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

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

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

Darra Adam Khel is a familiar name to all those who have any acquaintance with Pakistan's lawless tribal frontier region of seven tribal districts, or agencies. The town takes its name from the Adam Khel clan of the Pashtun Afridi tribe native to this region.... MORE

Members of Iraq’s Islamist internet forums have been delighted lately to report a possible alliance between al-Qaeda’s Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) and the Ansar al-Islam group of Kurdish Sunni insurgents. A forum participant recently posted details of a joint operation by al-Qaeda and Ansar... MORE

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

Over the past six months, al-Qaeda in Yemen’s strategy has become increasingly clear. It aims to strike at both Yemen and Western countries— particularly the United States—by attacking them at their most vital and vulnerable points: oil and tourism. For Yemen the danger is clear.... MORE

LEADER OF UZBEK MILITANTS CALLS FOR JIHAD IN PAKISTAN Tahir Yuldash, leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), has called for jihad against the government of Pakistan from his refuge in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). In a video recording believed to have... MORE

Since the beginning of the year, jihadi internet forums have carried many postings concerning the future of U.S. forces in Iraq and American plans to change the current military/political status quo in Iraq. These postings come despite a declaration from Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki... MORE