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Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the suicide attack that killed 30 people on Wednesday in Lahore.

The Internet statement said a member of Tehrik-i-Taliban Penjab in Lahore loaded his truck with 100kg of explosives and drove it into a building belonging to a Pakistani security and intelligence agency building. The statement said the attack comes in response to the military operation launched against the Taliban in the Swat valley.

The group called the attack a “humble gift to the mujahideen who suffer under the strikes of Pakistani forces in Swat valley.”

The group also warned that there will be similar attacks to come. “We call upon all Muslims in Pakistan to stay away from areas where the enemy is present, so that they are not be harmed by jihadi attacks,” said the statement.

In a short clip released by an Iraqi insurgent group called Hamas Iraq, a spokeswoman for the “women mujaheddin unit” identified as Hanein pledged to carry out attacks against U.S. forces in Iraq to avenge the killing of Palestinians in Gaza.

A member of the Islamist al Falojah Internet forum posted a message today urging al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden to rescue Gaza’s children. The man going by the name “Dabbaba el-Shishani” or “Chechen Tank” posted graphic pictures of children killed during the recent Israeli bombardments of Gaza and addressed Bin Laden saying “Sheikh…aren’t those pictures enough for you? Pictures of Muslim children killed at the hand of the Zionists. O’s Sheikh Osama, we want it to be a quacking strike, in the heart of Tel Aviv.”
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb also posted an Internet statement signed by the group leader Abu Mus’ab Abdel Wadud, in which it condemned the “Genocide and Butchery” of Palestinians in Gaza. The group warned Israel that the militants will come after them to avenge Muslims killed in Gaza.

Shortly after the execution of the three men convicted of being behind the October 2002 attacks in Bali, Indonesia dozens of messages vowing revenge were posted on militant Islamist forums along with pictures of the funeral the three men.
“To the traitor government of Jakarta and its corrupt judges we say, by God we shall come after you no matter how long it takes,” a member of al Shura forum wrote.
One of the three men, Ali Ghufran, is said to have left his will during a telephone conversation to his family just days before his execution and after bribing the prison guards. “Continue this jihad in support of God’s glory and faith,” he supposedly said.
Several embassies, including the U.S. embassy in Jakarta, warned that there was a very high risk of a terrorist attack against western tourists following the execution, though no official travel warning has been issued.

A new militant group calling itself “The Army of the Supporters of God” (Jaysh Ansar Allah) pledged to avenge the victims killed in a U.S. raid on a village in Syria last week.
“We pledge before God and before the Muslim nation to avenge the victims of this aggression the shed Muslim blood,” a masked speaker reading out the statement said in the video that the groups posted on the Internet. The speaker was surrounded by two masked men sporting their guns on his left and right. The group also threatened to assassinate Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al Maliki and other members of his government for what the group described as “blind loyalty to America and Israel.”

The leader of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) Abu Mus’ab Abdel Wadud, warned of new attacks in an audiotape released on militant Islamist forums Monday. In the 28-minute tape “A Message to Our People in the Islamic Maghreb,” he pledged to keep up the fight against the governments in the Maghreb countries, and called on Muslims in those countries to support the militants. Abdel Wadud strongly criticized the Arab regimes in North Africa, from Mauritania to Libya , and described them as “puppet regimes” serving the interests of their “masters” in the West. He particularly denounced France’s efforts to create the Euro-Mediterranean alliance, which he qualified as a plan to revive France’s colonial ambitions.

Abdel Wadud also denied accusations that the militants were targeting innocent civilians, and asked his audience not to hang around government institutions and other buildings that constitute “legitimate targets.”

The commander of the militant Somali “Mujahideen Youths Movement” vowed to carry out attacks outside of Somalia and target Western interests in different parts of the world. “God willing, the global jihad brigades will rise from the land of Somalia to perturb the infidels and destroy their interests all over the world,” Mukhtar Abu Zubair said in the 14-minute audio statement released on the group’s website.

Abu Zubair also sent his greetings to al Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden, Ayman al Zawahri and Abu Yahya al Libi, Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar and leader of the al Qaeda-associated “Islamic State of Iraq” Abu Omar al Baghdadi.

The Mujahideen Youths Movement is an Islamist insurgency group that defected from the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) in Somalia in 2007. Their core comprised veterans who fought and defeated the secular Mogadishu warlords of the Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism (ARPCT) at the Second Battle of Mogadishu. Their origins are not clearly known, but former members say Hizbul Shabaab was founded as early as 2004. The group aims to establish the rule of sharia law in Somalia and is thought to have close ties with al-Qaeda.

The militant Lebanese Islamist group Fatah al Islam vowed in a statement released Tuesday not to remain silent in face of what it considered were intentional attacks against Sunnis in Lebanon. “We will defend our people in this country and cut the heads of those who try to make them lower their heads, even if this costs us lives and bloodshed,” says the statement.

The statement attacks the militant Shiite group Hezbullah as well as the Lebanese Future Party, which it accuses of being an “agent of the Americans.” The group argues that the Future Party, which is led by Saad al Hariri, does not represent Lebanese Sunnis and holds it responsible for “killing our brothers and destroying a full refugee camp.”

As for Hezbullah, the statement says claims that the Beirut attacks were in reaction to the governments moves against the group are lies. The statement says the intention is to weaken Sunnis in Lebanon and keep them divided.

The group also refutes claims by former parliament member Nasser Qandil about member of Fatah al Islam blocking roads to the factory. The statement refers to Qandil as the “mouthpiece” of Hezbullah and argues the intent of his statements is to justify an attack against the Sunnis in this area.

An interview with “the leader and spokesperson” of the Somali Shabab al Mujaheddin movement was published in a special issue of an online magazine issued by an al-Qaeda linked media outlet.

Mukhtar Ali Rubo, who is also known as Abi Mansour, claimed his movement had control over most of Somalia with the exception of three cities. He spoke about jihad in Somalia and launched a scathing attack on the ‘Islamic Courts Union’ for giving up armed struggle to participate in the political processes with the secular governments.

Mansour said his movement would not give up the fighting against “the crusaders” until they’ve withdrawn from Somalia and stressed it would not engage in any form of negotiations with any political entity in the country. “To our people in Palestine, we could not say more than what the world jihadi leaders have already said; such as our Sheikh Osama Bin Laden, Ayman Zawahri, Abu Yehya al-Libi, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and others,” Mansour said answering a question about the situation in Palestine. “We are fighting here in Somalia to free Palestine from the Jewish occupation. Along the lines of what al Zarqawi once said: We’re fighting in Somalia and our eyes are set on Palestine.”

The interview appeared in a special issue of the monthly magazine “Echo of Jihad,” which is published by The Global Islamic Media Front on the Internet. Mansour appears to be the successor of Aden Hashi Ayro, the former leader of the group, who was killed in a U.S. airstrike on May 1.