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BLOG:

http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/7847.htm
(”Source: Al-Hayat, London, June 8, 2008”)

“Report: Al-Qaeda Maghreb Commander Turns Self In”

SNIPPET: “Abu Hadhifa, Al-Qaeda Maghreb commander in charge of the forces in eastern Algeria, has turned himself in to authorities.”

(Posted June 9, 2008)

RECAP:

http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&Area=jihad&ID=IA44408

Inquiry and Analysis Series - No. 444
May 29, 2008 No. 444

“The Party of Jurisprudence vs. The Party of Action: Sayyed Imam, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, and the Split in the Jihad Movement”
By: Daniel Lav

SNIPPET: “Introduction

Following is the text of a presentation delivered by Daniel Lav, Director of MEMRI’s Middle East and North Africa Reform Project, at the inaugural conference of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) in Washington, D.C. on April 25, 2008. The presentation explains the meaning and the significance of the polemic between the prominent jihadist scholar Sayyed Imam, who has called for a stop to the jihad against Muslim regimes, and Ayman Al-Zawahiri; in addition, it clarifies the important differences between Sayyed Imam’s initiative and that of the Egyptian Al-Gama’a Al-Islamiyya group, which has made a clearer break with jihadism.

The full paper will be available shortly on the ASMEA website (www.asmeascholars.org ). MEMRI will also be publishing a version of the paper in a forthcoming collection of studies in jihadist ideology.

Previous MEMRI reports relating to the polemic between Sayyed Imam and Al-Zawahiri include:

Excerpts from Sayyed Imam’s interview with Al-Hayat:
http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP178507 ;
http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP182608 ;

Ayman Al-Zawahiri’s book responding to Sayyed Imam:
http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP185908 ;

and “Open Meeting with Ayman Al-Zawahiri”:
(http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP188708 ).”