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Global Jihad: Summary from Arabic Sources – The Second Half of January 2011

This report summarizes the most prominent articles published in the Arabic media on the subject of global Jihad over the course of the second half of January 2011. Following are the main issues raised in this report:

• A wave of attacks in Iraq resulted in the death of over one hundred people. Al-Qaeda has been targeting Shi’ites who practice their religious rites.
• The Egyptian security authorities have found new evidence regarding who was behind the attack on the Al-Qiddissin Church in Alexandria.
• Al-Qaeda in Yemen spoke out against the Yemeni army and the Houthi movement and threatened to harm them.
• Bin Laden published a new tape in which he threatens France.
• 35 people were killed in a suicide bombing in the arrivals hall at the Domodedovo airport in Russia.

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