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Al-Qaeda defector al-Fadl, who was a former member of Qatar Charity, testified in court that Abdullah Mohammed Yusef, who served as Qatar Charity's director, was affiliated to al-Qaeda and simultaneously to the National Islamic Front, a political group that gave al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden harbor in Sudan in the early 1990s.
By utilizing social media, the organization has garnered a strong following and successfully recruited tens of thousands of followers from around the world. [1] [2] In response to its successful use of social media, many websites and social media platforms have banned accounts and removed content promoting the Islamic State from their platforms ...
After the events of September 11, coordinated by the Islamic terrorist organization Al-Qaeda, the media's interest in Islam and the Muslim community has been significant but considered deeply problematic by some. Within minutes of planes crashing into the Twin Towers in New York, "Muslim" and "terrorism" had become inseparable.
On 8 April 2013, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State of Iraq, released an audio statement in which he claimed that the Islamic State of Iraq, and Al-Nusra Front, two Al-Qaeda affiliated groups, were merging into one group called the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. [13]
Al-Qaeda (Arabic: القاعدة - al-Qā‘idah, "the foundation" or "the base") is the name given to an international alliance of militant Islamist organizations. . Originally built from the cadre of Saudi-funded Arab fighters who flocked to join the Mujahideen resistance movement against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, it seeks to establish, via military tactics, an Islamic ideology ...
Fisher noted that the magazine contained an article by Abu Mu'sab al-Suri, noting that al-Suri had been imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay since 2005, and that whether he was actually tied to al-Qaeda remained unclear. The article attributed to al-Suri was the beginning of a series that appeared in the next 5 issues of Inspire.
After the killing of Al-Ayiri, Issa bin Saad Al-Awshan, and Mujab Al-Dosari, Al-Qaeda's media activity diminished through Sawt Al-Jihad magazine, until the magazine resumed publication under the supervision of Abdul Aziz Al-Taweelai Al-Anazi, and Al-Anazi was known as Al-Qaeda's Minister of Information for his electronic media activity under ...
IS's use of social media has been described by one expert as "probably more sophisticated than [that of] most US companies". [1] [57] It regularly uses social media, particularly Twitter, to distribute its messages. [57] [58] The group uses the encrypted instant messaging service Telegram to disseminate images, videos and updates. [59]