This report summarizes the most prominent events brought up in the Jihadi online forums in the first half of September 2010. Following are the main issues raised in this report:
• An audio tape by Ayman Al-Zawahiri commemorating the 9 year anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks.• The Jihad theaters of Afghanistan-Pakistan, Iraq and Yemen continue to be a focus of large-scale terrorist attacks for Jihad organizations.• An increase in the scope of activity of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.• Threats to carry out terrorist attacks in Spain.• Abu Muhammad Al-Maqdisi’s website publishes Fatwas on the subject of Jihad on a daily basis.• The “Ansar Al-Mujahideen” forum manager is arrested in Spain.• A declaration announcing the establishment of a new Jihadi media institute – “Al-Aqsa”.
Periodical Review September 2010 – No. 2