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With an undisguised appropriation of the work signed by Bansky in tribute to George Floyd and with the explicit intention of fishing in a troubled river. This is how Al Qaeda has broken into the racial tensions that are shaking the United States. The network founded by Osama bin Laden, responsible for the bloodiest terrorist attack on US soil, dedicates to the 'Black Lives Matter' movement the latest issue of its English magazine 'Una Umma' [Muslim Community or Islamic Nation].

From the cover - which reproduces the production of the mysterious urban artist, an American ensign that burns because of a funeral offering to a black person - to articles that seek to exploit the response to revive an organization that for the past five years has lost its Jihadist prominence at the expense of a rival born from within, the self-styled Islamic State.

"Al Qaeda is trying to position itself with the American protests as it did with the Arab Spring in 2011," Veryan Khan , president of TRAC, a think tank dedicated to analyzing jihadist movements , told THE WORLD . In the first of the texts of the publication - produced by As Sahab, the media division of the group's central command - the American clamor is connected to the germ of the revolts in Egypt, the brutal police beating that a decade ago took life of young Jaled Said on the streets of Alexandria.

"By comparing Trump to many of the dictators who opposed the revolts , the article reflects on his fate: whether Muammar Qaddafi [killed in a Sirte sewer] will suffer his fate or, instead, crush the protests as Abdelfatah made to Sisi in Al Nahda and Rabea [the camping sites savagely evicted after the 2013 coup], "says Khan.

The document even goes so far as to draw a certain parallelism between the threatening speech that the Libyan leader made at the end of his regime, shouting "Zanqa Zanqa", and Trump's speech warning those who dared to assault the White House by throwing them " the cruellest dogs and the most sinister weapons. "

The post includes a frame from Floyd's agony, suffocated by a Minneapolis agent, and quotes up to two times as Malcolm X, one of the icons of the fight for the rights of African-Americans. "The only way to liberation from this misery is to follow the advice of the martyr Malcolm X in embracing Islam and living with this slogan: 'The price of freedom is death' . If your ancestors had applied it, today you would be free. Do not be unfair to your grandchildren choosing slavery instead of freedom ", slide one of the articles, aimed at stirring up social discord.

Full cover of Al Qaeda magazine WORLD

"The group seeks to capitalize on the fracture, racial tensions in the US and minority sentiments of victimization and their complaints against regimes accused of racism," said Laurence Bindner , co-founder of the Jos project, a platform that scrutinizes extremist propaganda.

Paradoxically, al-Qaeda -admitted of intolerance and sectarian quarrels- tries to present itself to believers and "infidels" as "champions of the oppressed" , predicting that Washington and its political order are heading towards collapse. "It looks like a civil war is coming. ... Even Democrats won't be able to help, but we can."

With its message, the network led by the Egyptian Ayman al Zawahiri has managed to overshadow its competitor, the IS (Islamic State, for its acronym in English). In the latest issue of its weekly Al Nabaa, the extinct caliphate boasted of the "American chaos that happened to the Chinese virus," linking citizen anger to the "political, social, economic and health crisis" that Covid-19 has unleashed as if it were a divine punishment. An apocalyptic interpretation that the badly wounded organization has propagated since March to analyze the fate of the West and that contrasts with the greater complexity that Al Qaeda projects.

One of its branches, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, claimed responsibility for the attack signed last December by a member of the Saudi air force at a Florida naval base that claimed three lives. " Coronaviruses, internal divisions, a ruined economy and the attacks of the 'mujahideen' (holy warriors). They are the five corners of the US pentagonal coffin. An invisible soldier is busy devouring the rotting body of the US," warn the heirs of Bin Laden.

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