Pro-Violence

Mokhtar Belmokhtar, August 22, 2013

Date
Aug. 22, 2013
Name of Author
Mokhtar Belmokhtar
Body

“We say to France and its allies in the region ... the Mujahideen have met and agreed to defeat your armies and destroy your plans and projects.”“Sahara jihadist groups merge, threaten French interests – report,” Reuters, August 22, 2013, http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/22/northafrica-islamists-idUSL6N0GN2OQ20130822.

Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary-General, August 2013

Date
Aug. 2013
Name of Author
Hassan Nasrallah
Body

“If this battle with these takfiri terrorists requires that I and all of Hezbollah go to Syria, we will go to Syria.”Ben Hubbard, “Hezbollah Makes Vow to Step Up Syria Fight,” The New York Times, August 16, 2013, accessed July 31, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/17/world/middleeast/hezbollah-makes-vow-to-step-up-syria-fight.html.

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Threat

Statement, August 2013

Date
Aug. 2013
Name of Author
Al-Mourabitoun
Body

“Your brothers in Mujao and Al-Mulathameen [Masked Men Brigade] announce their union and fusion in one movement called Al-Murabitoun to unify the ranks of Muslims around the same goal, from the Nile to the Atlantic.”“Belmohktar’s militants ‘merge’ with Mali’s Mujao,” BBC News, August 22, 2013, http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-23796920.

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Mokhtar Belmokhtar, August 2013

Date
Aug. 2013
Name of Author
Mokhtar Belmokhtar
Body

“It is the birth of a group that includes Mujahideen and even Muslims in North Africa from the country of the Nile and the Atlantic.”Kissima Diagana and John Irish, “Sahara jihadist groups merge, threaten French interests – report,” Reuters, August 22, 2013, http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/22/northafrica-islamists-idUSL6N0GN2OQ20130822.

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Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesman, July 2013

Date
July 2013
Name of Author
Zabihullah Mujahid
Body

“During the holy month of Ramadan, jihad has major rewards. And mujahideen will continue to employ all their fighting techniques to mount attacks on the enemy.”“Afghan Taliban vow attacks over Ramadan after being hacked,” Reuters, July 5, 2013, http://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-taliban/afghan-taliban-vow-attacks-over-ramadan-after-being-hacked-idUSBRE9640DT20130705.

Rhetoric Category
Threat

Qasim al-Raymi, Emir (leader) of AQAP, June 2, 2013

Date
Jun. 2, 2013
Name of Author
Qasim al-Raymi
Body

“Instead, everyday you will be hit by the unexpected and your leaders can repel nothing! Do not deny when evil befalls you, when you taste a bit of destruction that you inflict on others. Hence, blame none but yourselves. Gulp the bitterness of war, death, destruction and insecurity as other oppressed humans do. The two decade war has not laid down its burden, rather it is at its peak. The war between you and us has not ceased...”“Al-Qaeda Arabian Peninsula’s (AQAP) Qasim al-Rimi Video Indicator of Upcoming Attack Against Americans,” IntelCenter, June 2, 2013, http://intelcenter.com/reports/AQAP-ThreatWarning-2Jun2013.html.

Qasim al-Raymi, Emir (leader) of AQAP, June 2, 2013

Date
Jun. 2, 2013
Name of Author
Qasim al-Raymi
Body

“O American nation, indeed, your security is not achieved by despoiling other nations' security or by attacking and oppressing them. Your security is achieved by stopping the foolish, who rule you, from oppression and aggression. Know that oppression and aggression rebound on the throats of the perpetrators.”“Al-Qaeda Arabian Peninsula’s (AQAP) Qasim al-Rimi Video Indicator of Upcoming Attack Against Americans,” IntelCenter, June 2, 2013, http://intelcenter.com/reports/AQAP-ThreatWarning-2Jun2013.html.

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Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Brotherhood spiritual and intellectual leader, May 9, 2013

Date
May 9, 2013
Name of Author
Yusuf al-Qaradawi
Body

“Our whole ambition is to die on the path to Allah, and for long life to Palestine… I am sure we will conquer. Nobody thought that the people would triumph and oust the tyrants who ruled Egypt and Tunisia. And Syria will also emerge victorious, as well as Islam… Our wish should be that we carry out Jihad to death… We should seek to liberate Palestine, all of Palestine, inch by inch.”“Influential Muslim cleric Qaradawi visits Gaza,” Al Arabiya, May 9, 2013, http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2013/05/09/Influential-Muslim-cleric-Qaradawi-visits-Gaza.html; Nidal al-Mughrabi, “Influential Muslim cleric visits Hamas-controlled Gaza,” Reuters, May 9, 2013, http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/08/us-palestinians-gaza-cleric-idUSBRE94714Y20130508.

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Seifallah Ben Hassine, May 2013

Date
May 2013
Name of Author
Seifallah Ben Hassine
Body

“A message to our heroes who wrote and are writing with their blood and sweat the epics of Islam in the lands of jihad, may Allah give steadfast to your mujahidin and accept your martyrs and release your prisoners from the hands of your enemies and give your families patience and perish your and His enemy.”Louisa Loveluck, “Planting the Seeds of Tunisia’s Ansar Al Sharia,” Foreign Policy, September 27, 2012, http://foreignpolicy.com/2012/09/27/planting-the-seeds-of-tunisias-ansar-al-sharia/.

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Khader Habeeb, senior PIJ official, May 2013

Author
Date
May 2013
Name of Author
Khader Habeeb
Body

“The equation has yet to change. The Oslo Accords are still the reference and we continue to refuse them, as we see them as a deviation from the correct Palestinian direction, which is to resist and liberate the entire land.”Asmaa al-Ghoul, “Islamic Jihad Movement Maintains Popularity in Gaza,” Al-Monitor, May 7, 2013, http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/05/islamic-jihad-movement-gaza-palestine.html.

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On May 8, 2019, Taliban insurgents detonated an explosive-laden vehicle and then broke into American NGO Counterpart International’s offices in Kabul. At least seven people were killed and 24 were injured.

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