This report summarizes the most prominent events posted on the Jihadi online forums in the first half of January 2010. Among the central topics appearing in this issue are:
• The suicide bombing of Abu Dajana Al-Khorasani (Hummam Khalil Al-Balawi) at the CIA base in Afghanistan • A third issue of the Jihadi magazine "Al-Mushtaqun Ila Al-Jannah" (Those yearning for Heaven) • The leader of the Taliban movement in Pakistan, HakimAllah Mahsud, survived an aerial assault • AQAP's military leader, Qasem Al-Rimi, was killed in an aerial attack • Yemen has reinforced security alongside its coast, around Aden Bay, the Arab Sea and the Red Sea • Jihad activists declaring the North Africa region, Algeria, Mauritania, Mali and Morocco as the "Islamic Emirate of the Sahara" • "Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen" movement threatens to send fighters to Yemen via the sea to help in the battle against "the enemies of Allah"
Periodical Review January 2010 – No. 2