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Lebanese Tech Expert Majed Jaber Warns On Hizbullah's Al-Manar TV: Israel Signed 'Massive Contracts' With Google And OpenAI, Receives All The Data We Enter Online, Which Helps It Identify Hizbullah Me
On June 7, 2025, Lebanese tech expert Majed Jaber appeared on Al-Manar TV (Hizbullah–Lebanon), where he warned viewers that Israel can access people's information through AI apps and phone use and identify them as members of Hizbullah. He warned that when Lebanese users sign into Google, all their data is sent to "the Israeli enemy." Jaber claimed that everything users enter into ChatGPT is sent to Israel, which he said has signed "massive contracts" with OpenAI. He stated that Israel operates a cloud infrastructure called "Nimbus," which he alleged stores data from social media and personal devices. To view the clip, clip below: Majed Jaber: "We all use ChatGPT, but everything you put into ChatGPT goes to Israel. Israel has signed massive contracts with OpenAI. According to these contracts, all the information about Lebanese and other people goes to... They have a cloud Nimbus. They store there all the data from social media and from your devices. They have even signed contracts with Google. [...] "The AI [system] receives all the data and stores it. It connects everything through algorithms. The deep analysis that takes place in the heart of the AI is very advanced. If it monitors a person, how does it know if that person is part of the Resistance or not? It inspects the nature of that person's communications and creates a profile of him. Through his phone number, it detects all the people he has called. His picture, the nature of his posts, and even his movements – it stores everything. Then the algorithms decide whether he belongs to the Resistance or not, and he supports it or not. If he is not a Resistance member, it creates a profile of him. Therefore, we need to be careful not to say everything on our phones. We must not say everything to AI apps."
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Nigerian Jihadi Group Boko Haram Uses Cryptocurrency To Launder Funds, Finance Terror Attacks
Nigeria-based Sunni jihadi group Boko Haram is reportedly using cryptocurrency and digital platforms to transfer millions of dollars in ransoms and extorted donations, from both local and international sources. The cryptocurrency is reportedly used to fund operations and logistics for the group's attacks.[1] According to the African Defense Forum, a security affairs journal published by the U.S. African Command, the anonymity afforded by cryptocurrency, and the overall lack of regulation, has allowed Boko Haram "unwitting accomplices, including nongovernmental organizations, to trade currencies on its behalf, effectively laundering its money through innocent parties." Cryptocurrency traders may have no knowledge that they are assisting terrorist groups like Boko Haram, it said. Six Nigerians were convicted in the United Arab Emirates in 2020 for using cryptocurrency to transfer over $780,000 to Boko Haram.
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Gaza-Based Salafi-Jihadi Group Solicits Funds On Telegram To Finance Jihad
A Gaza-based, Salafi-jihadi group solicited funds on Telegram to finance its jihad. In a Telegram post on June 22, 2025, the group shared an archival post calling for donations, as part of a campaign launched in July, 2024. It listed a Telegram account as a contact for donors. The full text of this report is available to MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor subscribers. Subscription information is available at this link. JTTM subscribers can visit this page to view the report
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The Qatar Weekly Update (QWU) – Part Of The Qatar Monitor Project (QMP) – No. 25, June 27, 2025
Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Aal Thani and Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Tehran, from Khamenei's website, February 19, 2025. 1. MEMRI Inquiry and Analysis No. 1852, Iran And Qatar Are Allies – And The Coordinated Bombing Of The CENTCOM Base In Qatar Proves It, June 24, 2025. 2. MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 12036, Media Figures In Qatar Condemn U.S. Attack On Iran's Nuclear Facilities, Vilify President Donald Trump: He Is A Brazen Liar Who Has Revealed His Ugly Face, June 22, 2025 3. Tucker Carlson Claims Qatar Doesn't Need U.S. Base; Carlson Also Argued Al Udeid "Exists To Protect Israel," Jewish Insider, June 23, 2025. 4. How About NOT Relying On Qatar As An Honest US-Iran Broker? New York Post, June 24, 2025. 5. Iran's Qatar "Missile Strike" Was A "Performative Attack" National Security Journal, June 23, 2025. 6. The [Al-Udeid] Base Is There For Qatar To Use As Leverage Against The U.S. While It Funds Terrorist Groups And Acts As Tehran's Bank, Michael P. Pregent on X, June 24, 2025 7. Muslim Brotherhood And Qatar Have Established Extensive Network Across Canada: Report, National Post, June 25, 2025. * Yigal Carmon is Founder and President of MEMRI.
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Afghan Taliban Commander Abdul Hamid Khorasani Calls For Killing Shi'ites: 'Iranians Are Vile... They Offer Their Daughters And Women To Our Migrant [Afghan] Youths'; 'If You Kill One Of Khamenei's Ac
The following report is now a complimentary offering from MEMRI's Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM). For JTTM subscription information, click here. On June 19, 2025, Afghan journalist Sami Jahesh shared a video of noted Afghan Taliban commander Abdul Hamid Khorasani declaring in Dari that killing Iranians and Shi'ites, including the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his followers, brings great spiritual reward. It is not clear when the video was released. Khorasani, known for his controversial positions, urges Afghan migrants in Iran to kill Ali Khamenei and his Shi'ite followers, stating: "Killing these people, Khamenei and his followers, brings immense reward." A screenshot from the video Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Hosseini "Khamenei Himself, May God's Curse Be Upon Him, Is A Number One Bastard – These People [Shi'ites]... Are Bastards" "Iranians are vile people... They offer their daughters and women to our migrant youths [Afghans]... they are disgraceful. [Iranian Supreme leader Ali Hosseini] Khamenei himself, may God's curse be upon him, is a number one bastard. These people [Shi'ites]... are bastards. Those who doubt that Khamenei and his followers are bastards do not possess sound reason or logic. "I will give you religious reasons. Those who doubt, go and read their blasphemous and polytheistic beliefs... in [Shi'ites books] Bihar Al-Anwar, Nahj Al-Balagha... read these things and see what kind of blasphemies and polytheistic statements they make. "These people are not religious – they are a religion, a separate religion, completely a separate religion. Real scholars understand and know this. But telling the truth requires courage and determination." Addressing Afghan Migrants In Iran: "If You Have Courage, If You Have Even A Bit Of Faith In You, Look – There Are Knives, There Are Pistols, Everything – Kill Them [Iranians And The Shi'ites], Slaughter Them From Behind" "If you have courage, if you have even a bit of faith in you, look – there are knives, there are pistols, everything – kill them [Iranians and the Shi'ites], slaughter them from behind. "Slaughter them from behind so that the cowardly, dishonorable, wicked, polytheistic, and filthy Iranians know the honor of the Muslim people of Afghanistan – so that they no longer oppress my poor and helpless compatriots. "I give you... a fatwa [religious decree] from the Holy Word of Allah – they are idolaters, unbelievers, worse than the Jews and Christians. And with religious evidence, I challenge anyone who disagrees... anyone at all: killing these people, Khamenei and his followers, brings immense reward. "If you kill one of Khamenei's accursed followers, it is like killing ten Jews, it is like killing ten Jews. That is how great the reward is, because they are polytheists, rude, and insolent."
