Category: Libya

As-Saḥāb Media presents a new video message from Ayman aẓ-Ẓawāhirī: “Sixth Installment of a Message of Hope and Glad Tidings to Our People in Egypt”

Posted on by Aaron Y. Zelin

UPDATE 5/27 8:41 AM: Click here for an English translation of the below Arabic audiovisual message.
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UPDATE 5/23 7:41 PM: Here is an Arabic transcription of the below video audiovisual message:
Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Ayman aẓ-Ẓawāhirī — “Sixth Installment of a Message of Hope and Glad Tidings to Our People in Egypt” (Ar)
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NOTE: For previous installments see: Fifth, Fourth, Third, Second, First.
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Three New Fatāwā from Minbar at-Tawḥīd wa'l-Jihād

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Click the following links for safe PDF copies:
Abū Muslim al-Jazā’irī — How Do You See The Transitional National Assembly in Libya?
Shaykh Abū al-Mundhir al-Shanqīṭī — Do You Configure the Jamā’at and Tanẓīmāt as Heresy in Religion?
Shaykh Abū al-Mundhir al-Shanqīṭī — Comments On the Issue of An Excuse of Ignorance
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Check out my new post at al-Wasat: "AQIM Statement Hoax?"

Posted on by Aaron Y. Zelin

Last night, Tout sur l’Algérie published an article titled “Aqmi affirme que ses éléments ont été tués dans ce raid” (“AQIM confirms that its members were killed in raid”). The article stated that they received through anonymous sources a new statement from al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb that said that some of AQIM’s fighters were killed in an accidental NATO airstrike on rebels this past Friday. Although it is quite possible that this occurred, there is reason to be skeptical. First, the statement has still not been released to the forums (at least sixteen hours have passed). I also do not recall a time when AQIM released a statement to anonymous sources in the past. Second, the article provided a screen shot of the top of the statement and it did not conform to the normal style, color, and font of previous AQIM statements.

Screen shot of Tout sur l’Algérie’s screen shot of AQIM’s statement

The top part with the black text (the basmallah) and the golden text (AQIM’s name in Arabic) are normal. The green text below it, though, is where the authenticity of the statement comes into question. In the past, AQIM has never used that font or green color for its statement titles. Rather they have used red. Here are some examples of previous officially released AQIM statements:
Read the rest here.

al-Ma’sadat Media Foundation presents a new video message from Shaykh Abū Muḥammad al-Ṭaḥāwī: "Message to the Descendants of 'Umar al-Mukhtār"

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NOTE: Shaykh Abū Muḥammad al-Ṭaḥāwī [Abed Shihadeh al-Tahawi], is a global jihadist cleric from Jordan. He  is acquaintances with Abū Muḥammad al-Maqdisī. Humām al-Bilāwī [Abū Dujānah al-Khurāsānī] gave him a shout out in his interview with al-Qā’idah Central’s As-Saḥāb Media prior to his “martyrdom” and killing seven CIA officers in Khost, Afghanistan in December 2009:

Before anything else, I send my Salām to Shaykh Abū Muḥammad al-Maqdisī, I send my Salām to Shaykh Abū Muḥammad al-Ṭaḥāwī, and I send my Salām to all the Mujāhidīn in Jordan, and I tell them: be patient, for by Allah, we have seen Jordanian intelligence and its prisons, and we have seen how the intelligence officers would forbid brothers from reciting the Qur’ān in an audible voice. Even reading the Qur’ān is forbidden! So I tell them: be patient, but I also tell them: there is no solution to the situation in Jordan other than mobilizing to the land of Jihād to learn the arts of war and train in them, then return to Jordan and begin operations.

‘Umar al-Mukhtār is an important figure in Libyan history. He was a teacher of the Qur’ān by profession. Additionally, he was skilled in the strategies and tactics of desert warfare. As a result, he was a leading figure and led the Libyan resistance against the Italian fascists — who invaded Libya — from 1912 until his death when the Italians hung him in 1931. His heroic efforts were later depicted in the 1981 film The Lion of the Desert. The film was banned in Italy in 1982 and was not shown on Italian TV until 2009. There have been others that have invoked his name since the demonstrations and subsequent uprising occurred:

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New joint statement issued by the Forums and the Online Media Jihād Outlets: "To Our People in Libya"

Posted on by Aaron Y. Zelin

NOTE: The six signatories are Shmūkh al-Islāmīyyah Forum, Anṣār al-Mujāhidīn Arabic Forum, at-Taḥadī al-Islāmīyyah Forum, Mirkaz al-Yafīn al-I’alāmī, Ghorfah Minbar al-Anṣār, and al-Ma’sadat Media Foundation.
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New statement issued by the Forums and the Online Media Jihād Outlets- “To Our People in Libya”

Sayf al 'Adl has written Five New Letters

Posted on by Aaron Y. Zelin

HT to Leah Farrall for finding this content. She plans to write more about this later, but has had some quick take tweets on it already.
The five letters are as follows:

  1. For you God, Oh Libya, written March 9, 2011
  2. The Yemen Uprising or “The People’s King,” written March 8, 2011
  3. Terrorism + Bullying = Terrorbullying (إرهابجية an Arabic neologism I’m guessing), written March 8, 2011
  4. Margins on the Pages of Egypt’s Revolution, written February 27
  5. We Are Not .. On the Chessboard and We Are Not Stones, written January 12

al ‘Adl also wrote five letters late last year. For analysis on it see Vahid Brown’s excellent take at Jihadica.

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Sayf al ‘Adl — Repayment of the Five
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