Source Compromise Exposes Probable Connection Between Al Qa'ida and Hizb ut Tahrir |
| Published: November 30, 2007, 7:25 pm |
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An unauthorized disclosure on 7 September that revealed the existence of an Al Qaeda Internet-based communications network received extensive coverage at the time. In the context of earlier reporting by The Jamestown Foundation (see Terrorism Monitor, August 16), however, the 7 September leak points also to the likelihood of a much closer working relationship between AQ and another Jihadist group - the London-headquartered Hizb ut Tahrir (Party of Liberation) (HT) - than had been known previously. The relationship may in fact be that of Superior-Subordinate rather than that of merely independent groups espousing the same ideology. On 7 September, four days before its apparent intended publication date on the sixth anniversary of 9/11, the ABC News website reported excerpts from a videotaped address by Usama Bin Ladin. Subsequent reporting revealed that the 7 September compromise had alerted AQ to the ability of non-members to acquire its intra-group communications and [ Full article ] |
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