Cairo – Different terrorist groups focused on media propaganda since their establishment. The leaders of terrorist militias were keen to form their media arsenal to send their messages to the different places of the world whether to recruit militants or to promote the militias’ activities.
Qaeda began their media activity since 1980s during its war against Soviet occupation. It issued primitive videos filmed by non-professionals. These videos were filming combat operations and the victims of Soviet bombardments against the Afghan cities among civilian Afghan people.
Qaeda used the technological revolution to issue a number of press releases, including Masra Magazine, Somoud Magazine and Aqsa Politian which was issued in English.
In the aftermath of the emergence of ISIS, Media became one of the military arms used by the terrorist militias. ISIS focused on producing high-quality media messages through publishing high-tech photos and videos that were produced in professional ways whether in their filming, direction or editing.
ISIS terrorist group managed to use social media networks and internet efficiently, as it established a number of media arms to promote their messages through the internet and social media, including Al Furqan Foundation. This foundation issued over 160 visual and audio material for the leaders of the organization.
ISIS also established E’etisam Foundation that issued over 100 visual and audio material for the leaders of the organization with different languages. However, ISIS established “Al-Hayat” Foundation for Media to issue its material in English to address the peoples of the Western countries. The terrorist group also launched a number of magazines and agencies, including “Dabiq” Magazine and Aamaq Agency in addition to “Ajnad” Foundation which is authorized to provide the other foundations with audio materials and songs calling for Jihad in different languages, including English, French, Spanish, Russian, Indonesian and Somali.
The terrorist group also possesses a number of Jihadi websites, including Dawat Al-Haq and Sawarim. It also launched a video website called Al-Ansar. ISIS leaders were keen to share what they publish in their websites on social media networks to promote their messages not only in the Islamic countries but also in all over the world. This approach played a major role to convince a large number of Muslims from all over the world to join the group in both Syria and Iraq.
In the same context, intellectual of jihadi groups Abu-Mosaab Al-Suri launched a new press release titled “Fustat Al-Muslimeen” Magazine to be the first jihadi magazine to discuss the political, intellectual and military approach adopted by the Jihadi movements. It is composed of 25 pages divided into six main sections
- Clash of Civilizations series
- Lone Wolf Operations
- Military Studies
- Methodological Articles
- Of the jurisprudence of reality
- From International Press
It is not strange for Abu-Mosaab Al-Suri to take a unique course away from Al-Qaeda and ISIS, as he is not a member of any of the two groups despite his early membership of Al-Qaeda. Although he has his own idea, he is considered the major lecturer and teacher of the jihadist ideology. He is the first intellectual who developed a philosophy of modern jihad used by the terrorist groups to teach their militants the ways of jihad and its rulings, philosophy and purpose.
Abu-Mosaab Al-Suri issued an encyclopedia titled “Islamic Resistance” composed of six parts. Al-Suri has been known of his increasing criticism to both Taliban and Qaeda after September 11 attacks. He continued to record his views and reservations on all other jihadist movements in their practices.
Abu-Mosaab Al-Suri’s full name is Mustafa bin Abdul Qadir bin Mustafa bin Hussein bin Ahmed al-Muzayk al-Jakeiri Rifai. He was born in Aleppo in 1958. He studied at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Aleppo.
Al-Suri founded a branch for Qaeda in Spain, while he left its leadership to the Syrian extremist Emad Eddin Barakat Jarkas who was sentenced to 27-year imprisonment by Spanish judiciary with a number of other defendants, including correspondent of Qatari “Al-Jazeera” satellite channel Tayseer Elwany.
Fustat Al Muslimeen
Editorial of the new magazine “Fustat Al Muslimeen”, written by Abu-Mosaab Al-Suri, discussed the relation between the militants who work for jihadi groups and their leaders. He called the leaders of these groups for ignoring some errors committed by the militants working under their leadership given their hardship to perform the duty of jihad in the cause of Allah.
Al-Suri said, in his article, that those militants came in response to the call of God to perform the duty of Jihad and to implement the rules of Islamic Sharia. He added, “Therefore, the leaders of the Mujahideen have to look for excuses for what they see as minor mistakes.”
However, the section of “Lone Wolf Operation” is written by terrorist Nedal Hassan Malek. He is American citizen with Palestinian origins and served as officer in the American army. He was accused of opening the fire on “Fort Hood” military base.
In this section, Malek discusses the concept of “Lone Wolf” and the ways of its work. He says that the members of “Lone Wolf” work upon a clear plan to carry out specific operations upon the orders they receive from their leaders. He says that the “Lone Wolf” operations are composed of a number of sleeper cells. The members of these operations do not need tradition weapons, while they can turn any tolls into weapons to carry out their operations, including the cars and trucks used to crash into dozens of people and to cause humanitarian disasters.
The magazine also discusses the rulings of Islamic Sharia and drafted a number of standards upon which the Islamic Sharia could be implemented, including the ability to liberate a specific state from what they describe as infidel regimes on political, economic, social and ethical sides. This was implemented by ISIS when the militia managed to control large swaths of Syria and Iraq after the withdrawal of the American troops from the country to declare the establishment of their caliphate in 2013.
The writer also described the position of the ruler as the caliph of the prophet and to lead the country upon the rulings of Islamic Sharia.
In the section of Military Studies, the magazine discussed two major issues in six pages; the first is how to make a mine under the title “Mines and Explosives”. The writer explained in details how to make the mines and the materials used in making them and the amount of damage it causes if it explodes in the target and how to avoid being in its explosive orbit.
However, the second is the theory of indirect approach, developed by Liddell Hart. The theory depends on “the psychological collapse of the enemy, not the physical destruction of his forces.
It is noteworthy that the magazine is an educational magazine and a guide to the extremists of the “individual wolves” to work in the domain of their communities in which they hide until the implementation of their operations. This confirms how the terrorist groups use the media to recruit their supporters not only through joining them but also through using them to achieve the objectives of the terrorist groups inside their communities.
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