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HACKING MANUAL BY JAILED JIHADI APPEARS ON WEB A document entitled “The Encyclopedia of Hacking the Zionist and Crusader Websites” was released by al-Qaeda affiliated Global Islamic Media Front on January 27. The guide to computer mayhem is allegedly the work of Moroccan-born British jihadi... MORE

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MAGISTRATE RELEASES AUSTRALIAN JIHADI’S TERRORISM MANUAL A federal judge in the South Australian city of Adelaide has ordered the public release of a handwritten manual of terrorist and guerrilla techniques compiled by convicted terrorist David Hicks. The former Guantanamo Bay inmate served five years without... MORE

Jihad Wants You: al-Qaeda Seeks Skilled Recruits in Iraq

In another example of jihadist media use, internet forum participants posted instructions for Muslims craving a role in the Iraqi insurgency. Iraqi jihadis issued a call for skilled assistance in strengthening their self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) (al-ekhlaas.net, December 11, 2007). In this al-Qaeda-associated... MORE

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KURDISH REBEL LEADER REACHES OUT TO ARABS, THREATENS ISRAEL Last week a London-based Arabic-language internet daily carried an interview with Fehman Hussein, a Syrian Kurd and long-time PKK militant who now leads the Hezen Parastina Gel (People’s Defense Force, or HPG), the armed wing of... MORE

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BOSNIAN GENERAL RELEASES BOOK ON FOREIGN MUJAHIDEEN General Hasan Efendic, a former officer of the Yugoslav National Army and the first commander of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-95), has released a new book on the foreign mujahideen who fought on... MORE