The Palestinian jihadi group the Army of the Ummah (Jeish al-Ummah) is using a Facebook account to ask for financial donations for weapons.
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They say that “behind every great man, there is a great woman.” This is also true in the Islamic State. Long an aggressive recruiter of Western men to fill their ranks, women claiming to be with the Islamic State have gradually developed an expanded recruitment platform targeting foreign women. Prominent among this outreach are English-language social media accounts allegedly maintained by Western women who are married to jihadi fighters and who live in territories controlled by the Islamic State.
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The Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF), an al-Qaeda-linked media organization, released a posthumous video, titled “The Story of the American Muhajir,” featuring Moner Mohammad Abu-Salha (AKA Abu Hurayra al-Amriki), the American jihadist who carried out a suicide bombing in Syria in May of this year. The video was released just three days after al-Nusra Front released their own 17-minute posthumous video of Hurayra on July 25 through their al-Manara al-Baydha’ Media Foundation.
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Exactly two months after the suicide bombing by American jihadist Moner Mohammad Abu-Salha (AKA Abu Hurayra al-Amriki) in Syria’s Idlib governorate, the al-Nusra Front released a video focusing on the operation in which he participated.
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As I noted in a post last week, al-Qaeda’s failure to respond to the declaration of the Caliphate by the Islamic State (IS)—formerly the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS)—has been rather puzzling. Given the seriousness of the dispute between the two organizations and the challenge that the new state poses to al-Qaeda’s dominance of the global jihad, it would seem incumbent upon the more established group to answer the declaration in some convincing way. This week, at long last, al-Qaeda has issued a short newsletter that contains at least the beginning of a response to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s announcement.It also allows us to see that al-Qaeda might have been setting up this response over the past few weeks.
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