The following are some of this week's reports from the MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Project, which translates and analyzes content from sources monitored around the clock, among them the most important jihadi websites and blogs. (To view these reports in full, you must be a paying member of the JTTM; for membership information, send an email to
Qais Al-Khazali, the secretary-general of the Asa'ib Ahl Al-Haq militia in Iraq, claimed in an Eid Al-Fitr sermon that DNA analysis suggested that Saddam Hussein had Indian ancestry.
After his last visit to Iraq in the spring of 2017, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres went to Baghdad to express international commitment in support of the troubled country. As soon as he landed in the Iraqi capital, the UN chief stressed to reporters that the international community should not brush aside the country’s complex challenges. “I am here on a visit of