Bi-monthly Report – Jihadi Forums

Bi-monthly Report – Jihadi Forums

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Bi-monthly Report: Summary from Jihadi Forums – The Second Half of April 2013

By ICT’s Jihadi Websites Monitoring Group

2This report summarizes the most notable events discussed on Jihadi Web forums during the second half of April 2013. Following are the main points covered in the report:

  • At the end of April 2013, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan warns of a coming wave of attacks on coalition forces.
  • Jihadist Web forums publish the responses to Web surfers’ questions of Sheikh Ahmad Abu Abd al-Ilah, head of the Policy Committee of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
  • Hezbollah’s involvement in fighting alongside the forces of Bashar al-Assad against the Syrian rebels arouses a rancorous debate on jihadist Web forums. At the same time, calls to attack Hezbollah are backed by the establishment of local jihadist groups, like the Ahrar Al-Bekaa Brigades, which mass to fight Hezbollah.
  • The Taliban in Al-Sham [The Levant] is established, and declares its aim of fighting Syrian regime forces until they are overthrown.
  • Contributors to jihadist Web forums debate the merits of “lone wolf” attacks such as the one perpetrated at the 2013 Boston Marathon by the Tsarnaev brothers in the war of attrition against the West.
  • Visitors to the Ansar Al-Mujahideen Web forum urge the mujahideen to infiltrate Israel from the Sinai Peninsula, crossing the border in the guise of migrant workers.
  • Jihadist Web forums host a discussion of the persecution of Muslim Rohingya by the government in Myanmar (Burma).

Please click here to view the full report in PDF format

The Jihadi Websites Monitoring Group (JWMG) is a specialized research and analysis team at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT). Composed of researchers fluent in Arabic, the JWMG monitors websites that support and serve the Global Jihad organizations. The unique characteristic of JWMG publications is the team’s integration of diverse materials from a wide variety of Arabic sources. JWMG connects each source to larger trends, providing a complete unders tanding of events on both a local and a global scale.