By John Galt
July 21, 2011
I’m a little late to the story due to traffic but the latest does seem to indicate an Islamist radical group’s ties to the terrorist attack in Oslo and at the youth political camp today. From the website FastCompany:
An obscure group called Ansar al-Jihad al-Alami (Assistants of the Global Jihad) posted a message on an Islamist bulletin board called Smukh and may have uploaded a video to YouTube several days ago predicting the attack, which may killed more than a dozen.
Ansar al-Jihad’s Abu Sulayman al-Nasir allegedly posted a message claiming responsibility for the Oslo attacks on the Arabic-language jihadist forum Shamikh. According to a partial translation by terrorism expert Will McCants of Jihadica, al-Nasir claims the attacks were in retribution for the occupation of Afghanistan by foreign troops and unnamed insults to the Muslim prophet Muhammad. Al-Nasir also threatens further attacks:
We have warned since the Stockholm raid of more operations and we have demanded that the countries of Europe withdraw from the land of Afghanistan and end their war on Islam and Muslims. What you see is only the beginning and there is more to come.
The “Stockholm raid” reference is in response to a 2010 suicide bombing in Sweden.
The original post on Shamikh was taken offline and apparently replaced by the terrorist version of a 404 page.
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The website Jihadica.com has the original text and worked to translate it and provided the data above. I would monitor that site for further feeds and information should the terrorists make any further postings:
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Based on the information above it would appear the “test drives” are now over with. If you reside near a soft target or have children in summer camps or other activities, please do all you can to protect them and insure their safety. This does not appear to be either random or wanton but a well planned attack on a small nation with little if any animosity towards the cause the Jihadists purport to support, hence why I think this might be a final test to insure the efficiency of their plans.
And now the blame has gone to the right wing Christian conservative wacko.