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Mukhtar Abu al-Zubeir, the leader of the Shabaab al-Mujahideen Movement, pledged to al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a video released by al-Qaeda's media arm, as-Sahab.
Jihadist Regards Destroying the US as an "Obligation"
Jihadist News
Feb 22, 2012 5:09 pm EST
A jihadist urged Muslims to participate alongside al-Qaeda in fighting the United States, claiming that destroying the country is a religious obligation and a necessity for the good of civilization.
Jihadists Discuss Manufacturing ETN Explosive
Jihadist News
Feb 22, 2012 4:55 pm EST
Jihadists discussed the manufacture of erythritol tetranitrate (ETN), an explosive compound, and in particular, how to obtain erythritol sugar.
TTP Video of Attacks Against Pakistani Soldiers in Mehsud Region (Part 2)
Jihadist News
Feb 22, 2012 4:44 pm EST
Umar Studio, a media unit of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), released a two-part Urdu-language video showing attacks against Pakistani soldiers in the Mehsud region of South Waziristan.
Jihadist News
The Afghan Taliban condemned the burning of copies of the Qur'an in Bagram air base and used the incident to vilify US forces and the Afghan |
The Shabaab al-Mujahideen Movement claimed bombings and shootings in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, including the February 17, 2012, car bombing inside the building of the Criminal Investigation |
A prominent jihadist writer called upon Muslims in the West and the United States in particular to carry out lone-wolf attacks as a means to support the global jihadi |
The Afghan Taliban reported that an Afghan soldier shot and killed three foreign soldiers and injured two others outside a checkpoint in Spin Boldak district of Kandahar |
The Shabaab al-Mujahideen Movement announced its having convened a meeting with Somali merchants and scholars from Banaadir and Lower Shabelle regions, discussing how to protect Somali commerce from the enemy, and in |
Madad News Agency, a jihadist media group reporting from Yemen, released the ninth issue of its news report on the activities of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and its elements who call themselves "Ansar |
Afghan Taliban spokesman Zabihullah rejected reports that a number of fighters in Logar province, which lies south of the capital, Kabul, are planning to surrender and join the Afghan |
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) gave a eulogy for Tariq al-Dhahab, its leader in the city of Radda' in Bayda, Yemen, who was killed along with two of his escorts by his |
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Social Network Jihad
Upon learning that Aafia Siddiqui allegedly became pregnant as the result of sexual abuse in an American prison, jihadists launched a support campaign calling for her release on jihadist forums as well as the popular social |
On November 20, 2011, a resident of New York City, Jose Pimentel, was arrested by the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and charged with plotting to make and detonate a bomb around New York |
As part of a series of reports by the SITE Intelligence Group about the use of social networking websites by terrorist organizations and their supporters, comes a look at the activity of a Facebook page mirroring content | Jihadists have continued to contribute ideas to incite rioters in London, England, and one created a Facebook page for that purpose, posting jihadist-created designs and |
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Sami Osmakac, an American indicted on January 9, 2012, and accused of attempting to carry out a terrorist attack in Florida, appeared in several videos posted online throughout 2011 on YouTube and other video sharing | {Image: UN bomber and Boko Haram member Mohammed Abdul Barra Source: AMEF}
On August 26, 2011, a suicide bomber detonated his car bomb outside of the United Nations headquarters in the Nigerian capital city, Abuja. The attack |
On June 28, 2011, German authorities Harry Machura, a 19-year-old German convert to Islam, better known online as the jihadist “Isa Al Khattab,” who allegedly operated a German-language website called the “Islamic Hacker |
In a four page statement released to jihadist forums on May 6, 2011, al-Qaeda officially announced the death of its leader, Usama bin Laden, stating that he “was killed in truth in a situation of |
