The video was released earlier today by Al-Malahem Media, the media arm of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (also known as AQAP and Al Qaeda in Yemen) via encrypted social media platforms such a Telegram.

Speakers on the video admonish viewers on the careless use of electronic communications, attributes the deaths of numerous jihadists to the use of cell phones, ends with letter banning use of mobile devices and the Internet for communications regarding operations.

Subscribers are reminded that the USGOV rates al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula as one the most active and dangerous groups plotting against America and other western nations. The group publicly claimed responsibility for the attempted bombing of Northwest Airlines Flight 253 in December 2009, the October 2010 attempts to mail bombs loaded in printer cartridges via UPS and FedEx to Jewish community centers in Chicago, and continues to target western aviation interests.

In addition, attacks associated with, claimed by or using fieldcraft acquired from al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula include the 2009 Little Rock military recruiting office shooting, the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, the 2010 attempted car bombing of Times Square, the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, the 2015 attack on the Paris offices of the French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, and the 2015 Chattanooga military recruiting office and reserve center shooting.