In a recent article, former Indian official and security affairs analyst B. Raman blamed U.S. policy for some militant activities carried out by the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) in the wider Xinjiang region. The article, titled "The Xinjiang Angle" was published by the website of India's noted weekly magazine Outlook. Raman, formerly an Additional Secretary in the Cabinet Secretariat of the Government of India, is Director of the Institute for Tropical Studies, Chennai, India.

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According to a report published by an Urdu-language newspaper, Pakistan is considering a proposal to lease the strategic region of Gilgit Baltistan to China. The Pakistani move is aimed at fortifying its strategic relations with China amid the irreparable rupture in U.S.-Pakistan relations over the past year. Gilgit Baltistan, previously known as the Northern Areas, shares the international border with China.

Twitter has become an important social media website for terrorist organizations in their media jihad. As the MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) has documented, groups such as the Somali Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Shabaab Al-Mujahedeen, the Taliban, Hizbullah, and Hamas, along with an ever growing list of terrorist organizations are now actively tweeting.

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A cyber war is currently raging on the Internet between Arab hackers (most of them Saudi) and Israeli hackers. In the first half of January, a team of Saudi hackers led by an individual calling himself OxOmar published personal details of over 400,000 Israelis, including tens of thousands of credit card numbers. A few days later, Arab hackers attacked Israeli websites, including those of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, the national carrier El Al, several banks and hospitals, Israel's fire and rescue services, and the Haaretz daily. In response, Israeli and pro-Israel hackers attacked the websites of the Saudi and Abu Dhabi stock exchanges, and published the details of Saudi credit cards and of thousands of Facebook accounts belonging to Arabs.

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British Islamist Anjem Choudary and Omar Muhammad Bakri – both former leaders of British jihadist organization Al-Muhajiroun – have launched an organization called Shariah for Hind (India) to advance their agenda for reestablishing Islamic rule in India. The group has planned a major public event in New Delhi on March 3, 2012, which marks the end of the Turkey-led Islamic caliphate 88 years ago.

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On February 2-3, 2012, delegates from various countries in Asia converged in Karachi to discuss their preparations for a Global March to Jerusalem (GMJ).

The Global March to Jerusalem is an international march led by leftist and Islamic leaders. It aims to coordinate activists from various countries in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, who will form groups of marchers. From Asia, the march will set out from India on March 9 and proceed to Jordan. The GMJ follows the First Asian Convoy to Gaza (December 2010-January 2011).

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On February 9, 2012, Al-Qaeda's media wing Al-Sahab released a video statement by Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri. The video, 14:41 in duration, is in two parts; the first part is an audio message by Mukhtar Abu Zubayr, Emir of the Somali jihad group Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen, in which he swears allegiance on behalf of the group to Al-Zawahiri – thus officially joining Al-Qaeda, and the second part is a video message by Al-Zawahiri himself.

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