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 [...]
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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
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The Army of Islam Moves to Unify Palestinian Jihadi Organizations
Posted: 1st September 2008 by Will McCants in Hamas, Israel, Palestinian Territories[Scott Sanford] On 28 August 2008, the Army of Islam (AI), a Gaza-based and al-Qaeda-inspired terrorist entity that gained notoriety for the kidnapping of BBC reporter Alan Johnston, issued a statement in response to what the AI claimed were many calls to unify Palestinian jihadi organizations under one banner. In the statement, the AI asserted [...]
Assad al-Jihad2 Remarks on the State of al-Qaida
Posted: 26th August 2008 by Will McCants in AQ Leadership, Hamas, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Strategy[Scott Sanford] On 23 August 2008, Ekhlaas member Assad al-Jihad2 (أسد الجهاد2), or the Lion of Jihad 2, posted a statement concerning the state of al-Qaida in the world today. He started the statement with a 13 December 2001 news report about the battle in Tora Bora and how it seemed that al-Qaida was on [...]
Mosab Hassan Yousef Receives Death Sentence from the Global Islamic Media Front
Posted: 22nd August 2008 by Will McCants in Hamas, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Recruitment[Scott Sanford] On 21 August 2008, the al-Qaida-affiliated Global Islamic Media Front released a statement written by Abu al-Harith al-Ansari concerning the conversion of Mosab Hassan Yousef from Islam to Christianity. This conversion is significant because Yousef’s father is a senior Hamas leader in an Israeli prison and Yousef himself allegedly was in a leadership [...]
Response to Hamas Truce
Posted: 18th June 2008 by Will McCants in Hamas, IsraelTags: Hamas, Israel, truce
There’s disagreement about the Israel-Hamas truce on Ekhlaas today. Ekhlaas member Hafid al-Faruq thinks it squanders the blood of the martyrs who died to lift the siege. Asad al-Islam counters that there is no harm in a truce as long as the mujahids accept it; after all, Bin Laden himself offered a truce to Europe. [...]
Bin Laden Statement Prompts Speculation on AQ Strategy in Palestine (Part 3)
Posted: 24th May 2008 by Will McCants in Israel, Lebanon, Palestinian Territories, StrategyTags: Aqaba, Eilat, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Levant, Palestine, Strategy, Syria
In the final installment of the series, we’ll look at a piece of analysis from Ekhlaas member Abu Hamza 2005 titled, “A Modest Reading of al-Qaeda’s Strategy in the Levant [bilad al-sham]“. Abu Hamza begins by referring to Bin Laden’s 2007 statement, “To Our People in Iraq.” The statement, according to Abu Hamza, indicates that [...]
Bin Laden Message Prompts Speculation on AQ Strategy in Palestine (Part 1)
Posted: 20th May 2008 by Will McCants in Bin Laden, Hezbollah, Israel, Palestinian Territories, StrategyTags: Bin Laden, Hezbollah, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Strategy, Zawahiri
Bin Laden’s statement on May 18th has prompted several Jihadi pundits to speculate on AQ’s future strategy in the Palestinian territories. Over the next few days, I’ll post the most interesting speculation. For part one, we’ll look at a short post by Ekhlaas member Khalid al-`Asqalani. According to `Asqalani, Bin Laden has presented a complete [...]
Bin Laden Message on 60th Anniversary of Israel
Posted: 16th May 2008 by Will McCants in AQ Leadership, Bin Laden, Israel, Palestinian TerritoriesTags: Bin Laden, Israel, Palestinian Territories, statement, Zawahiri
Today, al-Sahab (the organization that distributes Bin Laden and Zawahiri’s messages) sent around a statement by Bin Laden on the 60th anniversary of Israel. In his address, Bin Laden stated the “Palestine question” is the chief cause of conflict between Western nations and the Muslim community. It is the ultimate reason why AQ attacked the [...]
Jihadi Book Club: Trita Parsi’s Treacherous Alliance
Posted: 8th May 2008 by Will McCants in Iran, Israel, ShiaTags: Iran, Israel, Shia, U.S.
Trita Parsi’s new book, Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the U.S. is the subject of a long post on Ekhlaas. The poster uses it to prove his thesis that Iran is secretly working with the U.S. and Israel against the Sunnis. Many Jihadis maintain that the Shia, with Iran at their [...]