During the past year, Lebanese Hezbollah operations outside of Lebanon have been exposed. It would appear that this exposure is the result of Hezbollah's concerted effort to perpetrate a revenge attack, against the backdrop of 'Imad Mughniyye's assassination attributed to Israel. At the end of 2008, a Hezbollah network operating in Egypt was exposed and It was recently made public, that an additional Hezbollah network was exposed in Azerbaijan.
The Lebanese Hezbollah’s operations in Yemen were also exposed. The President of Yemen publicly accused Hezbollah of supporting the terrorist group operating in Yemen.

On April 9th, 2009, the Egyptian media reported extensively on the exposure of a 49 member terrorist network, which operated in Egypt on behalf of the Lebanese Hezbollah organization. 
The exposure of Hezbollah's terrorist network in Egypt infuriated the Egyptians, who perceived this as a serious attack against the dignity and sovereignty of Egypt by Hezbollah and Iran.
The existence of a terrorist network for a number of years fits well into Hezbollah's strategy to establish operational infrastructures outside Lebanon, as a base for future operations in these areas. This infrastructure also gathered intelligence on Israeli targets in Egypt, apparently in order to perpetrate an attack in revenge for the assassination of 'Imad Mughniyye.
This modus operandi exposed in the Egyptian context, was a sort of window, enabling a glance into the way that Hezbollah establishes its terrorist networks abroad, even in countries which do not perceive Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.

During the past year, it would appear that Global Jihad organizations have increased their efforts to produce and distribute propaganda films and messages on Germany. This effort complements the trend that has been apparent for the past two years of Islamizing Germans, a step that has received wide exposure both in the media and on Jihadi websites and online forums.
These films have deterring messages directed at Germany, the purpose of which is to create internal pressure in Germany in order to instigate its withdrawal from the coalition with the United States, similar to Spain.
The Global Jihad organizations' communication and distribution centers, distribute the movies to various target audiences in Germany, using the internet and other technological means to distribute the movies directly to the emails of many recipients in Germany.

On September 11, 2008, the Al-Faloja forum published Al-Qaeda's “Seven Stages Plan” – an operational strategy plan, comprising a number of stages with a defined time-table. The plan is divided into seven stages, and spread over a period of 20 years. It commenced in 2000, with the preparations for the September 11 attacks, and is meant to end in 2020. It seems that following the wish to renew the discussion surrounding the plan and circulating it to the various target communities, it was raised for discussion on the forum in September 2008.

In January 2009 the international media reported that Al-Qaeda activists have closed their training base in the mountains of the Tizi Ouzou region in Algeria, after a failed experiment held with non-conventional weapons, which caused the death of 40 activists.
The terrorist organizations’ aspirations to obtain weapons of mass destruction is not new, and for several years lively discussions are held surrounding this issue on Islamic websites. Furthermore, radical ideologists and Muslim religious scholars have given religious authorization providing legitimization to obtain weapons of mass destruction and to use them.

Al-Qaeda and other Jihadi organizations have identified the enormous potential of the internet as a public relations and propaganda tool, and a conduit for transferring operational information. They, therefore, put considerable effort into bringing detailed explanations of the benefits to be obtained from these technological tools, to the attention of the surfers in Jihadi forums. The following review illustrates the extensive knowledge gained regarding the potential of the new technological tools, as well as the endeavor to publicize them to as many surfers as possible, identifying with the Jihadi ideology.

The debate regarding the legitimacy of harming innocent people continues to be the focus of differences of opinion on Jihadi forums, particularly against the backdrop of increasing criticism against the Jihadi organizations, for harming innocent Muslim and non-Muslim civilians. Members of the Jihadi forums debate between themselves regarding the legitimacy of attacking targets where there are Muslims. Al-Qaeda and the global Jihad organizations do not want to be perceived as harming innocent Muslims, and they therefore justify their targets marked for attack as sites with a concentration of civilians or western government officials, particularly Americans and Muslims who are collaborators.

Cyberspace serves as very fertile ground for activity for the Al-Qaeda organization and other Jihadi organizations, in the recruitment of new members and supporters to their ranks. It also serves as a conduit for the training of potential fighters for terrorist attacks by using appropriate tools such as detailed instruction booklets and charts. This trend is clearly manifested in Jihadi forums, as demonstrated below.

The “Islam on-line” website reported on August 25th 2008 that attacking American and Israeli websites is considered “electronic Jihad”. In the report it was stated that the “Al-Azhar” Religious Ruling Committee has published a “fatwa” allowing the hacking of American and Israeli websites damaging to Islam and the Muslims, in what is called “electronic Jihad”. The fatwa said that “Jihad was set in Muslim tradition so that the word of truth [Islam – the translator] will rule […]”. Therefore electronic Jihad is allowed, according to the Muslim religion, as it is one of the means of resistance against the enemy.

A suicide bomber carried out a suicide attack in Yemen on March 15th 2009, killing four South Korean tourists and a Yemeni citizen. Three days later, on March 18th 2009, another suicide bomber blew himself up in Sana’a using an explosives belt, when a convoy of cars carrying South Korean investigators and the South Korean Ambassador in Yemen arrived to investigate the terrorist attack of March 15th.