The following are some of this week's reports from the MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Project, which translates and analyzes content from sources monitored around the clock, among them the most important jihadi websites and blogs. (To view these reports in full, you must be a paying member of the JTTM; for membership information, send an email to jttmsubs@memri.org with "Membership" in the subject line.)
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EXCLUSIVE: On Facebook, French IS Supporters And Fighters Urge Attacks In France And Europe
The launch of the military campaign against the Islamic State (IS), in which France and Belgium have enlisted, has sparked a flurry of French-language posts by IS supporters and fighters on the social media calling for terror attacks in Europe and particularly in France.
Before the U.S.-led coalition launched its campaign against the Islamic State, the organization concentrated its rhetoric on local enemies, while largely refraining from threatening Western countries. Following the campaign's start the the US and Western countries became the main targets.
On October 14, 2014, the Jihadi Media Platform forum announced the opening of the Al-Zawraa' media production company, a women-geared media company that aims at preparing women to enter the field of jihad.
The new media company's slogan is "preparation, preparation, until we are honored with jihad."
American Islamic State Fighter Reportedly Killed In Battle For Kobani, Syria
On October 12, 2014, jihadi sources close with the Islamic State (IS) reported that American IS commander Abu Muhammad Al-Amriki was killed during the ongoing battles in the northern Syrian town of Ayn Al-Arab (Kobani), near the Turkish border.
On October 14, 2014, the Islamic State (IS) released the third installment in its "Message Of The Mujahid" series. The installment features a French IS fighter who threatens retaliation against France for its bombing of Muslims in Iraq and Syria. He says that France will regret its actions in those countries, and that the French people shall never be safe again. The fighter says that France is at war with the IS and that the IS "shall call upon all of our brothers who reside in France to kill any unbeliever there." The video also features two Moroccan IS fighters who scold the coalition for its attacks against Muslims. One man also calls upon Moroccans to kill Americans in Morocco.
Course Graduation At ISIS Training Camp In Iraq
In this video-clip, ISIS fighters display skills learned at an ISIS training camp in the province of Nineveh, Iraq. Training included urban warfare and self-defense, weapons training, and instruction in Islamic law. The video-clip, which is said to be the first installment of a series titled "The Blood of Jihad," was posted on the Internet on October 11, 2014.
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In a fatwa published on the Minbar Al-Tawhid Wal-Jihad (MTJ) website, prominent Salafi-jihadi cleric Abu Muhammad Al-Maqdisi called upon the mujahideen in the Philippines not to swear fealty to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, saying that the latter had no real authority over them and that any such pledge to him would end up weakening and dividing the mujahideen in the Philippines.
The fatwa came in response to a query by some mujahideen from the Philippines who asked Al-Maqdisi about the ruling vis-à-vis the pledge of allegiance to Al-Baghdadi, particularly, they said, after other Filipino mujahideen had pledged loyalty to him.
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On October 7, 2014, an image of a young Chinese man, who reportedly carried out a suicide attack in Iraq, was posted on the pro-IS Twitter account.
On October 12, 2014, the Islamic State (ISIS) released the fourth issue of its English-language magazine Dabiq. One section of this issue, "The Revival of Slavery Before the Hour," focuses on the group's recent enslavement of Yazidi women and children in Iraq.
The Dabiq piece belittles the Yazidis' belief in Iblis, a fallen angel, which it claims forms the basis of their apostasy; it says that before ISIS attacked the Yazidis, students in the ISIS-declared Caliphate were asked to research the Yazidi creed: "Prior to the retaking of Sinjar, Shari'ah students in the Islamic State were tasked to research the Yazidis to determine if they should be treated as an originally mushrik [polytheist] group or one that originated as Muslims and then apostatized, due to many of the related Islamic ruling that would apply to the group, its individuals, and their families. The IS scholars concluded that 'this group is one that existed since the pre-Islamic Jahiliyyah [era of ignorance], but became 'islamized' by the surrounding Muslim population, language, and culture, although they never accepted Islam nor claimed to have adopted it. The apparent origin of the religion is found in the Magianism of ancient Persia, but reinterpreted with elements of Sabianism, Judaism, and Christianity, and ultimately expressed in the heretical vocabulary of extreme Sufism."
Jihadists Display Damage Allegedly Caused To Syrian Civilian Infrastructure By Coalition Airstrikes
In this video-clip, a Jihadist displays the damage caused by the U.S.-led coalition airstrikes, claiming that the targets were schools, hospitals, and gas stations, rather than military targets. The video-clip was posted on the Internet on October 2, 2014.
Following are excerpts:
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Titles: "The Media Bureau of the Province of Al-Raqqah
"The sites targeted by the raids of the international coalition –
"a school of education"
Jihadist: "In the name of Allah, peace upon the Prophet Muhammad.
"Do you know what this is? Or the right question is: What was this? This was a school. You are not bombing the [Islamic] State soldiers. You are just bombing the schools and the hospitals."
Shahidullah Shahid was TTP spokesman
Recently, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) suffered a setback after six of its leading commanders, including spokesman Shahidullah Shahid, pledged an oath of allegiance to Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State (formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISSI).
The oath of allegiance to Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi is significant because TTP emir Maulana Fazlullah has witnessed a number of challenges to his leadership after he was made the TTP's emir in November 2013, following the killing of Hakimullah Mehsud in a U.S. drone strike. The post of emir has always belonged to a militant commander from the Mehsud tribe of Waziristan region, until Fazlullah became the first non-Mehsud to take over.
Copy of the statement
The following is the text of a speech by Maulana Fazlullah, the emir of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), in which he stresses that the TTP remains under the leadership of Mullah Mohammad Omar, the leader of the Taliban, thereby not endorsing the Islamic State of Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi.
Below is the text of a message issued by Maulana Fazlullah, Emir of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), on the occasion of Eid Al-Adha (the annual feast of sacrifice) which was celebrated across the Islamic world for three days starting on October 4:
"In This Doctrine [Of The Practice Of Sacrifice], There Is Dissociation Away From The Fathers And The Clan If They Were On The Wrong Path"
"I congratulate you on the Ibrahimi tradition of Eid al-Adha [i.e. the practice begun by Prophet Abraham when he offered his son as a sacrifice to God]. May Allah accept the prayers and the sacrifices of the entire Islamic Ummah, and may Allah the blessed and exalted make this blessed day a day of liberation, a day of emerging from under the colonization of the Kufr [unbelief] arrogance, and a day of establishing the Islamic system. May Allah accept the Hajj of all those who performed Hajj and offered sacrifices. Amen."
Indian Media Report: Muslim Youths Unfurl ISIS Flags In Indian Kashmir
Given below is an Indian media report about Kashmiri youths unfurling the flag of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) after Friday prayers in Srinagar, the capital of India's Jammu & Kashmir:
"A group of men unfurled ISIS flags amid pro-freedom and anti-India sloganeering outside the Jamia Masjid in Nowhatta in downtown Srinagar after Friday prayers [October 10], according to eyewitnesses. 'The protesters were holding Islamic State flags and one of them waved it after climbing the mosque's gate,' an eyewitness said.
"This comes just a day after general officer commanding (GoC) 15 Corps, Lt. General Subrata Saha, called the presence of ISIS flags a matter of deep concern. 'This is something which merits the highest concern of all security agencies and let me tell you that it is getting the attention of all the security agencies,' he had said."
In a series of tweets, Usama Mahmood, the spokesman of the newly created Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), has confirmed that one of AQIS's key militant commanders has been killed in the Pakistani border region.
According to the tweets by Usama Mahmood, Shiekh Imran Ali Siddiqui, who died in the U.S. drone strike, was member of the Shura (executive council) of AQIS. Siddiqui, who was also known as Haji Waliullah (pictured above), was among six militants who died in the strike, as per the tweets dated October 11.
A little-known jihadist group based in India's Jammu & Kashmir called Jamaat Ansar ut-Tawheed Wal Jihad Fee Kashmir (The Group of Supporters of Islamic Monotheism and Jihad in Kashmir) has welcomed the establishment of Al-Qaeda's new branch for South Asia.
In early September, Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri announced the establishment of Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), whose stated purpose is to erase the international borders drawn by the British that divided India into three countries: India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. After the establishment of AQIS, the Kashmiri valley saw its worst floods in six decades, which caused devastation for the people.
The statement was released through Twitter by Al-Sahab in the Indian Subcontinent, Al-Qaeda's media arm for South Asia
Following is the complete text of the statement released by Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) detailing how the September attack by the serving jihadist commanders of the Pakistan Navy was meant to take over a Pakistani ship and launch attacks on U.S. and Indian warships in the Indian Ocean; the statement also criticizes the Pakistani military and media for presenting the incident as an attack on the Karachi naval dockyard to mislead people.
Shamsh Kashmiri, former deputy emir of Jaish-e-Muhammad
Shamsh Kashmiri was the deputy emir of Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM), an anti-India jihadist organization like Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which has been working as a branch of the Pakistani military's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). JeM is led by Maulana Masood Azhar, one of three militant commanders freed by India in exchange for the passengers of an Indian plane hijacked to Kandahar in 1999.
In 1996 Address, Taliban Leader Mullah Omar Described Formation Of The Taliban In Afghanistan
Given below is the text of a March 1996 speech delivered in Kandahar by Mullah Mohammad Omar, the leader of the Taliban who is also considered Emir-ul-Momineen (leader of the faithful Muslims) by all Al-Qaeda affiliates. The address was aimed at seeking the support of Islamic clerics for the emerging Taliban movement.