New as-Sahab message to Germany

Today a new as-Sahab video was made public, entitled “Rettungspaket fuer Deutschland”, (Rescue Package for Germany), probably given in form of a khutba by the as-Sahab speaker Abu Talha the German. The Arabic title “khattat al-inqaz li-l-Almani” however means “Plan of Salvation for the German(s)”, but we shall see what the video will be like, [...]

Bin Laden issues speech “Call for Jihad to End the Hostilities in Gaza”

This speech went online today and shows a still of UBL in front of the al-Aqsa Mosque with his message being read (yeah, does sound like him indeed) – in his message to “the Islamic umma” he gives the usual history lessons regarding the conditions of the Arab states and compares post-colonial times to now [...]

Ayman az-Zawahiri’s speech – English translation of the Jihad Media Brigade

The Arabic term “majzara” for “massacre” has been frequently used in regards of the situation Gaza in the past days – not only by the Jihadis, but also by the mainstream Arab media. This just as an info. As follows is the uncensored English translation of AZ’s speech which just has been published by [...]

Jihadist assessment of the Bombay attacks

“An outstanding lesson”, based on the Mujahidin operations in Mumbai, to which the jihadis only refer to as Bombay, has been issued in the forums today. The lengthy article contains detailed maps and provides the reader with an overall strategy assessment, including “who conducted the attack”.

This “extensive study of local, regional and international” factors [...]

Translation of RAND study

The jihadis have a careful and watchful eye turned to Western sources in general – it is nothing new that various media organs and studies are being discussed within the jihadi forums. For the common visitor, a group has translated the complete, as they say, study on “the end of terror groups” by RAND into [...]

A note on the “righteousness” of the jihadis – and their religious education

The latest al-Qa’ida statement from North Africa, AQIM, is simply a memoranda of their recent operations and task. So it is not really interesting, as most of these “news flashes” contain the usual, such as claiming to have attacked military convois of the Algerian government with the results being listed and so on.

Interesting about this [...]