UPDATE: Here is an Urdu translation of AQAP’s Inspire Magazine:
Click here: Inspire 3 (Urdu)
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NOTE: See J.M. Berger’s quick take here. Here is the first and second issue of Inspire Magazine. For more on the cargo plot, see AQAP’s statement where they claim responsibility for it.
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Click here for a safe Pdf copy: Inspire Magazine 3
Sunday November 14:
ICT’s Jihadi Websites Monitoring Group presents “Global Jihad: Summary from Arabic Sources – 1st Half of October 2010” https://bit.ly/9uMMYV
ICT’s Jihadi Websites Monitoring Group presents “Periodical Review: Fatwas – October 2010” https://bit.ly/9SHpJE
AQAP: New Talent – Gregory D. Johnsen, Waq al-Waq: https://bit.ly/bErQLh
Monday November 15:
We must challenge the ideology driving terrorism – J. Scott Carpenter & Matthew Levitt, The Australian: https://bit.ly/9eH5PE
Tuesday November 16:
Militant Islamist Renunciations from Egyptian Prisons: An Ideological Challenge to al-Qaida – Youssef Aboul-Enein, Small Wars Joural: https://bit.ly/deUQjq
Death to Christians – ISI and the rampage against the Cross – Nico Prucha , Online Jihad: https://bit.ly/bmigaj
The Ideology and Influence of Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi – Joas Wagemakers, Closer: https://bit.ly/91XTUM
Countering Terrorism in East Africa: The U.S. Response – Lauren Ploch, Congressional Research Service: https://bit.ly/bVgg31
Wednesday November 17:
The Other Face of Al-Qaeda – Camille Tawil, Al-Hayat: https://bit.ly/9PKS4x
Saving Yemen? – Brian O’Neill, Always Judged Guilty: https://bit.ly/druaHg
Thursday November 18:
Hijacked Islam – Nico Prucha, Online Jihad: https://bit.ly/aUyNL9
New “Fursan al-Shahada” Video about Nigeria? – Nico Prucha, Online Jihad: https://bit.ly/bG0lhu
Friday November 19:
A Limited View of AQAP – Gregory D. Johnsen, Waq al-Waq: https://bit.ly/9hX91K
“Fursan al-Shahada, part 8” highlights Nigeria and Central Africa – Nico Prucha, Online Jihad: https://bit.ly/cvsuEw
Drones Aren’t the Answer in Yemen – Gregory D. Johnsen, Waq al-Waq: https://bit.ly/acaXYU
UPDATE: Here is an English translation of the below statement.
Anṣār al-Mujāhidīn Arabic Forum Returns After One Month Hiatus
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NOTE: Below is a statement from the administrators of the Anṣār al-Mujāhidīn Arabic Forum announcing they have returned after the site went down and stopped producing content on October 22. I will have an English translation of this shortly.
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
#بُشــرى# عودة شبكة أنصار المجاهدين للعمل بفضل الله
إخوانكم في : شبكة أنصار المجاهدين
اللهم اجعلنا خير أنصار لخير مجاهدين
NOTE: Earlier in the week, Ḥizb al-Islāmī al-Turkistānī also released the seventh issue of its magazine Ṣawt Al-Islām.
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UPDATE 3: The Anṣār al-Mujāhidīn English Forum has translated the below audio message into English.
Abū Muṣ’ab ‘Abd al-Wadūd- “Any Negotiations For French Hostages Must Be Conducted With Bin Lāden Himself”
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UPDATE 2: Abū Muṣ’ab ‘Abd al-Wadūd’s audio message has been officially released to the forums.
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UPDATE: Here is the key quote from the below audio translated:
If you don’t stop intervening in our affairs and the oppression of Muslim people, and if you want peace for your citizens that we hold hostage, you must withdraw your forces from Afghanistan as soon possible according to a set timetable that you will announce publicly.
This is almost word for word what Usāmah Bin Lāden said in the below referenced audio:
Is it fair that you intervene in the affairs of Muslims, especially in North and West Africa, support your agents against us, and take a lot of our wealth in suspicious deals, while our people suffer various forms of poverty and despair?
The way for preserving the security of your is to remove all your injustice and its effects off our people and most importantly, withdrawal of your forces from Bush’s wicked war in Afghanistan.
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NOTE: The below audio was released through al-Jazeera Arabic TV. On October 27, Usāmah Bin Lāden released an audio message titled “A Letter for the People of France.”
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Click the below link to play the audio:
‘Abd Al-Wadoud- Any Negotiations For French Hostages Must Be Conducted With OBL
NOTE: al-Emara is the media outfit for the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan [the Afghan Ṭālibān]. al-Emara originally published “The Cry of Takbīr” on May 15, 2010. During ‘Īd al-Fiṭr, Anṣār al-Mujāhidīn English Forum released two gift translations too.
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Anṣār al-Mujāhidīn English Forum presents ‘Īd Gift #1- “English Translation of the al-Emara release ‘The Cry of Takbīr'”
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UPDATE 2: Here are a few key translations from the audio via AFP:
Our letter is to the Jewish attackers that the killing of our brothers will not stop us from the continuation of jihād.
You won’t have any security calm and our rockets will continue, God willing, if you won’t leave the land of Palestine and you will know that your citizens … are not safe from our members.
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UPDATE: As I surmised below, this was Jamā’at Anṣār al-Sunnah’s first message in Hebrew.
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NOTE: Jamā’at Anṣār al-Sunnah is a global jihadist group based in the Gaza Strip that sympathizes with the al-Qā’idah worldview. Interestingly, this message is in Hebrew. In the forum post as well as the promotion logo below they have it in Arabic and translated into Hebrew, too. Has anyone else seen Jamā’at Anṣār al-Sunnah or any other Palestinian global jihadist group do this before?
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Audio from Jamā’at Anṣār al-Sunnah: “Message to the Enemy”
NOTE: This message is unedited from the original. Here is the Islamic State of Iraq’s message from Ramaḍān.
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
(دولةُ العراقِ الإسلاميّة / تهنئة بمناسبة عيد الأضحى )
الحمد لله ربّ العالمين، والصلاة والسلام على خاتم النبيين محمّد، وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين… وبعد:
فقد هلّ علينا يوم الأضحى المبارك، نسأل الله أن يعيده على الأمّة بالعزّ والظّفر والتمكين، وأن يجعله مبشراً بفجرٍ جديدٍ، وخير عتيدٍ، وفي هذه المناسبة نهنّئ المسلمين في مشارق الأرض ومغاربها، ونخصّ بالذّكر منهم النّافرين في سوح الجهاد نُصرةً لدينهم وإعلاءً لكلمة ربّهم، مهاجرين وأنصاراً، وكذلك من نصرهم ودافع عنهم وذبّ عن أعراضهم، فهنيئاً لكم ما قدّمتم، وتقبل الله منا ومنكم صالح الأعمال، وكل عام وأنتم بخير.
ونقول ناصحين مُشفقين لكلّ مسلمٍ من أهلنا تخلّف عن الرّكب وحال بينه وبين الجهاد حائل، أباً وأخاً وابناً، أن يسأل نفسه في لحظة صدقٍ وتجرّدٍ لله: ماذا يريد المجاهدون منّا هذه الأيّام؟ أتُراهم بحاجة لدعوةٍ صادقةٍ من مسلم موحّدٍ طيّب الملبس والمطعم في جوف اللّيل؟، أم تُراهم بحاجةٍ ليدٍ باذلةٍ تُنفق ممّا آتاها الله من المال الحلال خالصاً لوجهه وابتغاء مرضاته؟، أم تُراهم بحاجة لكلمةٍ حقٍّ صادقةٍ يُصدعُ بها في وجه الطّاغوت تذبّ عنهم وتنصرهم على عدوّهم؟، أم إنّهم بحاجةٍ لكلّ هذه الأمور في زمن الغربة هذا، حيث استنفر الشيطان خيله ورجله، واجتمعت فيه كلّ مِلل الكفر لحرب هذه الثلّة من البشر، ورماهم القريب والبعيد عن قوسٍ واحدة {يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا كُونُوا أَنْصَارَ اللَّهِ}.
اللهم مكّن للمجاهدين في الأرض، اللهُمَّ خذّل عنهم شُبه المخذّلين وادفع عنهم كيد المخالفين، اللهمّ قوِّ شوكتهم وآنس وحشتهم، وكن لهم العون والنّصير، فهم الضّعفاء وأنت القويّ، وهم الفقراء وأنت الغنيّ، اللهمّ أنزل بعدوّك وعدوّهم بأسك الذي لا يُردّ عن القوم الظالمين، اللهم كل من تآمر على الجهاد والمجاهدين فرُدّ كيده في نحره واكشف خبيئته وافضح سريرته واجعله عبرة لغيره، اللهم فكّ أسرى المسلمين وداوِ جرحاهم واكشف الضرّ عن مبتلاهم، اللهُمَّ واغفر لنا ذنوبنا وإسرافنا في أمرنا، وثبّت أقدامنا وانصرنا على القوم الكافرين..
والله أكبر
{وَلِلَّهِ الْعِزَّةُ وَلِرَسُولِهِ وَلِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَلَكِنَّ الْمُنَافِقِينَ لا يَعْلَمُونَ}
وزارةُ الإعلام/ دولةُ العراقِ الإسلاميّة
