On November 25 the Indonesian military made public the arrest – which had taken place three weeks earlier – of four men at the Javan town of Bogor. They were identified as major figures in the Indonesian radical group Jemaah Islamiah (JI), and implicated in... MORE

In the last edition of Terrorism Focus we featured how clerics were in the firing line from Muslims liberals. Now they have come in for some stick from the jihadist leaders. On November 17 a letter of ‘advice and pity for my brothers who are... MORE

An Islamist website, Majallat al-Asr [www.alasr.ws] has focused on news from Mauritania that authorities in the West African state are clamping down on mosque preachers on grounds of political activity relating to insurgents. The official ministry for literacy and Islamic education has warned them not... MORE

The jihadist forum Al-Ma'sada has warned its readers concerning a possible CIA-sponsored Qoqaz website. "The Legislative Council of the Sawt al-Qoqaz (Voice of Caucasus)", the warning runs, "announces the existence of a forum owned by the CIA, in co-operation and arrangement with British Security, for... MORE

The mujahideen in Iraq continue to demonstrate a high degree of sensitivity to the pronouncements of religious clerics on the propriety of jihadist violence. The most conspicuous example of this came in the surprising announcement by Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi, published November 5 on an Islamist... MORE

As highlighted in the last edition of Terrorism Focus, the pace of violence, now a series of daily incidents, is confirming the impression of pre-insurgency conditions. The warnings issued by the Patani United Liberation Organization (PULO) website (www.pulo.org) "to avoid police stations, railway stations and... MORE

On November 10 the latest issue of al-Qaeda's online journal Mu'askar al-Battar (no. 22) was posted on al-Ma'sada, a jihadist internet forum (www.alm2sda.net – section "Jihadi Cells' [Muntada al-Khalaya al-Jihadiyya]). Outside the standard on-going features on weaponry – in this issue specializing on the use... MORE

The al-Jazeera TV channel ran an audio tape given on November 1 by Shaykh Hammud bin Sa'ud al-Utaybi, one of the 26 names on the wanted list in Saudi Arabia. Delivered at the same time as bin Laden's address, he urged the Muslims to fulfill... MORE

Among the correspondence between readers and the editor of the latest edition of Mu'askar al-Battar (issue 21, pp.40-41) there is an interesting exchange. In response to a letter asking how to set about joining the jihad in the Arabian Peninsula, the editor listed seven requirements:... MORE

A posting on November 9 on a militant jihadist forum purporting to be from al-Qaeda warns that the movement "will not slacken in its striking of the Americans and the Crusaders in general right in their very midst, and their burrows, towers and habitations will... MORE