S.Africa to host new summit on Zimbabwe crisis in Pretoria

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) — South Africa will host the next emergency summit on Zimbabwe, the foreign ministry said Thursday, as regional leaders were trying to save a Zimbabwean unity deal and stem a humanitarian crisis there.

President Robert Mugabe and his rival Morgan Tsvangirai agreed to the summit after marathon talks on Monday failed to resolve their dispute over how to share control of powerful ministries under a unity government.

South African President Kgalema Motlanthe, who mediated the talks earlier this week, will host the summit in Pretoria as the chairman of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the foreign ministry said in a statement.

All 15 member states will be represented, along with Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and a splinter group. The statement did not say if heads of government would attend, after earlier summits on Zimbabwe drew only a handful of regional leaders.

The summit would mark the fourth time that all SADC members have gathered to discuss Zimbabwe’s crisis since disputed elections last March.

Regional leaders see the unity deal as the best chance for breaking Zimbabwe’s political deadlock and curbing the nation’s dramatic economic collapse.

March’s first round presidential election was followed by a brutal wave of political violence.

Tsvangirai pulled out of a run-off, saying he had taken the decision because of violence against his supporters, leaving Mugabe to declare a one-sided victory in June.

Since then Zimbabwe has plunged ever deeper into crisis amid massive unemployment and crippling hyperinflation. More than 2,200 people have died from a cholera epidemic, while half the population is dependent on food aid.

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Al Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb ( 20 January 2009)

Praise be to Allah, Lord of the Worlds, and the consequence of the cautious, not only on the aggression of the oppressors, and prayers and peace on our master Muhammad and upon his family and the good of divine, and then after a while:

In this statement we would like to respond to Brin ham Tnaqlthma some media that we are back in the last term of hypocrisy and falsehood and deception of the public opinion:

I said: What some press reports of internal and external on: 19/1/2009 m from the opinion in the statement of the alleged level of Sheikh Abu Musab Abdul-Wadud, may God protect him when called infidels Adel Imam and wasting his blood, and this is strange in the newspapers did not mention any particular source derived from the This blatant lie.

As we lie to the news of the foundation and assure that the rates of the Emir of the organization is a fabrication and forgery, we warn that a statement attributed to the organization of forums is not from the dawn of the Information Center for a lie, it does not have credibility

The second news item: to some pens hypocritical on 6-1 / 2009, citing Osiadha Algerian intelligence centers in the killing of dozens of mujahideen disease plague, which spread the disease, they claim, in the ranks of al-Qaeda!

Which will result in the loss of the organization quickly!.

Although the news and all those ridiculous Underplots trivial intelligence that can not deceive Allenbhae, but we preserve the minds of our Muslim brothers: We emphasize that they are unfounded, and that the Mujahideen praise God in the best case, and that the plague does not exist at all, except in the minds and hearts of those agents to falsely associate of the profession of journalism.

We assure the nation that the purpose of such misleading news, is the intimidation of young people from attending Butgor Jihad, and the clarion of the battlefield ..

So, youth of Islam lies on your ears branded witches, and the hypocrites and Ogizawa Let yards for pride and dignity, the plague that threatens the real entity of this fragmentation is the nation back from the traitors rulers allied with the Jews and Christians to crush Gaza, and the sale of Palestine and trampled on our religion and our holy places and Oaradhana.

God save our nation from the Muslim religious Talpissat lies and fabrications and Tdilellathm pens paid, unless you want, including our palms evil …

God Anasr mujahideen everywhere and supported by the terms of your ..

God is great, God is great, God is great
And Glory to God and His Messenger and the Mujahideen
Media Committee
Al-Qaeda Islamic Maghreb

24 Muharram 1430 AH / approved for: 20 January 2009Source:

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AQIM Denies Black Plague Deaths Reports

Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) released refuted in an internet statement today media reports claiming that plague had swept through one of its camp in the tribal areas of Tizi Ouzou, allegedly killing 40 fighters and forcing the group to turn the shelters in its Yakouren forest camp into mass graves and flee to Bejaia and Jijel provinces.
“We would like to respond to what”s been reported on January 6th by some hypocrites who quoted their masters at the Algerian Intelligence Agency, claiming that dozens of mujahideen died from plague,” said the statement released by the group”s media committee. “We assure that such claims are categorically untrue and the mujahideen are just fine.”
The group claimed that such ‘false” reports had been deliberately released to prevent young people from joining al Qaeda. The statement also dismissed other media reports that claimed that the leader of AQIM had issued a religious edict allowing the killing of prominent Egyptian actor Adel Imam, who had recently blamed the Gaza war on Hamas. “Any statement released on our behalf by sources other than al Fajr Media is a false and deceptive statement.”

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al-Malahim: Mujahideen establish united Organization of al-Qa’idah in Arabian Peninsula

                                                   In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

al-Malahim Media

presents

The seventh issue of “Sada al-Malahim” magazine

Amir Abu Basir holds first news conference, al-Qa’idah helps Gaza disrupting crusader supply routes

Amir Abu-Basir, Amir of Organization of al-Qa’idah in Arabian Peninsula, announced the formation of a united Organization of al-Qa’idah in Arabian Peninsula after Mujahideen of the Land of the Two Holy Places (Saudi Arabia) swore allegiance to the Emirate in Yemen, and the unified organization’s title is Organization of al-Qa’idah in Arabian Peninsula (Tanzim al-Qa’idah fi Jazirat al-’Arab).

The announcement was made at a news conference attended by journalist ‘Abdul-Ilah Sha’i’.

al-Qa’idah is going to establish training camps that would train Mujahideen who would help in liberating Palestine, Abu Basir said.

al-Qa’idah’s current efforts are aimed at disrupting supply routes for bases of Zionist-Crusaders in the Penisula, Abu Basir said.

A press release regarding the latest attack on US embassy in the capital San’a’ is going to be released soon, and that embassy played an important role in the Zionist-Crusader aggression against Muslims in Somalia, Arabian Penisula, Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine, Amir said.

Other commanders of the organization and officials from the Sharia department were present at the news conference, including Amir’s Na’ib (deputy) Abu Sayyaf al-Shihri, who spent for more than ten years at Guantanamo base prison.

al-Fajr Press Center and al-Malahim Media are soon going to publish audio recording and the full transcript of the news conference

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Al Qaeda Unveils Plan To Strike Supply Lines to U.S. Forces in The Arab Peninsula

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(Sada al Malahem) The leader of “Al Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula” Abu Basir claimed that the group has launched a plan to cut supply lines serving U.S. forces present in the Arab Peninsula. The claim came in an interview yet to be published which was granted to Abdulelah Haider Shaeya, a writer on Islamist groups and a brother-in-law of controversial Yemeni cleric, Sheikh Abdul Majeed al Zindani, who is wanted for questioning by the FBI over the attack on USS Cole.

This “exclusive” announcement was made today by the editors of “Sada al Malahem”, as they released the 7th issue of the group”s online magazine.

Abu Basir also announced that the militants in Saudi Arabia and in Yemen have now joined forces and will from now on operate under a single banner, that of the “al Qaeda in the Arab”s Peninsula”. He also said that the group included militants from various nationalities and that a camp has been set up for training with the aim of sending them to fight in Palestine.

Shaeya is expected to publish the full interview, which also tackles issues such as the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa and the overall strategy of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, in local and international media very soon.

In another article by Abu Basir featured in “Sada al Malahem,” the leader of al Qaeda in Yemen analyzed the state of and claims that the “Crusader forces” failed to achieve any of its goals, but succeeded in giving a much needed boost to jihad throughout the world.

Saudi jihadi leader, Abu Hamam al Qahtani (aka Nayef Mohammed al Qahtani), claimed in another article that there were close ties between militants in the Arabian Peninsula and those in Maghreb countries. He backed his claim by mentioning the names of Saudi operatives who fought in Algeria and other North African operatives who fought in the ranks of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
Al Qahtani is thought to be the financier of an attack that killed eight Spanish tourists in Maarib in July 2007.

A poster on the magazine”s back cover promised the release of a new video entitled: “From here we begin, in al Aqsa we meet which might show pictures of the training camps mentioned by Abu Basir in the interview.

GSPC founder calls for al-Qaeda surrender in Algeria

By Nazim Fethi for Magharebia in Algiers – 21/01/09

In the written document, which was released to the Algerian press, Hattab appealed to terrorists to renounce armed struggle in order to benefit from the law on civil concord. Drawing on a verse from the Qur’an and two hadiths from the Prophet Mohammed, he condemned the terrorist attacks perpetrated in Algeria in the name of Islam.

The former GSPC leader issued his call just as radical Islamists are demanding jihad in Gaza.

“What law or moral code could allow this?” he asked in the statement. “Is this really a jihad that would please God?”

Hattab simultaneously condemned and repented for acts of terrorism, “which do nothing for Islam or Muslims and against which I have already given warnings in the past”.

Advising his “brothers” to obey God and halt their activities, he implored them to “return to society and your families; society is ready to welcome you and heal the wounds”.

Monday’s appeal was not Hattab’s first. Last August, he responded to an attack on the police academy in Issers with a statement calling for terrorists to abandon their violent agenda.

Hassan Hattab left the GSPC in 2003 after a dispute with current leader Abdelmalek Droukdel over the legitimacy of targeting civilians. In September 2006 the group rallied to Osama bin Laden’s cause, changing its name to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.

Hattab surrendered to Algerian authorities in late September 2007.

Salima Tlemçani, a terrorism specialist, told El Watan that the message follows a statement by Droukdel “calling for attacks against the interests of Westerners – particularly Americans, French and Israelis – throughout the world”.

The Droukdel communiqué was no longer available, however, just hours after its release, noted Tlemçani. Previous messages about Algeria are still available online.

According to the expert, Droukdel’s organisation has suffered heavy losses in recent months, to the point where it has been unable to regain ground, except for sporadic roadblocks. This has raised questions about the future of the group.

Journalists suggest that differences at the heart of the terrorist organisation have rendered it unable to carry out attacks as visible as those of last year. This is believed to be the result of both a series of surrenders within the heart of the group and a government crackdown.

According to Nayla Berrahal of Algerian daily Echorouk, the al-Qaeda organisation “is in a really difficult position since the start of the events in Gaza… due to the reaction of the public”.

She said the people believe the terrorist organisation is attempting “to profit from the situation to clean up its image following a series of suicide attacks and crimes targeting civilians”.

Rather than garnering the support of impassioned youths, Berrahal suggests Droukdel’s group has alienated itself. “These young people have risen up against the terrorist organisation, which they accuse of executing foreigners’ plans and strategies,” she said.

For many civilians, the former GSPC can no longer fool young people about its real intentions.

Lotfi Amine, a student, said the group “has no legitimacy or credibility to support Palestine, given the crimes it has committed against the sons and daughters of its own country”.

Fellow student Djamel Alek went a step further, accusing al-Qaeda of being “mercenaries”. Speaking to Magharebia, he addressed the terrorists: “Those who live in Gaza are pure and their blood is sacred. We do not want it to be mingled with the blood of mercenaries like you.”

Taliban video claims Pakistan attacks

Agence France-Presse

Peshawar, January 18, 2009

First Published: 18:12 IST(18/1/2009)

Last Updated: 18:14 IST(18/1/2009)

Taliban militants on Sunday released a rare video of statements from purported suicide bombers and footage of deadly attacks they claimed to have perpetrated in Pakistan.
 

The 40-minute tape shows men and youths, some apparently in their teens, addressing the camera about their intention to carry out suicide attacks to background music of Urdu-language militant anthems.

The video was handed out to reporters in Peshawar, the capital of North West Frontier Province (NWFP), by militant commander Qari Hussain, who is based in the lawless South Waziristan tribal district that borders Afghanistan.

Hussain is also known as “Ustad-e-Fidaeen” or teacher of suicide bombers.

All those featured on the video spoke Pashto, the main language of Pashtuns living in NWFP and the tribal regions on the border with Afghanistan.

The two biggest attacks claimed on the video were a double truck bombing last March against the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) building in Lahore and bombing an office of Pakistan’s powerful Inter-Services Intelligence in 2007.

At least 87 people, including government and security personnel, were killed in those attacks and two others also claimed on the tape.

“I’m going to do this suicide bombing with Islamic sentiments,” says someone who gave his name only as Masood and looked to be in his teens, to a backdrop of footage from the FIA attack.

“Suicide bombers are the atomic weapons of Muslims because Muslims do not have the latest weapons to fight enemies who are committing atrocities against Muslims in Kashmir, Palestine, Afghanistan and Iraq,” Masood said.

On the video, a voice purported to be that of Hussain urges people to enlist for further suicide attacks.

“Israel, America and Pakistan’s military are committing atrocities against Muslims so jihad has become compulsory for all Muslims,” said the voice.

Another voice demanded that the Pakistani government call an immediate halt to military operations in tribal areas, release arrested militants and lift a ban on a Sunni extremist group.

Pakistan has been wracked by violence since hundreds of Taliban and Al-Qaeda rebels sought refuge in the northwestern region after the US-led invasion of Afghanistan toppled the Taliban regime in late 2001.

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