15 April 2015: The video features a German nasheed by rapper and ISIS-foreign fighter Denis Cuspters, aka Deso Dogg. It threatens domestic attacks in Germany and throughout Europe. Although this is not the first German nasheed promoted by Islamic State, it is the first identified by TRAC in an ISIS video.
In February 2015 the US government designated Cuspert a terrorist with IS, suggesting the rumors of his importance in the Islamic State may have some credence and that the persistant rumors of his death in 2014 are incorrect. The only readily available indication of his potential importance is the following picture/video of Cuspert with Sheikh Abu Sufyan al-Sulami (aka Turki Al-Binali), a senior theologian with Islamic State:
The Justice Department said U.S. citizens and residents can find out whether they are on the “no-fly” list and possibly receive a summary of the reasons for their placement in the secret database, according to documents recently filed in federal court.
As part of a lawsuit filed in Oregon by the American Civil Liberties Union, a federal judge in June ruled that the government’s lack of effective procedures for people to challenge their inclusion on the controversial list was unconstitutional.
The judge ordered the United States to revise redress procedures for the plaintiffs directly affected by the no-fly list. Previously, if someone wanted to challenge a decision not to allow them to board a plane, he or she could appeal to the Department of Homeland Security, but the government would neither confirm nor deny their no-fly status.
The judge in the case called the former process “wholly ineffective.” There are about 47,000 people on the no-fly list, about 800 of whom are Americans. They are barred from boarding a U.S. carrier, a U.S.-bound flight or entering U.S. airspace.
“Under the newly revised procedures, a U.S. person who purchases a ticket, is denied boarding at the airport . . . will now receive a letter providing his or her status on the No Fly List and the option to receive and/or submit additional information,” the Justice Department said in documents filed Monday in federal court in Portland.
The Justice Department also said people could ask for more information about why they were on the list and potentially receive a more detailed response that includes an “unclassified summary of information” supporting the person’s status on the list.
Prosecutors, however, cautioned that the “amount and type of information provided will vary on a case-by-case basis, depending on the facts and circumstances. In some circumstances, an unclassified summary may not be able to be provided when the national security and law enforcement interests at stake are taken into account.”
In 2010, the ACLU sued the attorney general and the FBI director on behalf of 13 people — all U.S. citizens or residents — seeking to challenge why they were on the list. One of those was Ayman Latif, a former U.S. Marine who was trying to return to Miami from Egypt but was told he could not board the plane.
Latif, of Stone Mountain, Ga., lost his veteran disability benefits because he was unable to fly home and attend required evaluations. After the lawsuit, the government granted him a “one-time waiver” and allowed him to fly home.
Hina Shamsi, a lawyer with the ACLU who represented Latif and the others, praised the government for finally agreeing to tell people whether they were on the list, after years of fighting the issue in court.
But she said the government’s new redress process “falls far short of constitutional requirements because it denies our clients meaningful notice, evidence, and a hearing.”
“The government had an opportunity to come up with a fair process but failed, so we’re challenging it in court again,” she added.
One of the terrorists killed by the ANP elements in the maquis Kharouba would be called alias Abdallah Abu Rabah Torfi Meriem. It would be the lieutenant of the former emir of the terrorist group Jund El Khilafah, Gouri Abdelmalek, shot last December in the city center of Issers.
One of the terrorists killed two days ago by ANP forces in the maquis Kharrouba, west of Boumerdes, would alias Abdallah Abu Rabah Torfi Meriem, is it has learned from a reliable source. This criminal, who had joined the Maquis in 1994, was the right arm of the former Emir of Jund El Khilafah, Gouri Abdelmalek eliminated in December in the city center of Issers, east of Boumerdes.
His body was found by family members in the morgue of the Thénia Hospital, where he was transferred shortly after his elimination with three of his acolytes. From the village of Bouchakour in the town of Issers, that the ferocious bloodthirsty ranking member of the group who murdered the French tourist Hervé Gourdel last September in Tikdja.
This former head of Katibet El Arkam is also known for being the sponsor of several suicide attacks, including those committed between 2007 and 2010 in the Boumerdes region. Rabah Torfi was taken out of harm's way during the search operation switched on for 10 days in the bush next to the localities of Keddara and Kharouba. An operation that allowed, to reiterate, the elimination of four terrorists and recovery of two weapons Kalashnikov type, Simonov, an automatic pistol, a pair of binoculars, two wireless radio devices, explosives, a significant amount ammunition and other objects.
According to our sources, one of the other terrorists killed during this operation would be a B. Djamel, also a veteran of the armed groups. Native Boudouaou, it was very close to Gouri Abdelmalek, the founder of Jund El Khilafah. This terrorist organization, which has made about her after running the French Hervé Gourdel hiker, seems almost reduced to nothing.
No less than 30 of its elements were put out of harm's way since the beginning of the current year in the bush located between the provinces of Boumerdes and Bouira. Their new leader is Kherza Bashir, alias Abu Abdallah Al Assimi a terrorist Bab El Oued who played mufti in the bush. Its elements are under great pressure from the security services, a situation that led them to redeploy in the western forests of Boumerdes and Bouira, cleaned for years.
This area, which access has become easier since the opening of the East-West Highway, is the withdrawal zone of choice for jihadists branch Daech in Algeria, a security source said, adding that his boss tries regenerate its networks in Ain Defla, where five terrorists had been put out of harm's way in March.?
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Un des terroristes abattus par les éléments de l’ANP dans les maquis de Kharouba serait le dénommé Rabah Torfi alias Abdallah Abou Meriem. Il serait le lieutenant de l’ancien émir du groupe terroriste Jund El Khilafah, Gouri Abdelmalek, abattu en décembre dernier au centre-ville des Issers.
Un des terroristes abattus avant-hier par les forces de l’ANP dans les maquis de Kharrouba, à l’ouest de Boumerdès, serait Rabah Torfi alias Abdallah Abou Meriem, a-t-on appris de source sûre. Ce criminel, qui avait rejoint les maquis en 1994, était le bras droit de l’ancien émir de Jund El Khilafah, Gouri Abdelmalek, éliminé en décembre dernier au centre-ville des Issers, à l’est de Boumerdès.
Son cadavre aurait été reconnu par des membres de sa famille à la morgue de l’hôpital de Thénia, où il avait été transféré peu après son élimination avec trois de ses acolytes. Originaire du village de Bouchakour, dans la commune des Issers, ce sanguinaire au palmarès féroce fait partie du groupe ayant assassiné le touriste français Hervé Gourdel en septembre dernier à Tikdja.
Cet ancien chef de katibet El Arkam est connu également pour avoir été le commanditaire de plusieurs attentats kamikazes, notamment ceux commis entre 2007 et 2010 dans la région de Boumerdès. Rabah Torfi a été mis hors d’état de nuire lors de l’opération de ratissage enclenchée depuis 10 jours dans les maquis jouxtant les localités de Keddara et Kharouba. Une opération qui a permis, pour rappel, l’élimination de quatre autres terroristes et la récupération de deux armes de type kalachnikov, un Simonov, un pistolet automatique, une paire de jumelles, deux appareils radio sans fil, des explosifs, une importante quantité de munitions et d’autres objets.
Selon nos sources, l’un des autres terroristes abattus lors de cette opération serait un certain B. Djamel, lui aussi vétéran des groupes armés. Natif de Boudouaou, il était très proche de Gouri Abdelmalek, le fondateur de Jund El Khilafah. Cette organisation terroriste, qui a fait parler d’elle après l’exécution du randonneur français Hervé Gourdel, semble presque réduite à néant.
Pas moins de 30 de ses éléments ont été mis hors d’état de nuire depuis le début de l’année en cours dans les maquis situés entre les wilayas de Boumerdès et Bouira. Leur nouveau chef est Bachir Kherza, alias Abou Abdallah Al Assimi, un terroriste de Bab El Oued qui tenait le rôle de mufti dans les maquis. Ses éléments subissent une grande pression de la part des services de sécurité, une situation qui les a poussés à se redéployer dans les forêts de l’ouest de Boumerdès et Bouira, nettoyées depuis plusieurs années.
Cette région, dont l’accès est devenu facile depuis l’ouverture de l’autoroute Est-Ouest, constitue la zone de repli par excellence pour les djihadistes de la branche de Daech en Algérie, indique une source sécuritaire, ajoutant que son chef tente de régénérer ses réseaux à Aïn Defla, où cinq terroristes avaient été mis hors d’état de nuire en mars dernier.
Islamist Organization Al Murabitun, of Mokhtas Belmokhtar, one of the most active in Sahara and Sahel, threatened today to attack with missiles the Malian cities where foreign troops are, mainly French.
In a statement sent to the Mauritanian agency Al Akhbar, the group warns that they are determined to take the cities where foreign forces of any nationality are stationed as target.
For that reason, he warned the respective populations not to cooperate with these foreign troops and rather demand the return to their countries.
In Mali there are 10,300 members of the UN Stabilization Mission (Minusma), of various nationalities, and about 3,000 French in the so-call Barkhane Operation linked to the Sahel States.
For Al Murabitun such contingents did gave neither peace nor security but degradated the situation more.
Islamic Confession extremists led by Belmokhtar also threatened Tuareg and Arab movements of Azawad, the northeastern region of Mali, when affirming that they will special brigades to fight them.
They also noted that they will take revenge of Mali government for the persecution against the Jihad supporters, the Muslim holy war.
The Belmokhtar group, Al Qaeda former allied in the Islamic Magreb, is responsible for the bloody attacks in the Sahara region.
The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) killed at least 37 people in a Syrian village near the city of Hama overnight, a group monitoring the country’s civil war said. The attacks are part of a pattern by the armed group in government-held areas of western Syria.
Syrian state television put the number killed at 44 and said 21 others had been wounded in the attack on Mabouja, 40 miles east of Hama. A Syrian military source said the army had repelled the assault on Tuesday.
“Daesh [the Arabic acronym for ISIL] tried to attack the village, and this attack was repelled, and a large number of Daesh terrorists were killed. And now the Syrian army is imposing its control over the village,” the source said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which uses a network of contacts to monitor the four-year-old civil war, said ISIL had killed entire families and that the dead included people who were burned alive.
The population of Mabouja includes Alawites and Ismailis — sects deemed heretical by the radical brand of Sunni Islam espoused by ISIL, said Rami Abdulrahman, who runs the Observatory.
But he said that Sunni residents were among the dead, too.
The area is some 130 miles from Raqqa — the de facto capital of the ISIL’s self-declared caliphate that spans territory in both Syria and Iraq. It is part of the western region where Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has sought to shore up his control.
Assad, an Alawite, enjoys backing among many members of Syrian minority communities who fear that Syria’s mostly Sunni rebel groups want to install an Islamist state in Assad’s place.
ISIL fighters have mounted numerous attacks in government-held areas in the provinces of Hama and Homs in recent weeks, even as it has lost ground in the north and northeast under pressure from a Kurdish militia backed by U.S.-led airstrikes.
“Daesh is making a lot of attempts [to advance] east of Hama. It is trying a lot in that area, particularly after its loss in Shaar field,” said the Syrian military source, referring to a gas field in Homs province reclaimed by the government in recent months.
ISIL has been moving westwards across Syria and fighters say they plan to take Salamiya, a town east of Hama city before taking control of the provincial capital itself.
Shortly before he and a friend gunned down 20 foreign tourists at Tunisia’s Bardo museum, Yassine al-Abidi sat down to a breakfast of olive oil and dates with his family and left for work at his travel agency as usual.
His relatives, mourning his death in a hail of police bullets in the midst of the attack, said they could not understand how a lively, popular young man with a taste for the latest imported clothes could have done such a thing.
They said he was typical of the young men of Tunis’ Omrane Superieur suburb. He graduated in French, held down a job and showed no sign of the hardline Islamist ideology that would drive him to commit the worst militant attack in a decade.
But relatives said last year he had begun to spend more and more time at a local mosque, following a pattern of radicalization of Tunisian young men who then find themselves fighting in Syria, Iraq and Libya.
“I am sad for Yassine, but even sadder for the victims that Yassine killed. They were innocent, why did they have to pay the price of a false understanding of Islam,” said his uncle Mohamed Abidi. “They are the victims of terrorism. We are the victims of a demagogic network that wants only death.”
Yassine’s family had set up a traditional mourning tent outside their home, a well-made orange duplex standing in contrast to the more rundown residences nearby.
Chairs sat empty inside, with only ten family members present. Nearby his mother wept constantly.
Four years after a popular revolt toppled autocrat Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia has had free elections, a new constitution and compromise politics.
But the new government is also caught up in a low-level war with militants who have taken advantage of the new freedoms.
More than 3,000 Tunisians have left to fight in Syria and Iraq and the government estimates around 500 have since returned, fuelling fears of further attacks on Tunisia’s fragile new democratic state.
‘Couldn’t hurt a bird’
Abidi and his fellow gunman were trained at a jihadist camp in Libya before the Bardo attack, the Tunisian government has said. Officials said the two men had been recruited at mosques in Tunisia and travelled to Libya in September.
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which has declared a caliphate in large parts of Iraq and Syria and is active in Tunisia’s chaotic neighbour Libya, praised the two attackers in an audio recording as “knights of the Islamic State” armed with machineguns and bombs.
Family members said Abidi had left home for two months, saying he would be working in the commercial city Sfax on Tunisia’s coast. But he did not display any of the conservative beliefs of hardline Islamists, never, for instance, complaining about alcohol being consumed at his uncle’s house.
“He was always fun, we danced together at family weddings. He wasn’t like hardline Salafists,” said his cousin Hanen.
“On the last day he had breakfast of dates and olive oil and went to work. At 10 am he asked for a break and went and did what he did.”
Last year, he had started visiting a local mosque where ultraconservative Salafists gave talks on jihad in Syria and Libya, relatives said.
But even when Abidi spent lots of time there, he acted normally with his family, unlike the Islamist hardliners who frown on popular music and entertainment.
“He never told us not to watch television for example,” Hanen said.
Since its revolution, Tunisia has seen the emergence of several hardline Islamist groups, including Ansar al-Sharia, which the United States blames for storming its embassy in Tunis in 2012 and lists as a terrorist organisation.
In the early days after the revolution, hardline imams took over mosques, profiting from the new freedoms to preach their extremist vision of Islam and encourage young men to leave to fight in foreign wars.
The Tunisian authorities have began taking back control of most of those mosques. But young men are still leaving. Some are students, unemployed and middle class, rather than poor. Some lived in marginalized rural communities, and most were simply taken in by extremist recruiters.
“The son I knew could never do what was done,” Abidi’s mother Zakia said, weeping. “He could not even harm a bird.”
Video Notes: 2 March 2015. Boko Haram released a video and trailer the week of 19 February 2015 with similar effects in the introduction and in high resolution, raising suspicions that ISIS was facilitating Boko Haram media. However, the insignia in this video and its uncharacteristic self-restraint shows ISIS has accepted Boko Haram for its own purposes. Struggling in the Sham, ISIS is directing attention to Libya and Nigeria in order to maintain its image as an ever-expanding Caliphate. This is a critical development in its self-justification, which is grounded in the mantra 'success is the sign of our righteousness.'
Boko Haram uses a specific Islamic State nasheed in Video
Boko haram members ssing IS nasheed ni praised conquests of Syria and Iraq as well
Islamic State releases unmasked photos of Emwazi in ash Sham
UPDATE 13 November 2014: US authorities say they can say US is "reasonably certain" that Emwazi was killed in a recent areal strike on Raqqa, Syria.
Click image for details from Sunday Express article
Image: Mohammed Emwazi (above) resembles Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary (below), a London rapper who also joined the Islamic State. Even other IS-affiliated Twitter accounts have confused the two suspects.
1 March 2015, the Sunday Express reported it confirm that Mohammed Emwazi (originally ID'd by the Washington Post) is Jihad John based on his location at the time of a software download using personally identifiable information. It is unknown whether anyone, including the Sunday Express, has sufficient information on Jihad John's whereabouts to make this assertion. If Express can verify their claims that Emwazi used his student information from Syria, it could lead to intelligence on his activities and media production in Islamic State, as well as bolster the case for Emwazi as "JJ."
Also: "JIHADI JOHN AND THE RIGHT TO BE VIOLENT" - 2 March 2015 JustPaste.it post by Abu Rumaysah al-Britani (foreign fighter) suggests IC "let the cat out of the bag" on JJ's ID
Raqqa Sources Reject Photo
Several recent devolpments cast doubt on the 25 February 2015 identification of Jihad John byThe Washington Post. MI6 and CIA spokesmen said that the man offered by the Post, Mohammed Emwazi, was identified several months ago through voice recognition software and interviews with people who knew him in England before he joined ISIS in 2012. Emwazi is a Kuwaiti raised in the UK. Both JJ's muffled voice (compared to Emwazi's recordings several years ago), and Sky News' photo are obscure enough to leave questions about his identity, and sources in Raqqa are saying off record that it is not him especially, after shown the photo above.
Other Aliases
There are unconfirmed reports that Mohammed Emwazi's nom de Guerre is Abdullah al Britani, also rumored to have the alias Abu Muharib al Yemeni inside Syria. The internet has been scrubbed clean of Emwazi family references, raising suspicions that ISIS (or MI6) wants to point a finger at Emwazi, or previously tried to cover up his identity.
Finally a Twitter Response 03.04.2015
Sole Response after event 02.28.2015
Image: Twitter screen shot of one of the very few Tweets that have been about Emwazi from Known Islamic State affiliated accounts. The photos are actully the London rapper Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary and not Emwazi, or his brother.
Video: Images of Emwazi's brother Omar who apparently is still in London but also is an IS supporter.
Image: the bottom image is the ONLY purported photo of Jihad John outside the videos he appears in.
Background
Media reports provided the following background information on JIhadi John:
According to media reports Jihadi John has been identified by means of using various investigation techniques, such as voice analysis and interviews with former hostages. However, current media reports do not provide final verification on the identity of Jihadi John.
Name: Mohammed Emwazi (also referred to as Muhammad ibn Muazzam, Abdullah al Britani, and Abu Muharib al Yemeni)
Age: 26 (Sunday Express)
Citizenship: Kuwaiti-born - United Kingdom (BBC)
Upbringing: Affluent family who grew up in West London. He did go to the Greenwich mosque, though the frequency is unknown.
Education: Graduated with a degree in computer programming in 2009 from the University of Westminiser.
Radicalization
According to the Washington Post, Emwazi’s started to radicalize after a planned safari in Tanzania following his graduation from the University of Westminster. The deportation from Tanzania, interrogations by British intelligence upon his arrival in Amsterdam that his visit to Tanzania was intended to join al-Shabaab, and 2010 refusal by both Kuwait and British officials to allow him to travel to Kuwait all contributed to his radicalisation. These incidents are mentioned, but definite indicators of radicalisation beyond expressing frustration and mentioned support for Aafia Siddiqui, are lacking.
Following refusal by British officials for him to travel back to Kuwait in June 2010 he wrote in an email:
“I had a job waiting for me and marriage to get started,” he wrote in a June 2010 e-mail to Qureshi. But now “I feel like a prisoner, only not in a cage, in London. A person imprisoned & controlled by security service men, stopping me from living my new life in my birthplace & country, Kuwait.”
At the end of 2010, he responded to the New York sentence of Aafia Siddiqui, an al-Qaeda operative convicted for the attempted murder of U.S. personnel in Afghanistan:
“heard the upsetting news regarding our sister. . . . This should only keep us firmer towards fighting for freedom and justice!!!”
Travel History
2009: Emwazi and two friends — a German convert to Islam named Omar and another man, Abu Talib were arrested in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) in May 2009, upon which they were deported. He was accused of attempting to go to Somalia to fight with the Al-Qaeda-affiliated group al Shabaab.
2009: Emwazi flew to Amsterdam. According to his own account MI5 accused him of trying to reach Somalia. He then returned to Britain. Shortly after his return he decided to move to Kuwait, where he worked for a computer company.
2010: He returned to Britain on two occasions, with the last visit (June 2010) to finalise wedding arrangements with a woman from Kuwait. British officials prevented him from travelling back to Kuwait.
A Washington Post correspondent contacted CAGE regarding a story she was working on. CAGE Research Director, Asim Qureshi met with the journalist, where she inquired about the name Mohammed Emwazi. Qureshi went away with that information and checked CAGE’s files, revealing that Emwazi was a case that he had worked on due to security service harassment. The following day, the journalist revealed to Qureshi that she knew from her own sources, that the man known as Jihadi John was Mohammed Emwazi. The journalist showed Qureshi a video of Jihadi John in order to identify him. Qureshi clarified that while there were some striking similarities, that due to the hood, there was no way he could be 100% certain. The following are screen shots of some of the correspondence between Emwazi and Qureshi
Video Clip Featuring "Jihad John" from "Even If The Disbelievers Dislike It"
Video Notes: September 2014. ISIS' break-through HD feature gives a brief rendition of their organizational history and shows the first simultaneous mass-beheading. The video includes the lead executioner "Jihad John" and 21 other foreign fighters. The victims are mostly members of the Syrian army. At the end, Jihad John appears to stand over the head of Edward Kassig, an American ISIS claims it has killed.
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