On September 11, 2008, the Islamist website Al-Hesbah posted a purported “exclusive interview with an Al-Qaeda mujahid.” In the interview, conducted by the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Yaqin Media Center, the unnamed mujahid states that an attack on Europe and America is imminent, and that Al-Qaeda has operatives in Europe and the U.S. waiting only for bin Laden’s [...]

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Following are excerpts from an interview with Mus’ab Hassan Yousef, the son of West Bank Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef, which aired on Al-Hayat TV on August 19, 2008:
  
To view this clip on MEMRI TV, visit http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1839.htm.

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Despite confident pronouncements by Iranian leaders that the West will not dare to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, [1] the Iranian regime has, on orders from Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, been preparing for this eventuality by means of a comprehensive emergency plan called “Passive Defense.” [2] Examination of the plan reveals that the regime’s main fear [...]

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In a message posted March 2, 2008 on the Islamist forum Al-Ikhlas (hosted by Piradius.net in Malaysia), a member calling himself “abumuslim22″ urged his fellow forum members to engage in “media jihad,” and provided advice and safety tips.
  
The following are excerpts from the posting

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On February 12, 2008, the Qatari daily Al-’Arab published an interview with Al-Qaeda commander in northern Iraq Abu-Turab Al-Jaza’iri. The interview, at an Al-Qaeda hideout in northern Iraq, was conducted according to Al-Qaeda’s stipulations - including no disclosure of the region where it took place and no communications or recording equipment of any kind brought [...]

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The Islamist website http://www.al-farooq.net/ (currently hosted by SoftLayer Technologies Inc., Dallas, TX, USA) claimed in a message to its subscribers posted February 27, 2008, that U.S. authorities had contacted both the website administrator and its U.S. host to pressure them to remove jihad content, saying that if they do not, the site will be shut down. [...]

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A message posted January 20, 2008 on the Islamist forum Al-Hesbah (hosted by NOC4Hosts Inc. in Florida, USA), by a member calling himself Al-Jawfi, suggests stirring up racial tension between African-Americans and whites in the U.S. by spreading inflammatory materials on the Internet. In the discussion thread, other members proposed posting racist materials against African-Americans [...]

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An Electricity Outage in the Office“A Saudi mother of three, who works as a business partner and financial consultant for a reputable company in Jeddah, didn’t expect a trip to the capital to open the company’s new branch office to get her thrown behind bars by the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the [...]

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Kayhan Editor Close To Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei: “America and Its European Supporters Must Know… That the Price of Supporting [Israel] Will Cost Them the Property and Lives of Their Citizens… If the Heads of Some Islamic States Prevent the Muslim Peoples from Attacking the Zionists… They Can Be Toppled”
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Recent discussions in the online Islamist forums regarding the benefits of attacking France have sparked a religious debate among Islamist forum members.  At the core of the debate is the Islamic concept of “assurance of protection” (aman), which is referred to in the discussion below as “the covenant of security.” In this case, the covenant [...]

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