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When a decision is made in the spur of the moment and under the emotional influence, the consequences can be devastating, not only in ISSN: In Process the present but also for the future of the world. The terrorist group Medellín - Colombia Daesh has joined the war game from long ago, not to fight for the Volume 1 - Issue 7 freedom of those who are oppressed, but to implement by force their May 1, 2017 long-awaited Islamic caliphate. Director One of the points that characterizes this terrorist group is the David Garriga meticulous planning of its acts, its consequences and possible triggers. Behind some actions that may seem random, we find a great Editor planning of previous intelligence where the subsequent consequences Douglas Hernández of the attack in the short, medium and long term are analyzed in a very thorough way making this group a very feared adversary. Experts Triarius Enric Caballeria The last terror-attack in Champs-Elysées inParín, France, was David Garriga performed by two terrorist who get off from a car opening fire against Marc Fornós the french pólice officer just before the national elections. From the Antonio Martín terrorist’s perspective it has only been a strategical action to win vote Javier Torregrosa 1 José Manuel Ávalos from undecised voting people. A few vots that aim to the proliferation José Luis Franco of racism and social segregation in the west seeking to créate this Roberto Uzal dichotomy within society. Douglas Hernández Pilar Rangel This is how Daesh develops his war mechanism to make society Eduardo Padrón divided and easier to overcome. The more hateful and more difficult the integration of Muslims in the West the simpler will be their recruitment to join the struggle of an invisible cause. This bulletin is a publication of the Hispanic American Observatory It’s goal that started with two innocent deaths, seeking as a final end on International Terrorism. It is the union of their mujahideen in the West to make an arm bigger and produced, in a fortnightly manner, stronger. in pdf format, and its distribution is free. Contact Information: David Garriga Director Douglas Hernández Medellín, Colombia Movil: (+57) 321-6435103 [email protected] [email protected] As of this edition, the bulletin has version in English. 1. The phenomenon of terrorism. p.3 Analista: Enric Caballeria 2. Prevention and counter-narrative in terrorism. p.5 Analista: David Garriga 3. Cyberterrorism. p.7 Analista: Marc Fornós 4. The Jihad Generation. p.9 Analista: Antonio Martín 5. European stance against terrorism. p.12 Analista: Javier Torregrosa 6. Intelligence and terrorism. p.14 Analista: José Manuel Ávalos 7. Terrorist technical means. p.16 Analista: José Luis Franco 8. Terrorism and Cyber terrorism in the Southern Cone. p.18 2 Analista: Roberto Uzal 9. Colombia: Terrorism, War and Peace. p.23 Analista: Douglas Hernández 10. Fight against jihadist terrorism in Spain. p.26 Analista: Pilar Rangel 11. Adaptation of forces and security forces to the tasks of the 21st century. p.28 Analista: Eduardo Padrón 12. Antiterrorist Forces of the World. p.30 13. Brief biography of analysts. p.31 On the cover: Elements of the Alpha Team of the Russian Security Services (FSB). © FSB. Unit specialized in antiterrorism, created in 1974 within the KGB. -Research of the unit at the end of the Bulletin- Jihadist ideology: the interpretation of jihad and its main ideologies by Enric Caballería of Ramadan or the pilgrimage to Mecca at least Once in life. For the vast majority of Muslims, the five pillars are exclusively professed. It is important to say that in the Koran the only concept of war that appears alludes to the defensive war. Far from the idea projected by the different terrorist groups, which are far from Islam and the Qur'an no matter how much they appeal to Allah or Muhammad. If we analyze the number of times the word jihad appears in the Koran, we can see that most of them refer to the effort. Of the thirty-five times in which this word is mentioned we can divide it into: • Twenty-two times refers to effort or improvement in one's own behavior and in the collective Mawlana Sayyid Abu Al-Mawdudi • Ten times as a defensive war, never offensive • Three times it alludes to spiritual elevation of The word jihad has been systematically the believers 3 manipulated by the mass media and Western society In the Qur'an (6: 151) a verse appears that in general. Throughout all these years in the West clearly defends the position in defense of human life the word jihad has been related to two concepts and condemns terrorism: mainly. The first concept of jihad refers to the "holy Do not take away any life, which God has war" of those who embrace Islam against the infidels made of it something sacred, except in case of and regard it as the sixth pillar of their religion. The justice and law: this is what He commands you so second concept is related to the "effort" to overcome that you can learn wisdom. difficulties and temptations in the daily life of every It is true that in the Qur'an we find some Muslim. warmongering texts, but these types of writings are Although the most common meaning of the found in all the sacred books of all the religions of the jihad concept for most Muslims is understood as the world. Then we can conclude that the problem is not effort to perfect oneself on the path to God and the in the texts themselves, but in the interpretation that struggle against selfishness. Relating the concept of is made of them and in their use to justify criminal jihad to holy war is a major mistake, because this and criminal facts. expression is found neither in the Koran nor in the Muslim leaders in the West have tried to sunna and is unknown in treatises of Islamic detach Islam from terrorism. Issuing fights against jurisprudence. Rather, the term holy war is typical of jihadist organizations and condemning the attacks. It Catholic translation and has its origin in the is important to remember that most of the victims of Crusades. this type of terrorism are Muslims themselves. The position against the infidels, which some Ideologists defending the concept of Jihad as Islamic sectors defend, is nothing more than a holy war fundamentalist and radical attitude or behavior The leading contemporary radical Islamist derived from a literal reading of the Koran. In the ideologues were inspired by the thirteenth-century most radical sectors, even the concept of jihad is Muslim theologian Ibn Taymiyya, who dictated a spoken of as a further pillar of Islam, it would fatwa in which he expounded as a religious duty to correspond to the sixth pillar along with the combat against Islamist sects that violated some of profession of faith, prayer, zaqat or alms, the month the pillars of Islam. According to Taymiyya, Muslims, "holy war" and make it a religious obligation of after hearing the word of the prophet Muhammad to Muslims. After the coup d'état that took place in follow Islam, were to fight against the infidels and in Egypt in 2013, where President Mohamed Morsi was return they would receive the best of rewards, overthrown, a minority of the organization's leaders paradise (yanna). Of the contemporary ideologues opted for an apparently non-violent doctrine of world who defend this view of jihad, there are four that jihad. Even so the Muslim Brothers and their stand out above the rest. organizations are currently outlawed by the Egyptian Mawlana Sayyid Abu Al-Mawdudi (1903- authorities. 1979): was a Pakistani scholar, imam and journalist. Sayyid Al-Qutb (1906-1966): Born the same He said that under the belief of God that he is the year as Hassan al-Banna in 1906 in a village in the supreme legislator and only depends on him to province of Asyut in southern Egypt, I study govern the affairs of humans, he argued that war magisterium in the same center as al-Banna, Dar al - jihad is justifiable inasmuch as Islam, an integral Ulum where he graduated in 1933. Contrary to Al- system, aims to eliminate other systems in the world. Banna, Qutb was a modernizing reformer, although He opposed the difference between offensive and he came from a deeply religious family and had defensive jihad and believed that anyone who does studied in Islamic schools. At ten years he recited the not respond to jihad is considered unbeliever. Qur'an by heart. Politically, Qutb started in the Wafd party. It was an Egyptian nationalist party of Western Hassan Al-Banna (1906-1949): He was a character. Years later Qutb would become a staunch schoolmaster, son of a watchmaker who also worked supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood. The end of his as an imam in a town halfway between Alexandria days he spent in prison where he was executed. The and Cairo. The city was called Ismailia, a city main idea he claimed was that Western governments founded while the Suez Canal was being built, were usurping the authority of Allah, and through according to Western forms and ways. There, Al- jihad they were to be fought against them. Banna saw the barrios for Europeans, mostly British, Abdullah Azzam (1941-1989): Born in the enjoying all the luxuries while the quarters reserved village of Silat al-Harithiya (Palestine) in 1941, he is for the Arabs reflected the living conditions of the known as the "Father of Global Jihad". He was a industrial proletarian.