Terrorism & Security Monitor*OSINT Summary: FAI attack claim threatens escalation in anarchist violence in ItalyA group identifying itself as the Olga Nucleus cell of the Federazione Anarchica Informale (FAI) claimed responsibility on 11 May for the shooting of ... 15-May-2012 *OSINT Summary: Jabhat al-Nusra deny Damascus suicide bombing A 14 May statement by Al-Manara al-Bayda, the media wing of Jabhat al-Nusra, refuted a 12 May YouTube video that purported to claim responsibility ... 15-May-2012 *OSINT Summary: Al-Qaeda leaders use US hostage to gain publicity A video entitled 'Message from the prisoner Warren Weinstein to his president Obama', produced by As-Sahab, the media wing for Al-Qaeda's central leadership in ... 10-May-2012 *OSINT Summary: US disrupts alleged AQAP plot to target airliners (updated) Unnamed United States intelligence officials announced on 7 May that they had foiled a plot by suspected Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) militants ... 09-May-2012 *OSINT Summary: Jihadist internet forum announces Twitter account Militant Islamist internet forum Ansar al-Mujahideen announced on 4 May that it had opened an account on social networking site Twitter. It stated: "We ... 09-May-2012 *OSINT Summary: Militant Islamist forum addresses pro-government tribesmen in Yemen Militant Islamist internet forum Ansar al-Mujahideen produced and released a video on 30 April, entitled A Message of Compassion to Those Who Have Allied... 02-May-2012 *OSINT Summary: AQIM emir calls on Algerians to boycott upcoming elections Al-Andalus, the media wing of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), released a video entitled Boycott the Farcical Elections onto militant Islamist forums on... 02-May-2012 *OSINT Summary: Militant Islamists in Egypt's Sinai call for support of Syria jihad On 25 April, the Ibn Taymiyyah media centre released a video showing a convoy of militant Islamist sympathisers, flying flags commonly associated with transnational ... 01-May-2012 *Out of control? The 3 April announcement by the United States that it was offering a reward of USD10 million for information leading to the arrest of Hafiz... 01-May-2012 *OSINT Summary: Jabhat al-Nusra claims Syria bombing Militant Islamist group Jabhat al-Nusra has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack near the Zeen al-Abideen mosque in the Maidan district of the Syrian ... 30-Apr-2012 *OSINT Summary: PJAK kills four soldiers in Iran Four Islamic Revolution Guards Corp (IRGC) soldiers were killed and four wounded in an attack by suspected Partiya Jiyana Azada Kurdistane (PJAK) militants near ... 27-Apr-2012 *Citizen jihad In the wake of the popular uprisings that overthrew the governments of Egypt, Tunisia and Libya, and contested control of Yemen and Syria in 2011... 26-Apr-2012 *OSINT Summary: Air strikes allegedly prevent hostage release in Yemen Prominent tribal leader and former jihadist Tariq al-Fadhli claimed on 25 April that a series of air strikes targeting Ansar al-Sharia militants in the ... 26-Apr-2012 *OSINT Summary: Shabab reportedly seeks front in Somalia's Puntland Unverified media reports from Somalia on 10 April claimed that senior Shabab commander Sheikh Fuad Muhammad Khalaf (alias Shangole) had travelled to the Galgala ... 25-Apr-2012 *OSINT Summary: Suspected poison attack targets Afghan girls' school More than 140 schoolgirls and female teachers were hospitalised on 17 April after drinking water that is suspected of being poisoned by unidentified assailants ... 24-Apr-2012 *OSINT Summary: New group claims Peru kidnappings Thirty-six energy contractors - kidnapped on 9 April - were released by their captors on 14 April after around 1,500 soldiers surrounded their position ... 23-Apr-2012 *OSINT Summary: Islamist militants hijack the MNLA's Mali revolution Unverified reports from Mali's Timbuktou region on 16 April claimed that representatives of militant Islamist group Harakat Ansar al-Din had recently met with senior ... 20-Apr-2012 *Somalia's clan dynamics Somalia's clans have played an important role in the campaigns waged by jihadist groups operating in the country, from Al-Ittihad al-Islamiyya (AIAI) in the 1990s,... 18-Apr-2012 *Fighting for the forest The kidnapping of two Italian tourists and a local state assembly member by the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-M) in two separate attacks... 10-Apr-2012 *OSINT Summary: Female Islamists and the 'Jihad of the Pen' The growing role played by women in supporting militant Islamist activity has recently been highlighted by a series of videos and statements posted to ... 30-Mar-2012 *OSINT Summary: NPA claims environmental agenda New People's Army (NPA) regional spokesman Jorge Madlos issued a statement on 28 March threatening renewed attacks against three nickel mining companies operating in ... 29-Mar-2012 *Thailand's terrorism nexus The violent unravelling of a bomb plot in the Thai capital, Bangkok, in February and the apparently unrelated seizure of a large cache of explosive... 29-Mar-2012 *OSINT Summary: Jihadists parade through Sirte in Libya A YouTube video posted on 23 March entitled, Al-Qaeda takfirists and their black flags on the streets of Sirte , showed a 29-vehicle militant... 29-Mar-2012 *OSINT Summary: AQIM claims kidnapping in Nigeria's Kano Suspected Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) militants claimed responsibility on 21 March for the kidnapping of a German national, Edgar Fritz Raupach, from ... 28-Mar-2012 *OSINT Summary: US jihadist fears for life at hands of Shabab In a short video published on YouTube on 16 March, US national Omar Hammami (alias Abu Mansur al-Amriki) - the most high-profile foreign commander ... 26-Mar-2012 *OSINT Summary: Jihadist discusses Salafist movement in Gaza The Ansar al-Mujahideen militant Islamist forum published an interview between Engineer Abdullah Jihad al-Ashqar (alias Abu al-Muhtasab al-Maqdisi), the head of media relations for ... 23-Mar-2012 *OSINT Summary: Nigerien authorities detain former Tuareg rebel leader Nigerien police sources claimed on 21 March that former Mouvement des Nigeriéns pour la Justice (MNJ) leader Aghaly ag Alambo had been detained "on ... 22-Mar-2012 *OSINT Summary: Somali gunmen release British woman abducted from Kenya British national Judith Tebbutt, abducted by unidentified gunmen from a tourist resort in northern Kenya on 11 September 2011, was released unharmed on 21 ... 22-Mar-2012 *North Caucasus: Soldiering on The insurgency waged in Russia's North Caucasus by the militant Islamist umbrella grouping Imarat Kavkaz, or the Caucasus Emirate, has come under intense pressure from... 21-Mar-2012 *OSINT Summary: The emergence of jihadist citizen journalism Over the past decade, militant Islamist groups have developed sophisticated propaganda programmes, exploiting the internet to publicise their attacks and disseminate their ideology to ... 16-Mar-2012 OSINT Summary: ELN offers to end attacks on oil industry in Colombia The National Liberation Army (Ejército de Liberación Nacional: ELN) offered on 5 March to end its practice of targeting the oil industry in Colombia ... 15-Mar-2012 *OSINT Summary: Senior FDLR commander surrenders in DRC The commander of the 2nd Battalion of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda: FDLR), Idrissa Muradadi, ... 15-Mar-2012 *OSINT Summary: AQAP calls for Sunni uprising in Saudi Arabia A video entitled Do not place your trust in the unjust was released onto militant Islamist forums by the media wing of Al-Qaeda in... 13-Mar-2012 OSINT Summary: AQIM splinter group claims Algeria suicide attack In a statement issued directly to AFP news agency on 3 March, Jamaat al-Tawhid wal Jihad fi Gharb Afriqiya (Group of Monotheism and Jihad ... 08-Mar-2012 *JTIC Brief: MEND remnants announce new Niger Delta campaign Five Marine Police officers were killed in a small-arms attack on a security checkpoint in the Nembe Creek area of Nigeria's Bayelsa State on ... 08-Mar-2012 |
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