[UPDATED] NEFA Foundation: New IMU Video, Statements from the Taliban and Mullah Omar, Updated "Target:America" Report

By Evan Kohlmann

The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new communiqué from Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Omar in which he appeals to "Muslims to help their Mujahedeen brothers" and "do Jihad" because it is "clear" that the "invaders will never withdraw their forces..." He also advises the Mujahedeen that they must not allow the "enemy" to create "cleavage[s]" that divide their forces. Separately, NEFA has also obtained a new communiqué from the Taliban on the battle for the town Musa Qala, which asks "how many weeks will [the] invaders be able to" maintain control of the Musa Qala district?

Both statements can be downloaded from the NEFA Foundation website c/o the TerrorWatch subscription service.

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The NEFA website has also been updated with the following items:
- The NEFA Foundation has exclusively obtained and translated a new video featuring Tahir Jan Yuldashev, leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) and of Al-Qaida's Central-Asian faction and a key-player on the Pak-Afghan scene. A reward of $200,000 is being offered by the U.S. military for information leading to the capture of Yuldashev. The 34 minute-long video appears to have been filmed recently and includes footage of a group of Madrassa students loyal to the IMU demonstrating their combat skills and assembling assault rifles. The core of Yuldashev's speech focuses on the need to be united against the "infidels", Jews, and their allies.
- The NEFA Foundation has released an updated "Target: America" report in light of Derrick Shareef's guilty plea and the public release of a number of documents, including summaries of FBI interviews of Shareef and an informant, as well as an 123-page prosecution filing filled with transcripts of recorded conversations. The material sheds new light on Shareef's plan to target an Illinois shopping mall, his desire to attack U.S. military facilities in America, his relationship with indicted terrorist Hassan Abujihaad, and his radicalization process. When thinking about his assault on the CherryVale Shopping Center in Rockford, Illinois, planned for December 22, 2006, Shareef told an informant, "the last thing anybody gonna be thinking about...is a damn grenade."

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