An article dated August 30, 2010 in Sobh-e Sadeq, the weekly of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), called the U.S. magazine Newsweek's selection of Saudi King Abdallah as one of the world's 10 most respected leaders a joke, adding that he was chosen only because of his close relationship with the U.S. It said that the Saudi regime is the most tyrannical in the world, because the country has never held a single election, the people have no role in choosing their leaders, and Shi'ites and women there have no rights. It also hinted that global terror – that is, Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaeda, and the Taliban – have their roots in the tyrannical Saudi regime, and mocked the Saudi "democracy" in which the leadership changes only after the ruler's illness or death.

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Source: Al-Watan, Qatar, September 27, 2010

The London daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi and the Palestinian Authority daily Al-Ayyam report that following the opening of the border crossings between Israel and the Gaza Strip, smuggling of goods from Egypt into the Strip via the tunnels was abandoned – and that several tunnels began to be used for smuggling goods in the opposite direction, from the Strip into Egypt.

As Hamas marks the 10th anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Intifada. Hamas political bureau member Mahmoud Al-Zahhar yesterday revealed, at a conference at the Islamic University in Gaza, that after the 2000 negotiations at Camp David failed, Yasser Arafat had ordered Hamas to carry out attacks in the heart of Israel. Al-Zahhar also said that Arafat's entering into negotiations was "a grave mistake that led to his being killed."

The following is the 49th edition of the MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Weekly Digest. It includes exclusive reports and items from the past week on Jihadist websites.

THE WEEK IN JIHAD

Despite the fact that Pastor Terry Jones canceled his plans to hold a Koran-burning ceremony on the anniversary of 9/11, the episode continues to echo among Islamist radicals. Sheikh Abu Muhammad Al-Maqdisi, the most influential religious authority for global jihadists, has authored a warning to Western nations that their general populations are liable to be attacked in response to the Koran-burning episode, insults to the Prophet Muhammad, and what Al-Maqdisi views as collusion between Western governments and Coptic Christians in Egypt in the recent abduction of the female Muslim convert Camilia Shehata.

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Source: Al-Hayat, London, September 28, 2010

In a phone interview with the Saudi daily 'Okaz, Iraq's outgoing vice president Tareq al-Hashemi revealed that, according to American and Iraqi reports as well as reports from Iraqi provinces, Iran is training and financing elements of Al-Qaeda and other armed militias within its territory.