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 Profile Of Foued Mohamed-Aggad, Paris Bataclan Attacker
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On December 12, 2015, French security services released the name of the third perpetrator of the Bataclan terror attack, Foued Mohamed-Aggad. He was a identified as a member of the cell that carried out the November 13, 2015 attack inside the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, in which 90 people were murdered. Aggad was a known member of the Islamic State (ISIS), which he had joined in December 2013.
EXCLUSIVE: Iranian Facebook Page Seeks Young Muslim Men 18-35 For Jihad In Syria
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An Iranian account on Facebook is recruiting Muslim youths from South Asia for jihad in Syria. The recruitment began after a user created a Facebook event from December 8-30, 2015, with the location of the event set at the holy city of Qom in Iran.
The account appealed in Urdu for volunteers who are aged 18-35, healthy, and with good eyesight. The Urdu text begins: "In the Name of the Lord of the Martyrs - The Pious Jihad" and goes on to ask: "What is the difference between Hezbollah and us?" and answers: "We ask: when will the path to Syria open for pilgrimage? And they [Hezbollah] ask: What can we do to open the path?"
EXCLUSIVE: AQAP Video Documents First Appearance Of Former Gitmo Detainee Ibrahim Al-Qusi
On December 9, 2015, Al-Malahem, the media arm of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), published a new video featuring the first appearance of Sudanese national and former Osama bin Laden aide Ibrahim Al-Qusi since his 2012 release from the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, where he was held for 12 years.
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EXCLUSIVE: Islamic State's Cyber Caliphate Releases Hit List Of U.S. Military Personnel
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Reporting today on the December 2, 2015 San Bernardino, CA shooting, the Islamic State-affiliated news agency 'Amaq referred to the perpetrators as "supporters of the Islamic State."
"Two supporters of the Islamic State [ISIS] kill and wound dozens Americans in an attack in the American state of California," wrote the agency.
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On December 10, 2015 the Raqqa-based Syrian activist group tweeted that a drone strike carried out yesterday in Raqqa targeted a Danish militant of Iraqi origin, who was involved in planning the ISIS attacks in Paris last month. The account uploaded the purported coordinates of the drone strike.
ISIS-Affiliated News Agency Announces New Android App
On December 7, 2015, the Islamic State (ISIS)-affiliated 'Amaq news agency announced the release of its news app. The app, according to the agency, will deliver ISIS releases to users with Android phones.
On December 4, 2015, the media office of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Aden/Abyan Province in Yemen, released a new video showing a group of Houthi men being executed by beheading and by using rockets and explosives. It also featured the last will and testament of four suicide bombers who carried out operations against government officials and Emirati forces in October 2015.
On December 6, 2015, an activist group posted an item on its Facebook page about new methods that the Islamic State (ISIS) is using to finance itself. It states, in English and Arabic, that ISIS is extracting funds from people it has arrested whose punishment - from flogging to execution - is yet to be carried out, and, if they are executed, from their families so that the latter can collect the body for burial, as well as to prevent the arrest of more family members. According to another Mosul Eye post, ISIS has also been collecting water taxes "from the city,", despite the fact that "water service [has] been cut off" for nearly two weeks.
Mauritian National Urges Muslims To Join ISIS In New Video
On December 8, 2015, the Islamic State's (ISIS) Ninawa province in Iraq released a video titled "O my people, follow me, I will guide you to the way of right conduct". The video, which is 11 minutes long, features a Mauritian national identified as Abu Shu'ayb Al-Ifriqi who makes an appeal in Mauritian Creole and English to Muslims, especially in Mauritius, to join ISIS and migrate to the "caliphate." The video shows Abu Shu'ayb and his three young daughters strolling through the streets of Mosul, enjoying a visit to the local amusement park, sharing a meal, and living a generally content life.
ISIS Supporters Launch New Media Wing To Support Caliphate, Encourage Jihad
On December 6, 2015, a group of supporters of the Islamic State (ISIS) launched a new media production company, Izzat Al-Jihad, with the mission of, according to a statement posted on the leading ISIS-affiliated online forum Shumoukh Al-Jihad, supporting the Caliphate, encourage Muslims to wage jihad, denouncing unbelief and spreading Islam and raising its banner.
On Telegram, ISIS Supporters Are Instructed To Return To Twitter
On December 9, 2015, a message posted on the Khilafah News channel on Telegram instructed ISIS supporters to return to Twitter, explaining that it should be used as the main social media platform. Prominent ISIS-affiliated accounts are circulating this message via their Twitter and Telegram accounts as well.
ISIS Radio Says San Bernardino Shooting Executed By 'Soldiers Of The Caliphate'
On December 5, 2015, the ISIS radio station "Al-Bayan" stated that the shooting in San Bernardino, California was executed by "two soldiers of the Caliphate" in its daily news update, which airs each day in many languages including Arabic, English, French, Turkish and Russian.
New AQAP Video Extols Anwar Al-Awlaki's Efforts In Radicalizing American, European Muslims
On December 8, 2015, Al-Malahem, the media wing of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), released a new video glorifying the sacrifices and contributions of its members and senior commanders. Among them was the radical Yemeni-American Sheikh Anwar Al-Awlaki, whom the video praised for his efforts in radicalizing Muslims living in the West as well as for establishing AQAP's English-language Inspire magazine. The video, titled "the Guardians of Sharia" and released via the group's official Twitter account, shows Al-Awlaki with Umar Farouq Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian sent by AQAP to blow up a passenger airplane in the U.S. on Christmas Day in 2009.
On December 7, 2015, Al-Andalus, the media wing of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), released an audio message delivered by the group's deputy judge, Sheikh Abu 'Abd Al-Rahman Ali Al-Sanhaji, in which he called on the believers in general, and especially those living in the Azawad region and the neighboring countries of Algeria, Mauritania, Niger and Burkina Faso, to join jihadi groups in order to implement the shari'a and fight against the polytheists, the French "crusaders", and those who mock the Prophet Muhammad.
AQIM Video Celebrates Prisoners Released Last Year In Exchange For French National Serge Lazarevic
An Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) video showing the welcoming of freed AQIM fighters who were released last year during a prisoner swap for French national Serge Lazarevic is being circulated online.
The video, which was not officially released by AQIM, shows the released fighters being welcomed by a group of armed men at an undisclosed location in the Sahara.
AQIM Video Shows Execution Of 'Spies' Working For Mauritania, France
The Sahara branch of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has released a video titled "The Traitors" showing the execution of three spies accused of working with Mauritanian and French forces.
The spies are shown confessing to their crimes, including providing intelligence to Mauritanian security apparatuses and French forces on the ground in Mali operating against the mujahideen. One of the spies relates, in French, how he worked for Mauritanian intelligence and provided various services to the French forces in northern Mali. An AQIM shari'a official who appears in the video, identified as Abu 'Abd Al-Rahman Al-Sinhaji, says that the men have been convicted of apostasy and are therefore being executed. Two of them are beheaded and one is shot.
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the Taliban shadow organization) has released an audio statement by Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, in which he denies media reports that he was wounded or killed in a shootout that reportedly took place in Pakistan's Baluchistan province.
The statement was posted on the Taliban's official website Voice of Jhad and released through social media. In addition to its posting on the Taliban website, the 16:53-minute audio statement was also broadcast through wireless, the Voice of Jihad website noted.
