Year: 2011

Articles of the Week – 4/2-4/8

Posted on by Aaron Y. Zelin

Saturday April 2:
Global Jihad: Summary from Arabic Sources – 2nd Half of January 2011 – ICT’s Jihadi Websites Monitoring Group: https://bit.ly/hDfSyQ
Global Jihad: Summary from Arabic Sources – 1st Half of February 2011 – ICT’s Jihadi Websites Monitoring Group: https://bit.ly/gG7F0E
Of the Mahdi and the Matrix – Charles Cameron, Zenpundit: https://bit.ly/f4kyle
Sunday April 3:
Top jihadi forums of 03 April, 2011 – Aaron Weisburd, Internet Haganah: https://bit.ly/fMe2Bz
Plotting an attack on a jihadi forum, AMAF edition – Aaron Weisburd, Internet Haganah: https://bit.ly/htlTiz
Monday April 4:
AQIM Statement Hoax? – Aaron Y. Zelin, al-Wasat: https://bit.ly/ieqWsD
USA v. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed et al.: The Trial That Might Have Been – J.M. Berger, IntelWire: https://intelwire.net/hdXylf
AQIM and Libya’s missing weapons – Andrew Lebovich, al-Wasat: https://bit.ly/dRPhpK
Tuesday April 5:
A Typology of Lone Wolves: Preliminary Analysis of Lone Islamist Terrorists – Raffaello Pantucci, The International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation: https://bit.ly/dJpUt2
The Han on Haj — Chinese Foreign Policy and its Middle East Applications – Jordan Reimer, Kulna: https://bit.ly/gPPve4
Thursday April 7:
State Department Put ‘Political Pressure’ On FBI To Deport Brother-in-Law Of Osama Bin Laden In 1995 – J.M. Berger, IntelWire: https://bit.ly/hwuOGr
The fall of Egypt’s symbol of progressive Islam – Osama Diab, New Statesman: https://ow.ly/4vEx6
Friday April 8:
Death of Umarov’s Successor Is a Major Setback to Rebel Movement – Mairbek Vatchagaev, North Caucasus Analysis: https://bit.ly/feKsrw

RFE/RL's North Caucasus Service presents a new audio message from the Amīr of the Caucasus Emirate Dokku Umarov: "Safe and Sound"

Posted on by Aaron Y. Zelin

NOTE: Dokku Umarov called into RFE/RL’s North Caucasus Service to announce that he was okay and not in the location where there was a Russian raid against a Caucasus Emirate camp last week. During the raid, though, Amīr Supyan, one of Umarov’s deputies was killed. In the below audio message Umarov remarks that he is “absolutely healthy. He continued:

There was an operation in which several Mujāhidīn died. My death was announced too. They won’t receive any respite from me. I’m preparing my answer to them. They should expect news from me soon.

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Dokku Umarov — “Safe and Sound”

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New analysis from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: "Impatience of the Muslim Afghan People"

Posted on by Aaron Y. Zelin


The crime of burning a copy of the Glorious Quran by an American pastor and the silence of America and the United Nations vis-à-vis this crime proves that the pastor of Florida is not alone in this despicable act but all of them are behind this transgression. They are accomplices in the conspiracy of desecration of a Book that 1.5 billions Muslims of the world believe in.
Thousands of American troops have invaded our soil on the bidding of the Church and priests with a task for every soldier to commit desecration of the Glorious Quran which was revealed to the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) and other sacred tenets of Islam. These crimes led to circumstances that filled the bowls of patience of the Afghan Muslim people to the brim, compelling them to take to the streets in defense of their religious tenets. They wanted to prove that, at least, they are one voice against the opponents of Islam and Muslims and against the American troops stationed in the country and the crimes of Terry Jones, the pastor of the State of Florida who burnt tens of copies of the Holy Quran, ostensibly in reaction to the 9/11 Event. The Americans have already invaded Afghanistan under the same pretext and shed blood of nearly two hundred thousands innocent Afghans, wrongfully claiming that the Afghans and their soil were involved in the Event.
As the Afghans held demonstrations in defense and protection of their religious values in every part of the country and the foreign and local troops and agents of the American pastors killed or injured nearly two hundred people in Kandahar province, the American rulers and the Security Council UNO, instead of condemning this great human tragedy and soul losses, ironically remained silent. Contrarily, the White House and the Security Council expressed sorrow and concern over the incident in Mazar-i-Sharif where a few foreign nationals had been injured during stone-throwing by the demonstrators at the UNAMA office.
We would like to make it clear to the Security Council and to the White House that had you not overlooked the event of the desecration and burning of the Holy Quran and condemned the crime of the pastor at the time in strong terms and respected the feelings of the 1.5 billions Muslims, the attack on UNAMA office in Mazari Sharif would not have happened, nor the brave citizens of Kandahar would have come forward to come to the street and lose their lives.
To end , we emphasize if the double standard policy of the Security Council and their indifference and hostility as regards the Islamic sacrosanct continue unabatedly; if they continue the military invasions of the Islamic countries and lands; if they violate the Islamic values and continue to intentionally commit blasphemy against the Holy prophet and the Divine Book, then the Muslims, particularly, the Afghans would have to resort to some other options for the defense of their religious sanctity and national pride.
Then, the responsibility of any consequences will solely rest with those who stand now shoulder to shoulder with the pastors; support them and interpret the Charter of the United Nations and other laws in a way to tilt to their favor.
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