This report summarizes the most prominent events brought up in the Jihadi online forums in the first half of June 2010. Following are the main issues brought in this report:
• The no. 2 man in Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) calls upon supporters of the organization to raise funds to form operational cells to kidnap Saudi princes and foreigners• The mufti of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula explains that the Jihad commandment is a personal duty of every Muslim• The Jihadi forums publish a tape made by Osama bin Laden, which was previously broadcast about three months ago on the Al-Jazeera channel• A call made by surfers to increase the Jihadi activities in the Islamic Maghreb region• The son of the Salafi ideologist, Abu Muhammad Al-Maqdisi, was killed by the American forces in Iraq
Periodical Review June 2010 – No. 2