von Florian Flade
Die “Deutschen Taliban Mudschaheddin” war die erste deutsche Dschihad-Gruppierung im afghanisch-pakistanischen Grenzgebiet. Sie drohte Deutschland mit Terroranschlägen und lockte mehrere Berliner Islamisten nach Waziristan. Jetzt macht es der Verfassungsschutz offiziell: die deutschen Taliban sind “zerschlagen”. Ein Rückblick.
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by Florian Flade
Yusuf O. from Berlin in terror propaganda tape (September 2009)
Two European Islamists have been charged in Berlin with being members of Al-Qaida. Yusuf O. of Berlin and Maqsood L. from Vienna have been trained in the terror camps of Waziristan and are allegedly part of an Al-Qaida plot to carry out attacks in Europe.
Berlin Islamist Yusuf O. traveled to Pakistan in May 2009 alongside his friend Fatih T. and joined the “Taifatul Mansourah” Group in Waziristan tribal area. Later the German Jihadi militants together with several other German Islamists who arrived in Pakistan in September 2009 founded a new group named “German Taliban Mujahidin” (DTM).
In a propaganda tape released just prior to the September 2009 German Parliamentary Elections the DTM threatened attacks in Germany. Spokesman in that video was 26 year-old Yusuf O. aka “Abu Ayyub al-Almani”.
According to the complaint filed by German prosecutors in November Yusuf O. left the DTM somewhere around May 2010 and joined Al-Qaida. During the training program he received, Yusuf O. met Maqsood L., a 22 year-old Austrian national whose family immigrated to Vienna in the 1990s after fleeing the Taliban-rule in Afghanistan. Maqsood L´s father fought as a Afghan soldier against the Soviet invasion in the 1980s. Nearly 30 years later his son – spotting a beard – joined the Austrian military in 2008 and declared he was ready to defend the nation.
In the Waziristan terror camps of Al-Qaida Maqsood L. and Yusuf O. befriended and were choosen by Al-Qaida´s Chief of External Operational, Sheikh Younis al-Mauretani who was arrested in Pakistan back in September, to be part of a Europe attack plan.
The Al-Qaida commander tasked Yusuf O. and Maqsood L. to return to Europe and recruit Islamists for terrorist attacks in European cities. Documents discovered by German counter-terrorism officials lead to the conclusion Al-Qaida wanted the German Islamists to carry out kidnappings and killings. Al-Mauretani´s plot involved assault attacks in which hostages would be killed in long standoff with police – the “Mumbai Style” of terrorist attacks.
In May 2011 Maqsood L. and Yusuf O. traveled to Budapest (Hungary) via Iran and Turkey. Yusuf O. made his journey to Austrian capital Vienna and arrived in the city carrying a audio tape recorded by Maqsood L.. He played the tape to Maqsood´s old friends, urging them to support the Jihad and join the terror network.
After Yusuf O. returned to Budapest he sent Maqsood L. to Berlin. Apparently Yusuf O. thought sending a foreigner instead of traveling himself would not alert the authorities. Yusuf O. was wrong. Maqsood´s task was recruit about a dozen of Yusuf´s friends from several radical mosques in the German capital. The Austrian Jihadi was able to rally supporters amongst Berlin´s Islamist community and collect about 1.000 EUROs in donations, before he was arrested on May 16.
Yusuf O. was captured a little later in Vienna where he returned to from a trip to Budapest on May 31. Austrian authorities sent him back to Germany where he and Maqsood L. will be on trial soon.
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by Florian Flade
A new video is circling through the Jihadi Online forums, allegedly showing Jihadi fighters attacking a Syrian military convoy. If confirmed, the footage is the first appearence of Salafi militants taking part in the current political unrest in Syria.
The video seems to be footage recorded with a mobile phone, obviously being of very low quality. No group or movement has been affiliated with the fighters featured in the short clip.
Up to now – with the exception of Yemen and to some extent Libya – al-Qaida and its affiliated groups have not been able to influence the Arab Spring or play any significant role in the uprising. Jihadi groups were celebrating the fall of the dictatorships in Tunisia and Egypt but most experts agree on the fact that the revolutions themselves were a huge blow to the Jihadi ideology promoted by al-Qaida.
Whereever the Islamist movement can get a hold of weapons and are able to recruit fighters they will of course take part in the fight against the “taghoot” (traitor) regimes, as they call them, of the Arab world.
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