Mullah Omar’s Afghan Taliban and al-Qa’ida’s senior leaders have been issuing some very mixed messages of late, and the online jihadi community is in an uproar, with some calling these developments “the beginning of the end of relations” between the two movements. Beginning with a statement from Mullah Omar in September, the Afghan Taliban’s Quetta-based [...]
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Al-Qa’ida and the Afghan Taliban: “Diametrically Opposed”?
Posted: 21st October 2009 by Vahid Brown in Afghanistan, AQ Leadership, China, Hamas, Hezbollah, Jund Ansar Allah, Pakistan, Taliban13
Coveters of Paradise
Posted: 19th October 2009 by Scott Sanford in Hamas, Jihadi media, Jund Ansar Allah, Palestinian Territories, propagandaIn the continuing salafi-jihadi media barrage against Hamas, the al-Sumud Media entity released its inaugural edition of the journal “Coveters of Paradise”. The cover is adorned with a photo of the battle-scarred Ibn Taymiya Mosque, which is where Hamas waged a battle against the salafi-jihadi group Jund Ansar Allah in August. The journal mainly consists [...]
Information War in Gaza
Posted: 13th October 2009 by Scott Sanford in Hamas, Jihadi media, Jund Ansar Allah, Palestinian TerritoriesThe “Department of Documents and Research” from the “Jihadi Media Elite,” a jihadi media production entity, has recently announced its “Series for God and then for History” publications. These productions are intended to “document the important events” in the jihadi world “that are considered historical turning points in the Ummah’s path and in the circle [...]
Media Incursion of Abu al-Nur al-Maqdisi
Posted: 10th October 2009 by Scott Sanford in Better Know a Forum, Hamas, Jund Ansar Allah, Palestinian Territories, propagandaThe Global Islamic Media Front, in cooperation with the Faloja Forums, has announced, “The Media Incursion of the Imam and Martyr Abu al-Nur al-Maqdisi.” It has five goals: Expose the truth about Hamas’s “crime” and “lies,” i.e. the recent attack on Jund Ansar Allah (JAA). Expose the truth about Hamas today and how it has [...]
How to Spot a Jihadi
Posted: 31st August 2009 by Scott Sanford in Hamas, Jihad culture, Jund Ansar Allah, Palestinian TerritoriesOn 30 August 2009, Jordanian journalist Murad Batal al-Shishani published a new article in al-Hayat where he asserts that an Islamist’s clothes are often political statements and can indicate his precise type of Islamist orientation. Al-Shishani states that during the 1980s, the Salafi style of “short clothing” (a likely reference to the ankle-high pants Salafis [...]
Jihadi Salafi but not al-Qaida
Posted: 25th August 2009 by Scott Sanford in Hamas, Jund Ansar Allah, Palestinian TerritoriesOn 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 [...]