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Article On Bitcoin In Pro-Al-Qaeda Magazine ‘Al-Haqiqa’: ‘We See Lots of Potential For The Use Of Cryptocurrencies For Our Purposes, But We Also See A Lot Of Obstacles’
On February 1, 2018, the third issue of Al-Haqiqa, a pro-Al-Qaeda English language magazine, was published on a new official Al-Haqiqa Telegram channel. An article titled “TechTalk: Bitcoins (Im)possibilities” explains the basics of how to use Bitcoin, and explores whether cryptocurrencies can be used to fund jihad.
Article In Pro-Al-Qaeda Magazine ‘Al-Haqiqa’ Rallies Supporters On Social Media Platforms, Highlights Power Of ‘Media Jihad’
On February 1, 2018, the third issue of Al-Haqiqa, a pro-Al-Qaeda English language magazine, was published on a new official Al-Haqiqa Telegram channel. An article in it titled “Media Jihad: A Digital Struggle To Bring You the Truth” celebrates jihadis’ battle for the hearts and minds of its online supporters.
Kata’ib Hezbollah: We Are Ready For An Imminent Confrontation With The American Forces In Iraq
Ja’afar Al-Husseini, the military spokesman for Kata’ib Hezbollah Iraq, a militia supported by the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and which is on the U.S. list of designated terrorist groups, issued threats about expelling the American forces stationed in Iraq during a television interview when he said, “The confrontation with the Americans is likely to occur at any moment…”(by memri org).