Al Qaeda chief Ayman al Zawahiri in a video launched thru its media wing “As Sahab” has requested the worldwide Muslim network or Ummah to undertake outstanding jihadist leaders as position models. The video declaration is episode 5 of the collection titled “Deal of the Century or Crusades Spanning Centuries.”
The video calling for the veneration of beyond and gift Sunni jihadists isn’t handiest going to prompt Islamic radicalization however has additionally raised terror chance tiers withinside the world. Zawahiri’s in advance films withinside the collection had targeted on criticizing Arab leaders and “educating” Muslims with the Al Qaeda ideology.
This month Zawahiri additionally known as for jihad towards India and Bangladesh for blasphemy towards the Holy Prophet and threaten to release suicide assaults in key Indian cities. Intelligence inputs suggest that Zawahiri is presently primarily based totally in Afghanistan close to the Durand Line border aleven though the Taliban regime denies it and says that the phobia kingpin is in Iran. As a fear business enterprise with hardcore Salafist roots, Al Qaeda has no area for both Shia or Sufi branches of Islam.
With the upward push of the Taliban in Afghanistan, Al Qaeda’s center management has reinforced with the phobia institution armed with the present day weapons, explosives and night time imaginative and prescient gadgets left via way of means of the US-led coalition forces on August 15, 2021. The terrorist institution, which obviously has its media wing primarily based totally in Pakistan, has began out attracting militant cadres for worldwide operations and is receiving investment from Middle East nations which includes Qatar and Turkey.
Rising concurrently with Al Qaeda is the Islamic State of Khorasan Province (ISKP) in Afghanistan, which has grown in cadre energy after its key leaders had been launched from prisons with the arrival of the Taliban and the hasty go out of US forces. Armed with brand new rifles and rocket launchers, the ISKP, which has hyperlinks with the Pakistani deep state, has centered the Taliban withinside the Islamic Emirate.
With Al Qaeda and Muslim Brotherhood being energetic withinside the Indian sub-continent thru proxies, Islamic radicalization is anticipated to boom dramatically because the Taliban is the brand new version for jihadists. That the Taliban turned into capable of throw US forces out of Afghanistan is an instance sufficient for undercover jihadists to upward push withinside the sub-continent and reason havoc. The Al Qaeda chance of bomb assaults in India isn’t being taken gently via way of means of counter-terror companies because the entire reason of a probable strike could be to pressure a retaliation and boom polarization in Indian society.