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TERRORISM: AL-QAEDA LAUNCHES SITE IN GERMAN

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Baghdad, 1 Sept. (AKI) - The latest frontier in al-Qaeda's cyber propaganda war is an attempt to win the hearts and minds of young Muslims living in Germany, Austria or Switzerland. The Global Islamic Media Front, the 'media arm' of the terror network, has launched a webpage that translates into German all the statements of the Iraqi guerilla groups and publishes their videos. The site is updated daily publishing the most interesting of the Jihadi douments that can be found in jihadi forums in Arabic.

The latest update contains a video testament of a young Saudi suicide bomber Abu Omar al-Najdi who killed himself attacking a US military convoy in northern Iraq. The video was published on the Internet in recent days by al-Qaeda.

There is also ample material regarding the Chechen conflict and Algerian militants, as well as videos of the leadership of al-Qaeda, in particular Ayman al-Zawahiri, produced by the terror network's production house al-Sahab.

In the past there have been similar experiments with English and French language content. However the German site appears more professional than these previous propaganda efforts, being rich in both written and audio/video material and regularly updated.

Another interesting article that didn't seem to have gotten much attention -- note two women were married to pilots.

MOROCCO: WOMAN ARRESTED IN ANTI-TERROR PROBE

Rabat, 31 August (AKI) - A fourth woman has been arrested in an investigation into Morocco's Ansar Al Mahdi terrorist group, the Moroccan interior minister Chakib Benmoussa told a press conference on Thursday. The announcement came a day after reports said security at Moroccan airports had been tightened following the arrest of three women - two of whom are married to pilots with the national airline Royal Air Maroc - charged with involvement with the radical Islamic group.

Morocco's official news agency MAP quoted the interior minister as saying on Thursday that the four women had been contacted by the wife of Karim Mejjat, reportedly a member of al-Qaeda killed in Saudi Arabia by security services.

They are charged with funding Ansar El Mahdi, a terrorist group the Moroccan government says it dismantled earlier this month after police arrested 52 members.

The militants were reportedly active in north-eastern Morocco and were affiliated to a larger fundamentalist cell operating in several Moroccan cities including Casablanca.

Moroccan authorities have reportedly arrested some 2,000 Islamic militants after terrorist attacks on Casablanca left 33 dead on May 2003.

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