In 2008, iraq_resistance posted a call to arms on the forum osoud.net in Arabic (read the Google translation here) asking for forum users to establish "the Brigades of Tariq ibn Ziyad" aimed at ...

Tariq ibn Ziyad and his troops went on to defeat 30,000 Visigoths, a force three times their size, at Wadi Laqqa in the battle of the Transductine Promontories.

The goal of Tariq ibn Ziyad is “to penetrate U.S. agencies belonging to the U.S. Army,” Iraq Resistance said, according to a Google translation of his post announcing the group.

On Friday, the Atlanta-based security firm SecureWorks said it found a possible link between the worm attack and a cyber-jihad organization called "Brigades of Tariq ibn Ziyad".

Joe Stewart, director of malware research at SecureWorks, said the hacker is part of a group called Brigades of Tariq ibn Ziyad.

Tariq ibn Ziyad, a Berber general, is renowned for leading the Muslim army across the Strait of Gibraltar in 711 AD, marking the beginning of Islamic rule in parts of present-day Spain and Portugal.

Himich, also known as Abu Sulayman al-Firansi, founded the Tariq Ibn Ziyad Battalion, a cell of up to 300 European foreign fighters that had been active in Iraq, Syria and elsewhere.

He is accused of creating a “European foreign terrorist fighter cell” in 2015 called the Tariq Ibn Ziyad Battalion that at one time numbered as many as 300 people and has provided operatives ...