Bi-weekly Report – Jihadi Forums

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Bi-weekly Report: Summary of Information from Jihadi Forums – The First Half of May 2013 

By ICT’s Jihadi Websites Monitoring Group

This report summarizes notable events discussed on jihadist Web forums during the first half of May 2013. Following are the main points covered in the report:

1. Sheikh Abu Ubaidah Yusuf al-Anabi, a senior leader of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), criticizes French military intervention in Mali and calls on the Muslim Nation to retaliate against this “new Crusade” by attacking French interests worldwide.

2. Jordan’s Salafi-jihadists intensify their rhetoric against Lebanon’s Hezbollah and threaten to attack it in retaliation for fighting alongside the Assad regime in the Syrian civil war.

3. Sheikh Mokhtar Ali Zubeyr, the emir of Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen in Somalia, urges the Somali people to thwart Ethiopian and Kenyan plans to carve Somalia into areas of influence and plunder its resources.

4. Sheikh Abu Mansur al-Amriki, a contentious former member of Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen, responds to readers’ questions about jihad.

5. Azan, a new jihadist magazine in English, is published by the Pakistani and Afghanistani Taliban. 

6. AQIM launches a new blog – “Muslim Africa” – whose aim is to exhort Muslim residents of Africa to jihad.

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Please click here to view the full First Half of May 2013 report in PDF format.