There’s been no claim on the forums today for the rockets fired from southern Lebanon into Israel but everyone believes it’s a Salafi-Jihadi group. Some have opined that it’s Fatah al-Islam, but they’re as clueless as the rest of us. Look here and here for some clues as to what’s going on. Update: From MEMRI.
Posts Tagged ‘Fatah al-Islam’
No Jihadi Claim Of Rocket Attacks
Posted: 8th January 2009 by Will McCants in Hezbollah, Lebanon, UncategorizedTags: Fatah al-Islam, `Usbat al-Ansar
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Ignored Puzzle Pieces Of Ain Hilweh Knowledge
Posted: 11th December 2008 by Will McCants in LebanonTags: Fatah al-Islam, `Usbat al-Ansar
Here are two more puzzle pieces to add to those I put on the table yesterday. First, Aaron learned that Fatah al-Islam renewed the domain name for its website two days ago. Second, the Lebanese paper al-Mustaqbal reports that the Lebenese Army has heard that there may be attacks on UNIFIL, the UN force keeping [...]
Fatah al-Islam Leader Threatens Hezbollah, U.S.-Friendly Sunnis
Posted: 9th June 2008 by Will McCants in Hezbollah, LebanonTags: Fatah al-Islam, Hezbollah, Lebanon
Shakir al-`Absi, the fugitive leader of Fatah al-Islam, has issued his second audio statement since the defeat of his organization at the hands of the Lebanese Army last year. In it, he claims that the U.S. knows that it cannot directly break the “power” (shawka–a favorite Jihadi term) of the Sunnis in the Middle East, [...]
Jihadi Operations in Northern and Southern Lebanon
Posted: 3rd June 2008 by Will McCants in Lebanon, UncategorizedTags: Fatah al-Islam, Lebanon
On Saturday, an Ekhlaas member asked, “Have Jihadi operations returned to striker the Crusader Lebanese Army?” His proof that it might be so are two pieces of that day’s news: There was an explosion at the intelligence headquarters of the Lebanese Army at Abdeh in northern Lebanon. The army killed a Palestinian suicide bomber at [...]
New Issue of Jannat Released
Posted: 15th May 2008 by Will McCants in Hezbollah, Jihadi journals, Lebanon, Palestinian TerritoriesTags: Fatah al-Islam, Hezbollah, Jannat, Jihadi journals, Lebanon, Palestinian Territories
The May issue of the Jannat (“Paradise”) Journal has been released. The monthly journal is a collection of short news stories on the global jihad and excerpts from online Jihadi discussion forums. If you haven’t been following the latest goings on in the jihadosphere, this is a good place to look to get caught up. [...]