majid, a Saudi national who is on the Saudi Interior Ministry's list of the 85 most wanted terrorists. It is important to note two things about this message: First, it was posted on the Al-Fida' jihadi forum, which is run by Al-Fajr, but was not posted on the Shumoukh Al-Islam jihadi forum, which has posted previous AAB communiqués. Second, in it, Al-Majid expresses his opposition to the bombings in Syrian cities. This stance is interesting since it is at odds with the operations by the other jihadi group, Jabhat Al-Nusra, which has taken responsibility for a series of highly visible and highly publicized bombings in major Syrian cities, and which has demonstrated rather unusual advances in its military and propaganda-related capabilities since it first emerged on the Syrian jihadi scene in January 2012. By the same token, it is also interesting that Jabhat Al-Nusra's communiqués have been posted only on the Shumoukh Al-Islam forum, not on Al-Fida'. To read the full report, visit http://www.memrijttm.org/content/en/blog_personal.htm?id=6121¶m=GJN.
Senior Egyptian Salafi-Jihadi Sheikh to MB, Salafis: The Solution Is Not Political Participation But Revolution And Fighting. Join Us In Removing Mubarak Regime, Establishing Islamic Rule
The jihadi forum Al-Fida has posted a document by Ahmad Al-'Ashoush, a senior Salafi-jihadi sheikh in Egypt, which was originally posted on an unofficial blog of the Egyptian mujahideen on June 19, 2012. In the document, 'Ashoush slams the Egyptian MB and the Salafis for turning their backs on Islam by participating in the presidential elections, granting legitimacy to the state's judiciary institutions, and "pandering to the Christians" by making them members and even senior officials in their "so-called Islamic parties." He states that this behavior caused half of the Egyptians to vote for Shafiq, thus delivering the country back into the arms of the Mubarak regime. To read the full report, visit http://www.memrijttm.org/content/en/blog_personal.htm?id=6129¶m=GJN.
New Jihadi Group In Gaza Announces Its Establishment, Takes Responsibility For Attack In Southern Israel, Reveals Saudi And Egyptian Fighters Among Its Ranks
On June 19, 2012, the Ibn Taymiyya Media Center (ITMC) published a mission statement announcing the establishment of a new Salafi-jihadi group in Gaza called Majlis Shura Al-Mujahideen Fi Aknaf Bait Al-Maqdis ("The Mujahideen Shura Council – Environs of Jerusalem"). Also posted were an announcement from Majlis Shura Al-Mujahideen in which the group took responsibility for yesterday's (June 18) attack on Israel's southern border, and a video featuring two of the attack's perpetrators, one of them Saudi and another Egyptian. To read the full report, visit http://www.memrijttm.org/content/en/blog_personal.htm?id=6120¶m=GJN.
Taliban Commander In North Waziristan Orders 'Ban On Administering Polio Drops Until The Series Of [U.S.] Drone Attacks Is Stopped'
Hafiz Gul Bahadur, a leading Taliban commander in Pakistan's tribal district of North Waziristan, has ordered ban against administering polio drops to children in the area until the U.S. drone attacks are stopped. A one-page pamphlet in Urdu language was issued to journalists in Miranshah, the headquarters of North Waziristan, by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on June 16. Hafiz Gul Bahadur is seen as a pro-government Taliban commander with influence in the North Waziristan region, which has emerged as the hub of Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants. The region has been a constant target of the U.S. drone attacks. The pamphlet describes Hafiz Gul Bahadur as the servant of the mujahideen. To read the full report, visit http://www.memrijttm.org/content/en/blog_personal.htm?id=6116¶m=UPP.
Taliban Statement On Women's Role: 'It Is Women Who Expound Jihad, Zeal And Sacrifice For The Defense Of Islam And...Indoctrinate Young Men With Creed'
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the Taliban's shadow government in the country) has published a statement on the role of Afghan women in nurturing jihad and alleging that they are facing extreme difficulties due to the American occupation. "In this dark period of American occupation and in complete disagreement of our Islamic and national customs and culture, women are intentionally being pushed towards ignorance; are having to face inhumane conditions under the name of democracy; are being oppressed by unconstrained militias who work under the shadow of the invaders..." the statement noted. To read the full report, visit http://www.memrijttm.org/content/en/blog_personal.htm?id=6123¶m=UPP.
Taliban Website Report: Taliban Militants Carried Out 'More Than 2,300 Attacks' Since May 3, 2012
In a statement, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the Taliban's shadow government) claims that dozens of Afghan and NATO soldiers were killed in two suicide bombings that took place yesterday. The statement also reveals that the Taliban fighters carried out 2,300 terror attacks in Afghanistan since the launch of the Al-Farooq Spring Operation on May 3, 2012. To read the full report, visit http://www.memrijttm.org/content/en/blog_personal.htm?id=6122¶m=UPP.
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