The following is the 53rd edition of the MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Weekly Digest. It includes exclusive reports and items from the past week on Jihadist websites.
THE WEEK IN JIHAD
On October 27, 2010, Al-Jazeera TV broadcast a new audio message from Osama bin Laden. In the brief message, bin Laden said that the recent kidnapping of French citizens in northern Niger (by Al-Qaeda Maghreb) was a response to France's injustice towards Muslims, including the burqa ban and France's participation in the war in Afghanistan. There were no direct threats to the French mainland, but bin Laden did use some of his stock threats, for instance, "as you kill, so shall you be killed."
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