On 24 August 2009, Falluja Forum member Abu Yahya al-Mu’tasim issued a statement titled “A Jund Ansar Allah Clarification Regarding the Events of Rafah.” He claimed the statement is Jund Ansar Allah’s (JAA) newest, but forum comments to the post expressed doubts over its authenticity, referring to the fact that Hamas arrested JAA’s normal Internet [...]
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Jihadi Salafi but not al-Qaida
Posted: 25th August 2009 by Scott Sanford in Hamas, Jund Ansar Allah, Palestinian Territories1
Jihadis Respond to Hamas Attack on Jund Ansar Allah
Posted: 20th August 2009 by Scott Sanford in Hamas, Palestinian TerritoriesThe forums are ablaze with postings regarding the 14 August 2009 Hamas attack on the Ibn Taymiya Mosque that Jund Ansar Allah (JAA), a group espousing Salafi-jihadi ideology, controlled. Hamas assaulted the mosque in response to JAA leader Abd al-Latif Musa, AKA Abu al-Nur al-Maqdisi, declaring an Islamic emirate in Gaza and general JAA criminal [...]
Abu al-Yazid Mending Fences with Hamas
Posted: 10th July 2009 by Thomas Hegghammer in Arab media, Hamas, Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, propagandaIt’s late, I know, but I couldn’t let Mustafa Abu al-Yazid’s interview with al-Jazeera go uncommented. I found it absolutely fascinating. My hat is off to Ahmad Zaydan for finding Mustafa and asking him excellent questions. International media focused on the A-bomb remark, but this was neither a very significant or surprising part of the [...]
When Hamas is not Islamic Enough (Part 1)
Posted: 27th May 2009 by Scott Sanford in Hamas, Palestinian TerritoriesOn 4 May 2009, Abu Yunis al-Abbasi wrote an article critiquing Hamas’s supposed “neglect” in implementing strict sharia law in Gaza. He claimed that his article was a response to a lecture that two alleged Hamas jurisprudents, Mazen Haniyah and Wael al-Zard, gave to the student council at the Islamic University in Gaza. His critique [...]
The Islamic State of Iraq in Gaza?
Posted: 18th May 2009 by Scott Sanford in Hamas, Islamic State of Iraq, Palestinian Territories, propagandaOn 15 May 2009, Falluja Forum contributor Wahj al-Rasas (Blazing Bullets) posted photos of leaflets the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) supposedly distributed recently in Gaza. The leaflets claim that the recent announcement of Abu-Omar al-Baghdadi’s capture is a fabrication, the ISI does not know the identity of the person in the alleged photos of [...]
Magazine Update
Posted: 12th February 2009 by Thomas Hegghammer in Afghanistan, Chechnya, Hamas, Jihadi journals, Jihadi media, North Caucasus, Palestinian Territories, propagandaIt has been a good week for jihadi magazine buffs. There are new issues of Qadaya Jihadiyya and Tala‘i Khurasan, as well as two brand new magazines, Sawt al-Qawqaliz (sic) and Markaz Ansar al-I‘lam. The newcomers are not particularly impressive and I do not expect them to last long in the fiercely competitive world of [...]
Gaza Galore in New Issue of Sada al-Jihad
Posted: 28th January 2009 by Thomas Hegghammer in Hamas, Israel, Jihadi journals, Palestinian Territories, Saudi ArabiaThe thirty-second issue of the ever so slick magazine Sada al-Jihad is out. Like the rest of jihadi media these days, it focuses on Gaza. Practically the entire 41-page journal is devoted to Palestine, and the front page features a close-up picture of the blood-stained face of a Palestinian child. However, the articles do not [...]
Bin Laden And Zawahiri Not Sharing Talking Points
Posted: 14th January 2009 by Will McCants in AQ Leadership, Bin Laden, Hamas, Israel, Palestinian Territories, ZawahiriIt’s interesting to compare Bin Laden’s new statement on Gaza with Zawahiri’s of last week. Of course the overarching message–jihad now!–is the same. But unlike Zawahiri, Bin Laden doesn’t mock Obama, he doesn’t echo Zawahiri’s call for demonstrations in Egypt (Bin Laden says demonstrations are useless), and he takes a slightly more conciliatory view of [...]
The Denudation Of The Exoneration: Part 8
Posted: 28th November 2008 by Will McCants in AQ Leadership, Bin Laden, Egypt, Hamas, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Pakistan, Palestinian Territories, Saudi Arabia, Syria, WMD, ZawahiriTags: Bin Laden, Sayyid Imam, Zawahiri
In part 8, Sayyid Imam continues to hammer al-Qaeda for bringing disaster to the Middle East and for the hypocrisy of its leaders. He puts forward the odd claim that AQ lied to the U.S. about WMD in Iraq and about AQ ties with Iraq to push the U.S. to invade observes that Iran and [...]
Divide And Conquer
Posted: 12th November 2008 by Will McCants in Afghanistan, HamasTags: Afghanistan, Hamas, Hekmatyar, Taliban
The Hesbah forum’s reaction to two recent rumors is instructive. First, the claim by a Hamas official that Obama’s advisers met with members of the organization during the U.S. election is being met with derision. The derision is directed not at Obama but at Hamas for selling out and walking down the trail blazed by Fatah. [...]