New statement from Jāma’at Tawḥīd wal-Jihād: "Fifteen thousand pounds for the one who kills Yāsir Ḥabīb"

NOTE: Jāma’at Tawḥīd wal-Jihād is a Palestinian global jihadist group based in the Gaza Strip that sympathizes with the al-Qā’idah worldview. Earlier this month, Jāma’at Tawḥīd wal-Jihād claimed responsibility for a rocket attack against Israel. For more background on Yāsir Ḥabīb, read Christopher Anzalone’s post on this statement.


Jama’at al-Tawhid and Jihad- Fifteen thousand pounds for the one who kills Yaser Habib
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al-Fajr Media presents the twelfth lesson within the Creating terrorism program by Abū ‘Ubaydah ‘Abdullah

New statement from the Islamic Emirate Of Afghanistan: "The Afghans’ Moments Of Victory Around The Corner"

NOTE: This message is from the Afghan Ṭālibān and unedited below.


Shawwal 17, 1431 A.H, Monday, September 27, 2010
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.
US President Obama, in an interview with BBC Persian Service, on Friday last, reneged on his promise to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan in July 2011. According to him, The American invading forces will remain in Afghanistan until they achieve their colonialist and regional objectives.
Following the end of the war-mongering and anti-human policy of former president Bush, the public of the world were expecting Obama that he would put an end to this vicious trend; would end occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq and close down all notorious and brutal prisons which had , openly and secretly, been set up in Afghanistan, Iraq, Cuba and other parts of the world by the malicious Bush to expand the war and torture the noble sons of the Islamic Ummah.
Gaining the helms of affairs, Obama repeated his promise to quit Bushe’s policy and posed himself as flag-bearer of peace and stability. He reiterated frequently that he would close down the notorious prisons; will withdraw troops from Iraq within a year and would draw down forces in Afghanistan in July 2011. But when the time approached, he brazenly retracted on his promise. Neither he closed down the prisons; nor completely withdrew troops from Iraq, nor worked for reconstruction and stability of Iraq. Now even he has backed up from his words to pull American forces out of Afghanistan in July next year. Contrarily, he said in his interview that the American troops would remain in Afghanistan until the fulfillment of their so-called job.
It is crystal clear like the broad day light that in the past nine years, the invading Americans and their coalition allies shed the blood of more than 100,000 innocent Afghans; put thousands of them behind the bar, and committed desecration of the holy Quran on this sacred land and soiled mosques with the blood of worshippers. They did other abhorrent acts which their devilish desires and whims stirred them to do. But still this arrogant and only super power of the world has never been able to have a hundred percent control over any district or area of Afghanistan or that the residents of a given area support the Americans or the Kabul stooge Administration all in a body.
The practical proof of this is the recent parliamentary elections which were limited only to a few cities. Less than 10% voters showed up at the polling stations all over the country. Even that 10% turn-out was the result of extensive bribery and paying-offs on the part of the invaders, trying to show that the fake process was going with flying colors.
We ask Obama, his strategist and executors of the failed strategies that even two million out of the thirty million Afghans all over the country were not willing to show up on the polling day despite the passage of nine years of the occupation; presence of 300,000 foreign and local forces and outlay of $200 million, then how can it be possible that the Americans will achieve their objectives in Afghanistan or in the word of Obama, reach a rationale victory.
Obama and his team should understand that the victory is the fate of the Afghans. Your war machine and sophisticated technology has failed in the face of the strong determination of the Afghans. The deserts, mountains, rocks and plants of Afghanistan are ringing with the voice of onslaught to strike. Now it is up to you to see whether you have the capacity to confront the country-wide upheaval of the Afghans or attempt to secure your future destiny from crumbling.

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

Articles of the Week – 9/18-9/24

Saturday September 18:
Kashmir’s New Islamist Movement – Praveen Swami, The Hinduhttps://bit.ly/9NYe8X
Mauritanian raid against AQIM – Kal, The Moor Next Doorhttps://bit.ly/d3SF1B
Sunday September 19:
German Al-Qaeda spokesman Bekkay Harrach dead? – Florian Flade, Jih@d Bloghttps://bit.ly/chSaFn
Monday September 20:
Thinking Outside the Box – Bruce Hoffman, The National Interesthttps://bit.ly/9ZPZSB
Walking back (slightly) on Anwar al-Awlaki – Brian O’Neill, Always Judged Guiltyhttps://bit.ly/9mqr8Y
Strange Times – Gregory D. Johnsen, Waq al-Waq: https://bit.ly/b1O2eZ
Tuesday September 21:
A Crash Course in Jihadi Theory (Part 1) – Joas Wagemakers, Jihadicahttps://bit.ly/blPTjP
The irrelevance of the international Muslim Brotherhood – Nathan J. Brown, The Middle East Channelhttps://bit.ly/8X28r8
Germany’s Ground-Zero Mosque – Florian Flade, Jih@d Bloghttps://bit.ly/d46N8f
Wednesday September 22:
Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Volume 33 Issue 10 2010 just released: https://bit.ly/aaeVeC
What if Obama’s Yemen policy works? – Aaron Y. Zelin, The Middle East Channelhttps://bit.ly/ccoVL3
Al Qaeda-Affiliated and ‘Homegrown’ Jihadism in the UK: 1999-2010 – Jytte Klausen, Institute for Strategic Dialogue:
Thursday September 23:
ICT’s Jihadi Websites Monitoring Group releases its Periodical Review September 2010 – No. 1: https://bit.ly/dmdpup
These Terrorists Aren’t Playing Games – Praveen Swami, Foreign Policyhttps://bit.ly/aomy7m
Terrorism Out of Somalia – Q&A w/Ken Menkhaus & Christopher Boucek, Carnegie Endowment for International Peacehttps://bit.ly/bFl5Yr
Mogadishu Map: al Shabaab’s Ramadan Offensive – Katherine Zimmerman, Critical Threats Projecthttps://bit.ly/dwpFGX
French Counterterrorism Operations in the Sahara – Jean-Luc Marret, Terrorism Monitorhttps://bit.ly/aBmYyK
Friday September 24:
The Legal War on Terror for the week of 9/18-9/24 – Andrew Lebovich, Foreign Policy: https://bit.ly/9XVpLG

My new article at Foreign Policy's Middle East Channel: "What if Obama’s Yemen policy works?"


In the past month, Yemen has returned to the spotlight. The CIA now believes that the Yemen-based al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) is a larger security threat to the United States than al Qaeda Central in Pakistan. Since then, press accounts have stated that the United States government plans to carry out drone attacks in Yemen, and reported that U.S. Central Command plans to give $1.2 billion in aid to Yemen’s military over a five-year period. But such policies, no matter how well-intentioned, are unlikely to solve the very real challenges posed by al Qaeda’s presence in Yemen and may well make the situation worse.
It originally appeared that there was widespread consensus in the government on providing such military aid to Yemen. But a recent article in the New York Times highlights that there is a vigorous debate within the Obama administration about the efficacy of such aid. The Obama administration has been debating the legality of droning an American citizen (i.e. Anwar al-Awlaki). Before rushing into a major new program, it’s worth recalling the reasons why past U.S.-backed efforts aimed at eliminating al Qaeda’s presence in Yemen have failed.
Read the rest here.

New statement from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: "Whom The Afghan People Sided With? With The Islamic Emirate Or …?"

NOTE: This message is from the Afghan Ṭālibān and unedited below.


Shawwal 12, 1431 A.H, Wednesday, September 22, 2010
In the name of Allah, the most Gracious, the most Merciful
UNAMA and other Western and internal stooge entities which were delegated to conduct the so-called parliamentary elections on Sept. 18, had earlier predicted that only in 30% area of Afghanistan, the situation would be ready for holding the elections.
Reason: the security problems. But on the day of the polling, people witnessed that even that prediction did not come true. Less than 10% voters took part in the ridiculous American drama by casting their votes. The low turn-out can be ascribed to fear and wide-spread rigging.
The Americans and their allies spent $200 million dollars to maintain security and conduct other clandestine dealing of bribery etc. in order to bring to success the fake elections process. They deployed 300,000 foreign and domestic soldiers on the polling day to make safe the few polling stations and pave the way for voters to cast votes. All these notwithstanding, with the help of Allah (SwT) and the assistance of Mujahideen with the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, the so-called elections were disrupted and thus remained limited to a few cities.
Therefore, have had derogatory results for the implementers. We would like to leave alone hundreds of events which evidently prove our claim. Instead, we deem it suffice to mention examples of only two elections centers as the tip of the iceberg: a district elections center in Ghazni and an election center in a populated village in Logar province. Now all those with insight and sagacity can judge for themselves that what will be the credibility of the elections and the next parliament after all that shameful cases that happened on the day of the polling.
More than 300,000 people are living in Andar district of Ghazni province. The officials and observers at the polling stations admitted themselves that only 3 voters cast their votes during the day despite the fact that the polling station had remained open the whole day. In Pad khwab Shana, 3 kilometers in proximity of the provincial center, Pullie Allam, with population reaching 30,000 persons, only 250 ballots were cast. That too, because of tribal affiliation, bribery, coercion and material incentives.
Other reports from various parts of the country say that no polling station had been opened in 162 districts out of 360 districts of the country. 1260 polling stations were forced to close before 11 o’clock of the day. Voting process was disrupted in the remaining polling stations due to successful attacks of the Mujahideen. Not only the people did not participate in the elections but remained at their houses as a sign of opposition to the so-called elections. After 4 o’clock of the day, in the dusk time, when the official time ended for ballot casting, Mujahideen ambushed ballot boxes which were being hauled from a few city centers to the capital of the country. They were torched and destroyed.
Now the world, the UNAMA and the observers can decide what credibility these fake and failed elections will have? They should also ponder whether they are going to give importance to the voice of the majority people of Afghanistan or to the subservient media, the pre-planned commentaries and the distorted news items about the elections? Similarly, they should make clear whom the Afghan people sided with—with the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, or with America, UNAMA and the stooge Kabul Administration?

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

New statement from the Islamic Emirate: "Concerning The American Led Elections That Took Place"

NOTE: This message is from the Afghan Ṭālibān and unedited below.


Shawwal 09, 1431 A.H, Sunday, September 19, 2010
In the name of Allah, the most Gracious, the most Merciful
With the help of Almighty Allah and the Mujahid Afghan people, Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan were able to extinguish another plan of the enemy by disrupting the rigged and fraudulent American led election process on 27/06/1389 H.S. Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan congratulates the Mujahid Afghan people and especially the Mujahideen for their success and in doing so would like to point to the following:
1. Majority of the brave and honorable people of Afghanistan affirmed in the positive to the request of Islamic Emirate and rejected the fraudulent American led election process by not participating in it and sent a clear message to the puppet regime that they rebuff the outcome also.
2. Throughout the country 162 districts never actually had any polling stations opened, 1260 polling stations closed before 11:00 am and another 480 polling stations came under Mujahideen attacks. Voting only took place in the city centers of Kabul, Mazar, Herat and a few other isolated places and the only people that voted were the officials of this puppet government. In light of these facts we can safely say that this election was not of the people but of the puppet government officials and hence is not legal.
3. The people of Afghanistan did not participate in these elections and by doing so proved to the invaders and their puppets their disapproval of this fake and rigged process. Therefore the invading forces should listen to the Afghan people, take a lesson from their failure and withdraw their forces completely from our beloved land so to put an end to the illegal occupation.
4. The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan calls to the world that the invaders and their puppets don’t have any control over vast regions of the country, neither can they carry out free and fair elections and therefore should voice their disapproval and rejection of these so called elections and to not recognize the members of parliament as the representatives of the people of this country.

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

Articles of the Week – 9/11-9/17

Saturday September 11:
Al-Qaeda leaders leave Iran – Return to the Frontline? – Florian Flade, Jih@d Bloghttps://bit.ly/amc9FH
The Afghanistan Study Group Report: An Exercise in Determined Ignorance – Joshua Foust, Registan: https://bit.ly/9ZjWuu
Is “constructive disengagement” the solution in Somalia? – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, LWJ Threat Matrixhttps://bit.ly/99CM5c
Sunday September 12:
Hagiography, Bomb-Making, And A Dejeuner Sur L’Herbe – Liz Fuller, Radio Free Europe/Radio Libertyhttps://bit.ly/bcenlI
Wednesday September 15:
I’m Back! And so is Ayman al-Zawahiri – Jarret Brachman: https://bit.ly/dxz5mg
What the new Zawahiri tape means – Brian Fishman, The AfPak Channelhttps://bit.ly/bBIWGH
Today’s Highly Educated Terrorists – Bruce Hoffman, The National Interesthttps://bit.ly/9h9NCC
Thursday September 16:
Zawahiri’s New Video: Why No Mention of September 11? – J.M. Berger, IntelWire: https://bit.ly/bkA3nk
Salafists Challenge al-Azhar for Ideological Supremacy in Egypt – Hani Nasira, Terrorism Monitorhttps://bit.ly/apblhM
Friday September 17:
Sayyid Qutb, man of his era – Frederick Deknatel, The National: https://bit.ly/a7Xbw1

New statement from the administrators of the Fallūjah Forums: "Greeting the Muslims on the Arrival of the Blessed ‘Īd al-Fiṭr"

NOTE: Flashpoint Partners released a transcript of a statement from the administrators of the Fallūjah Forums “Greeting the Muslims on the Arrival of the Blessed ‘Īd al-Fiṭr.” Here is a brief abstract of the transcript and below it is the entire transcript:

On September 15, 2010, after more than a week of being offline, al-Shamookh Islamic Network — currently considered the most prominent online jihadist forum — returned to life. Al-Shamookh, which carries the media propaganda of Al-Qaida and its affiliates, rose to prominence after its predecessor, al-Falluja Islamic Forums, went offline on August 12, 2010. On September 15th, al-Falluja Forums posted a message on al-Shamookh, titled a “Statement Greeting the Muslims on the Arrival of the Blessed Eid al-Fiter.” In the statement, al-Falluja administrators reiterated that “shutting down al-Falluja Islamic Forums is [to be considered] a complete shut down and without a [foreseen] return.” The confirmation of al-Falluja’s shut down comes on the heels of the highly anticipated return of the forum by its former members, who had been directing their membership to the al-Shamookh and Atahadi forums. Moreover, al-Falluja administrators urged members and visitors on the forums “to take caution and wariness in corresponding via private messages…[and] to use Asrar al-Mujahideen [the Mujahideen Secrets] software and to not avoid this matter.” The aforementioned software, developed by al-Ekhlaas Forum, is a coded-software that enables forum members to communicate directly with Al-Qaida’s offshoot in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).


Al-Falluja Forums Statement of Eid Greetings
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