New statement from al-Qā’idah in the Arabian Peninsula: “Condolences and Sympathy To Our People in the Islamic Maghrib”

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Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: al-Qā’idah in the Arabian Peninsula — Condolences and Sympathy To Our People in the Islamic Maghrib

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Source: Telegram

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New statement from al-Qā’idah in the Indian Subcontinent: “God Will Help Him Who Helps His Brother In Distress!”

New statement from al-Qā’idah’s General Command: “Support and Guidance to Our People in Algeria, Sudan, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and Morocco”

Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: al-Qā’idah’s General Command — Support and Guidance to Our People in Algeria, Sudan, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and Morocco

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Source: Telegram

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Eye on Jihadis in Libya Weekly Update: 9 January 2018

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On 9 January, Tripoli’s Special Deterrent Force (Rada) announced the arrest of two IS fighters – Mohammed Abdullah Balah (Abu Ayoub) and Siraj Khalifa Ali Abdul Rahman al-Jahawi (Abu Huraira) – who confessed to being responsible for the failed Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED) bombing in the al-Dreibi District in southwest Tripoli on 6 January. Rada said it received a report about a bag of explosives in al-Dreibi area, and sent an explosives expert to deal with it. The device was reportedly a howitzer tank shell connected to a lightning wire and a mobile phone.
On 8 January, the President of the Association of Industrial Security and Safety Operators of Nigeria, Dr. Ona Ekhomu, in a media interview suggested the Nigeria government should be cautious of IS fighters masquerading as Nigerian returnees. Ekhomu, a security expert, has said that as a part of the repatriation efforts the Nigerian government must do the “responsible thing” given “there is a high probability that a few of them may be IS fighters escaping from Libya, or coming to Nigeria to execute a possible terrorist plot.” Moroccan officials are also concerned about repatriating its citizens who are currently trapped in Libya in case some of those who return have been recruited to IS or other extremist groups.
 

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Check out my new edited volume for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy: "How al-Qaeda Survived Drones, Uprisings, and the Islamic State"


Over the past eight years, al-Qaeda’s fortunes have ebbed and flowed. Drones, uprisings, and a challenge from the Islamic State have forced the core al-Qaeda organization—historically based in the Afghanistan/Pakistan region—and its various branches to adapt and migrate outward.
In this new Policy Focus, Washington Institute fellow Aaron Y. Zelin compiles case studies demonstrating how each part of al-Qaeda’s network has evolved and survived the various challenges it has faced roughly since the Obama administration took office. Written by eminent scholars, practitioners, and government officials from the United States and abroad, the chapters are informed by a recent workshop in which the participants gave candid, off-the-record assessments of numerous key issues, including al-Qaeda’s current strategic outlook, a close examination of its branch in Syria, its branches outside of Syria (AQAP, AQIM, al-Shabab, and AQIS), and its current financial situation.
Contributors include: myself, Bruce Hoffman, Charles Lister, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Samuel Heller, Katherine Zimmerman, Andrew Lebovich, Christopher Anzalone, Don Rassler, Hans-Jakob Schindler, Katherine Bauer, and Matthew Levitt.
Click here to read the full publication (124 pages).

New release from Abū Sa'īd al-Shamālī: "Foreboding Message from the Moroccan Prisons: Warning, Erosion, and Innocence From ''Abd al-Razāq Ujuḥā'"

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Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Abū Sa’īd al-Shamālī — “Foreboding Message from the Moroccan Prisons- Warning, Erosion, and Innocence From ”Abd al-Razāq Ujuḥā'”
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