New IMU Video about “Martyr Zubayr at-Turki”

by Florian Flade

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Even as drone strike are hitting Waziristan almost on a weekly basis, it seems like the media departments of various terrorist organizations in the region are still working. For example “Jundullah Studio”, the propaganda outlet of the “Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan” (IMU).

Recently the group´s media wing has released a new video titled “The Martyr Zubayr at-Turki” about a Turkish Jihadi militant who fought in the ranks of IMU.

The video is – as most of the latest ones by the IMU – of pretty good quality. It tells the story of “Zubayr at-Turki” who migrated to Waziristan in 2008 and since then fought in numerous battles with the Pakistani military. He was killed recently and left behind his son “Abdullah” who is also seen in the new video. The footage features several Jihadi militants including IMU´s emir Usman Odil, German Jihadi Yassin C. aka “Abu Ibrahim” and some Turkish fighters.

 

German Taliban Part Of Al-Qaida´s Euro-Plot

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.

Berlin Jihadi Fatih T. Killed in US Drone Strike?

by Florian Flade

Fatih T. aka “Abdel Fattah al-Almani” – killed in US drone strike?

Nobody knows – a Turkish language Jihadi website is reporting: the Emir of the “German Taliban Mujahideen” (DTM) “Abdel Fattah al-Almani” was killed either a US drone strike or a missile strike from a military helictoper. The information is unconfirmed.

Rumours about the death of the DTM Emir – who´s real name is Fatih T. – have been floating out there in the Jihadi community for almost two weeks. Yet, there is no clear confirmation the 27 year-old Islamist from Berlin was indeed killed in the Pakistani tribal areas.

Fatih T. was born and raised in Germany. He radicalized in a mosque in Berlin´s North, grew a beard and started praying in University where he studied engineering. Friends and former colleagues say he changed during his time at University and after he got to know new friends who were Islamists.

In Spring 2009 Fatih T. left Germany alongside his friend Yusuf O. who was arrested in June this year in Austria. Yusuf O. and Fatih T. traveled to Waziristan via Turkey and Iran and joined the Turkish militant group “Taifatul Mansourah”. Only a few months later both were founding members of the “German Taliban Mujahideen”, a group which attracted more Islamists from Berlin including several converts to Islam.

Both, Fatih T. and Yusuf O. appeared in several propaganda videos released by the DTM, calling for fellow German Muslims to join the Jihad. In one propaganda tape from Waziristan Fatih T. is seen walking through the alleged wrackage of a Pakistani military helicopter which Fatih claims was shot down by the militants.

In December 2010 the “German Taliban Mujahideen” released a statement saying “Abdel Fattah al-Almani” was choosen as the new Emir of the group. Since then, no real propaganda effort has been made to promote the Berlin Jihadi as the new leader. No new videos were released, no statements were given out.

German intelligence agencies on Wednesday were unable confirm the news of Fatih T.´s death. Familiy members are also unaware of any deadly drone strike that might have killed Fatih T.. Earlier this year the German terrorist sent several e-mails from Waziristan to Berlin – asking for financial support and claiming he was occupied with combat fighting.

Berlin´s Verfassungsschutz (interior intelligence agency) estimates “less than ten” Islamists from Berlin are still roaming the Afghan-Pakistan border region.

http://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article13645867/Deutscher-Taliban-Fuehrer-soll-getoetet-worden-sein.html