Some time after the announcement that the GSPC has merged with al-Qa’ida a very professional made video surfaced in the internet by the title “The Hell of the Apostates, part 2”. Part 1 is of similar contend and has the identical layout, however part 2 is just way better made and consists only out of 1 file (464 mb).
After the February 14th release of the series “the Shades of the Swords” I have found many similarities to the mentioned series “The Hell of the Apostates” – in both videos the same layout appears and it seems that the same person(s) have created these videos.
Therefore several examples:
This is a still from the latest video; after the ambush on a army unit, the Mujahidin have taken several weapons and ammunition as well as other equipment as booty. The booty is an important thing for the salafist, as they believe to follow Muhammads example and the quran (sura at-Tawba and al-Anfal) by doing so.
“Booty of the Mujahidin in this raid: machine-guns, ammunition and phones/ communication devices.
Also inbetween scenes there are overviews of what is to come. Here for example there is the title (explosion of two mines) and the following categories:
Type, what is to come and whats the (alleged) result.
Whenever there is a clip or a scene of a new assault, there is always the seperator with the texy layout and information shown.
To compare that to the series “the Hell of the Apostates”:
Just as above, there is the booty of the Mujahidin after this raid: 09 machine-guns, ammunition and communication devices.
nearly identical layout and almost same text-level
place/ target/ booty for the Mujahidin
“Ambush and five bombings”, from the series “shades of the swords”, has the same layout as an older movie, which had been aired after the “public merging” of the then called GSPC and al-Qa’ida (see post: Algeria: The Hell of the Apostates).


Here is the table of contents (short version:

As-Sahab publishes new video (DivX) – showing the launching of rockets, which are (supposed) to have targeted an american military base in Afghanistan. Mujahidin forces, after firing several rockets, quickly wrap up and disappear from the site





Sawt al-Dschihad (kurz: SAG) gilt als der erste Schritt der Dschihadis in Richtung der medialen Aktivitäten. Die SAG ging 11/2003 online und verstummte im April 2005 mit der 29. Ausgabe. Die 30.Ausgabe war zwar angekündigt, aber, vermutlich aufgrund der Erfolge der saudischen Sicherheitskräfte, waren die Dschihadis nicht mehr in der Lage über ihre Aktivitäten in diesen Umfang zu berichten – es gab zwar immer wieder in diversen Foren Bekennerschreiben und Erklärungen (zuletzt der Angriff auf die Erdöl Komplexe der ARAMCO in Abqaiq, Februar 2006 und ein Memorandum bezüglich der Verhaftung von Unterstützern der Mudschahidin (April)), die dem klassischen Layout und der Handschrift der SAG folgten und der SAG angehören. Der Fokus des globalen Dschihad richtete sich verstärkt auf den Irak, nachdem ist seit 2003 zig Anschläge innerhalb Saudi Arabiens gegeb hatte. Vermutlich hatten diese nicht die erhoffte langzeit Wirkung erfüllt. Möglich das einige der Irak-Veteranen nach Hause zurückgekehrt sind.