• What jihadis think they know about joint CIA/Jordanian information operations
• Jihadis studying the Vietnamese experience in fighting the United States
• AQ Central launches new training program
• Zach Chesser: Super Genius
• Jarret Brachman's 'Abu Talha al-Amrikee Festival'
• at-Tahadi notes arrest of Zach Chesser - prayers are offered
• ICT's Jihadi Websites Monitoring Group
• USA begins to move against Revolution Muslim

Not new info, I don't think, but one for the files...

A brother offers up a scanned copy of the work in question:

The scan is complete with the barcode used by the bookshop where it was purchased:

It's in the form of audio files, number 1 being on the subject of operational security. See MEMRI for analysis. Inquire within if you need a copy of the audio file.

For morbid entertainment, compare and contrast the Affidavit filed by the USA in support of the warrant to arrest Zach Chesser AKA Abu Talha al-Amrikee (Affidavit provided by the Investigative Project), with Zach's own account of one of his early interviews with the FBI (archived by Ronin of The Jawa Report):

Bismillah, wal-hamdulillah, wa salaatu wa salaamu ‘alaa Rasoolillah.

One of the biggest problems facing the American Muslims is the fear of speaking the Haqq. So many Muslims are afraid of saying what is true, what is right, and what is most in need of being said. Some of this fear is rooted in the reality of the situation. However, the vast majority of fears possessed by the Muslims in this country are completely unfounded. Based on my experience in growing up with two lawyers in the house and my own run-ins with the FBI, in sha’a Allah I will explain what you can say with no fear of anything except a annoying knock on the door from two people who cannot actually do anything to you (this is written based on United States law).

The first thing you should know is that when the FBI knock on your door, it probably does not mean anything except that they want to intimidate you. Unless they are holding guns and handcuffs, then you should probably just tell them, “Worship none but Allah and testify that Muhammad, salaa Allahu ‘alayhi wa salam, is His slave and messenger, or you will burn in Hell for forever.” Then you should shut the door. They will keep bothering you for a while, but I really advise you do not talk to them and you will see why later in sha’a Allah. They will try to make you feel like you have to talk to them, but you do not.

When I got a personal visit from two FBI agents not too too long ago, I only talked to them because they were talking to other people about me, and I did not want them bothering other people I knew. However, you still should not talk to them no matter what (I was wrong to do so, although I did not realize it at the time).

They showed up around 8 A.M. and they took me to Arby’s for a talk. There was one male agent and one female agent. I forget their names. The male agent started by asking me some basic things about my full-name, my address, and other things that they already knew. These were “ice-breakers.”

It's a regular smorgasbord:

• Abu Talha’s Poetry
• What Abu Talha was Reading
• AUDIO CLIP: Abu Talha the “Munshid”!?!
• Irony #2: Abu Talha Posts on How Not to Get Arrested
• Irony Anyone? Abu Talha Posts on How Error-Prone the No-Fly Lists Are
• OMG: Abu Talha Was One Busy Beaver
• Blog “Buddy” Abu Talhah al-Amrikee Gets Nabbed

Poor Zach (1 page)

Prayers for Zach: page 1, page 2

Periodical Review July 2010 – No. 1

This report summarizes the most prominent events brought up in the Jihadi online forums in the second half of June 2010. Following are the main issues raised in this report:

• Abu Yahya Al-Libi calls for the continuation of Jihad in Iraq
• Adam Gadahn (“Azzam the American”) threatens with terrorist attacks against American targets
• The religious supervisor of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula calls to the Muslims to go on Jihad
• The “As-Sahab” Institute publishes a video of Mustafa Abu Al-Yazid, killed in May 2010, calling to send funds to the Mujahideen
• The Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula organization launches a new Jihadi magazine in English called “Inspire”
• Al-Qaeda activists attack the Yemenite Intelligence installation in Aden
• The main Jihadi forums are trying to rehabilitate after having stopped their operations for many days

• Abu Talha al-Amrikee AKA Zach Chesser has been arrested and charged with providing material support to terrorists.

• Bilal AKA Paul Gene Rockwood Jr., has been arrested in Alaska along with his wife (and immediately pled guilty [one count of lying to Federal agents] to keep the latter out of prison.)

It's a safe bet there are additional indictments either being prepared or waiting patiently to be unsealed.

@ Internet-Haganah [dot] Com
• Top Ten Jihadi forums, 19 July 2010
• What part of "There is no copyright in Islam" does Scribd not understand?
• US Treasury links to Awlaki's site
• Internet-enabled jihadi cell busted in Nazaret
• Jihadi responses/statements regarding their comrades' arrest in Nazaret
• There's a reason why they tell you to look out for one-handed jihadis
• "Is he a big bad terrorist, or a BeeGee?"
• So his computer is infected with a trojan...
• From the Bright Side of Life Department
• View of surveillance from inside al-Maqdisi's home in Jordan

@ OSINT [dot] Internet-Haganah [dot] Com
• Better late than never...
• "The Foreign Office frowned and the Nazis were saved."

@ SoFIR [dot] Org
• "Tell me when the bad guy knows the good guy"

Today's inspirational message is brought to you by The Carlos Mencia School of Counterterrorism™

Because you asked, I'll try and keep up with the Top Ten lists...

Apparently all parts:

Samir's own Inspire magazine, ToSd by Scribd after being embedded in Samir's own blog

Not that the site is active, but it was kind of them to post a link to it when listing him as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist:

Now how about recognizing the domain name for what it is - an asset - and seizing it. Then use your imagination in redirecting requests for the site...

Ynet:

According to the indictment, the men expressed interest in jihad – a holy war undertaken by Muslims against those who do not believe in Islam. "The defendants, on their own and together, visited radical Islamic websites dealing with jihad and weapons, terror and arms, and spoke about jihad while examining possibilities for implementing it."

From Ansar al-Mujahideen, and al-Faloja.

From a TATP recipe currently being (re)circulated on the forums:

Samir Khan needs to spend some quality time at Lynda.Com.

In the course of reverse engineering that InDesign file Samir used to create the first edition of Inspire magazine (AKA the third edition of Jihad Recollections), Maya found herself compelled to comment in a more visual manner.

...and he logs into his favorite jihadi forum to ask for help.

Just think about that for a moment.

click to view archive of discussion

This brother at Shmukh sees attacks on the forums as a blessing in disguise...

Accompanying post from a forum

@ SoFIR [dot] org
• Crime/Terrorism nexus: the complaint against Mustafa Ahmad Naushad, et al.

• Inspire Magazine, this time it's for real
• al-Fajr Media Center issues ambiguous statement regarding the Inspire magazine kurfuffle
• I think these are good questions...
• AQ forum administrator arrested in Germany
• al-Maqdese: busted again
• JWMG: Periodical Review June 2010, no. 2
• m3ark is back online

Ed 1998-2010

It turns out that all that drama at al-Faloja forum was much ado about nothing. An uncorrupted version of Inspire magazine has been successfully put into circulation by al-Qaida.

If you can't read it, Samir must have designed it.

What happened?

A. The first file was corrupted.
B. The Faloja admins panicked.
C. The jihadi rank-and-file believed the Faloja admins.
D. An uncorrupted copy of the file was uploaded.

On the left, the hit list, featuring a Zionist-made handgun.
On the right, part of the bomb-making instructions.

In summary, this magazine is almost certainly the work of American al-Qaida operative Samir Khan - I assume that at a minimum he is responsible for the layout, typography, and graphics. "Inspire" is "Jihad Recollections" with the addition of the imprimatur of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. Anwar al-Awlaki will have been standing behind Samir, leaning over his shoulder and pointing at the screen.

Your career in al-Qaida starts today

Is this "a worrying new development"?

It does slightly increase the likelihood of AQ-inspired terrorism in the West in general, and in the United States in particular. On the other hand, it is also a wonderful investigative opportunity.

Statement and three pages of comments at al-Faloja: Page 1, Page 2, Page 3

Hat tip: MEMRI

...and I'm not surprised the esteemed gentlemen who run al-Faloja fell back on "Trust Us" and quotes from the Quran.

Referencing alfalojaweb.info/vb/showthread.php?t=121445, the ICT's Jihadi Websites Monitoring Group Periodical Review June 2010 – No. 2, provides the following summary:

A surfer on the “Al-Faloja” forum asks a number of questions and requests answers from the forum supervisors: How can we know that the supervisors are not intelligence agents who have formed the forum in order to get young Mujahideen to expose their identities? Why are there no Palestinians in the leadership of the Global Jihad? Why are the Mujahideen in Iraq killing the local security forces and not focusing on American soldiers? Also, why are Al- Qaeda activists killing Algerian soldiers and not fighting in Iraq or Somalia? Why does Al-Qaeda not attack in Israeli territory or Israeli embassies worldwide? In the history of Islam, did the Muslims kill their enemies by slaughtering?

One of the supervisors replies: The supervisors come from the supporters of the Jihad. If they do their jobs properly they continue and if not – they are removed. Many of the supervisors are highly experienced and held identical positions with other Jihadi forums. He reminds that the Jihad was started by Sheikh Abdullah Azzam who was a Palestinian. It is not important where the Al-Qaeda leaders come from, so long as he is a Muslim who believes in the right path, for instance Al-Zarqawi who is a Jordanian and was the Mujahideen’s commander in Iraq. The supervisor also mentions Bin Laden's words in the past regarding the steps to be taken to liberate Palestine. He explains that those who assist the Americans in Iraq are heretics and they must die. He also mentions hadiths teaching of the use of the path of slaughter.

Here is another question someone should ask of al-Faloja forum supervisors:

Given that Faloja is operated by brothers in Gaza, and given that Gaza is ruled by Hamas, and given that a state of war exists between the jihadis and Hamas, and given that Hamas enjoys the full support of the Safavids, who provide Hamas with all the intelligence support they would need to identify the administrators of the Faloja forum, how is it that these brothers are able to continue operating in Gaza?