Digital Underground

[Casey]

Exposing the 'Darknet': Are Al Qaeda terrorists using your personal computer?

by Patrick Radden Keefe
February 15th, 2005 11:03 AM alert me by e-mail

When he walked out of Lompoc Federal Correctional Institution in California five years ago, Kevin Mitnick, the most notorious hacker in the United States, faced a peculiar probation requirement. For three years following his release, he was obliged not to touch a computer keyboard or use a cellular phone. Mitnick himself attributed this novel constraint to the fact that the judge in his case had bought into "the myth of Kevin Mitnick—that I could launch nuclear missiles by whistling into a phone." But the desire to physically isolate him from any type of computer was also a frank admission of failure on the part of the authorities: The FBI was so inept and Mitnick so adept with communications technologies that they regarded him as a practitioner of a kind of black magic. In a broader sense, the episode illustrates a digital divide between those who have mastered the capabilities of networked technologies and those who have not. This divide has traditionally been exploited by identity thieves, pornographers, spammers, and copyright pirates. But in the last several years, terrorists have increasingly exploited it as well.

Paul Wolfowitz announced recently that American authorities will pursue Al Qaeda in "cyber sanctuaries," signaling a new theater in the ever evolving war on terrorism: the Internet. The American campaign in Afghanistan had a noticeable impact on the infrastructure of Al Qaeda, but rather than "smoke" the terrorists out, as President Bush declared it would, the war on terror has simply driven them further underground, decentralizing the leadership, atomizing the threat, and increasingly pushing terrorists onto the Web. If

American forces are unaccustomed to pursuing adversaries through the caves of Afghanistan or the streets of Baghdad, they will have even more trouble tracking

Al Qaeda online, because Internet technology favors the fugitive criminal and the migrant threat, and because terrorists know how to turn the new digital divide to their advantage. In this evasive game they have at their disposal a most unusual accomplice: unwitting Americans with personal computers and Internet connections.

It emerged last year that Fortress ITX, a Clifton, New Jersey, Internet company, inadvertently hosted an Arabic-language website that urged attacks on America and Israel and supplied instructional pamphlets on kidnapping and urban guerrilla warfare. The emergence of this "virtual terrorism" should not be surprising, nor should the fact that Fortress ITX was unaware of it. Despite their wish to turn back the clock on various advances of the modern era, the followers of Osama bin Laden have proved surprisingly capable with the tools of the Internet. In addition to the use of explosives and automatic weapons, Al Qaeda trainees are instructed in computer encryption. Bin Laden associates employ cutting-edge steganography, which involves implanting a text message into a single image or letter on a website. Last July Pakistani authorities captured Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan, a kind of one-man IT department, who helped bin Laden maintain his network by sending encrypted messages to e-mail addresses in places like Turkey and Nigeria. Sites like the one discovered in New Jersey are now the preferred means of communication for Al Qaeda and its affiliates. Seven years ago, there were only a dozen websites associated with terrorist groups; today there are over 4,000.

What's more unsettling is that American computer users may assist in this growth phase for Al Qaeda. The appeal of the Internet for those engaged in any sort of crime is twofold. First, it's possible to conduct business in near complete anonymity provided you can divert pursuers by routing your activity through neutral networks and computers to cover your tracks. And second, most people running those networks and using those PCs are so completely naive about this technology that for the sophisticated criminal, hijacking the hardware is child's play.

The average American computer user comprehends only a minor fraction of what his or her machine can do. Word processing, Web surfing, and burning the odd CD hardly exhaust a computer's capabilities, and consumers who shell out $2,000 every couple of years to purchase a new computer for these purposes are a little like the bourgeois urbanites who use a Viking range to boil water and reheat takeout. But a computer is connected to the outside world—and that makes the naive owner of a networked PC vulnerable. A few years ago a computer-savvy New York identity theft ring stole the credit histories of more than 30,000 people, and used them to empty bank accounts, take out false loans, and run up credit card bills. In 2003 over a thousand people had them hijacked by a group of hackers representing porn sites, who secretly used the computers as portals through which to transmit material onto the Web. The programs didn't harm the computers, and wouldn't show up unless users were looking for them. "Here people are sort of involved in the porno business and don't even know it," said Richard M. Smith, the computer researcher who first noticed the problem. Another security analyst believed the ring could be traced to the Mafia-connected computer underground in Russia—but couldn't say for sure.

Terrorists have become experts at identifying unguarded server space from which to upload material. Jihad videos were recently discovered on the servers of George Washington University and the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department. Some of the more sophisticated terrorist sites migrate from one server to another, often several times a day, in order to evade the authorities. "Reverse proxy servers" allow a user to cloak his identity behind a "front" computer, by transmitting material through that computer onto the Internet while making it appear that the front computer is in fact the server.

It's not only civilians who are vulnerable to the menaces of the Web. In the late '90s a group of analysts at the National Security Agency launched a war game called Eligible Receiver, in which they downloaded easily accessible software from hacker websites to see what kind of damage they could do. They determined that it would be possible to shut down the U.S. electrical power grid and disable the command-and-control elements of the U.S. Pacific Command. Not only could the FBI and the Pentagon not foil the simulated attacks, the chain of proxy servers was such that they couldn't even identify where all but one of the attacks were coming from. When Congress's General Accounting Office released its annual Computer Security Report Card for 2003, the Department of Defense received a D. Homeland Security got an F.

If a sort of arms race between the good guys and the bad guys has developed with respect to Internet technology, it's clear that the bad guys have a decisive head start. Big bureaucracies are uniquely ill equipped to keep up with rapidly evolving technologies. Stubborn institutional culture, clogged channels of communication, and the sheer number of employees in American law enforcement and intelligence agencies make it difficult to shift with the technological sands. Last month it emerged that the FBI had undertaken a $170 million overhaul of its antiquated computer systems—which will likely be abandoned because of technical problems.

In 2002 four Microsoft engineers published a paper in which they coined the term the "darknet." This was essentially an extensive and opaque Internet black market, "not a separate physical network but an application and protocol layer riding on existing networks," in which peer-to-peer sharing and other forms of piracy succeeded in flouting copyright laws and distributing material that was effectively contraband. Today it is obvious that the dark side of the Internet is much more extensive—and much more dangerous—than this initial interpretation suggested. Terrorists have strong incentives to master new technologies and exploit this country's 159 million Internet users in a virtual game of hide-and-seek.

What is most extraordinary and ironic about this predicament is that developments that throughout the 1990s we tended to think of as unequivocally good—the free flow of information and ideas, the exponential acceleration of communications, the "borderless" quality of the Internet—now appear to cut both ways, to have a dramatic downside. The dark regions of the Internet have allowed Al Qaeda to reconstitute itself as a virtual terrorist group, one that is beginning, through its masterful distribution of propaganda, to resemble not so much an organization as a movement, and one that has used America's accelerated rate of technological growth to its own advantage. The only option for law enforcement and intelligence agencies is to become more skilled with network security technologies—or to hire those who already are. Three years after his release, Kevin Mitnick was allowed to use the Internet. He set up a computer security consultancy. Perhaps the Department of Homeland Security should look him up.

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0507,essay,61085,2.html

[Petronas]

FBI Issues Warning About Computer Virus
February 22, 2005 6:44 PM EST

WASHINGTON - The FBI warned Tuesday that a computer virus is being spread through unsolicited e-mails that purport to come from the FBI. The e-mails appear to come from an fbi.gov address. They tell recipients that they have accessed illegal Web sites and that their Internet use has been monitored by the FBI's "Internet Fraud Complaint Center," the FBI said. The messages then direct recipients to open an attachment and answer questions. The computer virus is in the attachment.

"Recipients of this or similar solicitations should know that the FBI does not engage in the practice of sending unsolicited e-mails to the public in this manner," the FBI said in a statement. The bureau is investigating the phony e-mails. The agency earlier this month shut down fbi.gov accounts, used to communicate with the public, because of a security breach. A spokeswoman said the two incidents appear to be unrelated.

http://enews.earthlink.net/article/tec?guid=20050222/421abc50_3ca6_1552620050222-892499460

[Casey]

IN 2000, GARY Bunt, a lecturer in Islamic studies at the University of Wales, Lampeter, published a seminal work on Islam and the internet. Virtually Islamic: Computer-mediated Communication and Cyber Islamic Environments (Cardiff: University of Wales Press) explored the dialectic between Islam, as the fastest-growing religion in the world, and the world wide web, the communications medium of the millennium.


Hailed by reviewers as a “valuable guide to things related to Islam on the Internet, especially to readers pondering over technology’s impact on religious identity or the ummah’s urgent social, moral and political questions,” the book opens with an introduction defining cyber Islamic environments as “representations of the real and also representations of the ideal.”


Unlike other virtual realities, however, these environments can impact the real lives of individuals on many levels. Bunt poses and attempts to answer questions such as whether the creators of these cyberspaces are casting Islam in an idealized light, and how far they represent actual people and issues. Toying with the notion of identity, the book also probes the question of whether it is inherently contradictory to speak of “digital” and “Islamic” in the same breath. It tries to assess the impact of Islam-related websites and how material on these sites “influence Muslim and non-Muslim perspectives on Islam and Islamic issues.”


The five subsequent chapters deal with the notion of da’wa (the call to join the faith) as one of the primary forms of Islamic expression on the net; the diversity of Islamic cyber activity, such as Sunni versus Shi’a sites; online political diversity and how Muslim political parties (whether government or opposition) have invested in websites as platforms to propagate their perspective; and the use of the internet as a pulpit to deliver sermons.


Serving almost as a sequel to Virtually Islamic, Bunt’s Islam in the Digital Age: E-Jihad, Online Fatwas and Cyber Islamic Environments (London: Pluto Press, 2003) is the first comprehensive analysis of the same subject after 9/11 and the war on Iraq.


Here, Bunt taps into the phenomenon of electronic jihad and how the internet has become a forum for online activism and a window for the Muslim point of view on current affairs touching the ummah. The book also examines how Muslim cybernauts have made use of the communications revolution, not only on the political front, but also on matters of faith. The widespread issuing of online religious edicts fatwas to serve a contemporary Muslim audience living in majority or minority contexts has helped spur a qualitative shift with people depending more and more on unconventional (virtual) figures of religious authority who have a direct effect on their daily lives.


Bunt dedicates a large part of this book to defining the greater and lesser forms of e-jihad; hacking for Islam; patterns in the use of e-mail, message forums and chat rooms; post-9/11 mujahideen in cyberspace; and electronic efforts to achieve jihad for peace. In a highly rational approach, he tries to diffuse popular alarmism about Islamist use of the web.


In his concluding comments on e-jihad, Bunt asserts that the Islamic lane on the information superhighway reflects “varied and sophisticated notions of jihadi symbolism based in part on traditional interpretations of the concept,” but that the extent to which these cyber Islamic environments represent a “digital sword” is still open to question.


Bunt’s two books combined are groundbreaking canonical texts for students of both virtual Islam and, in a wider sense, those studying religion and the internet.

http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=2965

[Casey]

Virtually Islamic Blogspot

http://virtuallyislamic.blogspot.com/

[Casey]

Teen helping adults fight ‘bad guys’

BY M. KRISHNAMOORTHY
KUALA LUMPUR: Soon after Sept 11, 2001 when Ankit Fadia was 14 years old, he was requested by a US international intelligence agency to decipher an encrypted message from Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda network.

The young IT genius from New Delhi was paid a handsome sum when he decrypted the message.

At 16, Ankit outsmarted Kashmiri separatists who had planned, in a chat channel, to attack an Indian website.

After gathering much information about the people behind the planned attack, the teenager took on a member’s nickname and eavesdropped on their conversation.

WHIZ KID: Ankit has written five bestsellers on computer security although he is just 19.

He recorded a copy of the chat transcript and mailed it to the US spy organisation that hired him. The corporate site was then pulled down for two hours and uploaded with anti-cracking software.

“They were basically hackers who wanted to deface the site and put up a message saying Kashmir belonged to Pakistan,” said Ankit, who completed his assignment in a day and was, again, paid a substantial amount for his job.

Ankit continues to work closely with the Indian police and other international police organisations to track down crackers (unethical hackers) who wreak havoc on websites.

Today, at 19, the Stanford University computer science sophomore globe trots, advising and lecturing CEOs on how to safeguard their computer and Internet systems against unethical hackers.

“Cyber terrorism is on the rise and Malaysians should be aware of it. They should learn more about the security systems in order to protect their computer systems,” the visiting self-proclaimed “ethical hacker” said in a recent interview.

He defined a hacker as “a good person who can help in securing the system” while a cracker is “the bad guy who aims to destroy websites”.

Ankit, the son of an Indian Government engineer has authored five bestsellers on computer security, which have sold 100,000 copies across the globe.

His books have been translated into Korean, Portuguese and Polish and are used as reference textbooks in some higher learning institutes in Asia and the United States.

The whiz kid, who wrote his first book when he was just 14, was invited here to speak at the Multimedia Super Corridor monthly dialogue with CEOs and deliver a talk on ethical hacking at the Multimedia University.

“I want to work with Malaysian corporate organisations to design better computer security systems against crackers.

“Malaysians seem to place little attention on Internet security system and, therefore, are vulnerable to crackers,” Ankit added.

He said he found Malaysia to be a “fantastic place” for IT development and hopes to invest in either Cyberjaya or the KLCC after completing his studies at Stanford in two years’ time.

http://thestaronline.com/news/story.asp?file=/2005/2/27/nation/10276403&sec=nation

[Casey]

This thread is an extension of the e-jihad thread on the previous board regarding the internet as a tool for terrorism, internet attacks and current threats and all forms of e-jihad, organized propaganda (i.e. flooding western sites with pictures, messages, dis-information, etc.)

An interesting article as to how e-jihad is used may be found here:
The web as a tool of Islam, Islamism and Islamist terrorism
http://www.wincoast.com/forum/showthread.php?t=393

Archive of the previous e-jihad thread is here:
http://www.afghanistanwar.com/showthread.php?t=3353

[al-Canine]

Watchdogs Sniff Out Terror Sites

by John Lasker

On the website of Internet Haganah, self-described as "an internet counterinsurgency," the mark of victory is a makeshift graphic -- a little blue AK-47 assault rifle.

"Haganah" in Hebrew means defense. But when Internet Haganah's founder places another AK-47 on his site, it means mission accomplished: another jihad website taken out by going on the offensive.

Aaron Weisburd runs Internet Haganah out of his southern Illinois home. Weisburd, who said he has received threats because of his activities, asked to communicate by e-mail.

The forty-something native of New York describes Internet Haganah as a "small band of researchers, analysts, translators and consultants" around the globe dedicated to ferreting out websites linked to terrorist groups.

"Islamist terrorists are making extensive use of the internet," he said. This compelled him to action, but unlike a politically motivated hacker, he chose a legal path. Internet Haganah survives on individual donations and advertising.
"Internet Haganah is one part combat mission, one part intelligence operation, one part grass-roots political action," Weisburd said.

Since its inception three years ago, Internet Haganah has taken credit for or assisted in the shutdown of more than 600 sites it claims were linked to terror. Some allegedly raised funds for pro-Palestinian groups Hamas and Hezbollah; others backed the insurgency in Iraq.

Weisburd's organization will first research a site, then make a "whois" inquiry. If there is evidence of extremism, it contacts the hosting company and urges the host to remove the site from its servers. If successful, which is often, Internet Haganah sometimes purchases the domain name so the address is never used again.

Surprisingly, much of Internet Haganah's work is focused on the United States, where the cost of buying and maintaining a domain is cheap, and customers' privacy is guarded.

"There are close to 300 sites listed in our database, and hundreds more that we are aware of and in the process of listing," Weisburd said. "Most of them are kept online by American companies."

One example is GoDaddy.com, one of the world's top website providers, and responsible for a $4 million, 30-second spot during the Super Bowl.

The Scottsdale, Arizona, company can also take credit for hosting Mawsuat.com weeks before the big game. The Islamic extremist site featured a diagram showing how to attack a motorcade, as well as a recipe for making a chemical weapon. The cost to produce the Mawsuat.com site was likely less than $100.

With help from an ally, Internet Haganah convinced GoDaddy.com to remove the site from its servers. "Analysis of e-mail headers sent by the registrant revealed a location in Arizona," said Weisburd.

Nick Fuller, a spokesman for GoDaddy.com, said the company's legal department is handling the Mawsuat.com issue, and declined further comment.

Internent Haganah claimed responsibility last week for closing Moqawmh.com, which was hosted by Missouri-based Savvis, the world's third-largest provider of hosting services. But the victory was short-lived. Moqawmh.com, which calls itself the official site for the pro-Palestinian resistance in the Gaza Strip, was up and running again by the end of the week.

The new host? Sago Networks of Tampa Bay, Florida.

In its defense, Savvis offers a rational explanation as to why American companies continue to be criticized for hosting terror-linked sites. Bill Hancock, chief security officer for Savvis, says it's impossible to know all its clients' site content when the company hosts over 5 million sites.

"We have thousands of rehosting facilities reselling Savvis IP addresses," he said. "The bottom line is, there's no way to know. If we did, we'd jump on it quickly," adding that his department has been working closely with federal agents on other jihad sites for some time.

"The real issue is how responsive and responsible they are when informed that they are hosting a terrorist's website," Weisburd said.

Experts say the presence of Islamic radicalism on the web has grown markedly since 9/11. They say the internet has become a vital means of communication, financing and indoctrination for Islamic jihad, widely believed to be a decentralized movement.

Some believe Islamic extremism on the internet actually works against the terrorists.

"A lot of what we know about al-Qaida is gleaned from these websites," said Steven Aftergood, a scientist at the Federation of American Scientists in Washington, D.C., and director of the nonprofit organization's Project on Government Secrecy. "They are a greater value as an intelligence source than if they were to disappear."

However, earlier this year, the PBS documentary program Frontline reported that the Madrid rail bombing by al-Qaida was likely inspired by a document posted on an extremist site. A timely attack, the document suggested, could sway voters and deliver a government that would withdraw Spanish troops from Iraq. A Justice Department spokesman told Frontline it didn't have enough staff to monitor the internet 24/7.

That's where Internet Haganah and other private-sector organizations step in. The Washington, D.C.-based Search for International Terrorist Entities Institute, or SITE, is considered a definitive source on Islamic terror groups. Clients of the organization's fee-based intelligence service include the FBI, Office of Homeland Security and media groups around the globe.

"It is actually to our benefit to have some of these terror sites up and running by American companies," said SITE's co-founder and director, Rita Katz. "If the servers are in the U.S., this is to our advantage when it comes to monitoring activities."

Weisburd said his goal is simple: to keep the extremists moving from address to address, striking "at the heart of their identity."

"The object isn't to silence them -- the object is to keep them moving, keep them talking, force them to make mistakes, so we can gather as much information about them as we can, each step of the way."


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[Casey]

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Swiss Seize Five Suspected Extremists
By BETTINA STADELMANN
ASSOCIATED PRESS

BERN, Switzerland (AP) - Swiss police have detained five purported Islamic extremists suspected of running Web sites that showed the execution of hostages and provided details of how to make bombs and carry out attacks, authorities said Friday.

The five suspects were taken into custody on Feb. 22 in anti-terror raids in the capital, Bern, and nearby Fribourg, according to the Federal Prosecutor's Office. Two were later released but remained under investigation.

The prosecutor's office did not say if the executions shown included the high-profile beheadings of foreign hostages in Iraq, blamed on the al-Qaida linked group led by Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Video recordings of the killings have been posted on various Islamic Web sites.

The five suspects - all legal residents of Switzerland - were under investigation for incitement to crime and for supporting a terrorist organization, it said.

Officers also seized computers, software, video recordings and images, the office said, adding that police used force during the operation in Fribourg.

All the suspects were "of the Islamic faith, with extremist leanings," the prosecutor's office said. It did not give identities and officials were not available for comment.

The prosecutor's office said the raids followed months of investigation of individuals believed to have ties to Arabic Web sites containing violent images, including executions and mutilations.

Swiss investigators also investigated Internet discussion forums tied to the sites, including one that contained threats against European governments and information relating to two French reporters, Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot, who were held by Islamic militants in Iraq for four months before being released in December. The prosecutor's office did not elaborate.

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http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-eur/2005/mar/04/030400873.html

[Casey]

Man o man, now there is an interrogation I would love to be witness to.


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Swiss Seize Five Suspected Extremists
By BETTINA STADELMANN
ASSOCIATED PRESS

BERN, Switzerland (AP) - Swiss police have detained five purported Islamic extremists suspected of running Web sites that showed the execution of hostages and provided details of how to make bombs and carry out attacks, authorities said Friday.

[Casey]

Swiss seize five suspected extremists

By BETTINA STADELMANN, Associated Press Writer

Posted: Friday March 4th, 2005, 8:36 AM
Last Updated: Friday March 4th, 2005, 12:18 PM

BERN, Switzerland (AP) - Swiss authorities said Friday they have detained five Islamic extremists suspected of using the Internet to show the killing of hostages - which reportedly included the beheading of an American - and to give bomb-making instructions.

It was unclear if any of the slayings took place in Iraq, where they have been blamed on the group led by Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Video recordings of those killings have been posted on various Islamic Web sites.
"The sites - which were actively exploited by at least one of the arrested persons - included numerous videos showing the putting to death of hostages and the mutilation of human beings," said a statement by the Federal Prosecutor's Office.

Peter Lehmann, spokesman for the office, declined to go into detail about the slayings, telling The Associated Press the locations of the killings had yet to be determined.

All the suspects were "of the Islamic faith, with extremist leanings," the office said. It did not identify any of them, but said they came from Tunisia and Belgium and were legal residents of Switzerland.

They are under investigation for incitement to crime and for supporting a terrorist organization, it said.

The office cited the now-closed Web site www.islamic-minbar.com, saying its forum published letters claiming responsibility for a suicide bomb attack in Pakistan in July 2004.

"The forum of one of the sites was often used by the Islamist movement as a communication and propaganda tool," the statement said, adding that the investigation covered Arab-language sites.

The forum also contained threats against European governments and information relating to two French reporters, Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot, who were held by Islamic militants in Iraq for four months before being released in December. The prosecutor's office did not elaborate.

According to Swiss media reports after the site was shut down, its postings included a video showing the beheading of American Paul M. Johnson Jr., who was kidnapped and killed in Saudi Arabia in June, as well as a threat to kill Italian aid workers Simona Pari and Simona Torretta, who were abducted in Baghdad on Sept. 7 and freed Sept. 28.

Other postings included a sermon by an Iraqi Islamic cleric urging Muslims to behead Jews and fight a holy war against unbelievers; pictures of terror mastermind Osama bin Laden fighting in Afghanistan; and graphic images of a man being beaten to death during Christian-Muslim violence in Indonesia.

The five suspects were detained Feb. 22 in anti-terrorism raids in the capital, Bern, and nearby Fribourg, the prosecutor's office said. Police used force during the operation in Fribourg, the office said without elaborating.

Three of the suspects are still in custody. The other two have been released but remain under investigation, the office said. Police also seized computers, software, video recordings and images.

"The police action was preceded by investigations which lasted several months," the statement explained. "They were able to identify several people who spread fundamentalist Islamist ideas on the Internet."

The www.islamic-minbar.com site - launched June 21, 2004 - was closed by its Swiss Internet service provider in September because of its content.

"Another site was then opened" outside Switzerland, the prosecutor's office said, but did not identify the site.

Swiss authorities have sought international judicial assistance to have the new site shut down, the office said, without identifying the country involved.

Swiss media previously have identified the founder of www.islamic-minbar.com as Moez Garsallaoui, a Tunisian who was based in Lausanne. A woman who answered the telephone at Garsallaoui's listed number in the Swiss city said he did not live there.

In September, Garsallaoui was quoted as telling the Swiss weekly SonntagsZeitung that his site was dedicated to "political discussion."

"If terrorists want to use this site to publish things, I can't do anything about it," he was quoted as saying. "I don't have any control over that."

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http://www.bakersfield.com/24hour/world/story/2201063p-10315942c.html

[Casey]

The office cited the now-closed Web site www.islamic-minbar.com, saying its forum published letters claiming responsibility for a suicide bomb attack in Pakistan in July 2004.

This is where I used to get most of the AQ statements. And they did have a video forums as most forums do.

[JaneDoe]

There will be more to take it's place. We just need to find them.

[JaneDoe]

Aside from spidering sites to find out what they contain and their links OUT, another way to gleen information is to find who is linking INTO a site. In any search engine use the query link:http://www.xxxxx.xxx

ie: To find who links to www.alneda.com you would query using:

link:http://www.alneda.com

I have a specific way that I spider a site, but you can also use a search engine to do it. The query is site:http://www.xxxxx.xxx

To find more info on a site, the query is info:http://www.xxxxx.xxx
To find related sites, the query is related:http://www.xxxxx.xxx

Most of these queries will work in the bulk of search engines. Some queries are engine specific. Read the advanced search help file for any given engine for more information.

[Casey]

This is where I used to get most of the AQ statements. And they did have a video forums as most forums do.
hmmm, I wonder if they have the right people here.

I'm sure there would be some interesting log files from the forum. It would be very foolish to administrate or moderate a forum and be responsible for handling the hostage videos.

Most of the statements that were on this site were moved from another forum by a couple of regular members.

I do notice that a popular mail group has stopped sending out messages in the last couple of days though.

[Casey]

Bangalore cyber cafes get tough with netizens
AP
Bangalore, March 3, 2005

HUNDREDS OF cyber cafes in Bangalore have started recording personal details of visitors to comply with a new rule aimed at tracking perpetrators of online fraud, virus attacks and terrorism. Internet users have expressed concern that the law could lead to invasion of privacy and police harassment, while cafe owners fear a drop in customers.

The Karnataka government had passed a law last year requiring cyber cafe patrons to provide proof of identity and details such as name, age and address. However, the police began enforcing this law only this week.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/5922_1266414,0087.htm

[Casey]

March 13, 2005, 12:59AM

Jihadist group taking a stand on the Web
Some say the propaganda has a defensive tone
By ROBERT F. WORTH
New York Times
RESOURCES
Current time in Baghdad: 2:06 p.m. Sunday

BAGHDAD, IRAQ -- It is an all-too-familiar ritual. Hours after an attack on an American convoy or an Iraqi police patrol, a brief statement begins appearing on Islamist Web sites claiming it was carried out by fighters loyal to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Iraq's most-wanted man.

But in the past two weeks something has changed. Every day now, new messages appear on the Web offering encouragement to resistance fighters, and last week, al-Zarqawi's group started an Internet magazine, complete with photographs and 43 pages of text. Other Islamist groups are joining the effort, including one calling itself the Jihadist Information Brigade.

The Iraqi insurgency appears to have mounted a full-scale propaganda war.

And while the methods are not new -- most militant groups now rely on the Web to recruit new adherents -- the recent flurry of propaganda from Iraq has a distinctly defensive tone. The violence here has not let up, but the relatively peaceful elections, and the new movements toward democracy in other Arab countries, appear to have had a dispiriting effect on the insurgents, terrorism analysts say.

"I think they feel they are losing the battle," said Rita Katz, director of the SITE Institute, an American nonprofit group that monitors Islamist Web sites and news operations.

One recent Web posting, for instance, angrily disputed "the infidels' claim that the mujahedeen are weakened and their attacks are fewer."

It is hard, of course, to be sure of the authenticity of Internet postings. But American officials say those with the al-Zarqawi logo seem to be credible. RESOURCES
In other Iraq developments:

Soldier dies: The U.S. military said a U.S. soldier was killed Friday during operations in Anbar province in a nonhostile accident.

Pipelines attacked: Insurgents blew up oil pipelines near Samarra and Riyadh.

Policemen killed: In Mosul, gunmen killed three policemen and wounded a fourth at a funeral procession.

Friendly fire: Bulgarian military investigators said U.S. troops who killed a Bulgarian soldier had opened fire without warning but did not deliberately kill Pvt. Gardi Gardev on March 4.

The group, al-Qaida in Mesopotamia, is also making new efforts to cast itself as a defender of Muslim lives. After an attack Wednesday on a hotel in central Baghdad, the group quickly released an Internet statement claiming credit, and noting, "As for the time, the deadly attack should always be before the start of the working day so that it won't harm Muslims who are passing by."

Last week, the al-Zarqawi group denied news reports that it was responsible for a suicide car bomb in Hilla that killed 136 people. The attack was aimed at police and army recruits gathering outside a clinic, but many civilians, including women and children, were also killed.

To some extent, the insurgents are creating their own press coverage, and successfully. After Wednesday's hotel attack, for instance, one group quickly released its own videotape of the bombing, along with statements explaining why and how it chose that target. Within hours, all of it was appearing not only on Arabic Web sites and chat rooms but also on television stations and even in some Western news reports.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/world/3082579

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Security advices to the goers of the conversational forums

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Security advices to the goers of the conversational forums

He is no more becoming obscure on one of he not became to the conversational forums on the Internet from the importance and the great effect in the international media, until the greatest newspapers and the satellite channels became getting and follows the militants news from through them, and the militants have benefitted from the Internet - and throughout this service in particular - a praised benefiting contributed in a leading way in the removal of the blackout and breaking the media ring Al Shew / a crusade is the one that surrounded the jihad movement for long years .

And the Intelligences Bureau have become on their difference, feels with seriousness that, as that they saw in these conversational forums an opportunity they do not compensate for a hunt who the one that can be hunted from the terrorists or from my exhibitions this regime or this ... She started that seeks a diligent for the penetration of those conversational forums with putting some their elements to the rhythm by the one(s) who enables the defeat of it or with the pressing on a Malki those forums so that they co-operate with them in that, but the American intelligence agency declared recently - as came in the Si channel that that - that they plan for opening conversational forums by the Arabic for the jihad hunt .

And according to what preceded ; he became a duty on all who deals with the forums - whether from the militants who were entrusted with the publication of data and news and the publications or the supporters, or until from the observers to the militants news throughout those forums - after they became just the entrance and the visit of such sites a crime it succeeded to them some of the regimes are Al Taghoutia in the Islamic world -

We say ; a duty on this commitment became by a number of the preventive measures and a taking of severer caution and the caution at the interaction with them .

And between your hands the reading brother is several matters he does not overlook it at the participation in the forums - whether the one that adopts the jihad thought or that that entered it an interviewer a showing last party in it your opinion that it may pursue because of him the governments are Al Taghoutia on the basis of saying its first father ; Feraoun : { what show you except what see } - :

First :

They mentions that they are from their conversation in the forums not more than gelatinous personalities, may show a reverse what conceal . She may see a young man longing for the jihad, is still asking this and this about the way that connects him to the honour land, while he in the reality of his bitterer is not more than one of the police individuals, writes from the intelligences building !

And that clerk, that as long as he wrote the responses - and perhaps the deeply rooted articles are !! - defending the militants and dissolved about their honors, what he is except as the one before .. The enticement of the forum religious school tries so that they think better of it the doubt, then it requests from them the acquaintance for the cooperation in the call to the jihad ... The arrest of them .

And the aim is to is not absent from the mind that it is with ability oh it was the impersonation of any personality and very easily, then it does not trust a person through the forums at all ... He softened ! No the doubt that there are from them the truthful - and a concern many and the praise of Allah - but their discrimination becomes impossible, a thigh is what it benefits from those forums and sufficed, and remembered to it is not all what polishes a gold .

A second :

He enables the forum friend the moment your recording - but until your visit - getting the Internet address is Ip related to you . And hence he can specify of the place of the computer system that used it for the entrance to the forum accurately a big most of the time . And the specification of your place after getting the special Internet address returned not a difficult matter, but there is it many of the sites on the Internet it offers that service for free .

He softened ! The forum friend can carries out the cancellation of the feature of the recording of the Internet address, so that recording this number does not take place at the affiliation to the forum and at the writing in him after that, and this what advise on him the brothers from managers and the friends of those forums, but despite that the arrival at your number related to following the electronic mail that it used is possible at the affiliation to the forum and certainly a presenter will not object the service of the post from providing the security institutions with your number as long as the matter under the terrorists pursuit name !

And also the state is at the use of what is named Proxy mind .

Therefore then I prefer a solution of the interaction with this obstacle - if was I who carries out spreading news and data or the wanted to the returned Intelligences Bureau - that it carries out with the publication of what wants throughout the Internet cafes . And other more ways are found a security but the one that can not be mentioned here until we do not notify of them the enemy and in the common proverb ; Necessity is the Mother of Invention is !".

And the notification is not forgotten by us ; that many of the Internet cafes she herself became spying on their customers, and in particular these customers with the Islamic appearance, then must be sought the caution from this point ...

Advices and notifications :

1)The recording of the Internet address takes place in each participation that writes it, and is not only during your recording . A meaning that that the recording is from Internet cafe - for example - then the writing after that from your house system, will not prevent from recording your special number in the forum records .

2)The reaching of your special number ; not on condition that it takes place with the conspiring with the forum owners, but it is possible very that the penetration of servant Server on which the forum is hosted, and getting all subscribers statements take place, and easier than that, the request of a copy from the forum database from the hosting company is !

3)Most of the sites became prepared by programs to the statistics, they are recorded each movement the visitor carries out them, enclosed with his special number .

A third :

At the affiliation in any forum from you the recording system requests a number of the personal and general information - as the name and the country and the birth date - then it have not entered of any personal information by the right form but Qm with providing the system with wrong information for the camouflage, and if a person corresponded with you what from the forum end or one of the supervisors so that it asks you about a personal information under the pretext of the assurance of the calculation or other than that then beware from that its possession of them .

A fourth :

If was I who Wbshark enter the forums in them from the Internet cafes, then their variation and the departure for cafes distant from the circle of your residence are necessary for you .

Also the news publisher must maintains that he does not stay in the cafe a period exceeds the period of his spreading to the data or the news .. Since these cafes are from an easier what enables its pursuit and the arrival at it quickly for the knowledge of the institutions of the security of the tyrants of the numbers of Ip related to each one from them .

And the assurance becomes necessary after each session from wiping the files of the temporary Internet Temporary Internet Files, and the browsing history is History, and what it becomes by Al Koukiz Cookies, and hence the browsing closure is for ending the sessions Sessions that may enable who sits your remoteness for the same system from the entrance on your benefit in the forum, and a repetition does not forget operating the system after your replacement about him .

A note : most of the time, after wiping the browsing history it finds it he has disappeared, it returns entirely at the repetition of an operating the browsing, in this case the survey of the inputs is necessary for you manually .

A fifth :

Beware of the files that are published in the forums, in their folds of files for the espionage the mastery of the one that carries out their distribution of the espionage on your system and the knowledge of all hard disk contents may be Hard Disk .

A sixth :

If from you the formulation of any program during browsing the forum was requested then it does not agree on that at all, whatever it was the reason that mentions for you . There some of the programs enable the other party the espionage on the institution, as some minimized applications by the Java language Java Applet .

And actually .. One of them before a period have carried out the establishment of a forum that claimed that it is jihad and after the religious school started with the arrival at it, a request from the members is the formulation of a minor program and providing some of the programming applications in their systems under the pretext of the mastery from he browsed the forum, so that it carries out after a short period spreading many of the personal photos to some forum writers, with their complete names and the places of their residence, after it could thieve it from their special systems and came by that what it named a present to the institutions of family police Saloul !

And is worthy of us in this place the indication quickly of a rule very important at the interaction with the computer systems, and she is the non entrance or keeping by any a right personality information on the institution, as the name and the country and so on, whether during the appointment operation or other . Besides the personal photos ! And we will mention in a wider way this matter in coming articles God willing .

A seventh :

A request is from you one of them are your electronic mail of your correspondent to a special and important matter !, then she does not give it him at all, and I request from it your correspondent through the special messages in the forum if she was available, or then no .

And is worthy of us in this place the indication quickly of a rule very important at the interaction with the computer systems, and she is the non entrance or keeping by any a right personality information on the institution, as the name and the country and so on, whether during the appointment operation or other . Besides the personal photos ! And we will mention in a wider way this matter in coming articles God willing .

A seventh :

A request is from you one of them are your electronic mail of your correspondent to a special and important matter !, then she does not give it him at all, and I request from it your correspondent through the special messages in the forum if she was available, or then no .

An eighth :

At the recording in more than a conversational forum, does not take the password same Bastkhdm always, until in the state of the penetration of one of those forums it does not form your membership in the remainder of the forums an open, and we advise - strongly - by the non use of the name same at the recording in more than a forum, until the follow-up of your moves is not easy on the Internet between those forums, and if I wanted spreading the item same in more than a forum then he lengthened it by an expression - a moved from the forum of such - for example or by what indicates that you not I with the one who it spread first but you just a carrier .

A ninth :

No mentions any information of narrow spread its mention may lead to the recognition of your personality, or until the city that it lives . She causes an operation what then he remembered that you passed through that place in the so-and-so hour, then I saw Kit and Kit, or it says that banned the speech of the so-and-so sheikh ! Or she contacted the so-and-so sheikh ... And so on .

A tenth and finally :

If I was from the acquaintance amateurs and the collection of the friends, then it was confirmed that the jihad forums are not by the suitable place therefore !

This is what loved a notification who participates in the conversational forums on the Internet on it in such a hurry and after all this and before it : { then Allah is a wealth a keeping and he is the Most Merciful } .
The prayer is Lakhoukm Al Fqir Aba Thabet

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Militants Defy Efforts To Ban Net Footage
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Reuters

28/03/2005
Firouz Sedarat - Reuters

Islamic militants who want the world to witness their attacks and beheadings in Iraq have engineered new ways to ensure their videos appear on the Internet, defying efforts to banish them from cyberspace.

Leading insurgent groups such as Iraq's al Qaeda wing may struggle to find permanent hosts for their Web sites but can still point surfers to their gory videos and photographs from well-established and less sensational Islamist sites.

In one such Internet clip, a blast and a fireball shake the camera as militants repeat "Allahu Akbar" (God is Greatest) on a video purporting to show this month's truck bombing of a Baghdad hotel. Stray dogs are seen running away from the scene.

Analysts say the fixed sites, which deny having ties to militants and allow postings by ordinary users, have become a reliable platform for militant groups.

"Gone are the times when Islamist sites had to constantly move around. They are more stable now and easier to find, providing a reliable meeting place," said a European defence analyst who declined to be named.

The sites are a powerful propaganda and recruiting tool for militant groups. Despite being a target of the US-led war on terror, they can quickly switch Web hosting companies and authorities have found it difficult to close them.

"It becomes an endless 'whack-a-mole' game, where a site is shut on one server but pops up on another," said Roger Cressey, a former White House official who heads a security consultancy.

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's al Qaeda Organisation for Holy War in Iraq says it will soon launch its permanent site with news of its operations against "crusader" US forces.

That may sound like bad news for Western intelligence agencies, but one analyst said those seeking to limit the impact of the violent postings might prefer the Web sites to be stable.

"There are definite advantages from a security agency's point of view ... sites that are forced to move frequently are harder to keep track of."

Militant Media

For the first time, analysts said, the sites' continuity has provided militant groups with their own media. They have become as essential to news coverage as satellite televisions and news agencies, often breaking news of attacks and beheadings in Iraq.

Even Osama bin Laden's network appears to favour posting his messages online to ensure they are not edited by Arab television under US pressure to deny al Qaeda a propaganda platform.

"They don't need to go to TV stations or the Arab press. They don't need to invite a CNN journalist for an interview, like Osama bin Laden did in the 1990s. They can put messages online," the defence analyst said.

"It's probably just a question of time before we get a live transmission of a decapitation."

Amir Golestan, head of US Web hosting firm Micfo, said the FBI had probed his company's hosting of a top Islamist Web site, Al Ansar, which often carries major militant messages first.

"They (FBI) said if they find any legal issues they will contact us but we have not heard from them," Golestan said, adding that Al Ansar has since moved to another host.

Robert Corn-Revere, a Washington lawyer and expert in free-speech law, said that under US law companies cannot be held liable for hosting Web sites with anti-US content.

"The question is whether (a site) provides material support to a terrorist organisation," he said, adding authorities could then build a case using laws passed since the September 11 attacks.

London-based analyst Paul Eedle, who closely follows pro-al Qaeda sites, said: "Washington proclaims to stand for freedom of speech, so to campaign publicly for closing sites could rebound on it politically."

http://xtramsn.co.nz/news/0,,11965-4234250,00.html

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SAUDI ARABIA: 'VOICE OF THE JIHAD' EDITOR REPORTEDLY ARRESTED

Riyadh, 11 May (AKI) - A militant arrested two days ago in the Saudi capital Riyadh has been identified by the police as the man in charge of al-Qaeda's information operation in the country. The pan-Arab newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat quotes a source from the Saudi interior ministry as saying he is the editor of the monthly on-line magazine 'Voice of the Jihad'. The Saudi national is reported to have been arrested after being injured during a gun battle on Monday.

A statement from the ministry said Abdel Aziz bin Rashid bin Hamdan al-Tawili al-Anzi is "one of the promoters of deviant ideology" ("deviant" being the word the Saudi authorities often use to refer to al-Qaeda), publishing statements from al-Qaeda's Saudi cell on the internet. The interior ministry also said his preaching and statements were used to defame peaceful Islamic principles "for evil purposes", and that al-Anzi said it was permissible to shed non-Muslim blood and kill security officers on religious grounds.

The most recent issue of 'Voice of the Jihad' came out at the end of April, after a pause of several months. It contained an editorial by Saud al-Otaibi - believed to be one of al-Qaeda's leaders in Iraq and one of Saudi Arabia's 'Most Wanted' list of 26 - who died at the beginning of April in clashes with the Saudi security forces.

In the on-line al-Qaeda magazine, al-Anzi signed his articles using three different names, Akhu min Ata Allah, Farhan bin Mashur al-Ruwili or Abdullah bin Naser al-Rashid. He is not one of the three people on the list of 26 who are still at large however.



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Good read, it's not always all technology......

Networks and Netwars:
The Future of Terror, Crime, and Militancy
John Arquilla, David Ronfeldt (editors)

Available online at RAND
http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1382/

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US Steps up its War on Terror Online

19/06/2005
By Mohammed Al-Shafey



London, Asharq Al-Awsat- The US Department of State is embarking on a media offensive to counter the false information carried out by three Islamic websites it accuses of waging a misleading campaign against US interests. A newspage has, recently, been added to the Department’s Arabic language website, http://usinfo.state.gov/ar/Archive/2005/May/13-401696.html . Entitled “The Inaccurate Media”, it states that “this incorrect media, whether intentionally or not, deceives and creates suspicion and ill feeling. It also undermines the credibility of journalists.” “Our new webpage aims at rectifying false allegations about the United States in the media, exposing these sources, and helping readers to discover the truth about significant international events.” The three websites the US government considers major sources of misinformation, especially on events in Iraq , are: Islam Memo ( www.islammemo.cc ), the Free Arab Voice

(www.freearabvoice.org ), and Jihad Unspun (www.jihadunspun.net ).

Islam Memo is reserved the most criticism by the US authorities. It is an Arabic site which supports al Qaeda and the Iraqi insurgents. According to the State Department’s statement, all three websites try to disseminate deceiving information, most of which disappears into cyberspace, while some allegations spread worldwide. It says Islam Memo is “perhaps, the internet site most suspect with regard to news from Iraq . For example, it carried a news item on 27th March 2005 , that announced the death of more that 88 US soldiers in Iraq . The news was translated into English by the Free Arab Voice site.” In reality, however, no soldiers were killed on that date. According to the website, in the period between 20 th and 29th March 2005 , a total of 334 soldiers were killed. The truth, however, points to the more conservative estimate of 8 military deaths.

Asharq Al Awsat repeatedly emailed the administrator of Islam Memo to discuss the US report but received no reply. Islamist sources in London described the report as “biased” against Islamic internet sites, adding that Islam Memo had lost more than one correspondent, killed in Iraq .



The US report also mentions the editor of Free Arab Voice, Mohammed Abu Nasr, who translates articles by Islamist websites to English, especially those of Islam Memo. According to the US government, Abu Nasser is a Communist sympathizer, judging by the content of his website, where he recently included a letter, dated 1935, by the former Syrian Communist Party Leader, Khaled Bakdash, because he believed the letter carried “contemporary repercussions”.

Abu Nasr translates a number of news items posted on Islam Memo, on a daily basis, and publishes them on his own site as reports from Iraq . The information appears elsewhere on the internet, for example on Jihand Unspun. Articles carried on Free Arab Voice are, at times, provocative with titles such as “The Battle for Terminology in the Arab-Zionist Conflict”, “Who Are the Revisionist Historians?”, “Why Should We Concern Ourselves With the Holocaust?”, “Who Benefits from the Attack Against Shia Mosques in Iraq?”, “The Resistant Media: A new Perspective”, and “Human Bombs in the Balance”.

One example of the misinformation propagated by Islam Memo, according to the US Department of State, is a letter that appeared on the internet site on 18 th December of last year. In the letter, a woman held at Abu Ghraib Prison, West of Baghdad, named Fatima , alleges that she was raped along with 13 other Iraqi women.

In its latest campaign, the State Department is adamant that the events described in the letter are totally false. Accordingly, Fatima never existed as only six women were held at Abu Ghraib, temporarily, between July and mid December 2004. Two female detainees fell ill and were transferred to hospital and the others were held for no more than 10 days and none were subjected to sexual abuse.

Despite the letter being fake, it was published on several Islamist websites and circulated by emails as it subject matter was offensive. Jihad Unspun published the full letter on 24th December 2004 . For its part, Islam Memo claimed that Fatmia had been killed during an attack on the prison earlier that day. Since Fatima was now dead, it was now impossible to verify the claims made in her letter. Abu Ghraib prison hadn’t even been attacked on the above mentioned date.

As for Jihad Unspun, the US government states that it is owned and run by a “Canadian woman who embraced Islam after the events of 11 September 2001 ”. The English language website regularly posts the latest statements by bin Laden and al Qaeda, most recently a study on the strategy of the organization until 2020.



The government accused the website of a history of publishing false information.

On 22nd November 2004 , it published a report on an attack on a US base in Baghdad which killed 270 soldiers. In reality, no one was killed. It has also praised the reliability of the news coverage on Islam Memo, for example at the end of last year. Two months later, however, in February 2005, Jihad Unspun expressed reservations on the credibility of Islam Memo. It published a letter it had sent to the under fire website, stating “familial hostility is brewing. Islam Memo is currently under stack from several Arab websites. Your critic’s voices are becoming louder.”

All three websites devoted a lot of space to a misleading story on the US of Mustard Gas by the US Military when it attacked the city of Fallujah . The false report was later carried by the Cuban News Agency “Prensa Latin” and repeated by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Jihad Unspun went as far as publicly asking questions about Islam Memo, saying “why are the numbers of US casualties reported by Mujahedeen websites far less than those published on Islam Memo?”



Abu Mubarak, the manager of Islam Memo, defended his internet site, telling Asharq Al Awsat, in a telephone conversation from Riyadh , “We are extremely professional in our work in Iraq . We respect ourselves and our readers and report correct information.” He revealed that eleven correspondents had lost their lives while reporting on the insurgency in Iraq . Islam Memo, he added, has 33 reporters, mainly located in major Iraqi cities. Abu Mubarak believes it is this accuracy that has angered the US government. He clarified that the site is launched from a server in Canada . As for financing the website, Abu Mubarak said it depended on revenue from advertising. Another individual who works for Islam Memo told Asharq Al Awsat “What else would you expect from the US government with regard to Islam Memo?” He then switched his mobile phone off, because of a reported battery failure. http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?id=500&section=1

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Cyberspace the new war frontier

BY SHAHARUDIN ISMAIL AND ZAHRI YUNOS



CYBERSPACE is an ever-expanding global digital network which links many aspects of life, including business and communications.

While new technologies allow for enormous gains in efficiency, productivity and communications, they also create new threats from those who harbour bad intentions towards us.

The same infrastructure that we utilise to transmit information creates new opportunities for those engaging in cyberwar.

The cyberwar being waged today involves the exploitation of ICT (information and communications technology), which adversaries might use as a new attacking platform.

This is because many computer systems in the world are interconnected through a public telecommunications infrastructure or the Internet.

In the article Cyberwar and Netwar: New Modes, Old Concepts, of Conflict, John J. Arquilla and David F. Ronfeldt refer to cyberwar as ”disrupting or destroying information and communication systems and turning the balance of information and knowledge in one’s favour, especially if the balance of forces is against one.”

Today, cyberspace is the new war frontier whenever there are conflicts between countries.

The popular method of a cyberattack is the defacement of websites. Web defacement is a malicious activity in which a website is “vandalised.”

Often the hacker replaces the site’s content with a specific political or social message. The hacker might even erase all the content from the site by relying on known security vulnerabilities to access the site’s content.

Below are some cases of cyberwar as reported in the media.

China-Taiwan
During the Taiwanese presidential elections in August and September 1999, pro-Chinese hackers acted against Taiwan.

They compromised about 165 Taiwanese websites, mainly defacing them, over the two-month period.

Their ultimate goal was to negatively affect and bring down Taiwan’s infrastructure.

Among the targeted sites were those of electricity, economic institutions, telecommunications and air-traffic control.

India-Pakistan
India and Pakistan have in the past engaged in cyberprotest in disputes involving national and ethnic differences.

After a cease-fire in the Kashmir Valley in 2000, hackers of both countries continued with hostile activities.

A group known as G-Force Pakistan was the most active hacker group claiming involvement in the cyberwar.

The pro-Pakistan hackers defaced more than 500 Indian websites, while only one Pakistani website was hacked into by the Indians.

United States-China
The United States and China have also been involved in cyberwar especially in 1999 and 2001.

These cyberwars typically occur after incidents of military conflict on the battlefield. The first cyberwar began after the United States accidentally bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, during the Nato (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) air campaign in May 1999.

Many of US websites were defaced and massive e-mail campaigns were executed to gain sympathy and support for China.

For example, the US Departments of Energy and the Interior, and the US National Park Service suffered website defacements.

The White House website was taken down for three days after it was continually mail-bombed.

The next cyberwar, which occurred in May 2001, resulted from an incident where a Chinese fighter was lost at sea after colliding with a US naval reconnaissance plane.

It also coincided with the second anniversary of the Chinese embassy bombing by the United States in Belgrade and the traditionally celebrated May Day and Youth Day in China.

The attacks were led by the Honkers Union of China (HUC) who defaced and crashed over 100 websites, mainly government and commercial sites.

The Chinese hackers posted pictures of the dead Chinese pilot Wang Wei with profane messages calling for the downfall of the United States.

Pro-United States hackers responded with similar defacements to over 300 Chinese websites.

Palestine-Israel
The cyberwar between the Israeli and Palestinian hackers began five years ago when the prolonged peace talks between the two countries broke down.

In 2000, about 40 Israeli websites and at least 15 Palestinian sites suffered defacements at the hands of hackers.

The Israeli hackers performed denial-of-service (DoS) attacks on websites belonging to the Palestinians.

The pro-Palestinian hackers hit Israeli websites and posted messages such as “Free Palestine” or “Free Kashmir.”

In this cyberwar, it was reported that the pro-Palestinian hackers got help from the G-Force Pakistan hackers.

During this time, several US websites were also hacked into by the pro-Palestinian hackers. The hackers took down a lobbyist group’s website, posting online group membership information and credit card numbers.

Japan-South Korea
During the first week of April 2001, pro-South Korean hackers attacked Japanese organisations responsible for the approval of a new history textbook.

The textbook allegedly glossed over actions committed by the Japanese Forces during World War II.

The perceived reluctance of Japan to accept responsibility for its actions during World War II triggered anger from the South Koreans.

It was reported that a majority of the hackers were South Korean University students. The students crashed several websites, including those belonging to Japan’s Education Ministry, Liberal Democratic Party and the publishing company responsible for the textbook.

Japan-China
In early August 2001, pro-Chinese hackers targeted Japanese websites after Japan’s Prime Minister visited a controversial war memorial, the Yasukuni Shrine.

In a short period of time, Chinese hackers defaced several websites belonging to Japanese companies and research institutions.

Tensions have been rising again between Japan and China this year when the Japanese Government announced that its companies would have the right to drill for oil and gas in a disputed area of the East China Sea.

The situation worsened in April after the Japanese Government approved a history textbook that China says whitewashes Japan’s wartime record during World War II.

Several Japanese government websites experienced problems where access to the affected homepages was hindered. It was reported that a Chinese website had urged Internet users to flood Japanese servers with irrelevant data.

Malaysia-Indonesia
A maritime territorial dispute in the Sulawesi Sea between Malaysia and Indonesia had moved into cyberspace in March as Indonesian hackers launched cyberattacks on Malaysian websites.

Many of the websites affected, including several government department websites, were defaced with hate messages against the Government of Malaysia.

MyCERT (www.mycert.org.my (http://www.mycert.org.my/)) reported that 256 Malaysian websites were hacked in the first quarter of 2005, compared with only 42 in the preceding quarter.

Conclusion
The impact of web defacements is great. It not only affects a country’s security, but also its economy and culture.

Hackers can replace the information on websites with controversial content. They can even take full control of these websites and manipulate the information.

Hence, there is no longer integrity and confidentiality of information. If such cyberattacks become more rampant, Internet users could lose their trust in the Internet as a platform for online business especially when it comes to transactions using credit cards.

Hackers could also place inappropriate pictures on affected websites. This could embarrass the owners of the websites especially if the site belongs to a government or any highly-reputable organisation.

Web administrators must take full responsibility to protect their systems from cyberattacks. They need to patch their systems regularly in order to avoid vulnerabilities from being exploited by hackers.

Web administrators must also play an active role in ensuring that they are familiar with the latest trends and security issues in order to protect their systems from cyberattacks.

Note: Shaharudin Ismail is Policy Research Executive (Strategic Planning & Adminstration) and Zahri Yunos is Strategic Planning Manager at the National ICT Security and Emergency Response Centre.

http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2005/6/21/itfeature/11191981&sec=itfeature

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Cyber-jihadists weave a dangerous web
(AFP)

27 October 2005


PARIS - A new proposed anti-terror law in the US, presented on Wednesday, aims to clamp down on terrorist activity carried out via the Internet as the Al Qaeda network develops increasingly dangerous online activities.

The proposed law would introduce measures such as extending the period for which cybercafes have to keep records of Internet connection data, but faces a tough battle against “cyber-jihadists” who avoid being tracked through cunning and the fluid nature of the Internet, according to experts.

Terrorists use the Internet for “communication, recruitment, planning” and, importantly, for military instruction, said Rita Katz, head of the Washington-based institute Search for International Terrorist Entities (SITE), which monitors Islamist websites.
“Everything is there, it replaces the training camps,” she said.

One method attributed to the suspected head of the September 11, 2001 attacks, Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, is the “dead letter box” system: someone creates an email account, gives the password to several members of a group and communicates by saving messages in a draft messages folder without sending them.

Communication by this method cannot be monitored because government systems for tracking emails work only if someone sends an email, said Rohan Gunaratna, head of terrorism research at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies in Singapore.
“It was used by Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, who was the mastermind of 9/11, to communicate with the global network,” Gunaratna said.

The people behind some sites promoting terrorism “are more savvy than a lot of us normal typical internet users,”, said Rebecca Givner-Forbes, an intelligence analyst who monitors the Internet for the Terrorism Research Centre, a company employed by the US government.
“They often use Japanese and Chinese upload web pages because they don’t ask for an email address or any information from the person uploading a file,” she said. “They’ve become very savvy about how they evade detection on the Web.”

According to Givner-Forbes, the most common method used by serious Islamist websites is password-protected online message boards that only members can use.

“Most recently they have been leveraging the net more and more to circulate terrorist tactical instructions, training manuals, explosives recipes,” Givner-Forbes said.

“We’ve seen recently more sophisticated material such as instructional videos where you see someone going through all the steps needed to make a device or an explosive and instructions are printed very clearly on the screen,” she added. “It’s just like on the food channel when someone cooks a recipe.”

If terrorist sites are attacked, the people running them can republish copies.
Many Internet trackers are disadvantaged by not speaking Arabic and people running terrorist sites “may just change the colour of their site and change the writing at the top, call it something else and change the format. It’s the same material,” she said.
Cyber-jihadists also have techniques to hide their identity and hack into sites, like the germ weapons expert Mustapha Setmariam Nassar who circulated a manual via an American commercial server.

“When you take down a website, from my own experience, the next day it’s up again from a new server and not only that, it’s not from the US any more but it turns itself to a password-protected website,” said Katz.

“It just makes things more difficult for government agents and for people that monitor websites,” she added.

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2005/October/theworld_October682.xml&section=theworld

[Casey]

This should be a very interesting case.

'Jihadist' computer expert cleared for extradition to US
By Sam Knight

A computer expert from South London who is wanted in America for running a cluster of websites that allegedly supported terrorism and attacks on US servicemen is to be extradited, Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary, has decided.

Babar Ahmad, 31, from Tooting, was arrested in August 2004 on an American extradition warrant. In October last year, the US Justice Department indicted him for using the internet to support the Taleban and Chechen jihadists, money-laundering and conspiring to kill persons in a foreign country.

Mr Ahmad has always protested his innocence and his supporters have conducted a vociferous campaign in his defence. In May, Mr Ahmad, who is in custody at Woodhill high security prison near Milton Keynes, ran for parliament in the Labour constituency of Brent North, winning 685 votes.

But today the Home Office confirmed that he would be extradited to face trial in Connecticut, where he faces life imprisonment if convicted of any of the charges against him. One of the internet service providers used by Mr Ahmad was headquartered in the state.

"There have been a couple of extensions in this case and having looked carefully at all the representations, the Home Secretary decided there aren’t any bars to this extradition," said a Home Office spokeswoman this morning.

In May, Bow Street Magistrates' Court approved Mr Ahmad's extradition after receiving assurances from US authorities that they would not seek the death penalty, torture him in a third country or declare him an "enemy combatant" and imprison him at Guantanamo Bay on Cuba.

But in his ruling, Judge Timothy Workman said that Mr Ahmad's case raised complicated issues that should be explored by the High Court. Since 2003, American authorities have been able to request the extradition of British citizens without having to present any evidence in court.

Mr Ahmad's campaign reacted with dismay to today's news, promising to challenge the Home Secretary's decision in the High Court. If necessary, Mr Ahmad can take his case to the House of Lords.

Speaking from prison, Mr Ahmad said: "This decision should only come as a surprise to those who thought that there was still justice for Muslims in Britain. I entrust my affairs to Allah and His Words from the Koran."

MPs also expressed reservations about Mr Clarke's decision to extradite Mr Ahmad.

Sir Menzies Campbell, the Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman, complained that Britain's extradition treaty with America allows US authorities to request the extradition of British citizens without presenting any evidence of their guilt, whereas "there is a constitutional right on the part of American citizens not to be extradited in the same way".

"It is a treaty which does not have reciprocity," Sir Menzies told the ITV News Channel. "It is even worse than that, because we have ratified the treaty in this country, we have changed our domestic legislation to conform to it, but the United States Senate has still failed to ratify the treaty."

Mr Ahmad's local MP, Sadiq Khan, the Labour member for Tooting, said that he should be tried in Britain: "The allegations are that Babar Ahmad committed these criminal offences whilst in the UK, whilst a British citizen, and whilst in London," he told BBC Radio. "If that be the case the obvious question is why can’t and why shouldn’t he be tried in the UK?"

First arrested by British police in December 2003 but released without charge, Mr Ahmad is accused of running a network of websites from 1997 to 2004 that supported "terrorist causes" in Afghanistan and elsewhere.

On www.azzam.com, a website he allegedly ran from an address in Fountain Road, Tooting, Mr Ahmad told readers that: "Muslims must use every means at their disposal to undertake military and physical training for jihad."

The US Government alleges that Mr Ahmad posted firearms training and travel advice for young Muslims seeking to fight in Chechnya and Afghanistan and sought to raise money for the Taleban and Chechen rebel groups. He is also accused of distributing CDs and videos glorifying jihad.

According to his indictment, e-mails from Mr Ahmad's accounts included "discussions regarding donations; shipments of gas masks; procurement of night vision goggles; safe routes into Afghanistan and the type of personnel needed to support the jihad".

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1874813,00.html

[Casey]

Blair’s ban fails to silence Muslim preachers of hate

Cyber / Terrorism
Date: Nov 19, 2005 - 07:19 PM
The Sunday Times November 20, 2005

ISLAMIC extremists are targeting British Muslims with violent Al-Qaeda propaganda, in defiance of Tony Blair’s announcement four months ago that he would clamp down on preachers of hate.

London-based foreign extremists are using websites to post video footage of suicide operations and attacks by insurgents against coalition forces in Iraq. There are also postings of the execution of Russian soldiers by mujaheddin rebels in Chechnya.

There is growing exasperation among the Saudi authorities about the government’s apparent reluctance to tackle two Saudi citizens who are responsible for some of the most blatant incitement.

Muhammad al-Massari, a London-based Saudi extremist, has been allowing the forum pages of his website — www.tajdeed.net — to be used by terrorist groups. They include Al-Qaeda in Iraq, headed by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was responsible for the murder of Ken Bigley, the British hostage.

A second Saudi, Saad al-Fagih, uses his website and satellite radio broadcasts to incite an uprising against the House of Saud.

Ferej Alowedi, the Saudi chargé d’affaires in London, said: “We have been requesting the British authorities to have them extradited. We can give written assurance that we will not execute or torture them.”

Last week The Sunday Times disclosed that al-Massari’s website carried an attack on the Queen as one of the “severest enemies of Islam” from Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama Bin Laden’s second in command. This was in defiance of a declaration by Blair that the “rules of the game” were changing. He said after the London bombings: “The new grounds [for deportation] will include fostering hatred, advocating violence to further a person’s beliefs, or justifying or validating such existence.”

Yet al-Massari’s website, which was shut down in May, has returned and has messages that incite Muslims to join the global jihad, and glorify the Al-Qaeda attack in Amman that left at least 60 people dead on November 9.

The Saudi dissident advocates the beheading of homosexuals and describes the September 11 attacks as the “blessed conquest in New York and Washington”. Al-Massari was not available for comment.

In his response to the terrorist killing of 52 commuters on July 7, Blair also announced that the radical group Hizb ut-Tahrir and the offshoots of Al-Muhajiroun would be banned.

He said: “Those that. . . incite hatred or engage in violence against our country and its people have no place here.” A few days after his announcement, 10 foreign preachers were arrested. They are in police custody awaiting court hearings about their deportations.

But, more than four months later, Hizb ut-Tahrir remains active and is lobbying Muslims to challenge the new anti-terror legislation.

Al-Ghuraaba and the Saviour Sect, two offshoots of Al-Muhajiroun, which had kept a low profile since the summer, announced on Friday that they had merged into a stronger organisation.

The new group — Ahlus Sunnah wal Jamaah (ASWJ) [Followers of the Prophet] — is headed by Anjem Choudary, who was second in command to the cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed before Al-Muhajiroun disbanded early this year.

Bakri is in Lebanon now. Although he was widely thought to be the first cleric to be deported after Blair’s announcement, he managed to slip out of Britain in August.

At a press conference this weekend, the leaders of ASWJ mocked Blair’s efforts to ban them.

Abu Izzedine, also known as Omar Brooks and a prominent member, said: “Blair decided to ban us almost a year after we disbanded. The British government is one of the worst governments on the planet.”

He previously said of the London bombings: “I would never denounce the bombings, even if my own family was to suffer, because we always stand with the Muslims, regardless of the consequences.”

Another member of ASWJ, Abu Yahya, denounced the Queen. He said: “The Queen is enemy to Islam and Muslims. We see in reality her actions all around the earth, her forces, army, navy, her air force bombing, destroying Muslims, killing our families, destroying our properties and occupying our land.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1880238,00.html

[Casey]

Pledging allegiance to Bin Laden online

Islamic Internet forums publish declaration on opening month-long signing of oath of loyalty to Bin Laden, al-Qaeda elite on Internet
Roee Nahmias

A document distributed by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) reveals that Islamic Internet forums have recently published a declaration on opening a month dedicated to the signing of an electronic "B'ayah" (in Arabic – an oath of allegiance to a Muslim leader by a Muslim) on the Internet, as a pledge of allegiance to Osama bin Laden and his officials. The initiative is expected to end on December 13.

The document reveals that the initiative was published on the al-hesbah website, which is known as an authentic Islamic website with no identification of the individual behind it, who is only known by the nickname "al-'Aashek Liljihad" (lover of Jihad)***.

These are the main points of the declaration as it appears on the website:


"I invite you to the first day of the month of the great swearing of an oath of loyalty to the commander of the Muslim armies, Sheikh Osama bin Laden, and to the commanders of the global jihad: Sheikh Ayman al-Zawahiri, Emir of the Believers Mullah Muhammad Omar, and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and to all the jihad fighters.

"Oh God, you need this oath of loyalty, the oath of death for Allah that will terrorize the infidels and earn the jihad fighters in particular, and the Muslims in general, reward in the world to come...

"Moreover, for this oath of loyalty to death it is not necessary for you to die now - but in the near future, the very near future, Allah willing, we must all join this blessed convoy, particularly since we have sworn an oath of loyalty.

"This (signing of this) oath of loyalty will continue for one month, and will be posted in all the forums so that the number of oath-takers will be (as) great (as possible), and so that Osama bin Laden will have an army in Afghanistan, an army in Iraq, and a massive army in the waiting list on the Internet pages.

May Allah preserve him

"This is the Internet that Allah operates in the service of jihad and of the mujahedoun (Jihad fighters), and that has become (a tool in service of) your interest - such that half the mujahedoun's battle is waged on the pages of the Internet, which is the only outlet for passing announcements to the mujahedoun.

"Anyone who has already sworn an oath of loyalty is asked not to do so again, because at the end of the month there will be a count of all those who took the oath..."

The document's writers note that the response to this initiative has so far been minimal and that the oath-takers are identifying themselves by nicknames only.

At the bottom of the oath forms appears the name of the Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF).

The oath form ends with the following pledge of allegiance: "We swear loyalty to Sheikh Osama bin Laden, may Allah preserve him, and to the commanders of the global jihad, Sheikh Ayman al-Zawahiri, Emir of the Believers Mullah Muhammad Omar, and Sheikh Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and all the Jihad fighters. (This is) an oath of death for Allah. Signed: (Surfer's name)."
(11.21.05, 09:48)

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3172405,00.html

***This poster has been on various forums for as long as I have been reading them.

[rectar]

Nyet to Ynet....

[Petronas]

See Footnote #2 regarding GIMF.

Islamist Website Design Contest: Winner Fires Missiles at U.S. Army Base in Iraq
December 1, 2005

Announcements posted on the Islamist Internet forums are usually connected to ongoing terrorist activities, such as claims of responsibility for attacks, recorded speeches by leaders, etc. Occasionally, there are also announcements of a propagandist nature that are difficult to attribute with any certainty to specific terrorist organizations, and whose authenticity is hard to establish, such as the "oath of loyalty to bin Laden" initiative [1], and announcements posted by the Global Islamic Media Front (which has acknowledged that it is not associated with Al-Qaeda). [2]


Contest for Designing a Website for a Terrorist Organization

This is another example of the online propaganda campaign on Islamist forums whose authenticity is difficult to establish.

The information bureau of Jaish Al-Taifa Al-Mansura("The Army of the Victorious Group"), a Sunni terrorist organization operating in Iraq, announced a contest for designing the organization's website, and stated that the prize would be, in addition to reward from Allah, an opportunity to fire missiles via computer at a U.S. army base in Iraq.

The announcement was posted on a number of Islamic websites, primarily on the Al-Hesbah forum www.alhesbah.org [3] [hosted in Airzona] [4], and can also be viewed as a Flash document at

http://heretic.maid.to/cgi-bin/stored/serio0835.swf

The following are excerpts from the announcement:

"To the brothers who seek reward [from Allah] and to the honorable people [who visit] the forums of the blessed Al-Hesbah network and of the Global Islamic Media Front:

"The information bureau of the Army of the Victorious Group has announced a contest for designing and constructing a special website for the Army. The site must include:

"1. The motto of the Army of the Victorious Group.

"2. The Army's ideology, as posted on the Al-Hesbah network, and the hadith of the Prophet Muhammad about the victorious group. [5]

"3. Communiqués issued by the Army that have been posted on the Al-Hesbah network.

"4. Videos of the Army's operations that have been posted on the Al-Hesbah network.

"In addition, the site must include all materials connected to the Army that have appeared on Al-Hesbah, in newspapers or elsewhere. [The site] must match the good reputation of the Army, of jihad and of the jihad fighters, and [it must] defeat the Crusader information [channels].

"After selecting the best design, the Army's information bureau will notify the winner.

"The contest will continue for a month, and there will be two prizes for the best design:

"1. Reward from Allah for blessed work in the service of jihad and the jihad fighters.

"2. The winner will fire three long-range missiles from any location in the world at an American army base in Iraq, by pressing a button [on his computer] with his own blessed hand, using technology developed by the jihad fighters, Allah willing. The information bureau will announce the winner after coordinating with the military bureau of the Army...

"Dear brothers in Allah, this blessed move aims to develop the skills and abilities of the brothers who take part in the competition to design a website which befits the Army's good reputation, its jihad operations and its fighting [activities].

"The most important thing is the glad tidings that the jihad fighters of the Army of the Victorious Group bring to our Muslim brothers, and to the [entire] Islamic nation, regarding the development of accurate and effective missiles, and also, as we promised you, regarding the use of computer technology and [the ability] to fire [missiles] by remote control from any location in the world, by the grace of Allah.

"This is also an opportunity for our brothers outside Iraq to join their brothers on the front line in Iraq, the land of the frontier and of jihad, and to [participate in] destroying the strongholds of polytheism and heresy.

"The winner will be allowed to document his [firing] experience after it is implemented and publicized.

"[Signed:] The Information Bureau of the Army of the Victorious Group; Saturday, November 5, 2005."

[B]Contest Postponed

"On November 18, 2005, the information bureau issued another announcement postponing the contest deadline. [6] This announcement said: 'The information bureau of the Army of the Victorious Group announces a one-month extension of the special contest for designing and constructing the website for the Army of the Victorious Group.'

"The [extension] comes in response to a request from the honorable competitors, and aims to allow the maximum number of brothers to participate in the contest. It also reflects the desire of the Army's top leadership that [individuals] from outside Iraq will participate in jihad operations against the occupier, and that, for the first time, they will do this from the international jihad arena by firing long-range missiles by remote control."
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[1] On this private initiative urging Muslims to swear an oath of loyalty to bin Laden, see MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 1027: http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&Area=jihad&ID=SP102705.

[2] GIMF public relations bureau director Saif Al-Din Al-Kinani said on the GIMF Internet newscast Sout Al-Khilafa that his organization was not affiliated with Al-Qaeda.

[3] http://www.alhesbah.org/v/showthread.php?t=38119

http://www.alfirdaws.org/forums/showthread.php?t=7600 (Link no longer active).

[4] According to http://www.betterwhois.com/bwhois.cgi?domain=alhesbah.org: Domains by Proxy, Inc., 15511 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353, Scottsdale, AZ 85260, Phone:+1.4806242599

[5] Various hadiths mention the "victorious group," such as the hadith that appears in Ibn Majah's collection of hadiths, in which the Prophet Muhammad says: "A group from my ummah [Islamic nation] is still victorious. Those who separated from them will not harm them until the Day of Resurrection."

[6] http://www.alhesbah.org/v/showthread.php?t=39815
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http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD103805

[Casey]

Winnipeg company inadvertently hosts al-Qaeda website
Last Updated Dec 7 2005 02:01 PM CST
CBC News

A young Winnipeg entrepreneur is trying to clear his name after connections to the international terrorist organization al-Qaeda were published in a local newspaper.

Justin Fitzpatrick, 19, runs his small Netgo Web Hosting business from his home in Winnipeg's St. Vital neighbourhood.

For a short time in October, his company hosted a website featuring video content of al-Qaeda head Osama bin Laden and his right-hand man, Ayman al-Zawahri.

Fitzpatrick, who declined an on-air interview, explained to CBC that his Netgo Web Hosting site allows people from around the world to purchase space to host their sites.

In turn, Fitzpatrick rents the server space to host those sites from a company in Dallas.

Someone who wants to host a site through Fitzpatrick simply fills out a form online, agrees to certain terms and conditions about the content, and agrees to pay a small monthly fee by credit card. Once the credit card is approved by an external company – a process that generally takes only a few minutes – the person has the ability to start putting web content online.

When Fitzpatrick saw the Arabic-language text and videos on the website he was hosting, he consulted with the company in Dallas. After reviewing the material, Fitzpatrick says the Dallas company's legal department recommended he remove the material.

Fitzpatrick, stunned by what he had heard, removed the site and refunded the $4.95 monthly fee to the credit card. All told, he says he hosted the material for about 10 days.

Fitzpatrick says he has no idea why the people behind the site targeted his company, which hosts a total of 15 to 20 websites – a small player in the world of website hosting. He speculates he was chosen specifically because his is a small company, with fewer eyes on the content.

Fitzpatrick says he has not been contacted by law-enforcement officials about the content, and he considers the matter closed.

http://www.cbc.ca/manitoba/story/mb_web-hosting-20051207.html

[Casey]

Al-Qaeda Unlikely to Cyber Attack
Techtree News Staff
Dec 8, 2005


Al-Qaeda might have master-minded the 9/11 terror-strike, that erased the Twin Towers from New York's landscape forever however the terrorist outfit lacks the mind or muscle to launch a high-profile cyber-attack on the power domains of the US. Or so says a top FBI official...

FBI assistant director, and head of its Cyber Division, Louis Reigel, has said that Al-Qaeda and similar terrorist groups still do not possess the ability to disable power plants, airports and other "critical infrastructure" of the US through the Internet.

The same view has been endorsed by Peter Trahon, head of the FBI unit handling computer intrusions, who said that as of now the FBI was not aware of any plan to attack the US infrastructure.

Reigel did however say that foreign governments are likely to be behind many of the hacking attacks on computers which contain military or technology secrets. He said that the FBI had reason to suspect that these hacking attacks are state-sponsored, though there is no hard evidence for the same.

According to Reigel, the attacks happen because it is far cheaper for a country to steal information and use the same information to develop technologies that have taken America years to develop. Reigel declined to reveal which countries he thought might be involved, but reportedly added that there were "not just one or two".

The FBI official said that although Chinese hackers were thought to have copied sensitive material from hundreds of US government computer systems over the past few years, there was no definite proof of involvement, and as such he did not raise the issue on a recent visit to China.

Commenting on the recent attacks by a version of the Sober computer worm, which disguised itself as a message from the FBI, Reigel said that the FBI had enough information to track down the author of that worm which "almost killed the FBI system".

http://www.techtree.com/techtree/jsp/article.jsp?article_id=69641&cat_id=582

[Petronas]

Al-Qaeda Explains Amman Bombings
December 8, 2005

Following the November 9, 2005 hotel bombings in Amman, Jordan, Al-Qaeda in Iraq posted several communiqués on Islamist forums in an attempt to explain the killing of innocent Muslims. The first of these communiqués [1], posted November 10, was a mere claim of responsibility for the bombings. The second communiqué [2], also from November 10, explained the reasons for choosing the particular locations that were targeted. The third [3], from November 11, gave details on the operation and on the individuals who carried it out.

On November 18, the organization again referred to the bombings: Al-Qaeda Leader in Iraq Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi issued an audio recording in his own voice, in which he reiterated the reasons for the attacks. Addressing the Muslims directly, he explained that that the killing of the celebrants at the wedding feast was totally accidental, and that his organization would never even consider harming innocent Muslims. Al-Zarqawi also set preconditions for stopping the terrorist attacks in Jordan, and threatened to assassinate King Abdallah.

After the bombings, several Islamist forums re-posted an audio recording from April 2004 in which al-Zarqawi had commented on Al-Qaeda's plan to carry out a chemical attack in Jordan - a plan that had been uncovered and foiled by the Jordanian security apparatuses. The recording presented a list of arguments explaining why Jordan must be targeted, and also stated that the Jordanian intelligence service had lied when it claimed that the aim of the planned attack was to murder Muslims and innocent people. In the recording, al-Zarqawi further stated:"We Muslims would not dare to shed [even] a drop of sacred [Muslim] blood unlawfully; [we will let] our throats [be slashed] before yours; we will sacrifice our lives for you, and we spill our blood to protect Islam and the Muslims."

The following are excerpts from the communiqués and recordings:

.......

http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD104305

The article is 8 pages long, so I am not posting it here in its entirety.

[al-Canine]

Terrorists in Cyberspace

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF | Op-Ed Columnist

Until you see a video of Iraqi insurgents taking a terrified, hogtied man and sawing off his head with a butcher knife, you don't know what "blood-curdling" truly means.

Yet the jihadis themselves release these "beheading videos" on the Internet as part of their booming propaganda machine, and they are wrenching not only for their brutality but also because they underscore the insurgents' increasing technological edge. If there's any area where we should have the supreme advantage fighting terrorism, it's the Internet - yet Islamic extremists sometimes run rings around us in cyberspace, using it to recruit and train terrorists and to communicate with each other in amazingly sophisticated ways.

When insurgents stage an attack these days, they sometimes film it from several angles so as to make better propaganda, which they then distribute on jihadi Web sites and on DVD's. Aside from promotional videos like those, there are the how-to variety, like one with step-by-step instructions for making a suicide vest. At the end, the filmmakers made a makeshift bus and put the vest on a mannequin to blow it up.

"The person who is wearing the explosive pouch, when entering the bus and wanting to blow himself up, his face must be to the front and his back to the rear," the video instructs. That's because there's much less explosive power on the sides.

The jihadis also use the Internet for communications. They know that the American intelligence community uses sophisticated computer programs that scan e-mail messages, so some of them share a single e-mail account, and the person writing the message doesn't send it but saves it as a draft. Then the recipient logs in and reads the draft without it ever actually being transmitted.

Likewise, the jihadis have communicated on gaming forums and even once on a bike forum. Sometimes they use the "live chat" function on Japanese gaming sites, where the only eavesdroppers are teeny-boppers.

Iraq's election last week was a great success, but it's still much too early to see how that will play out. What is clear is that Islamic extremists are not the troglodytes we think they are, and we need to retool if we're going hold our own.

Jihadi Web sites change their U.R.L.'s constantly and are often password-protected, and they may block access to viewers in Western countries. They're also language-protected, in that the communications are in Arabic - and the U.S. intelligence community has a desperate shortage of people with good Arabic skills. Sometimes the jihadis simply spell U.R.L.'s in the Arabic script, so that Arabs understand the address but U.S. computers or nonnative speakers may not. What they're not shy about is galvanizing terrorists.

"My Muslim brothers, you know that the enemies of Islam are malicious to Islam," one person wrote on a jihadi site. "What helps them is their knowledge of chemistry, physics, mathematics and programming languages, as well as their knowledge in the sciences of cartography, electronics and others. So if you possess knowledge in any of the aforementioned sciences that would benefit Islam and Muslims, say so."

Sure enough, one woman replied that she was skilled in English, cytology and molecular biology. A man said that he would be happy to share his skill in chemistry and explosives.

"There is this expectation that they're not being watched, or that if they are it won't be translated for six months," said one expert who monitors the traffic for the U.S. government, and who shared these examples partly to help draw attention to the problem.

Unfortunately, the insurgents are right - they often aren't being watched. The intelligence community has historically downplayed Osint (open-source intelligence). Robert Gates, the former C.I.A. director, once told me ruefully that intelligence is sometimes undervalued if it hasn't been stolen.

We also need more flexibility. In parts of the intelligence community, it's very difficult to get authority to pretend to be a jihadi on a forum, which is the only way to get anywhere. To avoid tipping off terrorists, I've been asked not to mention one other similarly foolish constraint.

So if we want to fight back effectively, the focus needn't be on preserving the right to "water board" detainees. A crucial first step is to patrol cyberspace much more aggressively - because we seem to be losing ground against terrorists in our own high-tech cyberspace backyard.

Copyright 2005The New York Times Company

http://select.nytimes.com/2005/12/20/opinion/20kristof.html

[Casey]

Waging war through the Internet

Date: Jan 15, 2006 - 12:00 AM

America is far more vulnerable to terrorists who hack systems than missions to blow things up
John Arquilla

Sunday, January 15, 2006

Over the past four years, huge efforts have been made to keep al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations from acquiring weapons of mass destruction, but too little attention has been paid to threats from cyberspace-based weapons of "mass disruption" capable of crippling the United States' communications, energy and transportation infrastructures.

Imagine an enemy able to knock out the power in some sizable chunk of the country by means of fast-spreading viruses inserted into our computer systems. Or think of an adversary who can gain remote access to and then crash highly automated controls that run many sensitive operations, from hydroelectric dams to gas and oil pipelines and robotic chemical plants.

This concern is not just theoretical. There have been real instances of these types of attack already.

For example, information systems of a major hydroelectric dam in this country were briefly intruded upon. In Australia, a disgruntled man gained access to a wastewater treatment plant's automated control system and caused it to release large amounts of untreated sewage.

In a case that I investigated personally some years ago, a skillful hacker gained administrator-level control of a Department of Energy nuclear research facility's information systems and could have done enormous damage. Happy enough with his exploit of gaining access, the hacker left without doing much harm.

We got lucky at that nuclear research facility. But the point is that all sorts of cyber attacks are possible -- and they're coming.

Those of us who are watching see the signs in the continuing and intensive mapping of such targets by covert operatives.

Department of Defense systems have come under sustained cyber attacks, too. An early series of such intrusions, back-hacked by us as far as a computer server in Moscow, came to be known as "Moonlight Maze."

More recently, similar probing by hackers who seem to be Chinese is bedeviling us in a cyber campaign known as "Titan Rain."

Both Moonlight Maze and Titan Rain remain classified matters. Moonlight Maze, sometimes called "M2," began in the late 1990s, when we first detected a series of systematic intrusions into Pentagon systems.

The amazing part of it is that the intruders retained an ability to keep coming back into our systems, even while we were actively trying to block them. Often, there was a cyber thrust-and-parry going on in real time, as our cyber warriors tried both to block and to back-hack them, with varying degrees of success.

Like Neo vs. Agent Smith in "The Matrix," but without all the special effects, M2 offered an example of the kind of fighting in the virtual domain that cyber-punk pioneer William Gibson envisioned over 20 years ago in his classic "Neuromancer."

Where M2 appeared to have a Russian connection, Titan Rain -- which is going on right now -- seems linked to China, home to some of the world's most skillful hackers. They have been mounting cyber attacks on critical Taiwanese information infrastructures for years, as well as on economic targets such as the stock exchange in Taipei.

Like M2, Titan Rain also features deep intrusions into our sensitive military and scientific systems, mapping our information architectures and apparently accessing information about weapons and other systems.

Even in the absence of a serious cyber-terror campaign orchestrated by a specific group, the claims paid by insurers for cyber disruptions each year already exceed $40 billion. Since insurers paid about the same amount in insured losses resulting from the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, it can be said that cyber attacks cost us, financially -- but not in loss of life -- the equivalent of a Sept. 11 every year.

Of course, these damages pale next to the dire consequences of a terror network coming into possession of a nuclear warhead. But it is highly unlikely that this will happen, because the nuclear weapons development process is extremely costly and complicated, and the alternate path, purchasing such devices, is fraught with potentially fatal security risks for the terrorists.

A capacity for cyber terror, on the other hand, is easily within reach for al Qaeda, other terror networks and rogue nations. Even individuals can play important roles as combatants in the virtual realm, since the world of computer viruses, worms and Trojan horses is truly one of remote, push-button warfare. All who have the requisite knowledge can soon be "clicking for their cause."

Many already possess this know-how, and the number of cyber warriors worldwide is growing swiftly. As to al Qaeda, it is thought to have sent at least one operative to the United States to learn computer science, although many more of the terror network's budding alpha geeks were given instruction elsewhere before Sept. 11.

Despite knowing of al Qaeda's long-standing interest in cyber terror, we have been a bit dismissive of this burgeoning threat. In part, that's because we doubt terrorists will focus on using computers to attack computer systems, believing instead that "real terrorists" want to kill people and blow things up far more than they want to cause data crashes.

From a purely psychological point of view, this idea makes sense, as traditional terrorists have been leg-breakers, for the most part. But over the past four years, we have made it very hard for al Qaeda to mount new attacks within the United States.

So, if Osama bin Laden wants to pursue his goal of attacking our economy, disruptive cyber-terror strikes via the Internet are likely to be an increasingly important element in his offensive.

The other reason for our being somewhat complacent about cyber terror derives from overconfidence in our defensive capabilities.

We believe that firewalls and other security tools really can protect us. There is a whole computer security industry out there, working hard every day to convince us that the virtual world can be made a safe place to do business. American companies and consumers do spend quite lavishly on this kind of security, and the Pentagon's expenditures on cyber defenses dwarf the private sector's.

Yet a goodly portion of what is paid out for cyber security is wasted. The big problem is that firewalls are generally effective only at thwarting attacks that employ already known tools and methods. Something entirely new, or a rejiggering of an older strain of a computer virus, will sail right past most firewalls, causing huge damage.

It's a situation like that caused by European explorers beginning in the 16th century. They traveled the world and brought their germs, against which the vast majority of indigenous peoples had no immunity. The result was a kind of running biological Holocaust.

If we remain firewall-dependent, sooner or later we'll find ourselves in the same situation, struck by a series of computer viruses and worms that move right through the permeable membranes of our security systems.

But there are some things we can do before al Qaeda tries to conquer us via cyberspace. The most important defensive measure we can take is to use strong encryption.

With little cost or loss of time or convenience, we could make it impossible for cyber terrorists to gain access to our systems, or to exploit them if they did gain entry. They simply wouldn't know what they were looking at, or how to find their way around a system they had hacked into.

Sadly, the U.S. government -- during both Democratic and Republican administrations -- spent many years fighting to keep strong encryption out of the hands of the American people.

That was most probably done so that U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies could retain the ability to engage in cyber snooping. But all it really did was create a situation in which criminals and terrorists now have good encryption while most of us still do not.

Today, it is legal for individuals to employ codes with unbreakably long lengths, but few people use them. Less than 10 percent of Internet traffic is encrypted at all. This is true of the military as well, where strong encryption is still seen as too much of an inconvenience.

Even if we never get our cyber defensive act together, there is something we can do offensively: detect and hack into the terrorists' own systems. Some of this goes on now, but far more must be done. Of the roughly $40 billion spent each year on intelligence, only a relative thimbleful goes to Web- and Net-based activities. This needs to change.

Given that the terrorists are doing a lot to secure their own systems, we should recruit more of the world's master hackers to our cause. They'll give us our best chance of cracking even strongly encrypted terrorist communications.

The best part of making this move is that we'll learn far more about the terrorists than we have ever known before. This will give us a real chance of winning the war on terror, while at the same time reducing the intrusions on Americans' privacy.

In the meantime, get ready. The terrorists are preparing to mount cyberspace-based attacks, and we are ill prepared to deal with them.

We know from the capture of Khalid Sheik Mohammed early on in the war on terror and the more recent capture of Abu Musab al Zarqawi's laptop (but not of the man himself) that al Qaeda is a sophisticated user of advanced information technology. From other sources we have learned of the terror network's intent to launch a cyber-terror campaign. So, the clock is ticking toward a showdown with these weapons of mass disruption.

Let's hope our leaders have the wit and grit to secure our information systems, and to realize that, although our enemies may dwell in caves, they do much of their work in cyberspace. This, if we're smart about it, will turn out to be a fatal weakness of theirs -- one just begging to be exploited.

John Arquilla is professor of defense analysis at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey. His views do not represent official Defense Department policy. Contact us at insight@sfchronicle.com.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/01/15/ING2AGLP021.DTL

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February 10, 2006 08:37 PM ET
U.S. Concludes 'Cyber Storm' Mock Attacks

All Associated Press NewsWASHINGTON (AP) - The government concluded its "Cyber Storm" wargame Friday, its biggest-ever exercise to test how it would respond to devastating attacks over the Internet from anti-globalization activists, underground hackers and bloggers.

Bloggers?

Participants confirmed parts of the worldwide simulation challenged government officials and industry executives to respond to deliberate misinformation campaigns and activist calls by Internet bloggers, online diarists whose "Web logs" include political rantings and musings about current events.

The Internet survived, even against fictional abuses against the world's computers on a scale typical for Fox's popular "24" television series. Experts depicted hackers who shut down electricity in 10 states, failures in vital systems for online banking and retail sales, infected discs mistakenly distributed by commercial software companies and critical flaws discovered in core Internet technology.

Some mock attacks were aimed at causing a "significant cyber disruption" that could seriously damage energy, transportation and health care industries and undermine public confidence, said George Foresman, an undersecretary at the Homeland Security Department.

There was no impact on the real Internet during the weeklong exercise. Government officials from the United States, Canada, Australia and England and executives from Microsoft, Cisco, Verisign and others said they were careful to simulate attacks only using isolated computers, working from basement offices at the Secret Services headquarters in downtown Washington.

The Homeland Security Department promised a full report on results from the exercise by summer.

Foresman likened his agency's role during any Internet attack to an orchestra conductor, coordinating responses from law enforcement, intelligence agencies, the military and private firms. The government's goal is a "symphony of preparedness," Foresman said.

Homeland Security coordinated the exercise. More than 115 government agencies, companies and organizations participated. They included the White House National Security Council, Justice Department, Defense Department, State Department, National Security Agency and CIA, which conducted its own cybersecurity exercise called "Silent Horizon" last May.

An earlier cyberterrorism exercise called "Livewire" for Homeland Security and other federal agencies concluded there were serious questions over government's role during a cyberattack depending on who was identified as the culprit -- terrorists, a foreign government or bored teenagers.

It also questioned whether the U.S. government would be able to detect the early stages of such an attack without significant help from private technology companies.

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On the Net:

Department of Homeland Security: http://www.dhs.gov

http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.asp?feed=AP&Date=20060210&ID=5497110

[Casey]

The growth of the virtual 'jihad’ community

As the US military learns how to “fight the net”, observers say that with the rapid growth of the “virtual jihad community”, electronic warfare will take on a new significance.

By Stephen Ulph for the Jamestown Foundation (13/02/06)


The recently declassified document called “Information Operations Roadmap”, which highlights how the US military is learning to “fight the net”, has drawn much interest from western commentators.

There is concern over the ambitions to exercise control over the internet expressed in the document. The October 2003 document, signed by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, also highlights the vulnerability of US networks to infiltration and destruction. The document called for a radical re-evaluation of how the military should conduct electronic warfare, including psychological operations (PsyOps) and aggressive hacking techniques.

From evidence found in jihadi forums, the US military has its work cut out. Since the explosive growth of the virtual jihad community after the loss of Afghanistan, which has seen the number of radical websites mushroom from less than 100 to several thousand today, the mujahideen have demonstrated their sophistication in the medium.

Much discussion space is given not only to protecting themselves from penetration, but for taking the hacker warfare to their enemies. Most radical jihadi forums devote an entire section to the technique. For example, in the “jihadi hacker forum” of the radical jihadist al-Ghorabaa site (http://www.alghorabaa.net/forums), the most popular comment strings are: “penetrating computer devices” and “easy methods to penetrate servers in an intranet”.

Further postings feature: “How to steal passwords (deliverable via email)”; “How to reveal the passwords under the asterisks”; “How to protect yourself from attack”; “Can you be arrested due to your emails?”; “Encyclopedia of hacking sites”; “Concealment on the web: a lesson in intermediaries” (anonymous browsing techniques); and “A book in Arabic for instruction in hacking techniques”.

This last posting provides a 344-page, profusely illustrated, step-by-step guide intended by the anonymous author for “terminating pornographic sites and those intended for the Jews and their supporters”.

Other sites such as the Egyptian Hackers Intelligence Agency (http://eljehad.netfirms.com) specialize in the techniques, while sites such as Jihadak Matlub (“your jihad is wanted”) aim to channel the efforts of armchair mujahideen in the campaign.

The most recent demonstration of the efficiency, coordination, and ingenuity of the internet mujahideen is the uproar over the cartoons published by the Danish paper Jyllands-Posten depicting the Prophet Muhammad. This theme is currently conspicuous among all the electronic warfare sections of the jihadi forums, which have taken this as a cause célèbre. The al-Ghorabaa site coordinated a 24-hour attack on this and other newspaper sites and paraded its success on 2 February with the result.

Following this, the forum participants initiated discussion on how to broaden the campaign. This was aided by the death sentences on the cartoonist pronounced by radical sheikhs such as Nazim al-Misbah in Kuwait, reported on al-Arabiya television, and the report by the Lebanese daily al-Nahar that Usbat al-Ansar in the Ein Helweh refugee camp had called for “reviving the ‘tradition of slaughter”, and demanded that Osama bin Laden take vengeance (http://www.annahar.com). The threat, according to the pan-Arab daily al-Quds al-Arabi, has since been answered by the Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades, which sent a declaration to the paper detailing how they had threatened Denmark with a “lasting war and a series of blessed raids” (http://www.alquds.co.uk).

Amid the controversy over the burning of the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus and the burning of the Danish embassy in Beirut, al-Ghorabaa participants also called for a global “embassy-burning day” with Islamic youth called on to set fire to Danish embassies all over the world.

As a demonstration of the value of the web to the jihad, the day is to be coordinated by the following mobile phone message: “Urgent! Spread this; Resistance from the entire Islamic world before all Danish embassies in Muslim states, to protest against the publication of the pictures and to demand an apology; [demonstration to take place] on February 13, 2006. Participate and defend your Prophet!”

Confident that the scheme will receive wide acceptance, the posting then urged participants to distribute the message demand to all forums irrespective of their ideological line. “Let those who wish for a practical victory,” it details, “take a glass bottle filled with petrol and some cloth wadding […] remember to incite the crowds to storm the embassy, as happened in Indonesia” (http://www.alghorabaa.net/forums/showthread.php?t=3091).


This article originally appeared in Eurasia Daily Monitor, published by The Jamestown Foundation in Washington, DC., at (www.Jamestown.org). The Jamestown Foundation is an independent, nonpartisan organization supported by tax-deductible contributions from corporations, foundations, and individuals.

http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?ID=14757

[Casey]

Muslim hackers hit 3000 Danish websites

Call it a form of cyberterror. Muslim hackers have launched an attack unprecedented in scope on Danish websites. It is more and more evident that they are nothing but bullies who see no limits on their tactics in getting their way. Sharia will define what Danes and everyone else in the world can say, write, or draw. That is their aim. The UPI reports:

Muslim hackers angered by the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed have defaced nearly 3,000 Danish Web sites over the past month in the biggest politically motivated cyber attack long-time observers have ever seen.

Experts say that the world-wide protests over a Danish newspaper’s decision to publish the caricatures, an act offensive to Muslims who regard any depiction of the Prophet Mohammed as blasphemous, may prove to be something of a coming-of-age moment for the emerging movement of Internet mujahideen—Islamic extremists committed to waging a cyber Jihad on the Web.

“They see this as a huge opportunity,” Stephen Ulph told United Press International.

Ulph, a terrorism analyst with the Jamestown Foundation who monitors web forums and chat rooms used by Islamic hackers, said, “You can feel the excitement (among their users)... There’s a sense that they can make a real difference (on this issue).”

Roberto Preatoni, founder and administrator of Zone-H.org, which tracks Web graffiti artists, says his site has monitored 2,817 defacements of sites in the .dk domain since Jan. 21, when the cartoon controversy first boiled over into world-wide street demonstrations and riots.

“That is at least 10 times, maybe more like 20 times, the number of attacks (in that domain) we would expect in such a time frame,” he told UPI, adding that thousands of other Web sites in Europe and Israel had also been defaced.

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The growth of the virtual 'jihad’ community

As the US military learns how to “fight the net”, observers say that with the rapid growth of the “virtual jihad community”, electronic warfare will take on a new significance.

By Stephen Ulph for the Jamestown Foundation (13/02/06)


The recently declassified document called “Information Operations Roadmap”, which highlights how the US military is learning to “fight the net”, has drawn much interest from western commentators.

There is concern over the ambitions to exercise control over the internet expressed in the document. The October 2003 document, signed by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, also highlights the vulnerability of US networks to infiltration and destruction. The document called for a radical re-evaluation of how the military should conduct electronic warfare, including psychological operations (PsyOps) and aggressive hacking techniques.

From evidence found in jihadi forums, the US military has its work cut out. Since the explosive growth of the virtual jihad community after the loss of Afghanistan, which has seen the number of radical websites mushroom from less than 100 to several thousand today, the mujahideen have demonstrated their sophistication in the medium.

Much discussion space is given not only to protecting themselves from penetration, but for taking the hacker warfare to their enemies. Most radical jihadi forums devote an entire section to the technique. For example, in the “jihadi hacker forum” of the radical jihadist al-Ghorabaa site (http://www.alghorabaa.net/forums), ...









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Al Qaeda's Web of Terror
Terror Group Increasingly Using Internet to Connect, Plan and Execute Attacks
Analysis
By ALEXIS DEBAT

March 10, 2006 -- - When they raided what they had been told was "Al Qaeda's command center" in a remote compound in South Waziristan's Shakai valley in June 2004, Pakistani special forces made a surprising discovery.

In a secret basement, the officers collected a treasure trove of computer equipment, including several laptops, printers and CD burners, as well as advanced video equipment.

While this discovery provided Pakistani and American counter-terrorism officials with a unique insight into al Qaeda's operations after 9/11, it only confirmed what they already knew about the organization's heavy reliance on modern information technology and, more specifically, the Internet.

High-Tech Terrorism

After relying heavily on fixed -- and thus vulnerable -- Web sites until early 2002, al Qaeda quickly switched to hiding its online operations within more legitimate bulletin boards and Internet sites offering free upload services or connecting through such popular social network sites as Orkut and MySpace.

This technique of "parasiting" Web sites makes it harder for law enforcement services to track them and shut them down.

But while this capacity to network and spread propaganda represents a clear security risk, the most dangerous and stealthiest use of the Internet by al Qaeda is for communication, training and planning purposes.

From the Bali bombing in 2002 to the London attacks last July, every major terrorist operation undertaken by Osama bin Laden's organization since 9/11 involved extensive and clandestine use of the Internet.

British security services have established that the man considered to be the "cell leader" of the July 7 London bombings, Muhammad Siddique Khan, had communicated with several contacts in Pakistan through his own Yahoo! account.

How Al Qaeda Stays Connected

According to Pakistani intelligence sources, the use of free and anonymous e-mail services such as Yahoo! or Hotmail by al Qaeda operatives is widespread.

To avoid being intercepted, the messages are not sent but saved in the account's draft box.

They can then be retrieved by other operatives by simply logging on to the same e-mail address -- with a shared password.

This technique makes it impossible for intelligence services such as the British GCHQ or the American NSA to read these messages without hacking into the servers themselves, which they are legally prohibited to do.

And even if they do read these messages, intelligence services worldwide are confronted with a second hurdle: Al Qaeda's operatives speak in code words which makes it impossible for any outsider to understand their true content if they have not penetrated the organization already.

Such "intelligence breaks" are extremely rare, but not unheard of. In October 2001, the British police arrested a French computer engineer linked to a major al Qaeda cell in Europe.

Kamel Daoudi was found in possession of a "codebook" that later enabled Western intelligence services to decrypt thousands of e-mails and phone conversations that they had previously intercepted but had not been able to crack.

Bin Laden's Inbox

Pakistani intelligence sources also tell ABC News that even bin Laden and Zawahiri still use these e-mail services to send their directives through the Internet.

Not directly, of course, but through intermediaries, usually bodyguards, who are sent on foot from the leaders' clandestine locations to the nearest house or cybercafé, where they simply log on and write their messages.

One of the most striking features of the remote Afghan-Pakistan border is the wide availability of Internet services, either private dial-up or cybercafés.

While hardly accessible by land or air, the town of Chitral -- in Pakistan's remote Northern Areas -- where Pakistani intelligence still believes that bin Laden spends his summers, has several cybercafés.

Terror Training Online

Beyond communications, al Qaeda is increasingly using the Internet for operational purposes.

Following the loss of Afghanistan as a sanctuary and training ground, the terrorist organization put thousands of pages of its training online.

From the making of an IED or deadly chemical weapons to the staging of an ambush, the Internet has now become al Qaeda's "virtual training ground."

Worse, according to French counter-terrorism officials, existing jihadi networks are taking their reliance on the Internet for operational purposes to a completely new level.

When they dismantled a network of Islamic militants linked to Abu Musab al Zarqawi's "Al Qaeda in Iraq" last fall, French authorities made a startling discovery.

One of the militants, Kaci Warab, had spent several months in a facility operated by Zarqawi followers near Tripoli, Lebanon, to be trained on detonator designs far more complex than anyone had seen thus far.

One of these designs, according to French counter-terrorism sources, involved the use of Web-capable cellphones which could be "activated" (thus detonated) remotely over the Internet from anywhere in the world by punching a password on a Web site.

Because it indicates a strong focus on operations involving the simultaneous detonation of dozens (if not hundreds, as seen in Bangladesh last year) of bombs throughout the world, this brand new usage of the Internet is causing a lot of worries among intelligence and law enforcement officials worldwide.

But beyond these specific operational considerations, there is no doubt that al Qaeda has been highly successful in using the Internet to not only survive the global war on terror but expand its "biomorphic" and deadly nature. It is one of the cruelest ironies that our most ardent enemies have become so skillful at turning our society against ourselves.

"Terrorist Internet Service Provider'

It's not much of a stretch to say that when al Qaeda was created in 1988 it became something of a "terrorist Internet Service Provider" linking together various elements of the worldwide jihadi community that had fought against the Soviets in Afghanistan in the 1980s.

To pursue this objective, bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al Zawahiri set up a unique structure whose essence was less an ideology than a function: connecting.

At its core, al Qaeda is a worldwide directory, a "global grid" linking together thousands of disparate human, financial, military, intellectual and technical resources around a central mission.

Throughout the 1990s, with its training camps and discreet networking around the world, al Qaeda weaved a complex web linking together businessmen, clerics, fighters, journalists and criminals, some of whom belonged to terrorist groups that ranged from Algeria's "Groupe Islamique Armé" to Pakistan's "Jaish Muhammad."

This function took on a whole new dimension with the advent of the Internet. European and Pakistani intelligence sources say a former militant trained in bin Laden's camps in Afghanistan has revealed that al Qaeda started using the Internet as early as 1993, even conducting online conference calls in 2000.

A Pakistani intelligence officer on duty at the border with Afghanistan in late 2001 recently told ABC News that "almost every Arab that we arrested in Pakistan in 2001 and 2002 was in possession of a laptop computer."

Terror Goes Virtual

Now on the run, bin Laden's organization is even more virtual, which often means more dependent on the World Wide Web to spread propaganda and plot operations.

It is also one of the main reasons why, despite the many blows that it received since 9/11, many analysts believe the organization's operational capabilities have not truly diminished.

As the CIA and its allies closed some of these links, al Qaeda was able to use the Web to either redirect those links or activate others. This has occurred especially in countries such as Pakistan and Iraq, where Western intelligence agencies have considerable trouble operating.

The most visible part of al Qaeda's online presence involves the spread of statements and propaganda, which have spearheaded the explosion of jihadi Web sites in the past four years.

Law enforcement officials in Europe report that the number of such Web sites went from a dozen on Sept. 10, 2001, to close to 5,000 today.

While only a handful are currently operated by al Qaeda officials or militants, they serve a crucial purpose by "spreading activation" and nourishing the outrage or the global Muslim community, therefore laying the groundwork for al Qaeda's fundraising and recruitment activities.

Alexis Debat is a senior fellow at George Washington University's Homeland Security Policy Institute and contributing editor for "The National Interest" in Washington, D.C.. He is also a consultant to ABC News.

Copyright © 2006 ABC News Internet Ventures
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[Petronas]

Internet 'cloaking' emerges as new Web security threat
03/08/06 -- 12:08 PM

Terrorist organizations and other national enemies have launched bogus Web sites that mask their covert information or provide misleading information to users they identify as federal employees or agents, according to Lance Cottrell, founder and chief scientist at Anonymizer of San Diego.

The criminal and terrorist organizations also increasingly are blocking all traffic from North America or from Internet Protocol addresses that point back to users who rely on the English language, Cotrell told an educational seminar in Washington at the FOSE 2006 trade show’s Homeland Security Center yesterday. FOSE is sponsored by PostNewsweek Tech Media, the parent company of Government Computer News.

Among the risks of the terrorist cloaking practice are that the organizations can provide bogus passwords to covert meetings. By doing so they can pinpoint federal intelligence agents who attend the meetings, making them vulnerable to being kidnapped or becoming the unwitting carriers of false information, Cottrell said.

Cloaking is just one means by which hostile intelligence organizations can exploit the ability of IP addresses to reveal the physical location—and frequently the organizational identity—of a user visiting a Web site.

Another method Cottrell described was a case in which hackers set a number of criteria that they all shared using the Linux operating system and the Netscape browser, among other factors. When federal investigators using PCs running Windows and using Internet Explorer visited the hackers' shared site, the hackers' system immediately mounted a distributed denial-of-service attack against the federal system.

Cottrell said his company had helped humanitarian activists in the former Yugoslav republic of Kosovo shield themselves from attacks by paramilitary goons employed by Serbian strongman Slobodan Milošević. The Milošević paramilitaries were using the activists' IP addresses to pinpoint their physical locations and follow up with attacks aimed at preventing the activists' campaigns against specific human rights abuses.

"Imagine the kind of damage a mole at Google could do," Cottrell said, noting that Google keeps logs of the Web searches it provides, which provide a comprehensive picture of users' Web traffic patterns.

In a similar fashion, Web-savvy intelligence specialists can use IP address data to analyze what types of information a particular federal user is seeking and, by inference, what types of intelligence or counterintelligence operations federal agencies are carrying out.

Cottrell described a situation in which Anonymizer employees had worked on a Navy aircraft carrier that allowed sailors to access the Web. He noted that by analyzing Web traffic that could be traced back to that ship via the IP addresses of its public browsers, hostile intelligence services could determine the name of the ship, the port it was visiting and other information.

Cottrell said his company, which sells technology to prevent the use of IP address information for such purposes, had shielded the identities of the providers of 25,000 tips to the FBI in one recent three-month period.

Even as the use of IP address security technology is critical to maintaining Web security, Cottrell noted that the use of firewalls, antivirus software, measures to defeat social engineering and reduce human error are also essential.

Anonymizer has received a contract from the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the foreign-policy agency that runs the Voice of America international radio service, to provide technology that the people of Iran can use to circumvent their government's Web censorship program. Anonymizer also soon will launch, at its own expense, a service that will allow the people of China to overcome Beijing's massive program to censor the Web, Cottrell said.

http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/40075-1.html

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The invention that makes al-Qaeda rich
GREG MCARTHUR

From Saturday's Globe and Mail

OTTAWA — When the British police raided the homes of the terrorists, the evidence was plentiful: Travel documents hidden in a baby walker, videotapes of Osama bin Laden speeches and in the wardrobe, a stack of pamphlets titled Jihad and Preparation.

It was the morning of Sept. 25, 2001, and the anti-terrorism squads had just raided two homes in a working-class district of Leicester, U.K., a neighbourhood of terraced, red-brick homes, dominated by immigrants. The arrests were supposed to be the final kick at a crumbling terrorist cell and bring down one of its ringleaders.

But, like so many people before them, it took the police some time before they recognized the genius of this operation.

When the officers finally got around to popping the trunk of the terrorists' Ford Fiesta, there it was.

Buried inside a Compaq laptop was a Canadian innovation — software that had helped finance al-Qaeda terrorists who were plotting to blow up the U.S. embassy in Paris.

This is how it got there.

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As a child, Rob Cattral's problems with authority always got in the way of his scholastic success. He spit in class. He threw apples. By Grade 7, he was placed in a special class reserved for underachievers. “It was like pulling teeth to get me to do a book report,” he said in an interview with The Globe and Mail.

He had impressive scores on standardized tests and at least one visit to a child psychologist, but his Ottawa teachers could never harness young Rob's mind.

This was the early 1980s, at least a decade before public educators would invest in the one thing that would get him to focus — a computer.

It was only when he was fiddling with an electronic appliance or in front of the computer in his parents' basement that he applied his intellect. Organizing numbers into codes, and using those codes to perform functions, came naturally. And it wasn't until high school, when his father talked an upstart high-tech company into giving his son a job interview, that his talent was appreciated.

“He was a very bright lad,” said Ray Novokowsky, the man who hired Mr. Cattral as a 17-year-old. “He could do things some of my other programmers couldn't do. He's a self-starter.”

Mr. Novokowsky's company had been hired to develop software that could keep track of the federal government's assets. By sticking bar codes on everything in the bureaucracy — desks, chairs, computers — and integrating it with software, they could monitor all of it, right down to the last telephone.

This was it — the beginning of Rob Cattral's fascination with collecting and analyzing data. If you could use computers and bar codes to keep track of staplers and calculators, you could use them to keep track of anything, even people and their behaviour.

But Mr. Cattral hadn't lost that edge from his personality. He began hanging out with a rougher crowd. When his friends ran afoul of a neighbourhood drug dealer — a hash deal that left both sides angry — Mr. Cattral blended his aptitude for technology with his aptitude for raising hell.

Nowadays, he calls the idea “dumb” but in February of 1991 he helped his friends fashion a homemade bomb from a propane cylinder and they put it on the drug dealer's car. It never ignited, but the threat sparked a police investigation.

Three months later, Mr. Cattral was arrested and charged with possession of explosives and attempted murder. It got worse for the young man when, as he was leaving the courthouse one day, he got into a shouting match with a female friend of the drug dealer. The spat earned him a new charge of violating the conditions of his bail and he was put back in a jail cell. He didn't like the idea of staying there until his trial, which was still months away, so he agreed to plead guilty and the Crown dropped the attempted-murder charge.

At his sentencing in January of 1992, Judge Bernard Ryan gave his assessment of Mr. Cattral.

“You are a very disturbed man,” the judge told Mr. Cattral, according to an article in the Ottawa Citizen, before he sentenced him to 20 months.

At some point during his stay in a Northern Ontario correctional facility, where he spent his days reading Ed McBain detective novels and playing cards, he decided to make a change.

“It was the biggest waste of time possible. When I'm out here,” he said, referring to life outside jail, “I think a mile a minute.

“It was that little stint that made me think of going back to university.”


Carleton University was not like high school. The learning was self directed, and there were like-minded students and professors in the department of computer science, people who appreciated technology's limitless potential.

He knocked off an undergraduate degree and a master's degree and began working toward a PhD. He also took a job as a teacher's assistant, introducing young minds to the field of cryptology.

“If you ever watched him interact with students, you'd see how he's very committed to making sure the person that he's talking to gets the ideas he's trying to impart,” said Steffen Christensen, a fellow PhD student at Carleton. “He gives them lots of latitude. He's known students that have had a hard time. He's been a student that had a hard time.”

Mr. Cattral had put his past behind him — except his hankering for data collection.

It was during his early university years that he sat down in his parents' basement and devised a unique code that would enhance the bar-code software he helped create as a teenager and make him a lot of money.

Rather than using bar codes though, this software would store information from magnetic stripe cards, such as bank cards and video-store memberships. The possibilities for storing data were enormous; every time someone swiped a driver's licence, a gym membership or even a credit card through a reader, the software would store the data on a computer. Even better, Mr. Cattral designed the program so that it could copy that data onto a new card.

He modified the code, wrote a few variations and sold one of them to a company in California. When he perfected it, he gave it a name — RenCode 2000 — and decided to sell it for himself. It was the only software of its kind and was user friendly. Anyone with a basic knowledge of Windows and a RenCode user manual could get a handle on the program.

The company, which he called Canadian Barcode and Plastic Card Supply, sold the software as well as the portable magnetic stripe readers that are needed to swipe the cards through. It had modest earnings for its first few years, but word must have spread because Mr. Cattral began to get customers off the street.

On Jan. 29, 2001, a man who looked Middle Eastern and spoke English without an accent walked into the office and paid $1,700 in cash for a magnetic stripe reader and a copy of RenCode. He said his name was John Almoun, and he left no trace of his visit to the office, except for a vague invoice that indicates he was taking the software to Lebanon.

Mr. Cattral also attracted international clients.

One of them called from Europe. The man claimed he ran a company called AMA Business Cards, and he wanted to purchase RenCode and some portable magnetic stripe readers. The name he provided, Mr. Cattral said, was Kamel Daoudi.

Mr. Cattral didn't have any reason to be suspicious. Mr. Daoudi's company even had a website.

“It seemed to be a legitimate company,” he said.

It turns out Mr. Daoudi had interests other than data collection.


It didn't receive much publicity in Canada, but six weeks before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, a different al-Qaeda plot began to unravel.

A high-ranking al-Qaeda operative named Djamel Beghal was detained in a Dubai airport for carrying a false passport. By the time authorities finished their interrogation — Mr. Beghal claims he was tortured — they had uncovered the identities of al-Qaeda agents across Europe and a plot to attack U.S. interests in Paris.

Police swooped down on terrorism suspects in Belgium and discovered 61 kilograms of sulphur powder and 40 litres of acetone. They also arrested men in Holland who had attended al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan. But in Paris, they missed one important target — a young Algerian computer expert named Kamel Daoudi who slipped onto a Eurostar train bound for England shortly before the arrests.

When he stepped off the train, he looked up two Algerians living in Leicester. One of them, Brahim Benmerzouga, had worked at various restaurants and a laundromat and dabbled in the used-car business. The other, Baghdad Meziane, lived in a nearby flat.

The local police force was already watching the Algerians closely, but when Mr. Daoudi arrived in town they readied themselves for a raid.

They waited patiently for days, and watched as the men went swimming at a public pool, shopping at a grocery store and as they went to pick up a money transfer. At 6:30 a.m. on a Tuesday — exactly two weeks after the attacks on the United States — the police struck.

The raids uncovered military equipment — a solar-powered battery, the same type used by mujahedeen in Afghanistan — and 66 recruitment videotapes with names such as Lovers of Martyrdom and No Surrender. Diaries and notes kept by the men were littered with coded language, such as “production of butter,” “washed clothes” and “unwashed clothes.”

But there was another type of unexplained code, this computer software called RenCode.

The software installed in the terrorists' Compaq laptop had a serial number, RC-S031E52, the same serial number of the software purchased by John Almoun, the man who had walked into Mr. Cattral's office six months earlier with a wad of cash.

Police searched another car belonging to the terrorists, a Peugeot 405. Inside they found a RenCode CD, disks containing data from 90 different credit cards and stacks of phony credit cards. It quickly became clear what the terrorists had been up to — stealing, storing and copying credit card information from unsuspecting shoppers. The men had figured out that RenCode could help them recreate fraudulent credit cards. They had set up a fundraising drive for their jihad.

The police estimated that Mr. Cattral's invention, as well as the portable magnetic stripe readers sold by his company, contributed $400,000 to the cause.

The raid was followed by more raids and more discoveries of RenCode. Another Algerian friend of the terrorists, Farid Belaribi, was arrested with the software as well as details from 350 different credit cards, including cards that had been used in Toronto stores. In the years that followed, British police forces, including Scotland Yard's anti-terrorism branch and the British Transport Police, kept discovering fraudulent credit cards and the Canadian ingenuity behind them.

When it came time to put the Algerian terrorists on trial, the government called in Nicholas Webber, a forensic computer consultant who has been used across Britain as an expert witness. He marvelled at RenCode's capabilities as he showed the jury how the software works.

“When you . . . run the RenCode program, which is great, I'm going to download all this information,” he told the courtroom as he swiped his credit card through a magnetic stripe reader.

After a two-month trial, the two Leicester terrorists, Mr. Benmerzouga and Mr. Meziane, were convicted of entering into a funding agreement for the purposes of terrorism. Both were sentenced to 11 years in prison.

Mr. Daoudi was sent back to France and found guilty of organizing a suicide bombing of the U.S. embassy in Paris. Last year, an appeals court reduced his sentence to six years from nine.

The young Algerian computer expert never formally admitted to being part of an al-Qaeda plot, but he did try to share his story with the public. In a letter to a French television station, he declared: “My ideological commitment is total and the reward of glory for this relentless battle is to be called a terrorist. I accept the name of terrorist if it is used to mean that I terrorize a one-sided system of iniquitous power and a perversity that comes in many forms.”

During the past four years, many police forces have contacted Mr. Cattral and let him know what has become of his brainchild after it left his office. He flew to Britain to testify as a Crown witness against another Algerian man who, using RenCode and equipment from Mr. Cattral's company, ran an illegal credit card factory with the potential to steal an estimated $12-million.

But the PhD student has remained undeterred. He kept selling his flagship software and profited. In April of 2002, during a span of two weeks, he and his now-ex-girlfriend took a mortgage out on a new $310,000 Ottawa home and he helped his mother buy the $260,000 house next door.

In 2003, his company had more than $1-million in gross sales. During that time he also treated himself to a black, 2003 Z06 Corvette with a retail value of $44,000. When he decided to get vanity licence plates, he picked the name that helped earn his new-found wealth: RENCODE.


The question of where al-Qaeda's money comes from has long stumped U.S. intelligence services.

The long-held belief was that Osama bin Laden bankrolled his cause with his inherited fortune, presumed to be $300-million. That theory was debunked when, according to the 9/11 Commission, U.S. officials travelled to Saudi Arabia and confirmed that Mr. bin Laden's share was closer to $1-million a year, not nearly enough to support his worldwide network. Mr. bin Laden's personal finances were also hampered in 1994 when the Saudi government forced his relatives to sell his portion of the family company, and then promptly froze the proceeds of the sale.

Before the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, almost all attempts by the CIA to detect al-Qaeda's financing scheme were unsuccessful. Even after 19 months of poring over documents and interviewing more than 1,000 people, the 9/11 Commission was unable to say with any certainty the origins of the estimated $500,000 that was used to fund the Sept. 11 attacks.

The report did make a prediction, though: As al-Qaeda disintegrates into smaller, decentralized groups, terrorists will fund themselves through crime.

Mr. Cattral doesn't dismiss these things when he talks about his software. He is unabashed and transparent about the crimes that have been committed because of his creation. “It's true it provides an avenue for people to generate revenue illegitimately,” he acknowledged. “It's unfortunate that some people use it for illegitimate purposes.”

But he insists RenCode was never intended to steal and copy credit card information. Rather, he said, it was designed to help businesses, governments or people collect data, legally. He has a long list of legitimate clients, he said. They include gyms and the California Department of Agriculture, which has used his software to monitor trucks that haul fruits and vegetables across the state. Many of his clients, he said, come from the trade show industry, which uses magnetic stripe readers to track potential customers as they peruse booths.

He said he had no idea about the intentions of Mr. Daoudi, the mysterious Mr. Almoun, or any of the terrorism suspects in Britain who have been arrested with his software. As for how these men knew to come to him for their fundraising needs, he suspects they either discovered his technology on the Internet or heard about credit card fraud through the media.

“It is a bit of a guess,” he said.

He also questions how useful his technology would be to a terrorist's cause, pointing out that the amount of money raised by buying items with phony credit cards and then reselling the goods would pale in comparison to other types of crime, such as a car theft.

And any suggestion that he is aiding Islamic terrorism is faulty, he said. Every time someone is shot or stabbed, the police don't link the gun manufacturer or the knife salesmen to the crime, so why is he being linked to terrorism?

“Terrorism goes contrary to everything I'm working toward — building a career, building a company,” he said.

Those goals have been stalled, at least temporarily, by a joint police investigation led by the Ontario Provincial Police.

In July of 2004, Mr. Cattral and three employees from his company were arrested and his office was raided. Mr. Cattral was charged with forging credit cards and selling devices used to forge credit cards, and his company was hit with severe, temporary restrictions on selling RenCode and the magnetic stripe readers. But the most significant accusation was that Mr. Cattral and his co-workers were participating in a criminal organization. It's one of the first times the law, which was passed in 1997 in an attempt to quash the war in Quebec between the Hells Angels and the Rock Machine, has been applied to someone other than a biker or a member of the Mafia.

Essentially, the police have said that the primary purpose of Mr. Cattral's company is to facilitate crime for the material benefit of the computer scientist and his employees. RenCode is being put on trial, a proceeding that is slated to start by early 2007.

The authorities have a narrow-minded view of his creation and his company, Mr. Cattral said, and he said he worries about the consequences if they're able to impose that view on a judge or jury.

He's currently finishing his thesis in data mining, an exploding field that many people — statisticians, academics, executives — believe is on the cusp of something huge. The study, which uses complex algorithms to find significant relationships between things that, on the surface, don't appear to be connected, could change the world. The most commonly cited case is the beer and diapers discovery.

Using computers, researchers have sorted through mounds of information — attained from receipts — looking for correlations, and some now believe that when men buy diapers for their children, they often buy beer. That discreet relationship, if true, could pay off for U.S. stores, which could capitalize by putting either diapers or beer on sale, but never both. Besides retail though, data mining has many applications. Ironically, it has been widely reported that the U.S. National Security Agency is using data mining to find suspicious relationships between the countless number of transactions that take place everyday in stores, banks, airports and on the Internet in an attempt to pre-empt terrorist strikes.

But in order to make these findings, researchers need data. That means they need a mechanism to record information: receipts, surveys or magnetic stripe readers and software such as RenCode.

That makes RenCode worth fighting for, Mr. Cattral said, and it's a battle he's willing to take to the Supreme Court, if need be.

“It is an issue of pride — that's why I don't want to give it up. They see it as this evil software — that's why I don't want to give it up.”

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060318.wccard0318/BNStory/International/home

[Casey]

The sheikh Al Faqih and the sheikh are Majed 's father they consolidate what he said the brotherhood about the penetration of the calculation is !!

In the Name of Allah, the Benificent, the Merciful .

This subject was issued in the Al Quds Al Arabi newspaper today, hope its reading with care so that the truth of the brotherhood sayings that accused the calculation of the penetration becomes clear to you and that it is from the brotherhood detention reason after Al Bqiq operation and there is no might nor strength except in Allah, and I leave you with the place :

Dismantling a network of the hardliners after the penetration of sites on the Internet and its closure

more:
http://wincoast.com/forum/showthread.php?p=605633#post605633

[Casey]

More information regarding the arrest of Terrorist 007 here:
http://worldanalysis.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=181

[Casey]

SAUDIS ARREST SUSPECTED QA'IDA TERRORISTS

Saudi Arabia's security forces arrested more than forty men in a series of simultaneous operations on Wednesday, all suspected of being members of the Al-Qa'ida terror organization, reports the online Arabic-language news portal Elaph.

Nineteen of those who were arrested are suspected of financially aiding terror attacks, said security sources, who added that the nineteen also used the Internet to disseminate Al-Qa'ida's ideology. Thirteen were arrested in Al-Buqaiq with weapons and explosives ready to be used, said the sources. The security forces found 99 hand grenades, 18 Kalashnikovs, 62 machine guns, and a large quantity of ammunition in the apartment where they caught the men.

Another eight were arrested in Riyadh and Al-Qa'sim for their direct involvement in last month's terror attack in Al-Buqaiq, announced the internal affairs ministry spokesman. The eight provided money to the terrorists, distributed propaganda on the Internet, and were found possessing weapons, documents, and computers, said the spokesman.

Saudi Arabia has suffered a number of deadly terror attacks in the past few years, all at the hands of Al-Qa'ida terrorists. Al-Qa'ida targets many Muslim countries which are headed by leaders who do not agree with the organization's extremist views. Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Jordan are only a few examples of such countries, which are targeted also for their cooperation with the United States in its war on global jihad.

By The Media Line Staff on Thursday, March 30, 2006

http://themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=13233

[Casey]

RE:

SAUDIS ARREST SUSPECTED QA'IDA TERRORISTS

Saudi Arabia's security forces arrested more than forty men in a series of simultaneous operations on Wednesday, all suspected of being members of the Al-Qa'ida terror organization, reports the online Arabic-language news portal Elaph.

By The Media Line Staff on Thursday, March 30, 2006

http://themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=13233

There is more information regarding these arrests in the

Anyone familiar with alhesbah.org forum? thread
http://wincoast.com/forum/showthread.php?t=21256

And some information regarding the jihad media being infiltrated:

Clouds Enterprise Media
http://wincoast.com/forum/showthread.php?t=28574

and there is more at WA.

[Casey]

I have been talking about this over the past few days.

The Cyber War is not being addressed effectively because the transition of information from cyber units to traditional investigative and arresting units has not been streamlined.

I say it again, you can take down websites all you want, unless the perpetrators are questioned and a determination made, it's a vicious circle.

Saudi Arabia seems to have made some strides that are going relatively unannounced in the past month or so, I will reserve comment until we see something concrete.

The Cyber War/Dis-Info/Propaganda War has much better players that the people who are fighting it considering material has been available for many years regarding how to address this issue. See: Networks and Netwars:
The Future of Terror, Crime, and Militancy
http://wincoast.com/forum/showthread.php?p=211946&highlight=Rand#post211946

IMO the ideology is misunderstood which is why it can't be countered and running interference to attempt to gain information isn't necessarily the way to go either. I maintain, 4+ years later, I have never felt the need to post or contact anyone on any Arabic or Jihad website and there is still a load of information to be gained.


Countering the Cyber Jihad: Cyber Privateering Part II

It's time we took the cyber jihad seriously. It has become obvious that the U.S. government is ill equippied to deal with the problem If we cannot win the cyber war, we cannot win our war against Muslim ideologues bent on creating the Islamic utopia by any means necessary.

Why is the U.S. government unable to respond adequately to the cyber jihad?

a) They are still in law enforcement mode.

Unless an internet website is breaking the law, no action is taken by the government. However, if we are in a war, then the normal rules do not apply. We cannot treat terrorist forces on the web as if they were simply exercising some Constitutional right of free speech. If this is a war, then fight it like one. If you can kill your enemies in war, then certainly censoring them is justified.

b) Intelligence agencies lack the institutional know-how to fight the online jihad.

Traditionally, intelligence agencies such as the NSA and CIA have been the information gathering arm of the U.S. government. Such intelligence is used by other agencies to act. They may monitor jihadi websites, but they obviously are not acting on their information.

Occasionally they do act, but when they do --such as with the arrest of Irhabi 007--they are in law enforcement mode. Irhabi 007 was charged with a crime, but if using the internet to wage war upon your own country is a crime, then doesn't this reveal the underlying problem of not treating this as a war?

c) The military lacks the tools to fight the internet jihad.

If this is war then it is the military--not the intelligence agencies such as the CIA and NSA, and not the law enforcement agencies such as the FBI -- that ought to be fighting it. The military is great at doing a lot of things, but taking down websites is not one of them. Even if we could identify each and every web server which hosts terror websites, the solution is not bombing the webhosts. For the most part, companies either are not aware that terrorists use their services or they do not care because there are no real consequences to doing business with the online jihadis.

The solution? There is no government solution. The only people really equipped to counter the online threat are hackers themselves. These cyber pirates have the necessary knowlege, tools, and experience in infiltrating and taking down websites. With minimum investment in equipment, with the assurance that they will not be prosecuted for activities which are normally considered illegal, and with the promise of a reward for each website taken down, these cyber pirates would be turned into cyber privateers. There skills which are normally deemed socially unacceptable, can be used to the advantage of winning the long war against militant Islam.
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/169641.php

[Casey]

Web role examined in London, Madrid bombings
New generation of terrorist groups found to exploit Internet

News Story by Mark Trevelyan

APRIL 11, 2006 (REUTERS) - BERLIN -- Investigations into the Madrid and London bombings highlight two worrying trends for European security services -- the emergence of autonomous, homegrown radical cells and their skilled exploitation of the Internet.

A Spanish judge investigating the train bombs that killed 191 people in Madrid in March 2004 reported today that the attacks were carried out by a local group of Islamic militants who were inspired -- but not directed -- by al-Qaeda, taking their cue from an Islamist Web site.

On Sunday, Britain's Observer newspaper quoted a draft government report on last July's London attacks as saying the four young suicide bombers were not part of an international terrorist network but had devised their own "simple and inexpensive" plot, again using information from the Net.

Still unexplained are the significance of trips to Pakistan by two of the bombers and of a video released nearly two months after the blasts in which ringleader Mohammed Sidique Khan and al-Qaeda No. 2 man Ayman al-Zawahri appeared in separate segments. The bombers killed 52 people.

In the wake of Madrid, London and other cases, police and security services across Europe have had to revise their previous perception that militant threats were more likely to come from outside their countries.

'Made in Europe'

The chief worry now is "made in Europe" radicals, and the possibility that the same kind of cells that struck Spain and Britain could pop up elsewhere using a similar modus operandi, said Claude Moniquet, head of the European Strategic Intelligence and Security Center in Brussels.

He said the local nature of the threat made it harder to spot, because those involved may not have forged the kind of contacts with militant circles that could bring them to the attention of police and intelligence services.

Whereas an earlier generation of radicals was trained in al-Qaeda's Afghan camps in the 1980s and 1990s, their equivalents today are frequently schooled on the World Wide Web.

"It is quite clear that the Internet is playing an ever greater role in radicalization and recruitment, and indeed also in facilitating the practical planning [of attacks]," European Union counterterrorism chief Gijs de Vries told a conference in Berlin last week.

Britain's top antiterrorist police officer, Peter Clarke, told the same audience that investigators had last year come across the first known example of a conspiracy hatched entirely over the Internet.

"I think it's the first time we've found a 'virtual network.' The people concerned in it have been charged with conspiring to cause an explosion, but we don't actually have any evidence they have ever met," he said.

An investigation code-named Operation Mazhar led to charges against three men, two of them with conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause an explosion, and the third with terrorist fund raising.

Asked if it was conceivable that total strangers could put together a successful attack via the Internet, Clarke said: "I think that's entirely feasible. I can't see anything to stop it."

http://www.computerworld.com/industrytopics/defense/story/0,10801,110417,00.html

[exitwound]

bring it; the soldiers of peace and honor vastly outnumber the so-called cybersoldiers of radical extremism.

[death2aq]

The only way I can see to fight this right now, is to possibly attack the routers around those sites. Or maybe the DNS servers, so that names are not resolved. This will not stop those who have the ip address though. I will have to think some more on this, I have things to do right now. Interesting though.

[Casey]

Japan And US Align To Fight Cyber Terrorism

April 18, 2006 11:06 a.m. EST

Ayinde O. Chase - All Headline News Staff Writer

Tokyo, Japan (AHN) - Japanese officials announced a tech inspired collaborative effort with the United States and say they reached an agreement to fight cyber terrorism.

Jiji press reports Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso and U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Schieffer are believed to sign the decree establishing a cooperation framework for sharing information on computer viruses and security measures and equipment.

The two nations military outlets - the Japanese Defense Agency and the U.S. Defense Department - will then exchange a criterion on specific cooperation measures, which are to be carried out by the Defense Agency’s Joint Staff Office and the Defense Department’s Pacific Command in Hawaii.

The deal however does not allow the release of shared information to a third country without written agreement from the other party. Nonetheless, the U.S. has signed similar pacts with Britain and Australia.

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7003222794

[Casey]

I have been talking about this over the past few days.

The Cyber War is not being addressed effectively because the transition of information from cyber units to traditional investigative and arresting units has not been streamlined.

I say it again, you can take down websites all you want, unless the perpetrators are questioned and a determination made, it's a vicious circle.

Saudi Arabia seems to have made some strides that are going relatively unannounced in the past month or so, I will reserve comment until we see something concrete.

The Cyber War/Dis-Info/Propaganda War has much better players than the people who are fighting it ..... snip
04-11-2006, 05:50 AM


Rumsfeld Suggests bin Laden, Zarqawi Manipulating U.S. Press
By E&P Staff

Published: April 18, 2006 11:15 AM ET

NEW YORK When Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld appeared on Rush Limbaugh's talk radio show on Monday, his remarks defending himself from calls for his resignation drew wide attention. Generally overlooked were a couple of questions and answers on the subject of press coverage in Iraq.

For one thing, Rumsfeld said it was important to "recognize that the terrorists, Zarqawi and bin Laden and Zawahiri, those people have media committees. They are actively out there trying to manipulate the press in the United States. They are very good at it. They're much better at (laughing) managing those kinds of things than we are.".....snip
http://wincoast.com/forum/showthread.php?p=627934#post627934


Wow, we agree. Who would have thought?

:D

[Casey]

The freedom of the internet and the extremist establishment


Von Michael Stolzke

Einseitig.info: Ms. Alavi, reading „We are Iran“ the hope arises that the web and the blogsphere are able to strengthen Iran’s democratic counterculture. But in these times of conflict about the country’s nuclear policy and Mahmud Ahmadinedschad’s presidency, is this hope only an illusion?

Nasrin Alavi: tell if Iranian blogs are merely a place for the beleaguered to blow off steam or a modern day Gutenberg press that would usher in the age of Democracy. But for now they offer a unique glimpse of the changing consciousness of Iran’s younger generation.

It is no secret that most of the rulers in the Middle East are out of synch with their youth, and Iran is no exception. Expect that while Arab leaders have tried to crush the militants, in Iran’s case you have had a militant regime. Tahkim Vahdat, Iran’s largest national student union was formed after a decree by Ayatollah Khomeini to reinforce his rule yet nearly a quarter of a century later it became one of the most vocal critics of the regime.

Those who lived through the Iranian Revolution of 1979 are now a minority. Iran has one of the most youthful and educated populations in the Middle East. Her younger generation has been completely transformed through the Islamic Republic’s education policies of free education and national literacy campaigns. 70 per cent are under thirty, with literacy rates of well over 90 per cent, even in rural areas. Notably last year more than 65% of those entering university were women.

It is the voices of this educated youth that comes through loud and clear in the phenomenon that is the Iranian blogosphere. It is this generation that will ultimately determine the future of Iran. What is happening in Iran is more significant and more sustainable in the long run than the mere overthrow of dictators; that, as we are witnessing in Iraq, is the easy part. A generational change ecologically threatens the survival of radicals. Yet while the gap between the rulers and the ruled widens, fanatics have raised the volume of their hardline rhetoric, desperately trying to reassert Iran’s radical credentials.

Ali Reza Alavitabar, a publisher of several influential newspapers that have been shut down in recent years, has said of Iran’s new generation that "they deny all the previous generations, as if they are the first intelligent generation in recent Iranian history". Alavitabar’s own generation was caught up in an era of conflict and he himself had volunteered for the army at the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war. In the aftermath of that war, a baby boom was encouraged: according to Ayatollah Khomeini, a country whose youth were ready for martyrdom "could never be destroyed". But although the population has indeed more than doubled since the 1979 revolution, and now stands at almost 70 million, the master-plan has not come to pass. In the pages of We Are Iran you get a glimpse of this new baby boom generation who, while still Eastern, wants to be an active part of the world.

Having finished compiling this book, I felt more hopeful about the future of Iran than when I started. Throughout the twentieth century baby boomers in the West have had enormous impact, driving change and transforming across the Western world; Iran’s new up-and-coming youth may well prove as significant and influential for their society. But that’s a big might. As things stand, the countdown to confrontation between the West and Iran may yet again lead to a destruction of another Iranian generation.

Weaker than conceived in the West
As for Ahmadinejad … When Mohammad Khatami was in office (1997-2005), Western political commentators often highlighted the toothless nature of Iran’s presidency. But Ahmadinejad now has become a central factor in the new Iranian political equation. While In fact, the current President has less power than any of his Islamic Republic predecessors. Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, seems to have been startled enough by Ahmadinejad’s disruptive tendencies to grant the expediency council (a non-elected body headed by Rafsanjani) oversight of the presidency.

Ahmadinejad’s relative political weakness dates back to his election victory in June 2005, when accusations of vote-rigging were made by three of his rival candidates (among the seven allowed to compete for the office, from the 1,010 who registered in the attempt) as well as many other observers, both Iranian and international. The scorned candidates who alleged foul play – Mehdi Karroubi (one-time parliamentary speaker), Mostafa Moin (ex-education minister), and Hashemi Rafsanjani (ex-President) – each represent factional power-blocs within Iran, and have continued to chide Ahmadinejad since his election was confirmed.

Ahmadinejad's struggles to install an oil minister after a three-month political deadlock further exposed both his political frailty and the divisions among Iran's conservatives. After three failed attempts, he was finally forced into making a major compromise by eventually proposing as an acceptable candidate for the post someone who had backed a political rival during the presidential elections.

The government of brother-in-laws
The recent deluge of flustered media reports appears to ask us to believe that with the election of Ahmadinejad even the demographics of Iran have changed. A major national poll in 2002 commissioned by the then-reformist parliament revealed that nearly 70 per cent favoured the resumption of talks between Iran and the United States. Three years later Abdolah Naseri, the former director of the state news agency, IRNA, was put on trial for revealing that the regime's raison d'être, enmity to the US, is not shared by the majority of Iranians.

Those who took part in that survey seem to believe in Iran’s integration with a global economy that can offer jobs and prosperity. Equally, high level of support for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the election in 2005 was based on his promises of a better economic future. He had tapped into the vein of popular anger against corruption and cronyism, appealing to the minds and hearts of jobless young people and underpaid workers by promising food and housing subsidies for the poor.

Yet only months after his election, the populist powers of the man who famously donned a street sweeper's uniform in fellowship with the workers are in danger of eroding, as union workers get arrested, basic grocery and metro prices rise, and the much publicised government loans for newlyweds are as good as abandoned. Despite Ahmadinejad’s pledge to fight cronyism, many of his ministers and newly appointed senior officials appear to be all somehow related. As reported in the reformist Sharg Daily (on 16 February 2006), Ahmadinejad’s government spokesman has even been questioned in the Iranian press about the basis upon he appointed his officials and about public references to the government of the “brother-in-laws”.

With his pledge to fight corruption Ahmadinejad he has opened an unsavoury can of worms. Spurred on by their leader, parliamentary debates have been increasingly filled with accusations and counter accusations of corruption and, as the public listens to mudslinging matches broadcast live on state radio, the whole system (including the cronies of the new President) seems to be implicated. Ahmadinejad’s defiant isolationist policies, and the consequent and inevitable fall in living standards, will ultimately undermine his electoral promises; yet the increasing tensions with the West are also likely to screen him from the full scrutiny of his own people.

Einseitig.info: How do Iran’s bloggers comment on the nuclear conflict? Could European politicians favouring a peaceful solution read any recommendations out of the debates in the blogs?

Nasrin Alavi: Ahmadinejad continually talks of the good old glory days of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88) and of a "new Islamic revolution", at a time when even most of his contemporaries appear to have moved on.

Iranians have lived through a recent violent revolution and war, bleak years that they understandably do not want encounter again. The film maker Ebrahim Hatamikia became a household name in Iran during the war with Iraq, having mastered his craft with films and documentaries from the front line that inspired national pride and morale. Yet this year he produced an anti-war film, In The Name of the Father, which was awarded five Crystal Phoenixes in Iran’s equivalent of the Oscars (Fajr film festival), including the jury’s award and the people’s choice award. His film tells the story of a soldier who lays landmines in a war zone to keep out Saddam’s invading armies. Years later, the same mines injure his beloved daughter. Hatamikia’s film may seem overly theatrical and melodramatic to some, but for Iranians it is all part of a very recent reality. The Iran-Iraq war led to the destruction of a whole generation. It was fought in the trenches, first-world-war style. The roads, streets and narrow alleyways of Iran have been renamed after the hundreds and thousands of dead that the locals of these neighbourhoods still vividly and fondly remember as young boys. It’s hard to believe that Iran’s people share Ahmadinejad’s open nostalgia for the war years.

Although many ordinary Iranians may logically believe that acquiring nuclear energy is in their national economic interest in the long term, the resumption of its nuclear research programme has thrown Iran into an open clash with the international community, igniting fears that the issue could spiral into armed conflict.

Iran’s former deputy President Ali Abtahi writes in his blog that “If the results of any policy (no matter what you like to call it) brings about Iran’s isolation and increases the threats... this is an unsuccessful foreign policy". Many other anonymous bloggers in this war-wary nation bemoan the dangers of a conflict. But it is also apparent that some are fearful of even broaching the subject. On 18 and 19 January, when the Iranian nuclear crisis was an international front-page story, only two out of the thirty prominent journalists based in Iran with regularly updated blogs commented on the matter – one only did so in passing, while the other, wrote:

My friends all anxiously talk of sanctions and war, but I want to talk about the Barcelona festival. Am I cold? Stupid? What Am I?

I can no longer say what I want. He who thinks that "nuclear energy is our inalienable right” and that foreigners are bullying us, will not be reading this. They may read the newspapers I write for. But we are not allowed to write about it. Not even one word.

We are nobodies.... they [the West] say all right, you are all fine, you peace lovers... but your government is crazy and after the bomb. What do you suggest we do?

So I don’t want to talk about it. I’d rather write about the Barcelona festival...

Fellow countrymen, not enemies
Einseitig.info: The reactions to the Mohammed caricatures are another perennial issue in the European Media, who often portray them as a conflict of values. On German TV, for instance, we saw furious demonstrators in front of the German embassy in Teheran. What do the bloggers think of this apparent “clash of cultures”?

Nasrin Alavi: I compiled the early parts of the book while I was living in Iran with the aim of showing what even casual visitors to the country know well: that there is also another Iran simmering behind the sabre-rattling headlines. There is a vast gap between the perception of Iran in the West and the reality and, in recent months, following the election of the hardline President Ahmadinejad in June 2005, this gap has widened further.

Headlines across the Western world scream of a global crisis and a new era of international history in which cold-war rivalry has been replaced by a fundamental clash of civilisations. In contrast to other media, in which stark headlines tend to give undue space and prominence to the more extreme view on both sides, cyberspace has generally proved to offer a far more balanced and nuanced platform for this debate, as the furore surrounding the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed illustrates.

While the print and television media were full of news items speculating on the link between Iran’s attempt to build a nuclear arsenal and the violent demonstrations outside the Danish embassy in Tehran on 6 February, the internet provided a forum in which ordinary Iranians could debate directly with those behind the protests. Among the protesters was Iranian Basij member and blogger Saleh Meftah. The following day he wrote in his blog (pasokhgooee.persianblog.com) about the thrill and the fun-filled atmosphere of the attack, posting smug photos of himself taken inside the embassy compound.

When the story of Saleh’s escapades were written up on Roozonline, a popular Iranian internet news daily, the ‘site counter’ for his blog, which had been showing an average of 31 readers per day, suddenly shot up to 2872 visitors. Roozonline recounted how Saleh had described the preparations the night before the attack and how “he and his friends used two cars and seven motorcycles to scout the Danish embassy to coordinate their efforts with the embassy guards”, while naming members of the student Basij who were “knowledgeable in planning, preparations and even help inside the embassy attacks”

On the streets of Tehran only the brave or the foolhardy would dare to confront a member of the Basij. But in this cyber sanctuary, within a period of only two days, hundreds of angry comments were left on Saleh’s page. The following is just a tiny sample:


I cannot hide my hatred of you and your actions. It's your bestial breed that gives Westerners cause to insult our dear prophet and faith.
You've written here that, as you read the comments, “I am proud that the enemies of the revolution are attacking me”. Listen you godless fool … What enemies!! They are ordinary people who are telling you how they feel … your fellow countrymen!!!!

Unlike Iran, in the West what is published in a newspaper is not dictated by the regime. I agree with you that the cartoons are offensive but the best strategy is to ignore the ignorant. But as you’re still young, I feel that it may not be too late to talk to you before it’s too late… before you start seeing a divine light like our dear President. When you attack an embassy you are attacking a whole nation. Do you honestly feel that what you did was justified and something to be proud of?

You, Basij, just don’t learn. No matter how many of you fill up our universities like flies through [government] quotas, you still don’t seem to get wise to that fact you are being played. You talk of bringing the true face of the revolution to the westernised northern [affluent] suburbs of Tehran by setting fire to that embassy. My brother! While there, you should have opened your eyes. For your mentors and this nation’s tormentors most live behind those neighbouring grand high walls. But I also want to say that I commend you for not deleting the messages here and for upholding the democratic principle of free speech. This is all we want: to be allowed to speak out and not to be beaten to death for it. And this is a great chance for you to realise what people honestly think of you. Thank you.

A few days after the attack by Saleh and his associates, there was an altogether different protest outside the Danish embassy. Hossein Nouri, a disabled war veteran who had lost both his hands during the Iran-Iraq war, was pushed in a wheelchair by his wife to the embassy gates. Using a brush held in his mouth he painted a portrait of the Virgin Mary as his two sons watched. He told a local reporter that he wanted to "show the Iranian nation’s respect for other faiths".

Ordinary Iranian Muslims may well be dismayed by images of their prophet dressed as a terrorist, his turban a bomb with a lit fuse, but the 12 million citizens of their capital Tehran were far from alight with rage. Most do not support violent attacks on European diplomatic missions and have stayed away from the demonstrations. In any case, Iranians have no real freedom to gather together in public; only a week earlier, hundreds of Tehran bus workers were imprisoned in an effort to crush their strike. In these circumstances, an attack by a 400-strong crowd whose members act with impunity, injure police officers and burn a car at the embassy compound cannot be seen as a spontaneous protest by the people, but is rather a foreign-policy directive from an extremist establishment trying to isolate Iran internationally for its own ends.

Einseitig.info: Only a short time after the so-called caricature conflict began, a massive wave of violence against the Shiites and their mosques and sanctuaries started in your neighbouring country Iraq. What are the reactions to this in the blogsphere and out on the streets?

Information society and football-crazy nation
Nasrin Alavi: The reactions that I’ve come across are just general sadness and dismay at the escalating mayhem in Iraq.

Einseitig.info: Ms. Alavi, can you give us a short account about the work you’re currently doing in Iran? What’s the political climate like in these days?

Nasrin Alavi: As this involves others, I would rather not discuss this at present.

Einseitig.info: How has the media censorship, especially in the internet, turned out to be like? Could, for example, the second “World Summit on the Information Society” (WSIS) get any reaction from the Iranian government?

Recently the Iranian company Delta Global announced that it had been commissioned to implement blanket filtering of internet traffic in Iran. I really can’t say if WSIS could get a reaction from the Iranian government. But I believe that ultimately, the rate of change of technology might well be working in favour of free speech since even the Chinese authorities have not been able to contain the free flow of internet information.

Einseitig.info: Finally on last, serious question: Which position do the Iranian bloggers think their national team will achieve in the FIFA World Cup in Germany? And what happens with president Ahmadinedschad in case the Iranian kickers make it to the last sixteen or even the quarter finals?

Nasrin Alavi: I can’t really pinpoint a reaction for you here. But as you may know Iranians are football crazy. I think it’s a point of pride for many that Iran’s team has gained access to the world cup and I personally hope that Iran’s footballers are allowed to compete as athletes without politics muddying the water.

Translated by: Christina Borkenhagen

http://www.einseitig.info/html/content.php?txtid=439

[The 801]

Wow. Nice stuff.

[Casey]

Jihadis Use Media as a Weapon
Libraries
Life News (Arts and Humanities) Keywords
TERRORISM AL-QAIDA AL-QAEDA PR MEDIA STRATEGY INTERNET DEFENSE HARMONY DOCUMENTS WAR


Description
Jihadis place a great deal of emphasis on developing comprehensive PR and communication strategies to aid their side in the media war. That’s according to communication researchers at Arizona State University who studied recently declassified al-Qaida documents and other open source reports captured in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Newswise — Jihadis place a great deal of emphasis on developing comprehensive public relations and communication strategies to aid their side in the media war. That’s according to communication researchers at Arizona State University who studied recently declassified al-Qaida documents and other open source reports captured in Iraq and Afghanistan during U.S. military operations.

“Their strategies are crafted after careful audience analysis and message adaptation, two of the most fundamental rules underlying any communication or public relations campaign,” write the authors of a report released this week titled: “Communication and Media Strategy in the Jihadi War of Ideas.” Contributing to the report are faculty members and graduate students in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication in ASU’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Professor Steven Corman, who co-authored the report with graduate student Jill Schiefelbein, says that in his experience “people are surprised the jihadis think of media as a weapon.”

Yet, by using text analysis techniques to review nearly 300 documents, some recently released from the Department of Defense’s HARMONY database, the researchers concluded that jihadis place a great importance on media and public relations as part of their overall strategy.

“Their strategy is not hard to discern,” Corman says. “All you have to do is listen to what they say and what they worry about.”

For example, in a letter to Emir Al-Momineen, Osama bin Laden writes, “It is obvious that the media war in this century is one of the strongest methods; in fact, its ratio may reach 90% of the total preparation for the battles.”

The researchers, working in collaboration with the Combating Terrorism Center at the United States Military Academy at West Point, relied primarily on text in documents dated both before and after Sept. 11, 2001. The documents included letters, memos, statements and sermons, Corman says. Other sources include translated statements of jihadi leaders, as well as speeches, documents and Web site materials, all available in the open source literature.

The texts that were studied reveal three strategic goals for communication and media in jihadi operations, according to Corman.

“First, they must legitimate their movement by establishing its social and religious viability, while engaging in violent acts that on their face seem to violate the norms of civilized society and the tenets of Islam. Second, they aim to propagate their movement by spreading messages to sympathetic audiences in areas where they want to expand. Third, they seek to intimidate their opponents,” write the researchers.

“Jihadis pursue these strategies using sophisticated, modern methods of communication and public relations,” notes Corman. For example, there’s evidence in the documents that the jihadis segment audiences and adapt their message to the audience, he says.

“They place great importance on having good slogans and on after-action reviews to determine what worked and what didn’t,” Corman says. Jihadis use some of the same PR techniques used by large corporations; they deploy disinformation campaigns and coordinate communication with operations, the researchers write in the report.

In particular, the report notes that “jihadis are technically savvy and intent on pushing jihad into the sphere of new media.” The jihadis view new media, especially Internet-based communication and information technologies, “as a platform for global operations and virtual jihad.”

“However, the jihadis’ ability to implement such strategies is not well understood and has been ‘systematically undervalued,’” according to conclusions drawn in the study. The authors make a number of recommendations on how to use this information to counter the jihadis’ “war of ideas.” One of the recommendations is to develop similar communication strategies, some of which would be designed to improve U.S. credibility with Muslim audiences.

“The nicest thing about this work is that it lets us — communication scholars and practitioners — bring theories and methods from our discipline to this important global problem of terrorism,” Corman says.

He believes that their research — from a communication and public relations perspective — may be among the first done by non-military researchers, a statement supported by the director of research at the Combating Terrorism Center.

“Arizona State University is one of the first academic bodies taking a look at these documents, outside of a Department of Defense affiliated organization like us,” says Jarret Brachman, an assistant professor and director of research at the center. The Combating Terrorism Center is a Department of Defense entity, housed at West Point.

“During the Cold War, America had a robust academic effort to better understand the communist ideology. We are not seeing a parallel research effort today. Scholars have been hesitant to engage in this conversation, in part because this is such a politically charged topic, and, in part because they’ve lacked access to data,” Brachman says.

“ASU’s work in this area will hopefully catalyze more academic institutions to undertake similar research,” he says, “helping us to better understand and combat the radical ideology we face today.”

The Combating Terrorism Center recently released its own report based on these texts, titled “Harmony and Disharmony: Exploiting Al-Qa’ida’s Organizational Vulnerabilities.” According to Brachman, there are more than 750,000 documents in the HARMONY database, many written in Arabic, with a small but growing percentage translated into English.

The ASU study “Communication and Media Strategy in the Jihadi War of Ideas” is available to download at http://www.asu.edu/clas/communication/about/terrorism.

Also contributing to the study from the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication are: Bud Goodall, director of the school; Robert McPhee, professor; Angela Trethewey, associate professor; Kelly McDonald, assistant professor; and graduate students Kris Acheson, Ian Derk, Aaron Hess, Zachary Justus and Christina Smith. Associate professor Mark Woodward from the department of religious studies in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences also contributed.

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona USA
http://www.asu.edu/clas | http://www.asu.edu/clas/communication

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/519945/

[Casey]

Fundamentalist Website AlSaha.com Mysteriously Goes Offline for 24 hrs

27/04/2006

Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat- After less than 24 hours offline, the fundamentalist website Al Saha was again accessible to members worldwide. Last Thursday, users were surprised to discover that the site was unavailable and its usual mix of articles on terrorism, fundamentalism and slanderous campaigns against journalists, writers, novels and public figures, unavailable. The website is managed by Fares net and originates in the United Arab Emirates.

However, Abdallah Hashim, assistant director of the electronic unit at Ittisalat, the communications company, told Asharq al Awsat the website had suffered from technical difficulties and would return online in the next two days. He indicated that the website was not based in the UAE but managed by UAE nationals.

According to speculations, the site was officially shut down by the UAE government as a result of the increasing criticism directed against from regional and international parites.

Established in the late 1990s, Al Saha has created controversy because it was considered a forum for al Qaeda, and included the group’s propaganda, video footage of terrorist operations and hostages in Iraq, including footage of hostages being killed. It also included the magazine “Voice of Jihad”, mouthpiece of al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia.

According to a statement by the Saudi interior ministry, one of al Saha’s most famous contributors, known by his online nickname Akhu man Ta’ Allah, was an active member of al Qaeda in the Kingdom. He also edited the magazine until his arrest in May 2005. His real name, according to the ministry is Abdulaziz al Tuwaily.

Observers told Asharq al Awsat his capture and the subsequent unmasking of his online identity dealt a heavy blow to al Qaeda’s activities on the internet. Others added that this was not the first case of al Qaeda followers and sympathizers contributing to Islamist websites and using the internet to further to publicize their activities. Most contributors use aliases, sometimes more than one at a time. Youusef al Ariri, al Qaeda’s first leader in the Kingdom, was renowned for being active in cyberspace.

Dr. Abdul Rahman al Shaer, Dean of the Center for Studies and Research at Naif University for the security sciences, said websites were vital for terrorists because they allowed them to disseminate their takfeer ideology (accusing Muslims of being infidels), undermine the security of countries that host them and are easily accessible worldwide. The danger, he added, lies when innocent readers consult these websites and are influenced by their fundamentalist content. It was therefore necessary to adopt a hard-line approach and deal firmly with all contributors to these sites, as their only objective is to cause unrest among the people. “Thos who post on these sites which seek to undermine security and propagate takfeer ideology are not less dangerous than those carrying out terrorist operations.”

For his part, Mansur al Utaybi, head of the Information Center at King Abdulaziz City of Science and Technology told Asharq al Awsat he did not know whether the organization had blocked the site to Saudi visitors. He explained that only the site operators can close down a site but that the authority responsible for censoring the internet, in this case the King Abdulaziz City of Science and Technology, could block access to it. The security department in charge of monitoring the internet focuses on websites that call for undermining Saudi Arabia ’s security, offend Islam and Prophet Mohammed, or teach users magic or gambling, he added.

An estimated 100 thousand individuals are listed as official al Saha members, while the number of active participants and contributors is around 20 thousand. As a result of the site’s popularity, membership has been suspended and new members can only be accepted through the recommendation of an existing member. Asharq al Awsat learned that new members can take on old aliases and that in some cases a membership cost as much as 4000 Saudi Riyals.

Tariq Fares, the Emirati site owner, was reportedly offered $4million Saudi Riyals to sell the website but decline.

It is worth mentioning that verbal battles took place between al Saha and several liberal Saudi websites, the most famous of which was Dar al Nadwah, before it shut down.

http://alsaha.fares.net/sahat/open

http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=5&id=4728

[Atlantean]

This was really fascinating stuff. Thanks everyone for posting.

[Casey]

This was really fascinating stuff. Thanks everyone for posting.

Welcome, Atlantean.

[Casey]

Here is Memri's summation of the messages we have been following in the
Anyone familiar with alhesbah.org forum? (http://www.wincoast.com/forum/showthread.php?t=21256)

http://www.wincoast.com/forum/showthread.php?t=21256

and the

calculation network - alhesbah.org (http://www.wincoast.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=188)

thread and in the translation forum at WorldAnalysis.




May 17, 2006 No.275
Al-Tajdeed Versus Al-Hesbah: Islamist Websites & the Conflict Between Rival Arab & Muslim Political Forces
Introduction
Most of the media in the Arab world - newspapers, television, and radio - are affiliated with various political forces, whether governmental or opposition, operating from within the country or outside it. These media are an important tool in the power struggles among the rival political forces behind them.
With the development of the Internet in the Middle East, websites have become yet another tool in the struggle between rival Arab forces. One prominent example of Internet use as part of this struggle is the campaign by www.tajdeed.org.uk (http://www.tajdeed.org.uk/) - which belongs to the Saudi Islamist opposition operating in London and is directed by Dr. Sheikh Muhammad Al-Mas'ari, who also heads the Al-Tajdeed Al-Islami organization - against www.alhesbah.org (http://www.alhesbah.org/), a leading Islamist site that is a conduit for messages from Al-Qaeda and other jihad organizations. [1] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_edn1)
Al-Tajdeed accused Al-Hesbah of working for Arab and Western intelligence apparatuses to expose and arrest contributors to the jihad web forums. According to Al-Tajdeed, Al-Hesbah had brought about the arrest of all the founders of another Islamist website, www.al-ansar.org (http://www.al-ansar.org/), including "bin Roma" and "Irhabi 007." Al-Tajdeed also asserted that Al-Hesbah had brought about the arrest of all the members of the Global Information Media Front (GIMF) [2] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_edn2) directly after they posted an announcement, on behalf of Al-Qaeda, taking responsibility for the February 25, 2006 Abqiq operation (an attempt to strike at the Saudi oil fields), and that Al-Hesbah had brought about the killing of the perpetrators of the operation by Saudi security forces.
Al-Hesbah stopped operating on March 17, 2006, and restarted on April 13, 2006. It is common for Islamist websites to disappear from and return to the web, and this is part of the dynamic of Islamist Internet activity. However, Al-Tajdeed took advantage of Al-Hesbah's temporary disappearance to step up its attacks on it. Al-Tajdeed recommended that jihad supporters visit alternative websites that, it claimed, were more reliable and on which there was no hostile intelligence activity. When Al-Hesbah returned, Al-Tajdeed warned visitors to the site to take precautions lest their identities be discovered, and gave detailed instructions for doing so.
Another jihad website, www.alburak.net (http://www.alburak.net/), came to the aid of Al-Hesbah, posting an article accusing Arab opposition elements, including Al-Mas'ari as well as Dr. Hani Al-Siba'i and Dr. Sa'd Al-Faqih, also London residents, of attempting to destroy the jihad websites and to smear those active on them. (Two weeks previously, Al-Tajdeed had accused Al-Burak of "becoming a copy of Al-Hesbah." [3] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_edn3) )
The sharp rivalry between Al-Tajdeed and Al-Hesbah reflects the struggle between the two rival political forces behind them. In the case of Al-Tajdeed, this force is Saudi Islamist opposition activists. Al-Hesbah claims to be an independent religious site, but in light of the platform it gives to slanderous postings about Saudi opposition activists such as Al-Mas'ari and Al-Faqih - even going so far as to accuse them of heresy and treason - it can be identified as a site affiliated with a religious or political rival of the Saudi opposition, such as the Saudi regime itself. (According to its own report, the Saudi regime is active on the Internet. One example of this activity is the Saudi Ministry of Religious Endowment's Al-Sakinah campaign for on-line dialogue with extremists [4] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_edn4) ).
Al-Tajdeed, which as mentioned belongs to Saudi opposition elements, also features postings by oppositionists from other Arab countries. According to the Al-Burak website, "Omar bin Hanif," a contributor to Al-Tajdeed (see below), is Egyptian Islamist opposition member Dr. Hani Al-Sib'ai, head of the Al-Maqrizi Institute in London. If Al-Sib'ai is indeed "Omar bin Hanif," he joined Al-Tajdeed's struggle against Al-Hesbah with a posting titled "A Series of Exposures of Spies," which lay the groundwork for the accusations against Al-Hesbah.
In addition, Al-Burak identified several other Al-Tajdeed contributors, also posting under pseudonyms, as oppositionists from various Arab countries. For example, according to Al-Burak, "Al-Fikr Al-Rashid" is in fact Egyptian Islamist Yasser Al-Sirri, who heads the Al-Marsad Institute in London; Al-Ansar contributor "bin Roma" is Algerian sheikh Abdallah Al-Ghamdi; and "Sami 9000" is Mansour Al-Halabi, a Syrian residing in Libya.
The following report, from MEMRI's Jihad & Terrorism Studies Project's initiative on Monitoring Islamist and Jihad Websites, analyzes the conflicts between the Islamist and Jihad websites. These multi-faceted conflicts, which involve an array of individual postings, should not be looked at as a phenomenon of individual Islamist participants battling on the Internet (as has been done thus far by various media and research outlets). Rather they should be seen in a larger context, as a phenomenon reflecting the conflicts between rival Arab and Muslim political forces in whose service these websites operate.

Al-Tajdeed Claims That Al-Hesbah is Infiltrated by Intelligence Agencies
On March 5, 2006, www.tajdeed.org.uk (http://www.tajdeed.org.uk/) published an article signed by "Omar bin Hanif," titled "A Series of Exposures of Spies - [Who Is] the Traitor who Sold Irhabi 007?" In his article, "Omar bin Hanif" stated that the arrest of contributor "Irhabi 007" by the British authorities, and the arrest of GIMF members immediately following the postings by Al-Qaeda taking responsibility for the Abqiq operation and following the killing of the perpetrators by Saudi security forces, prove that intelligence apparatuses had been operating on Islamist websites such as Al-Hesbah, Al-Ansar, and Al-Ikhlas, attempting to uncover and arrest contributors to these sites.
"Omar bin Hanif" gave the names of several of the activists who served as supervisors of the Islamist sites but who, he claimed, were actually spies serving Arab and Western intelligence agencies: "Muhammad Al-Zuheiri," "Mu'taz Bitawhidihi," and "Al-Qa'qa' bin 'Amr."
It should be noted that another document, posted on Al-Burak and presented later on in this paper, states that "Omar bin Hanif" was in fact an Egyptian Islamist residing in London, Dr. Hani Al-Siba'i.
The following are excerpts from the article by "Omar bin Hanif."
"Now the aspects of the plot [that led] to the capture of brother 'Irhabi 007' by the worshippers of the cross have become clear: After the suspicious entrance of [Muhammad] Al-Zuheiri and his aides as supervisors of the jihad websites, Al-Zuheiri gave the IP numbers to the Jordanian intelligence, and these infidels monitored brother ['Irhabi 007'] until they caught him.
"Recently, the brothers appointed the spy Muhammad Al-Zuheiri, the Jordanian intelligence agent, as supervisors of the Al-Ansar [website] because they were busy, and it appears that this criminal carried out the crime. These heinous individuals carried out [this kind of crime] for the last time after they learned the identity of the brothers who wrote the announcements about the Abqiq operation in Saudi Arabia. This was the biggest incident of hacking into the Islamic websites!
"The traitors hacked the websites and took them over, with intelligence information in their possession, by means of which they spied on us. The following is a list of the most important of the spies:
"1. 'Mu'taz Bikhanzirihi' [5] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_edn5) - [who uses the aliases] 'Mu'taz Batawhidihi,' 'Abu Al-Asbat,' 'Nasser Al-Tawhid,' 'Dhergham Al-Waghi,' ''Ashiqat Al-Firdaws,' and others. [The contributor who goes by these names is actually] an Egyptian journalist collaborating with the Egyptian intelligence apparatus.
"2. 'Muhammad Al-Zuheiri' - a Jordanian intelligence agent and Ba'thist who lives in the city of Irbid, Jordan.
"3. alq3qa3ben3mr - known to be a liar who lays claim to heroic deeds.
"4. Many other agents, most of whom [write in] support [of jihad] in order to create public opinion to highlight their great importance and to present themselves as individuals who defend the jihad movement. [To this end,] they lied and acted basely. I will mention some [such] prominent names: 'Min Anta,' 'Abu Muslim,' 'Raya Al-'Uqab,' 'Abu Omar Al-Shami,' and others.
"Most of the suspects from amongst the members of this worthless group are colleagues of Al-Zuheiri, agents of the [Jordanian] intelligence apparatus. [6] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_edn6)
"We are witness to an extensive intelligence operation that destroyed the Al-Ansar and Al-Ikhlas websites, crushed most of those who visited them, and polluted the Islamic sites with curses and invective.
"Most of the brothers who have been arrested from the Al-Ansar [site] and from [the Al-Ikhlas site] preferred to stop [writing]. Don't you see the magnitude of the abomination that the agents [with] these filthy names have spread?
"How was the one who wrote the announcement [regarding] the Abqiq [operation] caught so quickly - if there wasn't any obvious betrayal and infiltration, the scope of which only Allah knows?
"A message to the brother [of the] Al-Ansar forum: Caution, caution!
"[Signed] Omar bin Hanif
"Please post this on [all] the other sites, and place it on the political forum." [7] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_edn7)
A view similar to that of "Omar bin Hanif" was expressed by Dr. Muhammad Al-Mas'ari himself, who told the London daily [I]Al-Quds Al-Arabi: "There is an [espionage] game going on the Internet, that is aimed at destroying the jihad sites, exposing the identity of the members, and arresting the important ones among them, and finding out the countries of origin of the supporters [of jihad]. Recently, all the founders of the Al-Ansar [site] were arrested, among them 'Irhabi 007,' 'Muhib Al-Shaykhain [Al-Tunsi],' and ''Azmi Klashen,' and these are, of course, pseudonyms."
According to Al-Mas'ari, "the infiltration of some jihad websites was the main reason for the arrest of the perpetrators of the Abqiq operation. The proof is that [a mere] six hours after one of the sites posted an announcement by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula taking responsibility for the Abqiq operation, the perpetrators of the operation were arrested."
Sa'd Al-Faqih, another Saudi opposition activist in London, told Al-Quds Al-Arabi: "The Saudi apparatuses infiltrated the jihad cell that carried out the [February 25, 2006] Abqiq operation by means of an informer, and they had nearly certain information [about the operation], but they did not manage to prevent it... There are jihad sites [that were infiltrated] both on the database [level] and by means of planting within them people posing as jihad supporters." [8] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_edn8)
Along the same lines, on March 26, 2006, a contributor calling himself "Abu Al-Dardaa" wrote on the Al-Tajdeed site: "Since it became known to me that most of the supervisors of the Al-Hesbah site were from Jordan, I have been suspicious... because Jordanian intelligence is the most powerful Arab intelligence [apparatus]." [9] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_edn9)
It should be noted that suspicions regarding Al-Hesbah's authenticity were also raised by visitors to the site itself. Even before the site stopped operating in March 2006, in a December 2, 2005 posting, a contributor using the nickname "Safinat Nuh" wondered how it could be that the Islamist websites were being shut down one by one, while Al-Hesbah remained online: "I see that all the jihad sites are closed down after a while, or their domains are shut down, as [happened] to Al-Nidaa, Al-Firdaws, Al-Ikhlas, Al-Ansar, and other [sites]; why, then, isn't Al-Hesbah harmed in the same way? Is this a purely technical matter or is it something else?" [10] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_edn10)


[B]Attacks on Al-Hesbah Continue After it Closes Down
After Al-Hesbah stopped operating on March 17, 2006, the attacks casting doubts on its authenticity continued, and even increased. On March 23, 2006, Al-Tajdeed posted an additional article, titled "The Espionage Game and the Destruction of the Jihad Websites." The article's author, "Sami Al-Ansari," based his article on the article by "Omar bin Hanif," and claimed that Al-Hesbah was operated by Egyptian, Saudi, and Western intelligence with the aim of uncovering the identity and location of the people who write on the Islamist forums under pseudonyms, and of putting their names on the lists of wanted men and arresting them.
As a result, according to "Sami Al-Ansari," some activists who contributed to the jihad sites were arrested, among them "Al-Battar Al-Ansari," "Marwan Hadid" (Abu Suleiman Al-Ansari Al-Muhajer), and GIMF members. Also arrested were the founders of the Al-Ansar site, among them "Irhabi 007," "Muhib Al-Shaykhain Al-Tunsi," '''Azmi Klashen," and "bin Roma."
"Al-Ansari" explained the tactics employed by these alleged spies serving the intelligence apparatuses - such as "Muhammad Al-Zuheiri," "Mu'taz Batawhidihi,' and "Al-Qa'qa' bin 'Amr" -to extract identifying information from those who wrote on the sites. He also pointed out the site supervisors' rude behavior towards the forum participants - which he called unbefitting those preaching for Allah - and raised doubts regarding their authenticity.
"Al-Ansari" accused "the intelligence dogs on the Internet" of maliciously persecuting Al-Mas'ari, to the point of accusing him of heresy.
"Al-Ansari" himself had been banned from writing on Al-Hesbah after he attacked the Al-Jazeera channel, which he claimed was also serving Western intelligence apparatuses.
The following is a translation of the article by "Sami Al-Ansari":
"The Espionage Game and the Destruction of the Jihad Websites
"The game is over, gentlemen,
"What an abhorrent game this was - aimed at destroying the jihad websites, uncovering the identity of the members and apprehending the important ones among them, learning their sympathizers' countries [of origin], and adding them to the [West's] list of 300,000 terrorists.
"All the founders of the Al-Ansar website have been arrested: 'Irhabi 007,' 'Muhibb Al-Shaykhain Al-Tunsi,' ''Azmi Klashen' (for a long time now it has been clear to me that he is under arrest), [and] 'bin Roma' (who recently disappeared in a European country).
"I do not want to do anyone an injustice, but there is no escape from speaking out in order to fulfill our obligation. [Thus], if someone I mention [herein] is innocent, I ask Allah's forgiveness - and if he is a spy, may he go to Hell.
"I claim that the brother 'bin Roma,' who has disappeared, received some suspicious messages from the man called (...) In the first message, [this man] told him that he was entering Iraq; then he left and was arrested at the border by the Syrian authorities; then a friend of his - the son of a senior Ba'th official - intervened to release him. Afterwards, ['bin Roma'] received, from this same person on the Al-Safinat website, [11] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_edn11) another suspicious message, in which [this man] told him that he was at (...) and that he was interested in meeting with 'bin Roma' immediately because he was about to enter Iraq in some way.
"Brother 'bin Roma' did not answer him, but messages of this kind clarify the mentality behind them. With regard to (...) [the man sending the messages], perhaps he was one of the supporters of jihad arrested , and they forced him to cooperate with them and to go on the Internet in order to entrap the brothers [who write for Islamist websites]. May Allah liberate brother 'bin Roma' if he is under arrest, and all the brothers who have been arrested.
"'Bin Roma' himself told me at the time about the suspicious method of the beast named 'Mu'taz Betawhidihi' (Abu Al-Asbat), and how he would harass the sisters on the Al-Safinat website. Perhaps [the members of] this heinous group sought were eager to pose as women so they could spy on and entrap the sisters who visited the site; thus they would incite the women to join the ranks of jihad in order to get them arrested, so that afterwards these loathsome individuals could carry out their perversions on them - may Allah's curse be upon the fornicators.
"Apparently, brother Marwan Hadid (Abu Suleiman Al-Ansari Al-Muhajer) has recently been arrested, [while] one of the greatest of liars - 'Sayf Al-Islam Al-Athari' - is planting a rumor that he [i.e. Marwan Hadid] was injured in an auto accident.
"While GMIF members - who sent the announcement [of Al-Qaeda's responsibility to Al-Hesbah] from those who carried out the attack - were arrested or killed, 'Sayf Al-Islam Al-Athari,' amazingly, [was able] to post pictures of the Abqiq operation on the Al-Hesbah site [without anything bad happening to him]. [It would appear] that Al-Hesbah [was the one that] gave the Salul [derogatory term for "Saudi" in Al-Qaeda circles] intelligence the IP address of the computers that posted [on the Al-Hesbah site] the announcement [of those who carried out the attack]. Thus, it is possible that 'Al-Athari' himself is either a spy, or a puppet manipulated unknowingly by the intelligence [apparatuses] - [because] his postings always hinted that he was a very important individual. [12] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_edn12)
"All GIMF members were arrested, and the proof [of this] is that recently, after the killing of its men following the Abqiq operation, the [GIMF] began posting meaningless and idiotic topics [on Al-Hesbah] in the name of the spy 'Mu'taz Bitawhidihi,' the official representative of Egyptian intelligence, and of the other spy, the deviant Ba'thist Muhammad Al-Zuheiri, [Mu'taz Bitawhidihi's] colleague [in espionage], and of the heinous liar Al-Qa'qa' bin 'Amr, who lies in a way that makes you wonder, and of the rest of the gang, and the suspect names that appeared in brother Omar bin Hanif's legendary document posted on the Al-Tajdeed site under the title 'A Series of Exposures of Spies' - [a document] that exposed the fraud and hastened the collapse of the Al-Hesbah site and of its sister [sites].
"One day, Al-Qa'qa' posted a document [on Al-Hesbah] about a spy who fled from the hostel [in which he was staying], leaving behind toothpaste and a passport. The details of the story were drawn from statements by the spy Al-Khadhar Al-Masri Al-Kindi, who appeared on Al-Arabiyya TV, and this heinous liar [Al-Qa'qa' published them] in order to hint that he was important and that he was in contact with the mujahedeen. May Allah's curse come upon the evil ones.
"Now the Al-Hesbah website has been exposed, and the greatest espionage operation in the history of the Islamic websites ends. Who [can] now chastise us for attacking it for so long? Even banning me [from writing on Al-Hesbah] was calculated, [and it happened] because of the abhorrent, swinish television channel [i.e. Al-Jazeera]. At first, the correspondent for the abhorrent channel tried to flatter me on the Al-Ansar site, and when the Al-Ansar [site] disappeared, the Al-Hesbah [site] was spared the bother. This proves that Al-Jazeera TV [is conducting] destructive intelligence activity, and that all the criticism written about it is 100% true.
"Al-Jazeera is an American-Zionist project aimed at drying up the sources of religion in the region, reviving and spreading the putrid nationalist idea, or spreading the Muslim Brotherhood's bankrupt program. The proof of this is that the dog Waddakh Khanfar, the director of the channel, and the evil old nationalist [Muhammad Hasanein] Heikal are the ones who are today driving the Al-Jazeera wagon.
"It appears that even the false rumor that [President Bush] intended to bomb Al-Jazeera TV was aimed at improving its [i.e. Al-Jazeera's] image, following the harsh attacks against it in the documents that appeared on the Bayt Al-Maqdis website, because that week the [Bayt Al-Maqdis] site was shut down by the hosting company.
"With regard to the malicious persecution of Dr. Muhammad Al-Mas'ari by the intelligence dogs of the Internet, it is possible to disagree with [Al-Mas'ari's] view. But to accuse him of heresy? No reasonable person can accept the charge of heresy against a Muslim who spreads far and wide the word of Allah, and a man as courageous as he. [Likewise,] the campaign to target Dr. Sa'd Al-Faqih nearly began - but praise Allah, who has spared us this evil thing.
"During this internal war [[I]fitna], some of the excellent brothers became vulnerable targets, among them: the brother 'Al-Doktor Al-Islami' [apparently a pseudonym of Dr. Muhammad Al-Mas'ari], 'Al-Balawi 1,' 'Sayf Al-Kheir,' 'bin Roma,' 'Sami Sharaf,' and anyone [else] who said 'no' to Al-Hesbah. Then began the hunt, like a foxhunt, to blacken their name and to tear these to pieces. Praise Allah, who has revealed the truth.
"It is almost certain that brother 'Al-Battar Al-Ansari' has been arrested, because he disappeared from the Internet over three months ago. The fog thickens and the night has [just] begun.
"May every brother who has been banned from [posting] on the espionage sites - which is a sign of honor, Allah be praised - and who has suffered during the past year, know that the price that he paid for the blackening of his name and for the slander against him by the heinous spies is minimal, [because] it was in exchange for the exposure of these heinous individuals. But the damage caused to respectable individuals [the reference is apparently to participants in Islamist sites who were arrested] was much more than destructive; none listened to the voice of reason, [or wondered] how an Islamic site with a jihad orientation [such as Al-Hesbah] could ask those posting to it what country they were writing from. Soon [Al-Hesbah] would have been asking for your name, address, and photo. Only someone [trying to expose you] would do such things.
"Similarly, the dark hatred [shown by the Al-Hesbah site supervisors] in their treatment of site [participants] and other people - a hatred that is inappropriate to religious individuals, who tend towards lenience and tolerance - amazed me. It is this, more than anything else, that stirred me up against Al-Hesbah and its supervisors. It is inconceivable, in any way, that any person who is religious or who spreads the word of Allah - and especially when he is operating [an Islamic] site - would act with such rudeness and crudity [like the Al-Hesbah site supervisors] - because the primary goal of the Islamic sites is [I]da'wa for Allah.
"It may be that most of us [who posted on Al-Hesbah] are now under surveillance, in an effort to determine our connections. Perhaps, as soon as they figure it out, they will arrest you and try you for writing on the Internet, or else they will subject you to barbaric torture before releasing you. There is a good chance that your name is [already] on the American list of the 300,000 terrorists. In such a case, [harming] your honor is permitted, and you are forbidden to travel from place to place except for purposes of study, medical treatment, etc.
"Now, the aim is to eradicate a particular breed [of Muslims] - that is, the breed of Muslims that rebels against the hegemony of the West. The Muslim must remain ignorant under the [threat] of Western bayonets.
"The aim is to keep us under [Western] control, so that while all other countries make scientific, economic, and civil progress, the Muslim region remains backwards for an indefinite period of time. [According to the West's approach, either we] will create a hybrid Muslim who fits in with the Western way of life, or the future of the Muslims will be dark: poverty, disease, and ignorance - a destructive triangle that will destroy us.
"Rome fights the barbarians
"But the sword of Caesar will break one day, and will be crumbled by time.
"We belong to Allah, and to Him we will return [said by Muslims upon hearing of a death].
"A blessing upon the imprisoned lions:
"'Al-Battar Al-Ansari'
"'Muhib Al-Shaykhain Al-Tunsi'
"'Irhabi 007'
"'Bin Roma'
"Allah Akbar." [13] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_edn13)


[B]Al-Tajdeed Tries to Promote Other Websites as Alternatives to Al‑Hesbah
While Al-Hesbah's activity was halted for a month, Al-Tajdeed attempted to take advantage of its absence and of the ensuing confusion amongst jihad supporters who had used Al-Hesbah as a major conduit for sharing messages and updates. Al-Tajdeed began to promote alternative websites such as Al-Akhbar Al-'Alamiyya (http://www.w-n-n.net (http://www.w-n-n.net/) ) and Al-Ghuraba (http://www.alghuraba.com/vb ).
On March 21, 2006, Al-Tajdeed posted a report headlined "Al-Akhbar Al-'Alamiyya is Back with a Vengeance," which stated: "We no longer have a need for dubious sites like Al-Hesbah, which Allah caused to fall. [We have] Al-Akhbar Al-'Alamiyya, praise Allah... When our brothers the jihad fighters in Iraq want to post announcements on the Internet, they should send them to Al-Akhbar Al-'Alamiyya, and there is no longer any need for concealment strategies [on their part to protect themselves from spies]." [14] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_edn14)
On March 26, 2006, Al-Tajdeed posted another announcement, titled "New Website in Need of Free Pens," which said: "We have launched a new site for all [those who wield] a free pen and wish to tell the truth and confirm it, even if it is not to the liking of the infidels and the hypocrites who assist them. [For] nowadays everything is backwards: those who tell the truth are silenced, every good-for-nothing is allowed to voice his opinion [freely]... We await you in the Al-Ghuraba forums, and we need your assistance..." [15] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_edn15)

Al-Qaeda Communiqué: No Truth to Claims Regarding a Connection Between Al-Hesbah and the Arrest and Killing of Our Men, and Regarding Al-Hesbah's Infiltration by Spies
On April 4, 2006, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula issued a communiqué rejecting the suspicions that had been raised against the Al-Hesbah website. The communiqué, posted on Al-Akhbar Al-'Alamiyya on April 5, 2006, stated: "As for what has been recently published regarding the fall of our brothers in the Al-Yarmouk neighborhood (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_edn16) ], and the attempt to claim that Al-Hesbah was responsible for this, or that [the incident] was caused by infiltration [of Al-Hesbah by intelligence agents] - we stress that these allegations are false. Everything we know about our brothers in Al-Hesbah is good - and even if we assume, for the sake of argument, that [the website] had been infiltrated, [we assure you that] every [necessary] precaution was taken in this regard, and that the fall of the brothers had nothing to do with the Internet." [17] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_edn17)
Saudi opposition activists responded immediately. Al-Tajdeed claimed that the announcement was inauthentic. Al-Islah Radio, owned by Dr. Sa'd Al-Faqih, likewise stated that the communiqué was an attempt by Arab-Zionist intelligence apparatuses to keep up the activity of "the Al-Hesbah espionage site," and argued that the communiqué could not have been issued by Al-Qaeda because "we have never seen or heard a [single] announcement by Al-Qaeda exonerating a specific person or body operating in the field, since such an [announcement] would [only] harm this person or body or get them into trouble... How is it that Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula posted an announcement exonerating individuals who are known in their country, and they have not been arrested?" [18] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_edn18)


[B]The Day After Al-Hesbah's Reappearance, Al-Tajdeed Posts "Safety Guidelines" for Visitors to Al-Hesbah
On April 14, 2006, following the reappearance of Al-Hesbah, Al-Tajdeed posted a report headed "Al-Hesbah is Back - Take Heed before Entering." The author, who used the name "Al-Ghamdi," warned visitors to Al-Hesbah to take the following precautions: "Access the site only through a proxy server. Visitors using a single UNIX [system] should refrain from participating in [discussions on] sensitive issues, in order to avoid being banned [from entering the site]. As for the eight brothers whose names have been published, including Al-Fikr, Qaher, Fata, Omar and others - I hope they will not participate [in any discussions] whatsoever, since we need to use their UNIX [systems] to expose any future [activity] of intelligence [apparatuses] on the site. For your information, brothers, one of the links to Al-Hesbah in Saudi Arabia, which had been blocked, has [now] been reactivated - there will be surprises... Take care not to expose your location on any jihad website, and be aware that everything you write is monitored by the site or by the [intelligence] agents on the site. Trust no one, and do not form new acquaintances." [19] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_edn19)


[B]Al-Hesbah: Site Closed Down Due to Numerous Attacks - Especially the Arrest of Head Supervisor Sheikh Muhtasib Abu Mus'ab
On April 14, 2006, upon the reappearance of Al-Hesbah, the site's administration posted a statement explaining its month-long absence. The posting claimed that the site had been shut down due to numerous attacks that had impeded its operation, and that its activity had been restored after the necessary precautions had been taken: "Al-Hesbah faced many trials and difficulties, in particular the arrest of its head supervisor, Sheikh Muhtasib Abu Mus'ab... The Crusaders were aware of the importance of the Islamic media forums, which exposed the depravity of the Crusaders' lies and put a stop to [their] misleading and fraudulent propaganda. These forums stood up against the arrogance of the various Western and Arab media channels. [They] gave voice to the jihad fighters and defended their honor, and lent the Islamic media reliability and uniqueness, despite the paucity of resources [at their disposal].
"These Islamic media [forums] - with Al-Hesbah among them - were therefore exposed to numerous difficulties, attacks and provocations, which we managed for many months to overcome. But recently, the frequency of the attacks increased, threatening Al-Hesbah's security and impeding its operation.
"In light of this, the Al-Hesbah administration decided that the site would be shut down permanently on March 17, 2006. But following several new developments, it saw fit to re-launch the site, while employing every possible security measure, so that [Al-Hesbah] could reassume its role in the media and pursue its campaign of spreading Islam and of applying and enforcing Islamic norms." [20] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_edn20)
In addition, on April 14, 2006, Al-Hesbah's administration also announced that the site's head supervisor, who is also one of its senior contributors, known as "Muhtasib Abu Mus'ab," had been arrested five months earlier by one of the security apparatuses. The administration strongly condemned the arrest, and called upon those who had arrested him to release him as soon as possible and that it was holding them responsible for his safety." [21] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_edn21)
Al-Hesbah's announcement about the arrest of Muhtasib Abu Mus'ab prompted another attack by Al-Tajdeed, followed by further explanations by Al-Hesbah. An April 15, 2006 posting on Al-Tajdeed by "Al-Fikr Al-Rashid" posed the following questions to Al-Hesbah: "If Muhtasib was arrested six months ago, who posted [announcements using] his UNIX system during the recent period after his arrest? [22] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_edn22)... And if they claim that someone impersonated Muhtasib metaphorically, how can we dismiss the possibility that the whole gang of liars on the Al-Burak [site] - 'Abu Layla Al-Hijazi,' 'Raya Al-Khana,' and 'Mu'taz Bikhanzirihi' [23] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_edn23) - [merely] pretended to be [members of] the information bureau of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, after the arrest of most of its [real] members, and posted a false announcement containing every lie, curse, and deception that their diseased minds could come up with regarding Sheikh Al-Mas'ari?" [24] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_edn24)
Three days later, Al-Hesbah responded: "Abu Abdallah," an Al-Hesbah administrator, wrote: "We received questions from several brothers regarding the timing of Sheikh 'Muhtasib's' arrest. [They] wondered [how it could be that] announcements and responses were posted in his name after he was arrested. We stress that the sheikh was arrested on 10.6.1426 [November 8, 2005], but the site administration assigned his UNIX system to one of the brothers who studied under him, [and asked this brother] to answer the sheikh's mail in order to give the impression that [the sheikh] was still present. This [was done] for several reasons having to do with our [desire] to choose a suitable time for reporting the sheikh's arrest, and based on other legal and security-related considerations which caution prevents us from explaining." [25] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_edn25)

Al-Islah Radio: Al-Hesbah Spied on Those Posting on it
Al-Islah Radio, which belongs to Saudi Islamist opposition activist Dr. Sa'd Al-Faqih, continued his own campaign against Al-Hesbah, presenting various pieces of evidence which allegedly proved that Al-Hesbah had spied on those posting on it. The following are excerpts from the story, which was titled "Marking the Return of the Espionage Site - Old-New Proof that Al-Hesbah Spies on Its Participants":
"Al-Hesbah's return [provided] new proof that it is an espionage [site], due to the American-Saudi satisfaction with it. Since how can the site renew its operation when there is an announcement - a fictitious one - from the Al-Qaeda organization that exonerates it? Why weren’t its supervisors arrested, as they are known to the Zionist authorities? The server of the Al-Hesbah company is an American server and its address is in the state of Arizona in the U.S. An announcement - a fictitious one - by the Al-Qaeda organization exonerates Al-Hesbah and the site renews its activity easily on an American server?
"The Al-Ansar site, which posted announcements of jihad fighters, was shut down and besieged, and its supervisors were arrested, and every attempt to renew its activity was immediately thwarted by the international authorities headed by America. Meanwhile, the Al-Hesbah [site] returned [and what's more,] by means of an American server. However, this is not unusual, because the Al-Ansar site is truly a jihad site that [fights] tyrannical rulers [of Arab countries], so war was declared on it, and every attempt to renew its activity brought down the world intelligence apparatuses upon it. At the same time, reality teaches us that none declare war on Al-Hesbah; on the contrary, the American authorities are collaborating with it, and it is sufficient to say that its server is in America." [26] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_edn26)


Al-Burak Website, Allied with Al-Hesbah, Counterattacks: Al-Mas'ari, Al-Faqih, and Hani Al-Siba'i are Leading a Move to Destroy All Jihad Websites
The Al-Burak site, which is close to Al-Hesbah, posted a document by "Al Mushtaq Liljana" that was titled "Urgent from Al-Burak: Al-Mas'ari, Al-Siba'i, [Yasser] Al-Sirri, and S'ad Al-Faqih Are Leading the Attack on the Jihad Fighters." In it, the author listed contributors to Al-Tajdeed who, he claimed were leading the struggle on the jihad websites. The following are translated excerpts from the document:
"A list of grave-worshippers [i.e. infidels] who are leading the attack on the flag fertilized with blood [apparently a reference to Al-Hesbah]: These days, the blood-fertilized flag is being subjected to a war of destruction by the grave-worshippers and cattle-worshippers who have made their homes in London and its environs. Every good-for-nothing, deviant, and deportee has gathered around Al-Mas'ari bearing the flag of the grave-worshippers. [They] declared war against the people of monotheism and loyalty, and gathered and concentrated their forces on the Al-Tajdeed website, in an unprecedented attack on a group of believers [i.e. on Al-Hesbah]...
"We have been silent to the point where they thought that [our] silence constituted weakness. But they have gone too far in their aberrant path, to the point of attacking our sheikhs 'Raya Al-'Uqab' and 'Mu'taz Betawhidihi" and the other excellent brothers... The following are the names heading the list of the grave-worshippers:
"a) Muhammad Al-Mas'ari ('Al-Doktor Al-Islami') - head of the insane gang that led the disaster by making use of websites until he destroyed them, [for according to his plan] either the websites would all be under his aegis, or he would declare a war of destruction against them and against the banner of monotheism that over the generations has been fertilized with the blood of monotheists.
"b) 'Sheikh Omar bin Hanif,' who is Sheikh Hani Al-Siba'i, 'Abu Al-Siba', who owns the Al-Maqrizi Center, which is nothing but an apartment plus a computer. Regards to Al-Maqrizi, who himself is 'Ali Al-Masri.'
"c) The one who was expelled from the jihad websites, 'Sami 9000,' Mansour Al-Halabi - a Syrian living in Libya, a grave-worshipping Sufi who secretly supports the Muslim Brotherhood. In the past, he wrote for the Egyptian newspaper[I] Al-Sha'b, and he has connections with 'Comrade Taleb Al-Du'a - another grave-worshipping Sufi - [who writes] for the blessed Al-Hesbah website. This expellee [spoke] from a Libyan-Sufi point of view when he boasted of the victory of the jihad fighters, to the point where he became one of the false kingpins of the Al-Ansar website - may Allah restore it - and his imam and sheikh is the Sufi Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali.
"d) 'Al-Fikr Al-Rashid' - who is not at all rashid - has focused his energy on spreading internal war [[I]fitna] between Muslims, on banging drums and playing the flute, and he is a mistaken and misleading grave-worshipper, as the brothers testify. He is [the Egyptian oppositionist] Yasser Al-Sirri, who is fed by aid from the [British] authorities and the British organizations and collaborates with them. He established [the] Al-Marsad [center], which is a room plus a computer.
"e) 'Qaher Al-Salatin' - [who] made it his goal to analyze subjects [written by] our sheikh, 'Mu'taz Bitawhidihi,' and to trace the IP addresses, and who reported on this to Scotland Yard. He [writes under the pseudonym] 'Al-Bawasel.'
"f) 'Fata Al-Jazeera' (Sa'd Al-Faqih) - [who] made his home in London, and who boasted of [his] resistance against the Saudi royal family, but he fell of his evil deeds when he honored the infidel constitution [i.e. the British and Western Basic Laws and constitutions], recognized the infidel civil activity, [and] honored the infidel democracy. He established the democratic Islamic Movement for Reform [Al-Islah], funded by the Queen of England.
"g) 'Abdallah Al-Ghamdi' - He is ' bin Roma,' one of the residents of Algeria who fled from the battle.
"As you see... [just like Al-Tajdeed], we too know to put together a list of all the suspects and corrupt ones on Earth who have set themselves the goal of toppling and destroying all the jihad forums, and of casting doubts on the people who are active on them... But the flag fertilized with the blood of the monotheists will yet wave - and you grave-worshippers, your day is nigh; the announcement of the jihad fighters has destroyed your flag [i.e. the Al-Tajdeed website], and only shards remain of it." [27] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_edn27)



D. Hazan is director of MEMRI's Initiative on Monitoring Islamist & Jihad Websites.




[1] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_ednref1) The Al-Hesbah website includes postings of announcements by Al-Qaeda, including statements by the organization's commanders: Osama bin Laden, his deputy Ayman Al-Zawahiri, and Al-Qaeda commander in Iraq Abu Mus'ab Al-Zarqawi. Also posted on the site are announcements and films by other terror organizations, such as Jaysh Ansar Al-Sunna ("Army of the Supporters of the Sunna") and Jaysh Al-Taifa Al-Mansoura ("Army of the Victorious Group") that operate in Iraq. Also posted are extremist messages by the Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF).
[2] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_ednref2) The GIMF is an Islamic body that posts items dealing with jihad fighters on the Internet, but it denies any connection with Al-Qaeda.
[3] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_ednref3) http://www.tajdeed.org.uk/forums/showthread.php?threadid=40024 April 1, 2006.
[4] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_ednref4) See MEMRI Inquiry and Analysis No. 260, "Reeducation of Extremists in Saudi Arabia," January 18, 2006, http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA26006.
[5] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_ednref5) "Mu'taz Bikhanziri" means "proud of his pig" - a deliberate derogatory wordplay on the name of the writer suspected of espionage "Mu'taz Bitawhidihi," which means "proud of his monotheism."
[6] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_ednref6) The term used was "Al-Battikhiya security apparatuses" - after Samih Al-Batikhi, former head of the Jordanian security apparatus.
[7] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_ednref7) http://www.tajdeed.org.uk/forums/showthread.php?threadid=39571 March 22, 2006.
[8] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_ednref8) [I]Al-Quds Al-Arabi (London), March 30, 2006.
[9] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_ednref9) http://www.tajdeed.org.uk/forums/showthread.php?threadid=39897, March 23, 2006.
[10] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_ednref10) http://www.alhesbah.org/v/showthread.php?t=41439 , December 1, 2005.
[11] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_ednref11) Another Islamist website, www.safynat.com/vb (http://www.safynat.com/vb).
[12] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_ednref12) On March 30, 2006, Sami Al-Ansari posted, on Al-Tajdeed, an apology to "Sayf Al-Athari" for mistakenly including him in his list of spies, and again pointed out the great damage that Al-Hesbah and the spies on it had allegedly caused to the jihadist sites: "I hereby apologize to brother Sayf Al-Islam Al-Athri for the unintentional mistake in this matter in my posting about the spies and [about] Al-Hesbah, which destroyed the jihadi sites... These liars, traitors, and adulterers caused the destruction of most of the [Islamist] sites and prevented jihadi information [from reaching the jihad fighters]. Amazingly, these [spies] receive support from some people about whom there are question marks, such as 'Raya Al-'Uqab,' 'Abu Layla Al-Hijazi,' and others from amongst the most black-hearted and resentful people." http://www.tajdeed.org.uk/forums/showthread.php?postid=156720, March 30, 2006.
[13] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_ednref13) http://www.tajdeed.org.uk/forums/showthread.php?threadid=39818, March 23, 2006.
[14] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_ednref14)http://www.tajdeed.org.uk/forums/showthread.php?s=b%201%20ebeab46adaab83e36303ddcd6 af7af&threadid=39776, March 21, 2006.
[15] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_ednref15) http://www.tajdeed.org.uk/forums/showthread.php?threadid=39620, March 26, 2006. It should be noted that the Al-Ghuraba site has been known to MEMRI for some time as an Islamist site.
[16] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_ednref16) A reference to the events of February 27, 2006, during which Saudi security forces raided a home in the Al-Yarmouk neighborhood of Riyadh and killed five members of Al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia who were connected to the attempted attack on the Abqiq oil fields.
[17] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_ednref17) http://www.w-n-n.net/showthread.php?t=9640, April 5, 2006
[18] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_ednref18) http://www.tajdeed.org.uk/forums/showthread.php?threadid=40351, April 11, 2006.
[19] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_ednref19) http://www.tajdeed.org.uk/forums/showthread.php?threadid=40446, April 14, 2006.
[20] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_ednref20) http://www.alhesbah.org/v/showthread.php?t=58571, April 14, 2006.
[21] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_ednref21) http://www.alhesbah.org/v/showthread.php?t=58566, April 14, 2006.
[22] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_ednref22) A similar question was raised by another individual who posts on Al-Tajdeed, "Al-Faqir Ila Rabihi." He pointed out that "even if we assume that the announcement of Muhtasib's arrest is logical, it is surprising that his most recent posting on the Al-Hesbah site appeared on March 8, 2006 [i.e. several months after the date given for his arrest]. What is the meaning of this?"
http://www.tajdeed.org.uk/forums/showthread.php?threadid=40480, April 15, 2006.
[23] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_ednref23) The last two names are deliberate distortions of the names Raya Al-'Uqab ("flag of the eagle") and Mu'taz Bitawhidihi ("proud of his monotheism"), changing their meanings to "flag of obscenity" and "proud of his pig."
[24] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_ednref24) http://www.tajdeed.org.uk/forums/showthread.php?threadid=40473, April 15, 2006.
[25] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_ednref25) http://www.alhesbah.org/v/showthread.php?t=59000, April 17, 2006.
[26] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_ednref26) As cited on Al-Tajdeed under the name of "Fata Al-Jazeera" (identified by the Al-Burak site as Sa'd Al-Faqih, see further on in text).
http://www.tajdeed.org.uk/forums/showthread.php?threadid=40453, April 14, 2006.
[27] (http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_ednref27) As cited on Al-Tajdeed, http://www.tajdeed.org.uk/forums/showthread.php?threadid=40376, April 15, 2006.

http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA27506#_ednref8

[Casey]

The Internet a major tool in spreading extremism

Updated Mon. Jun. 5 2006 6:46 PM ET
Canadian Press

OTTAW -- There's no firm evidence of involvement by the al Qaeda network.
But at any given moment, there are an estimated 4,500 terrorist-related Web sites accessible on the Internet. And the Internet, in recent years, has become "the major hotspot" for the radicalization of homegrown Islamic terrorists.

Three statements from three different Western governments - in Britain, Canada and Belgium - all pointing to one common problem for national security agencies: the global war on terror is a virtual quagmire.
"Al Qaeda does not exist in the form that it existed in 9/11," Jack Hooper, the deputy director of operations for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, told a Senate committee last week.

"What al Qaeda created (was) an ideology and an operational doctrine that disparate activists have seized upon."
Hooper's comments deftly foreshadowed the arrest Friday of 17 suspects on terrorism charges. But they also highlighted a global problem that at times almost mocks the boots-on-the-ground military war on terror being waged in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Canadian suspects, alleged a CSIS spokesman, are followers of "a violent ideology inspired by al Qaeda."
What does that mean exactly?
Almost a year after the deadly London transit bombings, a British government report struggled to connect the same dots: "There is as yet no firm evidence to corroborate ... the nature of al Qaeda support, if there was any."
There are, however, curious parallels to the apparently autonomous cell that is alleged to have sprung up in Canada.

The London bombers, all good British blokes raised in dense suburban enclaves, had a taste for the great outdoors that appeared to match the alleged "training camp" the Canadian group held in the bush near Washago, Ont.
"Camping, canoeing, white-water rafting, paintballing and other outward bound-type activities are of particular interest because they appear common factors for the 7 July bombers and other cells disrupted previously and since," noted the British report.

Bomb-making techniques and equipment - including the use of ammonium nitrate fertilizer - are surprisingly common across groups and causes, which speaks to the availability of such information on the Internet.
Even the bewildered, disbelieving parents of alleged Islamist terrorists on three continents come across as common archetypes of modern generational misunderstanding.

"He wasn't especially religious and neither am I," the father of one of the Bali bombers said last year, his wife weeping at his side. "He was a normal kid."

Or in the words of a family statement from one of the London bombers: "We are having difficulty taking this in."
Studies by security officials in Belgium, Britain and Canada have all found one common intersection for Islamic extremism among younger citizens.

The Internet, according to a report released in March by Belgium's intelligence service, provides "an ideological source of inspiration for jihadists worldwide."

Much of the inflammatory material is theological rubbish, "often literally cut from Internet publications and pasted together into a personal ideology of revenge against Western political, economic and cultural (power)."
In a footnote, the same report notes a number of young Dutch Muslims are represented on the Internet as emirs based on little more than debating skills and "their seemingly ready knowledge of historical quotations on religious issues and violent jihad - which they merely found on the Internet themselves."

Indeed, any suburban teen with the Internet can become not just a disciple of extremist ideology, but fashion themselves as leaders in a destructive movement they may scarcely comprehend.

Hooper laid it out in simple language when speaking to the Senate committee last week.

"You can become radicalized, you can become committed to the al Qaeda ideology without ever having been to an al Qaeda training camp . . . in Pakistan or Afghanistan," said the CSIS deputy.

"You can learn techniques and acquire materials over the Internet. You can assemble an operational cell over the Internet."

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060605/terror_internet_060605/20060605?hub=Canada

[Casey]

The Times June 07, 2006

British computer whizz-kid exports terror via internet
By Daniel McGrory

An e-mail trail has led to the arrest of suspects across the world who were recruited and then schooled in bombmaking

AN INTERNET trail left by a British computer expert has led investigators to an intricate terror network spreading from the backstreets of Baghdad through cells of young militants living in European capitals to Islamic extremists plotting car-bomb attacks in North America.

For nine months police and intelligence agents in eight countries have patiently worked through a forest of e-mails and intercepted telephone calls that have so far led to the arrest of up to 30 men.

Most of these suspects have never met. They had no need. They were recruited, groomed by skilled propagandists and schooled in bombmaking via the internet.

A senior security source told The Times that there is a far greater number of terror networks operating in Britain than had been thought, all using the internet to plot attacks here and abroad.

A series of criminal trials in Britain, the US, Canada and Bosnia over the coming months will determine whether the much maligned Western security agencies have successfully disrupted a dangerous ring of al-Qaeda sympathisers or been duped by faulty intelligence.

In a week when the competence of Scotland Yard and MI5 is being questioned, the outcome of what police here codenamed Operation Mazhar will demonstrate whether the long-promised co-operation of rival international intelligence agencies is succeeding. The operation is not connected to the raid in Forest Gate, London.

The arrest of 17 suspects, many of them teenagers, picked up in the suburbs of Toronto at the weekend is said to be the latest stage in dismantling a terrorist nexus that, worryingly, has its links with one of the world’s most wanted men — Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq.

On his website al-Zarqawi has encouraged young Muslims to take up the fight in their own countries and spread his religious war further than Iraq and Afghanistan.

One aim is to create an army of “white-skinned” militants, men born in Europe and America who can convert to Islam and become harder for the authorities to detect as they cross the world on their missions, including suicide attacks. Using skilled computer operators around the world, al-Zarqawi’s outfit passes on bombmaking manuals, advice on how to sustain terror cells and even ways to use credit card fraud to hack into vital internet sites.

These are home-grown recruits planning to follow the example of the 7/7 bombers in London and bring devastation to their own backyards. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police claims that the gang it intercepted was set to bomb the country’s financial centre and the Parliament in Ottawa using vans packed with explosives.

These rival cells had no need to visit one another and risk being shadowed. Instead, with a few key strokes, the groups reportedly kept in touch with each other’s progress and synchronised their attacks.

A series of raids in recent months in a number of Europe’s capitals and in Atlanta in the US has passed virtually unannounced.

One US official told the Wall Street Journal: “We let the operation run as long as we had to make sure we could identify as many would-be terrorist operators as we could and then picked them off one, two, three and finally 17 at a time.”

The first arrests came in a scruffy apartment in Sarajevo in October last year when Bosnian police picked up 18-year-old Mirsad Bektasevic.

Born in Sweden to Serbian parents, he had converted to Islam, grown a beard and was known as “Maximus”. He had been watched since arriving in Sarajevo on September 27.

long with him was a 20-year-old Danish-born man and, police say, a cache of explosives and a suicide belt. The suspected target was the British Embassy in the Bosnian capital.

Maximus had allegedly been in touch by computer with a group based in London. Within hours counter-terrorist police had raided an address in London and arrested a young man, described as a computer expert.

Two more men were picked up and all are now waiting their turn in a backlog of terror trials. All three deny any involvement with terrorism.

Experts were struck by how the network was radicalising non-Arabs to alter the profile of its operatives. This included using women recruits, such as the 38-year-old Belgian waitress, born to a white, middle-class Christian family, who died in a suicide attack against US troops in Baghdad last November.

In Atlanta in March FBI agents arrested Syed Haris Ahmed, 21, who had broken with the usual pattern and allegedly visited fellow extremists in Canada, where they discussed possible targets in Washington, including the Capitol building.

The FBI says that Ahmed’s associate, Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, 19, fled to Bangladesh but has been returned to the US to await trial. It claims that the duo considered bombing oil refineries and airport control towers in the hope that planes would crash on landing.

The FBI alleges that they swapped ideas in e-mails with the London cell. Both men deny the claims.

The Canadian cell is made up of a collection of high-school students and university graduates, many of them described by friends and neighbours as models of middle-class respectability.

Ahmad Mustafa Ghany, 21, of Mississauga, west of Toronto, is a recent graduate of health sciences at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He is said to be a son of a doctor who emigrated to Canada from Trinidad and Tobago more than 40 years ago.

Saad Khalid, 19, who also lives in Mississauga, is said to be a successful business student at the University of Toronto’s Mississauga campus.

Just like the 7/7 bombers in Britain, a number of those arrested are married with young families. Zakaria Amara, 20, of Mississauga, is said to have moved into his mother-in-law’s home recently, where he lives with his wife and their infant daughter.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2214663,00.html

[Casey]

So, the FBI stated today they don't forsee any imminent threat due to al-Zarqawi's demise.......I think the Internet is taking a beating though, at the moment.......cyber games anyone????

[Atlas]

Good on the NSA, CSIS and whoever else scours the airwaves looking for bad guys

[Casey]

Good on the NSA, CSIS and whoever else scours the airwaves looking for bad guys

You said it.

From the reports I've seen, we've only heard about the tip of the iceberg.

I anxiously await the rest of it.

[Casey]

Southeast Asia vulnerable to cyber attack by terrorists, security experts say

By SEAN YOON, Associated Press Writer
Southeast Asia will inevitably face an Internet-based attack by terrorists against key institutions, even though militant groups lack the technical savvy so far, security experts said Monday.

Developing nations remain especially vulnerable to a cyber assault because they haven't built up defenses for their computer, banking and utility systems, said Yean Yoke Heng, deputy director general of the Kuala Lumpur-based Southeast Asian Regional Center for Counterterrorism.

"The threat is real," Yean told reporters at the start of a regional cyber security meeting. "Definitely, we are vulnerable. ... It's not a question of how or what; it's a question of when. So we better get our act together and be prepared for this eventuality."

Regional authorities currently have no specific information about possible threats, which could include the hacking of public networks or the spread of a computer virus, but "it's always good to be one step ahead of this terrorist threat," Yean said.

The five-day conference, which brings together security officials and analysts from Malaysia, the United States, Japan, Cambodia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand, will discuss how governments can prevent terrorists from exploiting information technology.

So far, Southeast Asian militant groups such as the al-Qaida-linked Jemaah Islamiyah network have mainly used the Internet to channel propaganda, recruit members, raise funds and coordinate bomb attacks, said Rohan Gunaratna, a Singapore-based militant expert.

"It will take a very long time for Southeast Asian terrorist groups to develop the capability to attack the Internet," Gunaratna said. "For now, groups such as Jemaah Islamiyah are using the Internet as a medium to create a new generation of radicalized Muslims."

There are more than 1,000 jihadist Web sites in Southeast Asia, Gunaratna said. He said captured Jemaah Islamiyah suspected leader Riduan Isamudin, or Hambali, used the Internet to communicate with operatives involved in the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people in Indonesia.

Despite no evidence of an imminent cyber attack, Southeast Asian authorities should still study how technologically advanced governments in the United States, Europe and Australia are safeguarding digital assets from terrorist exploitation, Gunaratna said.

Malaysia announced earlier this month that it would establish a center to offer emergency responses to cyber attacks on economic and trading systems of various countries. U.S. software company Symantec Corp. and Russian antivirus company Kaspersky are expected to be key partners, it said.

Copyright The Associated Press 2006. All Rights Reserved

http://photoshop.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=43597

[Casey]

Foil the attack
R.K. Raghavan

Given terrorists' use of cyber space, law enforcement agencies need to be on their toes to neutralise threats.

INTERCEPT the threat. M. Moorthy
I have to necessarily begin this column with my compliments to the Intelligence Bureau (IB) and the Maharashtra Police for foiling a dastardly LeT attack on the RSS headquarters in Nagpur.

We have not seen this smartness for a while, and it came at the right time too, as recent events in J&K seemed to point to a certain loss of grip over the situation. What is most significant is the press report that the field operation here was aided by a tip-off from the IB, which had used sophisticated communication devices to keep track of terrorist plans.

I do not have access to further information on this sensitive subject. However, I presume this involved interception of messages between terrorists before the planned Nagpur strike that were exchanged over telephone or e-mail, or through couriers. This brings me to the theme of this fortnight's column, viz., terrorist use of cyber space to facilitate swift directions to cadres during an operation and law enforcement's own efforts to track down such messages.

Although I have written on this subject earlier, the heightened terrorist activity in India persuades me to refresh reader memory by stating certain basic facts. First, the Internet provides an inexhaustible source from which groups draw information that is freely available, yet is immensely valuable. There is so much on the Net that requires to be restricted and screened from the law-breaker.

This is the basic objection to Google Earth, which is a goldmine for those aiming at physical strikes at enemy targets. There are several similar sites, which have sprung up or are about to make their appearance, that could be manna to many illegal formations waiting for an opportunity to hit at government and public facilities.

Proliferation of Web sites


Second, there has been an alarming proliferation of Web sites that leaves no doubt in our minds as to who are sponsoring them. According to one estimate by Professor Gabriel Weimann of the University of Haifa in Israel, there are at least 4,800 identified sites that facilitate the terrorist cause. The climb in numbers was noticed after 9/11. One saw similar peaks after the attack on Iraq.

These sites carry basic facts of the movement in question, including a descriptive account of its philosophy. Recruitment of cadres and their training, as also appeals for fund, are also done through these sites. While some groups mask their violent operations from such Web sites, a few, such as Hamas, do not make any bones about their proclivity to causing disorder and spreading fear.

Steganography, `draft folder'


Most of the material on terrorist Web sites is open and unencrypted. However, it is known that communication between field operatives is carried on through steganography, that is, messages hidden in a picture of a popular subject, which would hardly attract attention.

Unless there is a tip-off that a particular picture carries a secret message, there is no way we will be able to hit upon the offending picture and decrypt it to arrive at the message. Another novel modus operandus that became known recently is the terrorist practice of hiding messages in the `drafts folder' so that the risk of interception is eliminated.

With one e-mail ID and a shared password, several terrorists can read a mail carrying a specific message and act on it. An innocuous looking `drafts folder' can, therefore, effectively transmit messages across the globe without any attendant risk of interception.

Professor Weimann, whose new book Terror on the Internet: The New Arena, the New Challenges (United States Institute of Peace Press, April 2006), is described as a fascinating treatise on the terrorist-cyber nexus, is of the view that terrorists did not acquire any new technology to build Web sites, as this is a skill even an undergraduate in computer sciences these days possesses.

What strikes Weimann is the terrorist ingenuity in appealing to dissimilar constituencies through different sites. In an interview to Technology Review (March 9, 2006), he cites Hamas and Hezbollah's particular appeal to children through online computer game wars

Al Qaeda has been seen catering to women users of the Internet! Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordan-born Al Qaeda leader, for instance, was an unknown figure until he started launching his tirades against the West and Shi'ites through the Internet.

Keeping terrorists at bay


It all boils down ultimately to one issue: What can we do to deny the Internet as the medium of support to the average terrorist?

As Professor Weimann says, the large ISPs (Internet service providers) could not care less, when asked to take remedial measures. They are more concerned about the quality of their service to customers than about the content of what they supply.

This indifference is attributed by some to the absence of an international consensus on the definition of `terrorism' or a `terrorist'. Very few ISPs would like to get involved in political controversies.

At the same time, they rarely have the courage to stand up to governmental diktats, as revealed from their stance in China, where the Government has aggressively curtailed Net content to eliminate any anti-government propaganda. Interestingly, the FBI and the US Attorney-General recently convened a meeting in Washington with leading ISPs in the country, where they demanded retention, for two years, of customer information and related data. At present, there is no uniform practice across the industry. The meeting revealed serious ISP misgivings over the request, on grounds of privacy. Further meetings are scheduled to be held in order to solve the impasse.

I will not be surprised to hear of similar requests being made by Indian law enforcement agencies to our ISPs, especially in the context of a spurt in terrorism.

The basic point, however, is where do we draw the line between information that is genuinely relevant to maintaining peace in the community, and that, which is not?

This is analogous to the fears of misuse of telephone monitoring that were voiced against the backdrop of the Amar Singh case. Supreme Court guidelines here could possibly apply also to Internet monitoring by security agencies.

If such guidelines are adhered to faithfully, we can have a non-controversial system in place that will cut at the roots of terrorist misuse of cyber space.

The writer is a former CBI Director who is currently Adviser (Security) to TCS Ltd.

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/ew/2006/06/12/stories/2006061200140200.htm

[Casey]

Online terror the new threat
During the past five years, authorities have generally reacted well to a strong and violent threat by both regional and world terrorism. Now they are struggling to come to grips with an evolving terrorist threat. The security of the entire region depends on how well governments adapt, and how quickly they can move against terrorist leaders and groups who are evolving strategy, tactics and propaganda. Just as important as the physical conflicts on the ground and in communities are the battles in cyberspace.


The Internet has rapidly become one of the most important battlefields of all. This "network of computer networks" instantly links people separated physically. It also makes available information in dramatic amounts and on almost any subject. Thai intelligence officers believe that almost all training of the violent southern insurgents is conducted via the Internet. This includes all facets of the southern gangs. They learn about how to make and use terrorist weapons such as roadside bombs and how to explode them with mobile phones. The Thai gangs learned about beheading their victims from the Internet news from Iraq, and have killed at least 19 times in this gruesome manner. And they keep in touch with each other and with supporters in foreign countries.



US military expert Michael Pflueger spoke recently about a decentralised, networked and unpredictable enemy, agilely moving from Internet cafe{aac} to Internet cafe{aac}. This agility, he noted correctly, must be matched by governments and their security forces.



Terrorism, which has never had a centralised command, has continued to devolve power to the tiny networks of supporters. Members of these disparate gangs often live apparently normal lives even as they plan murder and mayhem. In the British transportation bombings, in the Canadian plot to storm parliament and in the Thai village lynchings of marines and teachers, the attackers displayed sophisticated tactics learned during nights hunched over Internet screens or from manuals downloaded off the Net.



In southern Thailand, in northern Australia, in central Malaysia, small groups exist whose goal is to intimidate, terrorise and murder for what they maintain is a glorious future. The successful governments and security forces of the future will infiltrate or otherwise learn of these groups, and destroy them before they can kill. Some of the best minds in this and in neighbouring countries have been at work, particularly over the past five years, to devise methods to do this.



One of the leaders is, in fact, Malaysia. Authorities in that country do not believe in luck. For many years, but particularly since the 2001 attacks on America escalated the stakes, Malaysia has been a leader in anti-terrorism. Now, in something of a revolutionary turn, Kuala Lumpur has established the headquarters of a worldwide network against cyber-terrorism. It is called Impact, for the long-winded International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber-Terrorism. It was conceived and announced by Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi last month at the closing of the World Congress on Information Technology in Texas.



The headquarters of Impact will be at Cyberjaya, outside Kuala Lumpur. It will be funded and supported by both governments and the private sector. It is modelled, in fact, after the US Centres for Disease Control, which tracks and fights diseases from measles to bird flu and Aids. Impact is to fight computer viruses and other "cyber-diseases", as Mr Abdullah calls them. It will try to detect and fight terrorism both via the Internet and on the Internet. A cyber attack could paralyse trading systems or black out several nations at a time.



Perhaps not so coincidentally, Impact comes at a time Malaysia is trying to reinvigorate its partly moribund Multimedia Super Corridor. That visionary plan of a decade ago has slipped in recent years, but Malaysia is still a world leader in Internet background and technology.



The fight against terrorists has to continue on the ground, and requires major improvements at the community level. Technology cannot replace the very human factors needed to confront and defeat this scourge. But terrorism itself is evolving. Adherents use the Internet more, and security forces must come to grips with this problem. Thailand, like all frontline countries, should play an active role in establishing and helping Impact succeed.







http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/12Jun2006_news07.php
(http://wincoast.com/forum/12Jun2006_news06.php)

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Tampa GOP Cyber-Attack
By Joe Kaufman
FrontPageMagazine.com | June 9, 2006

Over the last half dozen years, the words “Tampa” and “terrorism” have become synonymous, mostly due to the huge amount of coverage given to the case of Sami Al-Arian and his local Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) cell. But while most everyone can recognize Al-Arian with his oval glasses, balding head, pointy ears and graying beard, a new form of terrorism that has taken hold in Tampa has no face. In fact, the form of this menace is nothing more than a two-dimensional computer screen.


Cyber-terrorism consists of two main components, computer hackers and terrorists. Whereas hackers are normally known for little more than mischief, cyber-terrorists have an added threat of violence. Recently, a Tampa-based Republican organization, the Tampa Bay Young Republicans (TBYRs), had their website attacked by just such a group.



In mid-March of this year, the site that hosted the TBYR website, www.tbyr.com, was taken by siege. Upon entering the TBYR homepage, one was forced to view a graphic of a crest containing the national flag of Turkey. Under the crest were the words, “Hacked By Cyber-Raider TIM… Turkey is always here.” And under that was the address to the website, www.cyber-raider.com. What was left of the old site was the TBYR logo found atop the page. The rest of the website was rendered inaccessible.



Visitors to the site witnessing all of this might have looked upon it as a joke or a mere annoyance, yet this hack brought with it instant ramifications. According to the Vice President of TBYR, Tanya Berger, the hack “inhibited” the group’s use of the web as a “recruitment tool.” But that wasn’t the only problem that came along with these hackers, as Cyber-Raider has, in the past, posted some extremely disturbing material on other sites it has attacked, lending credibility that there’s a possible terrorist element to be dealt with.



One of the tell-tale signs of partiality towards terrorism is the exhibit of an intense hatred towards Jews and/or Christians. During Cyber-Raider’s hacks, the group has gone after both. On one hacked site, Cyber-Raider left the following message: “F--k the Denmark and Italy and Israel.” Denmark, of course, was a reference to the series of Mohammed cartoons that were published by the Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten [The Jyllands-Posten, itself, was hacked – from a site being hosted by a company based in Tampa.] The mention of Italy is most probably a reference to Italy’s monthly magazine, Studi Cattolici, which, according to a report in London’s Telegraph, “infuriated Muslims” by publishing a cartoon portraying Mohammed “cut in half and burning in hell.”



On another Cyber-Raider hacked site (in coordination with another hacker group, Turkhackerler), in keeping with the Mohammed cartoon theme, the following message was found: “FOR ISLAM FOR TURKEY… While All Islam World regard with reverence to your prophet and address him as Hz. ISA A.S (Christ) (putting a holy prefix in front of his name), You keep abusing, Islam’s almighty Prophet with disgusting and disgraceful cartoons using excuses of freedom of speech. No doubt, Hz. Isa (Christ) would hate your nation. Be G-d’s Curse on You!”



The question arises why this group would go after the TBYR site. On the website, prior to the attack, one found pictures of President George W. Bush and links to sites that are partial towards issues concerning America’s ‘war on terrorism,’ including one to this publication, FrontPage Magazine. According to TBYR, other sites from the same server were affected by the hack. However, a representative from Go Daddy, the web company where the TBYR domain is registered, says the company was aware of the hack and that it was most certainly a targeted strike.



This would not be the first time that a politically conservative website was attacked. Commentator Michelle Malkin’s site fell victim to a hack just a month before, in February. According to an op-ed in The Washington Times, entitled ‘The Internet Jihad,’ “Malkin suffered repeated illegal ‘denial of service’ attacks which incapacitated the site for hours,” and the attacks were, like the TBYR site, perpetrated by a Turkish organization. As stated by Malkin on her blog, “my hosting service notified me that it is receiving ongoing threats from individuals vowing to take down this site – and others along with it...”



As of now, the website of the Tampa Bay Young Republicans is still down. Instead, those typing in the web address are redirected to a MySpace blog that was set up by the group as a temporary measure, until control of the main site is regained.



Unlike TBYR, the Cyber-Raider site is up and running, crest and all, as if to taunt those that it had previously assailed. On its website, most of the words are written in Turkish, but the frightening message is one that is clear and resonates to all who set their eyes upon it.



As the global Islamist war heats up, technically savvy cyber-terrorists will continue to look to find weaknesses in the Internet infrastructure of the West. And as more and more of our lives become dependent on the computers that we keep by our sides, these types of assaults will become even less of an annoyance and even more of a threat. It is this threat that we must address. Cyberspace, as the new front on the war on terror, cannot be ignored

http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22785

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U.S. accuses Bin Laden of using media to fuel Iraqi insurgency

The White House on Saturday accused al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden of using the media to justify violence that is hampering the new Iraq (http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/data/iraq.html)i government's work.

"These terrorists offer nothing in their ideology and messages beyond future fighting, conflict and misery," a White House official said in a statement.

In an audio message posted on the Internet Saturday, bin Laden endorsed a new al-Qaida leader in Iraq, and warned Shiites against collaborating with the United States (http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/data/usa.html) in fighting Sunni insurgents.

In the message, the second in two days and which coincided with another car bombing in Baghdad, bin Laden also warned against sending international forces to Somali (http://english.people.com.cn/data/Democratic_Repubic_of_Somalia.html)a.

The White House official said that Washington was reviewing the Internet message to determine its authenticity and analyze its contents.

"If authentic, the tape demonstrates yet again that bin Laden and al-Qaida continue to use the media to justify their dark vision and war against humanity," he said .

"The Iraqi people and the international community will continue to tell these enemies of humanity that their dark vision and atrocities are unwelcome interventions," said the official.

The United States is offering 25 million dollars for the head of bin Laden, whose whereabouts are unknown.

The CIA authenticated a message by bin Laben released on Friday in which he warned that Jihad, or holy war, would go on in Iraq despite the killing of al-Qaida's chief in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
Source: Xinhua

http://english.people.com.cn/200607/02/eng20060702_279303.html

[Casey]

I have been seeing the messages to assemble for internet jihad. I think Team Evil is just the beginning.

June 29, 2006, 10:14PM


Hackers hit 700 Israeli Web sites

Associated Press
JERUSALEM - Hundreds of Israeli Web sites were shut down by pro-Palestinian hackers as Israeli troops invaded southern Gaza after the abduction of an Israeli soldier, an Israeli newspaper reported Thursday.


The Jerusalem Post said about 700 Web sites were shut down early Wednesday. Their home pages were replaced by the message, "Hacked by Team-Evil Arab hackers u KILL palestin people we KILL Israeli servers."
By early today, all the Web sites were back online. The report could not be independently confirmed.


Among the sites mentioned were Israel's largest bank, Bank Hapoalim, as well as a hospital in Haifa, BMW Israel, Subaru Israel and Citroen Israel.
The paper said the hacker team, with at least six members, is apparently based in Morocco and began attacking U.S. government Web sites in 2004.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/tech/news/4014113.html

[Casey]

Today's defacements, Team-Evil:

Date Attacker Flags Domain OS View
2006/07/03 Team-Evil H M israel-al.com Linux
2006/07/03 Team-Evil H M txt.co.il Linux
2006/07/03 Team-Evil H M wip.co.il Linux
2006/07/03 Team-Evil H M Government.co.il Linux
2006/07/03 Team-Evil H M FirstGov.co.il Linux
2006/07/03 Team-Evil H M humor.gpg.co.il Linux
2006/07/03 Team-Evil H M eGov.co.il Linux
2006/07/03 Team-Evil H M fat.co.il Linux
2006/07/03 Team-Evil H M humor-portal.com Linux
2006/07/03 Team-Evil H M shows.co.il Linux
2006/07/03 Team-Evil H M naked.co.il Linux
2006/07/03 Team-Evil H M humorportal.co.il Linux
2006/07/03 Team-Evil H M bdihot.co.il Linux
2006/07/03 Team-Evil H M tzhokim.co.il Linux
2006/07/03 Team-Evil H M anekdot.co.il Linux

http://www.zone-h.org/index.php?option=com_attacks&Itemid=43&filter=1

[Vancouver]

Not sure which subforum to put this one in. This item:
http://www.palestinianforum.net/forum/showthread.php?t=71328
is the first posting to that forum by its author, username:
شعــــاع
and there is currently a link to that thread on the main Hamas website. So I take it this is a suicide-bomber recruiting effort by somebody in Hamas.

[Vancouver]

More propaganda on that same forum, linked from Hamas's main website:
http://www.palestinianforum.net/forum/showthread.php?p=665851#post665851

[Casey]

Visits to militant Web sites exposed seemingly ideal jihad recruit (http://www.lebaneselobby.org/News__index/news%202006/07%2008%2006%20Visits%20to%20militant%20Web%20site s%20exposed%20seemingly%20ideal%20jihad%20recruit. html)

By Mohamad Bazzi
Newsday
Posted July 8 2006

BEIRUT, Lebanon · He was told not to grow a beard, or wear Islamic clothing, or show any outward sign of religious devotion.

During his recruitment as a soldier in the global jihad, Assem Hammoud was told to act like a typical young, secular Lebanese man, according to a senior Lebanese security official. Hammoud was an ideal recruit because he did not have any apparent ties to militants, and he was warned not to attract attention.
"He had no criminal history, and no history of involvement with militant groups," said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "He was living a normal life, far from any suspicion."

Hammoud, 31, became involved with militant Web sites in 2003, shortly after the United States invaded Iraq. "He was angry with what America was doing in Iraq, and he began spending time on these Islamic sites and chat rooms," said the official, who is familiar with Hammoud's interrogations. "He became more and more deeply involved. He sank into this extremist environment."

Most of the advice that Hammoud received -- about how to act, what to read, how to train for jihad and how to hide his militant tendencies -- came over the Internet, the official said.

But his frequent presence in militant chat rooms and Web sites was also his undoing. Tipped by the FBI that an alleged plot to bomb New York City tunnels was being hatched on the Internet, Lebanon's Internal Security branch tracked down Hammoud. The official said a special unit that monitors Internet and phone activity identified him through the Internet Protocol, or IP, address he was using to access an Islamist site. Lebanese officials monitored his Web activity and phone calls for several months before arresting him on April 27.

While he might not have learned how to properly hide his IP address, as many Islamic militants do, Hammoud did pick up the jihadists' penchant for symbolism.

He used the pseudonym Emir Andalusi, which in Arabic means "Prince of Andalus." It's a reference to the Muslim empire of Al-Andalus, which was centered in what now is modern-day Spain. In the Islamic world, few symbols are as resonant as the 15th-century downfall of Al-Andalus. To many militants, its fall because of infighting among rival Muslim princes and clans marked the end of Islam's golden age.

"He had a lot of jihadist literature and material that was sent to him by other militants," said the official.

Shortly after his arrest, Hammoud admitted to being part of al-Qaida. "He confessed that he was planning a big terrorist act in the United States," the official said. Through the Internet, Hammoud sent "detailed maps and instructions" about the U.S. targets to his associates. The official said Lebanese investigators intercepted those messages.

Newsday is a Tribune Co. newspaper.

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Published 10 July 06
By Abigail R. Esman
World Defense Review columnist


Al Qaeda's cyber realm

"He was the Alexander Graham Bell of terrorist propaganda," Evan F. Kohlmann, a cyberterrorism expert, told the New York Times following Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's assassination last month. Kohlmann has often similarly described the Al Qaeda leader's success in making the Internet one of the most powerful tools of terrorism and global jihad.

It's an analogy not to be taken lightly: the impact of telephone technology permeates our every waking moment. Is this true, too, of Internet-based jihad? And if not now, will it be? Recent international intelligence reports indicate that Zarqawi's legacy could be far more dangerous than anyone had realized, making him, even in death, possibly a greater threat to the Western world than the man we usually think of as number one, Osama bin Laden. In fact, according to forensic psychiatrist and former CIA agent Marc Sageman, the Internet "is where people now go to get radicalized instead of the mosque. You don't even need the mosque anymore."

What's more, FBI chief Robert Mueller noted at a press conference following the recent arrest of seven suspected terrorists in Miami, "the radicalization process has become more rapid, more widespread, and anonymous in this Internet age, making detection that much more difficult." Mike Sheier, former director of the CIA's bin Laden unit might agree: speaking to the Christian Science Monitor, he stated flatly, "The current state of Al Qaeda and the health of al Qaeda is largely due to its ability to manipulate the Internet."

Moreover, a report issued by the Anti-Defamation League asserts: "There is sufficient information to believe that in the future, terrorists may even turn the Internet itself into a weapon, using it to wreak havoc on America's infrastructure."
And why not? Only days ago news came that hacker had infiltrated FBI files, gaining passwords, counterespionage information, and other sensitive data through programs freely available online.

Not everyone is convinced that Zarqawi actually deserves all the credit for the growing attraction of the Web to members of jihadist groups, however. Some maintain that it has been a natural progression of events, caused in part by the simple availability and popularity of the Web and by the pressure that has driven jihadist training camps in Afghanistan and elsewhere underground - or out of existence. Fahrana Ali, Associate International Policy Analyst at the Rand Corporation, a think tank for public policy debate, considers Internet jihad an extension of the kinds of warfare being waged by insurgents in Iraq: unseen, unknown, a cyber version of suicide bombing and IEDs.

Participation in jihadist web sites and online activities is said to be especially strong in Western Europe, engendering good reason for concern: radicalization in the region is growing, according to European intelligence reports. Meantime, experts estimate that there are anywhere from 4,500-6,000 jihadist web sites available at any one time - and even when one is taken down, it usually simply moves to another server. Such sites, we now know, were critical in the planning and networking activities surrounding the recently-foiled alleged plot by 17 Canadian Muslims to bomb the Ottawa Parliament buildings and the Toronto Stock Exchange. Even the planning and execution of the 9/11 attacks were conducted largely on the Web and via e-mail.

"It's a virtual universe," Fahrana Ali says, "where jihadists can share their concerns, broaden their message, and gain new recruits." Al Qaeda and other jihadist networks, she believes, "could not have survived like this without the Internet."

Chat rooms, fora, online broadcasts, the easy availability of world news and the ability to spread their ideas through propaganda sites, allow jihadist organizations, says Ali, "to keep their message alive" while permitting their leaders "to stay in secrecy and still have complete reach." An April, 2006 report by the Dutch intelligence agency, AIVD, echoes her views, calling the Internet "an ideological source of inspiration for jihadists worldwide."
It's that word "worldwide" that should set alarm bells ringing - and makes one wonder why it has taken so long for this issue to reach the public eye. In the April report, Violent Jihad In the Netherlands, the Dutch AIVD concluded that "the jihadist threat is increasingly rooted in our own society. The principle causes are the processes of radicalization and recruitment among young Muslims. In addition to peer pressure, the internet plays an increasingly important role."

Moreover, the report continues, the Internet, "serves as a source of information about jihadist combat methods and weapons. Handbooks on jihadist training and combat methods written by jihad veterans and training camp instructors have appeared on the Internet from Al Qaeda's earliest days. These handbooks provide many details about the production of improvised explosives, arrangement and facilitation of travel movements, and the surreptitious preparation of attacks abroad. The professional methods described in these handbooks were often copied from military handbooks or from guidelines for intelligence officers.

"With the disappearance of training camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan in particular, and the emergence of untrained local recruits in Western countries, the need for this expertise and the importance of such handbooks on the Internet grew. ... In view of the digital provision of ... instruction material, we might speak of the situation as being practically a virtual training camp."

How does the Internet work to serve the jihadi cause? Experts have identified five crucial areas of activity and concern:

1) Emotional support and the ummah

Marc Sageman has referred to the world of cyber-jihad as a kind of ummah, a Muslim community created, in large part to mobilize fighters by postulating an "imagined unity" - much, he says, as the concept of nationalism is used to mobilize a military. The Internet is, after all, not a passive medium, notes Sageman, but an interactive one: members from across the world join together in chat rooms, share ideas and information, and sometimes, eventually, gather in person. "These people don't radicalize from reading newspapers on the Web," he says, "but via engagement with others." Albert Benschop, a researcher at the University of Amsterdam and specialist in Internet jihad who has written extensively on the subject, contends one reason that European Muslims are especially drawn to these online groups, is that they may feel more at home in that "universe" than they do in the land in which they live, and where they are joined to one another by the shared conflicts they experience between the demands and values of their immigrant parents and the values of the West. That's not surprising, says Fahrana Ali, who notes that "it's the same meme that was used in the 14th century to unite against the pagans." The Internet, after all, has a powerful emotional draw; studies have shown that people tend to be more open and more honest in Internet communication than they are when speaking to one another directly. "People even get married online," she notes. "So the members of these groups grow detached from the social mainstream society and more and more involved in the jihad group."

2) Training Camps

The Internet provides a cheap and efficient means of inciting anger (through propaganda and the broadcasting of videos, often of incidents in Iraq) and exchanging ideas. The effect is often immediate and direct: Benschop notes that through Javascript, a web site "knows" where a visitor is located, thereby determining which language to use and, indeed, which sites may be of special interest. Consequently, he writes, "Anyone interested in violent jihad or who wants to qualify as a terrorist can find inspiration through a broad assortment of articles, books, discussions, photos, music and videos, take a do-it-yourself course in violent jihad, donate money, and obtain training,"

The broadcast of beheading videos has become especially popular: two members of Dutch terrorist network the Hofstadgroep allegedly spent their wedding night watching several of these and similarly gruesome videos downloaded from the Internet.

3) Access to information

Blueprints and floor plans of potential targets, maps of major highways and transportation systems, and similar information are readily available on the World Wide Web - and easily exchanged. Ideas, too, can be developed and passed around quickly: last January's Danish boycott and anti-Denmark demonstrations were engineered entirely on the Internet.

4) Advanced knowledge of communication systems

According to Benschop, Al Qaeda members and their followers now utilize some of the most advanced methods of Internet technology, including the utilization of "one-time-use" accounts that make tracing of communications between or among the parties literally impossible.

5) Cyberterror

Hand-in-hand with the expanding use of the Internet for jihad and the increasing sophistication of terrorist groups' understanding of IT systems is the growing danger of cyber attacks on critical computer systems - from banking traffic to air traffic, from electrical power plants to telecommunications networks throughout the world. Even a small glitch could paralyze a country entirely for days at a time, endangering its economy and potentially threatening lives. Even military systems can be vulnerable, notes Benschop, noting a 2005 Pew study, "The Future of the Internet," in which two-thirds of experts questioned said they anticipated "a major attack on the informational infrastructure or national energy supplies." Benschop also cites the case of a student at the University of Idaho who was arrested for building web sites for jihadist groups: in consideration of his First Amendment rights, a Boise jury was forced to let him go free. Al Qaeda, says Benschop, "is prepared to use cyberspace to attack the infrastructures of countries they view as enemies. Not with bombs but with bytes. Terror from behind the keyboard."

For many, this is not surprising: Foreign Policy magazine released a study just a few days ago showing that among a bipartisan panel of foreign policy experts, 84 percent thought that America was losing the war on terror, in part because of our inability to reach the hearts and minds of Muslims either in the Middle East or, increasingly, in radicalized groups throughout Western Europe. "More than 8 in 10," according to the report, "expect an attack on the scale of 9/11 within a decade."

Chances are, the Internet will have a large role in this. And yet of all the people I spoke to, few had any real ideas for a solution - merely vague suggestions, such as Sageman's call for a crackdown on discrimination in Europe's job markets to reduce the enormous frustration among disenfranchised Muslim youth, and a similar reduction in European welfare programs that would create an incentive for these groups to work - instead of sitting home at their computers. And even Robert Mueller wrapped his audience in platitudes, as others have, discussing the need for "moderate" Muslim sites to counteract the terrorist ones, as if such sites don't already exist. In a way, of course, this is understandable: how, after all, do you fight a war against an enemy you cannot see, on a battleground you cannot touch?

One thing is certain: bombs and guns and all the military might we have is not the answer in itself. What faces us is a challenge we have never faced before. And we have work to do.

— Abigail R. Esman is an award-winning author-journalist who divides her time between New York and The Netherlands. In addition to her column in World Defense Review, her work has appeared in Foreign Policy, Salon.com, Esquire, Vogue, Glamour, Town & Country, The Christian Science Monitor, The New Republic and many others. She is currently working on a book about Muslim extremism and democracy in the West.
Abigail R. Esman can be reached at esman@reportingwar.com.
Visit Esman on the web at abigailesman.com (http://abigailesman.com/).

© 2006 Abigail R. Esman

[Casey]

UPDATED: 09:59, July 20, 2006
U.S. indicts British man on terrorism charges


U.S. authorities indicted a British man on Wednesday in the northeastern state of Connecticut on charges of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists and conspiring to kill, main or injure people abroad.

The suspect, Syed Talha Ahsan, was arrested at his home in London Wednesday and the U.S. government would seek his immediate extradition, media reports said, quoting Kevin O'Connor, U.S. Attorney for Connecticut.

Ahsan and a British computer expert, Babar Ahmad, helped set up websites that sought to recruit for the Taliban and Chechen rebels and to fund their operations, according to a grand jury indictment.

Ahmad was charged in a previous indictment unsealed in Connecticut in October 2004.

The cases were brought in Connecticut because the defendants used an Internet service provider in the state, news reports said.

Ahsan was also accused of helping terrorists find temporary shelter in London and shuttling them into Afghanistan and Chechnya to participate in "jihad."

This was one of the first investigations launched after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks into the use of the Internet to provide financial and other support to terrorist organizations, said Julie L. Myers, assistant secretary for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Source: Xinhua

http://english.people.com.cn/200607/20/eng20060720_285004.html

[al-Canine]

Anyone have a link?

AL-QAEDA LAUNCHES WEB TV

Rome, 28 July (AKI) - The next evolution in al-Qaeda's propaganda war is a television channel visible only via the Internet, which has already begun operating on an experimental basis. The 'channel' has evolved out of the experience of jihadi internet forums - in particular of the al-Firdaws site - and al-Qaeda's own experiments in 'news bulletins' and talk shows produced by the Islamic Media Front. The new channel - called al-Firdaws TV - aims to publish the most important video and audio documents in the recent history of the terror network.

The documents include speeches by Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri and the late Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, as well as documentaries on mujahadeen.

The broadcasts start at 8pm Mecca time and run till midnight.

Like most traditional Islamic television channels, the broadcasts open with a reading from the Koran, followed by a film on al-Zarqawi and various videso that have already been published on the Internet such as that of the London bombs. The end of transmission is marked by Jihadi songs, calling for Islamic martyrdom.

To view the programming of al-Firdaws all that is required is a wide-band connection and a multimedia programme such as Windows Media Player or Real Player.

Radical Islamist internet forums publish the planned programmes daily and the channel organisers are seeking feedback from al-Qaeda sympathisers, on what they think of the new channel.

http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Terrorism&loid=8.0.325740710&par=

[Casey]

Anyone have a link?

AL-QAEDA LAUNCHES WEB TV


al-Firdaws TV

Not to the TV and I have been too busy to have a good look here:

http://www.alfirdaws.org/

If I am not mistaken this person, al-firdaws has evolved into a full fledged jihad supporter over the past 2-3 years from a young European who was more a pest on the forums than anything else in the very beginning, IMO.

On the last IH board, one of the first couple of posts that I found by the internet name "firas" was responding to the forum members who were annoyed with him for posting in English. firas was told to be a true mujahideen he had to post/speak in Arabic. firas replied that he was in Europe, either Spain or Italy, I think it was Spain and didn't have the Arabic character set installed on his computer. The forum members directed him to several online Arabic keyboards, told him to type his posts on the Arabic keyboards then copy them to the forum.

Once that was accomplished, firas was one of the several daily posters that would copy the militant statements to all the other jihad and political forums.

In the last year or so, he has had his own forums. Several of them have been shut down, and he reopens another one. He doesn't post as much on the other forums now unless he is using another name.

Although, he has always been very proud of his name, signs a lot of his posts and any changes in his urls or name are always recognizable.

[Casey]

Digital drive password for new-age terrorism

Nandu R Kulkarni

MUMBAI, Aug. 3: Not just zealots but also computer savvy. That is how the Crime Branch, Mumbai would like to describe the arrested “LeT members” and their mentors since the method of communication devised by them marked their ingenuity.

Faizal Ataur Rehman Sheikh, the alleged LeT head in Mumbai shared the same e-mail account with the money supplier Rizwaan Ahmed Daude living in Saudi Arabia. As and when Faizal needed to contact Rizwaan, mostly for funds, he would type a message and store it in the “save draft” folder. He would then follow this up by sending a missed call to Rizwaan’s cell phone. That was the signal that a message had been parked at the e-mail folder. Rizwaan, who knew the password, would then open the folder and read the message. This method of communication was safe from interception. Police chanced upon this method when they started probing the clandestine money transfer route (hawala) used to finance the 11 July blasts on Mumbai trains.

It was confirmed that of the 37,000 Saudi Riyals, 25,000 were sent four days ahead of the terrorist attack and the balance 12,000 the day after about 200 commuters lost their lives. The post-blast money transfer was done in the name of Ms Khaleda Khan, a school principal and Faizal’s sister.

The money was routed through their commander Azam Cheema , the alleged LeT commander directing the operation in Mumbai. He too had the password of the e-mail account and accessed the “save draft” folder.

This explains how and why the LeT has been picking up its foot-soldiers from among the ranks of the proscribes Students Islamic Movement of India with practical knowledge of computer technology. Of the Simi activists arrested in connection with Mulund or Ghatkopar blasts since 2002-03, police found most of them to be professionals ~ mostly engineers or doctors. Sources said such Simi members led a very low-profile life. After being trained in jehad by the LeT tutors in Pakistan, they had taken the oath not to reveal their secret mission even to their families or relatives. Faisal and Rizwan had been neighbours in Pune.

The ATS and CB have now decided to access the perpetrators of the blasts by exploiting the hawala. The investigators know big-time hawala operators in Mumbai and neighbouring Gujarat . Some select operators are being wooed by police with the assurance that they would not be punished for their making illegal transactions should they come clean on the funds transfer for the 11 July terrorist attacks. Police have noted the statements of some travel operators who arranged the visits of the six arrested persons to Iran from where they allegedly entered Pakistan to join the LeT training camps.

http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=2&theme=&usrsess=1&id=125161

[Petronas]

How Hizballah Hijacks the Internet
Posted Tuesday, Aug. 08, 2006

What do a small south Texas cable company, a suburban Virginia cable provider and Web-hosting servers in Delhi, Montreal, Brooklyn and New Jersey have in common? Since fighting broke out in Lebanon, they all have had their communications portals hijacked by Hizballah. Hackers from the militant Lebanese group are trolling the Internet for vulnerable sites to communicate with one another and to broadcast messages from Al-Manar television, which is banned in the U.S. In the cyberterrorism trade it is known as "whack-a-mole" — just like the old carnival game, Hizballah sites pop up, get whacked down and then pop up again somewhere else on the World Wide Web.

"As the Israelis tighten the noose on Hizballah in Lebanon, these communication nodes become critical," said Fred Burton, a former U.S. counterterrorism official and now vice president of Stratfor, a security consulting and forecasting company in Austin, Tex. In today's asymmetrical warfare, the Internet is vital to groups like Hizballah who use it to recruit, raise money, communicate and propagandize, Burton said, including transmissions from Hizballah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah.

The recent hijacking of a South Texas cable operator is a case study in how Hizballah moves in. The Texas cable company has an agreement with a New York-based satellite communications aggregator, which moves feeds to a variety of customers from throughout the world, including Lebanon. A technician in New York made an "improper connection," according to an official with the cable company's communications provider who detailed the hijack for TIME. That opening was detected by Hizballah.

Al-Manar, widely considered a mouthpiece for Hizballah and categorized as a terrorist group by the U.S., linked to the small cable company's IP (Internet Protocol) address, which can be thought of, in simple terms, as a telephone number. Hizballah essentially added an extension on that telephone line allowing their traffic to flow. Hizballah then gets the word out through e-mail and blogs that it can be found at that IP address and the hijack is complete. If the hijack is not detected, the IP address can be linked to a new domain name and that opens up the site to anyone who might search online for Al-Manar content. Hizballah uses these Web sites to run recruitment videos and post bank account numbers where supporters can donate funds.

Hijackings are normally quickly discovered by the Society for Internet Research, an informal consortium of self-described "freelance counterterrorists" who sit in home offices and dens tracking jihadist activity on the Internet. In turn, they alert the media or simply call the hijacked company. Alerted to the south Texas hijack, the cable company's communications provider reported the incident to U.S. authorities and the IP address was shut down.

Perhaps, the most famous player of the "whack-a-mole" game is Aaron Weisburd, 42, a computer programmer who operates one of the Society's projects from his home office in southern Illinois. His Web site, Internet Haganah — the name is an homage to Israeli paramilitary fighters — tracks Hizballah and other groups as they wander the Web. Weisburd's hijack logs go back for several years and include the latest Hizballah hijacks since fighting began. "Notice to the jihadis in the audience," he writes on his site. "You can't hide."

Burton said shutting the sites down is a "double-edged sword." As a former U.S. counterterrorism official, he sees the value of keeping the sites up so intelligence services can collect "forensic" evidence. "It's important to see what they are saying," he says, noting that Hizballah has resource bases in Indonesia and the tri-border area (Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay) of South America. Given Hizballah's links to Iran, which offers its operatives diplomatic cover around the world, according to Burton, monitoring Hizballah's Internet presence is vital as part of the "cat and mouse" game with Western intelligence. But shutting them down also limits their fundraising, recruiting and propaganda efforts, Burton said.

In March, the whack-a-mole players gained a new weapon in their fight when the U.S. Treasury announced that any U.S. company found to be doing business with Al-Manar will be subject to sanctions and possible prosecution. The new rules mean that freelance counterterrorists can remind slow-moving, reluctant or even compliant Web hosters that they face financial sanctions if they do not act to shut down Al-Manar. The south Texas cable company's communications provider was quick to alert U.S. authorities and the portal closed, but Hizballah was just as quick to play the whack-a-mole game and a new site sprang up from an Indian Web-hosting company within hours. Said Burton: "As long as the war drags on, these communication portals will be critical as Hizballah tries to get its global message out across the world."

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1224273,00.html?cnn=yes

[Casey]

Terror plot: Internet cafes raided

LONDON, England (CNN) -- British police confirmed Saturday that they had raided a series of Internet cafes in their investigation into an alleged plot to blow up as many as 10 trans-Atlantic aircraft.
There was no confirmation of any arrests in the raids in London, Birmingham and the Thames Valley region, west of the capital.

The raids came as links to suspected terror operatives in Pakistan -- possibly connected to al Qaeda -- were emerging Saturday as key elements of the investigation.

Suspects in the UK received a coded message from Pakistan to "attack now" as authorities there closed in on them, security sources have told CNN.

Meanwhile, chaos triggered by the alleged plan to smuggle liquid explosives on board passenger jets began to subside as airports adjusted to stringent, new security measures.

In Berlin authorities confirmed they were checking whether the suspects -- 23 of whom remain in custody following the release of one man -- had contact with operatives in Germany.

The lawyer for two of the suspects on Saturday criticized their treatment at the hands of British police. In an exclusive CNN interview, Mudassar Irani listed a series of complaints, including the allegation that one of her clients had not received food and water for 26 hours.

She complained she was able to meet with her clients for only five minutes on Friday. (Full story (http://edition.cnn.com/))

The men -- who are 22 and 23 years old -- told her they are being held in cold cells and that requests for blankets were refused.

In the United States, a Department of Homeland Security memo said that a message was intercepted in the days before police made their arrests that advised the alleged plotters to "do your attacks now."

A British official said that the "go ahead" message originated with an operative in Pakistan. (Full story (http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/08/11/terror.plot.pakistan/index.html))
Government officials in both countries told CNN that during a trip to Pakistan, two of the suspects may have had contact with Matiur Rehman, a Pakistani explosives expert suspected of being an al Qaeda operative.

Shortly after they returned to Britain, money was wired to them from Pakistan, the officials said.

Rehman, who remains at large, has not been linked to the plot, the officials said. He was not one of the seven individuals arrested last week in Pakistan.

U.S. and British sources said one of the men in custody in Pakistan, Rashid Rauf, allegedly had a key operational role in the suspected plot.

Rauf, a British citizen, appeared before magistrate Saturday, according to Pakistan's Interior Ministry.
Rauf is believed to have left the UK after his uncle was killed in 2002. He was not charged in connection with the murder, which has not been solved.

The arrests have led to increased pressure on Britain's Muslim community, prompting leaders to publish an open letter to Prime Minister Tony Blair in which they blame his foreign policy for inciting extremist anger.
"It is our view that current British government policy risks putting civilians at increased risk both in the UK and abroad," the letter said.

The U.S. security memo also shed light on the backgrounds of the 23 suspects being held by British police:
All were born in Britain, and most were of Pakistani descent. They had good reputations in their neighborhood and did not express radical sentiments.
Among those arrested were a biochemistry student, a worker at Heathrow Airport and a 17-year-old who recently converted to Islam. While the teen had grown a beard and started wearing traditional Muslim clothes, he did not appear to be radicalized.
British police believe the key players are in custody but cannot be sure that "unknown or unexpected elements do not exist." A tip from a member of the British Muslim community about suspicious behavior by an acquaintance alerted authorities to the alleged conspiracy, and a neighbor of the alleged plotters helped confirm those suspicions, the memo said.
Counterterrorism officials used telephone records, e-mails and bank records to connect the suspects and build a detailed picture of the conspiracy, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said.
Their spending habits and bank accounts also were traced by a unit that monitors the flow of money to provide evidence of association, the memo said.
Intelligence received within the past five days by MI-5, the British security agency, led officials to conclude that the plan was in its execution phase, the memo said. The fact that U.S.-bound aircraft were to be targeted was learned only about two weeks ago, U.S. homeland security said.
The alleged plotters planned to bring "some type of liquid or power explosive" on board the aircraft in drink or toothpaste containers, then explode it with detonators hidden in cell phones or MP3 players, the memo said.
The Department of Homeland Security's report to law enforcement agencies outlined three types of explosives the suspects might have been planning to use:
TATP, made with hydrogen peroxide and acetone, which was used in last year's London subway bombings. It would not trigger conventional airport explosive detectors because it does not contain nitrogen. However, TATP is highly unstable and difficult to manufacture without expertise.
Nitroglycerin, a liquid explosive to which color can be added to make it resemble soft drinks or baby food. This was what was used in a thwarted 1994 al Qaeda plot to bomb aircraft traveling from Asia to the United States, which mirrored the alleged plot disrupted in Britain. (Watch how the plot had hallmarks of al Qaeda -- 3:19 (http://javascript%3Cb%3E%3C/b%3E:cnnVideo%28%27play%27,%27/video/world/2006/08/11/amanpour.london.al.qaeda.cnn%27,%272006/08/18%27%29;))
A combination of nitromethane, used to fuel model airplanes and racing cars, and an oxidizer, such as ammonium nitrate fertilizer. These ingredients were the basis of the bomb Timothy McVeigh used to destroy the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995. According to homeland security, requiring passengers to taste beverages as a security measure might not be a deterrent because many dangerous compounds, such as nitroglycerin, are harmless in small doses.
In a new development Saturday, it was claimed that plot suspects "apparently" had contacts with Germany.
"Apparently there were some contacts by the suspected attackers with Germany -- we are checking these contacts," August Hanning, a deputy interior minister, told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper in a preview of an article to be printed Sunday.
The Interior Ministry confirmed his comments. http://images.clickability.com/pti/spacer.gif

Find this article at:
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/08/12/terror.plot/index.html

[Casey]

Can you imagine if there were a sweep of internet cafes......tomorrow?

Canada, U.S., Europe, some in the Middle East...??


















It would be a mother load.

[Casey]

Bali bomber 'planned attack online from jail'

From correspondents in Jakarta
August 23, 2006 08:34pm
Article from: AAP

ONE of the 2002 Bali bombers used a laptop smuggled to him in jail to help organise the triple suicide blasts that rocked the resort island last year, Indonesian police said today.

Police say Imam Samudra used a laptop with a wireless connection smuggled into his prison cell to chat with Islamic militants and raise money for last year's October 1 blasts at Kuta and Jimbaran Bay, which killed 20 innocent bystanders, including four Australians.

“Imam Samudra ... directed the fund-raising for the second Bali bombing,” the national police chief of the cyber crime unit, Petrus Golose, said in Jakarta.

“The laptop allowed Imam Samudra to chat without restrictions in Ahlussunnah and CafeIslam chatrooms,” he said referring to religious chatrooms.

“This took place before the second Bali bombing.”

He did not say whether the militant used a mobile phone to connect to the internet.

Imam Samudra and two other militants, Amrozi and Ali Gufron, have been on death row for more than two years after courts convicted them of playing leading roles in the October 2002 nightclub bombings in Bali that killed 202 people, including 88 Australians.

While they were in prison, suicide bombings ripped through three restaurants in Bali last October.

Golose said the information was obtained after police arrested two men this month who ran a website to raise funds for attacks through online credit card fraud.

One of the men smuggled a laptop to Samudra with the help of a prison official at the request of Noordin Top, Southeast Asia's number one fugitive and the master bomb maker for the regional terror network Jemaah Islamiah (JI).

Samudra, Ghufron and Amrozi have since been transferred to an island prison off the southern coast of Java island, where they await executions.

The attorney general's office said this week the executions of the three men had been delayed, citing a judicial review planned by defence lawyers.

In an interview aired on Indonesian television ANTV today, Ghufron said his one regret was that he only has one life to surrender in the pursuit of jihad.

Ghufron said he was proud to have been among those brave enough to carry out the 2002 Bali bombings, which he said were a payback aimed at the United States.

Asked why he chose to join the deadly plot, Ghufron told Indonesian television ANTV: “Why? Because America invades Indonesia in all aspects.

“Economically, culturally, all been invaded. We, thank God, are the ones (who) came out to be brave.”

In the interview, recorded before the executions were delayed, Ghufron said he wished he had more lives to give up in the pursuit of jihad, or holy war.

“If only I had life as the number of my hair, then I want each one of it be put to death,” he said.

“I come back alive again, make another jihad and be put to death again, then back alive again and I want it that way.

“But, life is only one, so ... just surrender to it.”

None of the three condemned convicts have expressed remorse over their roles in the 2002 attacks.

Their appeal will be based on a constitutional court ruling that anti-terror laws introduced soon after the bombings, and which were used to convict the three, could not be applied retroactively.

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,20230076-5005962,00.html

[Casey]

Electronic Jihad
Group competent in the beating of the Israeli positions and hostile to Islam

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The name of God, the Merciful

Was thankfully God closed one of the sites offending Islam Thursday night, 24 \ 8 \ 2006

The targeting of serving until they cease to function thankfully God and this after being threatened

May God be with us And you

Details of new attack

Objective : Will be updated automatically in the main program and the extra room in the conversation

Date ) New) : Saturday, 26 /8/2006 - Hours are from 6 pm to 10 Mecca Time - Jerusalem-Cairo

From 3 pm until 7 Time 05:00

The God

Enter chat http: al-jinan.org/chat
Will work only half an hour before the attack

Note-Important -
Members are requested not to write quickly and only when necessary - Will be divided chat rooms to accommodate each and every one of 20 members so as not to overstretch the pregnancy when Member

The main programme used : Programme Striking sites 0.4 (new!) Attacker0.4.zip

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* The programme operates in the same manner but more strongly Durrah
* Member faced many problems in the modernization Durra because of their Alcockez, and the present quality
* The programme is designed to automatically update speeds

Note : If a joint partnership Fqm list Jihad oath p.

Willingness to attack :

1-Qom charging major programme used in the attack. and operated a number of times, as you have shown success, as the pace of the Internet for you, In addition to the programme of Dura, which will be used in an additional way to increase the strength of the attack.

Important observation : If Durrah emerged that the virus is not Worry, and Qom to see him and explain the details

2- 9 hour time Makkah Qom operation programmes Since the primary site occurs automatically, either Durrah need to modernize and make the speed manual :

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4- The programme continued to operate for two hours at least, and will continue Attack 4 hours or until the fall of the site

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The details cf. The programme explained .


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Please everyone involved

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Electronic Jihad
Group competent in the beating of the Israeli positions and hostile to Islam


May Allah's peace, mercy and blessings be upon you

A letter to the members of our group Mujahideen

We can not but thank you for your soldiers Mjehodkm with Islam, I saw you go up and defeat the enemies of Islam Bsotanckm

Of course, we do not know each other, members do not know the number of their fellow fighters, and we say to you our thanks to God many, and the ability of God Bakltna initially defeated enemies us, and thankfully God and thanks and Altokl Pkthertna defeated by others

Our gratitude is laboured with us and, God willing, on the labor of God, We urge those who do not share the hands and telling them to review their accounts and ponder.

Despite the lack of knowledge of another, we are gathered at one time and in one place and strive in the cause of God and man, despite one of the distances that divided us and interruptions marred societies of all kinds

God will continue. As long as the enemies are working to break the age and therefore weakens

If they want a new Middle East, Flenetahm him, but the opposite of what they want

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Who we Are


Electronic Jihad
Group competent in the beating of the Israeli positions and hostile to Islam

The name of God, the Merciful

Our Group is a group-Islamic jihad, and our goal is to work towards the satisfaction of God and God's messenger (peace be upon him), for, We do not have any goals or commercial advertising, etc., and want to work in the face of God and God's Holy.

Nendrg not under any particular faction or the doctrine of the doctrines of Islam, Muslims gathered under the banner of No God but Allah Muhammad Rasul Lennasser Islam and Muslims and do all our energies in order to defeat the killers of prophets, the Jewish Zionists, those who usurped the land of Palestine, which played havoc. Because of geographical distance from the land of Palestine we have taken the most powerful means of targeted Muslims throughout the country and is a means of electronic Jihad via the Internet. This is one effective means of the spoken material and moral damage, Until they affect the spread of Jewish immigration to our Islamic countries.

We note that our enemies Zionists have such groups in order to eliminate sites and sites of resistance Islamic profess. The notes on the Internet that many of the sites Mujahideen are taking place and the closure of sites and this immoral act of brotherhood pigs.

Under such a senseless war on Lebanon and Palestine, the Zionists any target in any area. The factors that are responsible for targeting this will affect them and Ihabtahm and create terror in the hearts of God.

God said : God's Holy "prepared them what you will force the bond horses ready by the enemy of God and the enemy of the others below are not you God knows and spend nothing for the cause of God is fulfilled, as you remain Mon "

God we will do strive to maintain electronic Jihad with all our brothers in the Islamic world, and God and I reconciled.

Management Group

[Casey]

I wonder if we will hear more about this?

It sounds like Saudi Arabia is considering heafty jail time and fines for technology related crimes with regard to terrorism and for hacking.

From alwatan.
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http://www.alwatan.com.sa/daily/2006-08-29/first_page/first_page12.htm

Shura Council resumes its work by mid-month
10 years imprisonment and a fine of 5 million riyals founders terrorist sites on the Internet

Riyadh : Turkish Moshari
Resumes Shura Council work after the return of its members to leave the annual Sunday, 17 Sha'ban current (10 September), where will be discussed at its third regular session a draft system to combat crimes informatics submitted by the Committee on Transport and Communications and Information Technology Council as variables rapid succession in a technique and the high rate of crime related to computer and Internet, the so-called crimes of informatics, and the emergence of many inventions rapidly both in the area of computers and the Internet or in the area of communications (third generation of mobile phones).

The Committee suggested adding a paragraph on Alblototh crimes and defamation by means of information technology through various affects privacy through misuse of mobile phones equipped with cameras. or slander others and damaging them through various means of information technology, and build a computer to be accurate and comprehensive in order to punish those who use it.

The system includes the Special Offences informatics (16) material containing imprisonment for not more than one year and a fine of not more than 500 thousand riyals or a fine of up to 3,000 rupees per person commits any crimes tapping what is the transponder through the information network or one of computers without right or seen or objection. or illegal entry of a person or the threat of blackmail campaign to do or to abstain from doing any act if such act or omission by the projects.

It also contains the criminalization of illegal entry into a Web site to change the design of the web site or cancelled or destroyed, modified or filled title, or prejudice to the life of others through the misuse of mobile phones with camera or in the judgment, or slander others and damaging them through various means of information technology.

And the term of imprisonment up to 10 years and to a fine of 5 million in the case of the creation of terrorist organizations sites on the Web technology, or enter information into the system or one of computers to obtain information and data on internal and external security of the State or national economy, As punishment for the prison to 3 years and a fine of two million to each of the seized for himself or anybody else's property movable or bond or the signing of this bill by fraud or using personal incorrect, or access to bank or credit data or data relating to the ownership of securities to obtain data or information or money or offered services.

As up the term of imprisonment to four years and a fine to 3 million each entering illegally cancel specific data or deleted or destroyed or diverted or destroyed or re-dissemination and stop information network for work or disable or destroy or survey programmes or existing data used in or deletion or diversion or destruction of a and modified or impeding access to the service, or disrupt or disable any means, The total term of imprisonment to five years and to a fine of 3 million riyals each of the resulting affects public order or morals, or the privacy or prepared or sent or stored by the network software or computers, or the creation of a Web site software or a computers or bulletin trafficking in human beings or facilitate dealings, or the creation of networks of pornographic or facilitators activities against public morality and dissemination or promotion or a site for drug trafficking, psychotropic substances or promotion or methods abuse or facilitate dealing with the Council will discuss on the same day the draft Regulation core development centres.

The Board discussed at its fourth regular session of the viewpoint of the Commission on the observations and opinions of members of the annual report to the Ministry of Transport, The report of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The annual reports Ladara King Abdul Aziz and the annual report of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, and the draft convention on scientific cooperation between the Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Government of the Republic of Pakistan.





الشورى يستأنف أعماله منتصف الشهر
السجن 10 سنوات وغرامة 5 ملايين ريال لمؤسسي المواقع الإرهابية على الإنترنت
الرياض: مشاري التركي
يستأنف مجلس الشورى أعماله بعد عودة أعضائه من إجازتهم السنوية يوم الأحد 17 شعبان الجاري (10 سبتمبر) حيث سيناقش في جلسته العادية الثالثة والثلاثين مشروع نظام مكافحة جرائم المعلوماتية والمقدم من لجنة النقل والاتصالات وتقنية المعلومات في المجلس نظرا للمتغيرات السريعة والمتلاحقة في مجال التقنية وارتفاع نسبة الجرائم ذات الصلة بالحاسب الآلي والإنترنت أو ما يسمى بجرائم المعلوماتية، وظهور العديد من الاختراعات بشكل متسارع سواء كان هذا في مجال الحاسب الآلي والإنترنت أو في مجال الاتصالات (الجيل الثالث من الهواتف النقالة).
وقد اقترحت اللجنة إضافة فقرة تتعلق بجرائم البلوتوث والتشهير عبر وسائل تقنيات المعلومات المختلفة من خلال ما يمس الحياة الخاصة عن طريق إساءة استخدام الهواتف النقالة المزودة بالكاميرات، أو التشهير بالآخرين وإلحاق الضرر بهم عبر وسائل تقنيات المعلومات المختلفة، وتبني تعريف الحاسب الآلي بشكل أدق وأشمل لكي تتم معاقبة من يسيء استخدامه.
ويتضمن النظام الخاص بالجرائم المعلوماتية (16) مادة تتضمن السجن لمدة لا تزيد عن سنة وبغرامة لا تزيد عن 500 ألف ريال أو بإحدى هاتين العقوبتين لكل شخص يرتكب أيا من جرائم التنصت على ما هو مرسل عن طريق الشبكة المعلوماتية أو أحد أجهزة الحاسب الآلي دون وجه حق أو التقاطه أو اعتراضه، أو الدخول غير المشروع لتهديد شخص أو ابتزازه لحمله على القيام بفعل أو الامتناع عنه ولو كان القيام بهذا الفعل أو الامتناع عنه مشروعا.
كما يتضمن النظام تجريم الدخول غير المشروع إلى موقع إلكتروني لتغيير تصاميم هذا الموقع أو إلغائه أو إتلافه أو تعديله أو شغل عنوانه، أو المساس بالحياة الخاصة بالآخرين عن طريق إساءة استخدام الهواتف النقالة المزودة بالكاميرا أو ما في حكمها، أو التشهير بالآخرين وإلحاق الضرر بهم عبر وسائل تقنيات المعلومات المختلفة.
وتصل مدة السجن إلى 10 سنوات والغرامة إلى 5 ملايين في حالة إنشاء المواقع للمنظمات الإرهابية على الشبكة العنكبوتية، أو الدخول إلى نظام معلوماتي أو أحد أجهزة الحاسب الآلي للحصول على معلومات وبيانات تمس الأمن الداخلي والخارجي للدولة أو اقتصادها الوطني، كما تصل عقوبة السجن إلى 3 سنوات والغرامة إلى مليونين لكل من يستولي لنفسه أو لغيره على مال منقول أو على سند أو توقيع هذا السند عن طريق الاحتيال أو انتحال شخصية غير صحيحة، أو الوصول إلى بيانات بنكية أو ائتمانية أو بيانات متعلقة بملكية أوراق مالية للحصول على بيانات أو معلومات أو أموال أو ما تتيحه من خدمات.
كما تصل مدة السجن إلى 4 سنوات والغرامة إلى 3 ملايين لكل من يدخل بشكل غير مشروع لإلغاء بيانات خاصة أو حذفها أو تدميرها أو تسريبها أو إتلافها أو إعادة نشرها وإيقاف الشبكة المعلوماتية عن العمل أو تعطيلها أو تدمير أو مسح البرامج أو البيانات الموجودة والمستخدمة فيها أو حذفها أو تسريبها أو إتلافها أو تعديلها أو إعاقة الوصول إلى الخدمة أو تشويشها أو تعطيلها بأي وسيلة كانت، وتصل مدة السجن إلى 5 سنوات والغرامة إلى 3 ملايين ريال لكل من ينتج ما يمس بالنظام العام أو الآداب العامة أو حرمة الحياة الخاصة أو إعداده أو إرساله أو تخزينه عن طريق الشبكة المعلوماتية أو أحد أجهزة الحاسب الآلي، أو إنشاء موقع على الشبكة المعلوماتية أو أحد أجهزة الحاسب الآلي أو نشره للاتجار في الجنس البشري أو تسهيل التعامل به، أو إنشاء المواد المتعلقة بالشبكات الإباحية أو أنشطة الميسر المخلة بالآداب العامة ونشرها أو ترويجها أو إنشاء موقع للاتجار بالمخدرات أو المؤثرات العقلية أو ترويجها أو طرق تعاطيها أو تسهيل التعامل بها كما سيناقش المجلس في نفس اليوم مشروع اللائحة الأساسية لمراكز التنمية.
ويناقش المجلس في جلسته العادية الرابعة والثلاثين وجهة نظر اللجنة بشأن ملحوظات الأعضاء وآرائهم تجاه التقرير السنوي لوزارة النقل، وتقرير وزارة الخارجية، والتقريرين السنويين لدارة الملك عبد العزيز والتقرير السنوي لوزارة الاتصالات وتقنية المعلومات، ومشروع اتفاقية للتعاون العلمي بين حكومة المملكة العربية السعودية وحكومة جمهورية الباكستان.

[JaneDoe]

Electronic Jihad
Group competent in the beating of the Israeli positions and hostile to Islam

Webmaster al-jinan org



Just a start.......

Domain: ID:D93294000-LROR
Domain: Name:AL-JINAN.ORG
Created: 20-Dec-2002
Last: Updated: 31-Jul-2006
Expiration: 20-Dec-2013
Registrar:Key-Systems: GmbH: (R51-LROR)
Status:OK

Registrant: ID:P-21574542
Registrant: Name:Ahmad: Adel
Registrant: Street1:jannaah: street
Registrant: Street2:
Registrant: Street3:
Registrant: City: esmaeiliya
Registrant: State/Province:
Registrant: Postal: Code:90018
Registrant: Country: IQ
Registrant: Phone: +964.972059870894
Registrant: Phone: Ext.:
Registrant: FAX:
Registrant: FAX: Ext.:
Registrant: Email: serious.return@gmail.com

Name Server:NS1.IBTEKARAT.COM
Name Server:NS2.IBTEKARAT.COM

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Address Status Type Date Modified
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http://al-jinan.org/ 200 ok text/html 26.08.2006
http://al-jinan.org/UR.gif 200 ok image/gif 05.08.2006
http://al-jinan.org/UL.gif 200 ok image/gif 05.08.2006
http://al-jinan.org/Attacker.JPG 200 ok image/jpeg 22.08.2006
http://al-jinan.org/doraah1.JPG 200 ok image/jpeg 05.08.2006
http://al-jinan.org/doraah2.JPG 200 ok image/jpeg 05.08.2006
http://al-jinan.org/doraah3.JPG 200 ok image/jpeg 05.08.2006
http://al-jinan.org/index.htm 200 ok text/html 26.08.2006
http://al-jinan.org/jihad.htm 200 ok text/html 23.08.2006
http://al-jinan.org/strategy.htm 200 ok text/html 23.08.2006
http://al-jinan.org/program.htm 200 ok text/html 23.08.2006
http://al-jinan.org/howitworks.htm 200 ok text/html 23.08.2006
http://al-jinan.org/results.htm 200 ok text/html 26.08.2006
http://al-jinan.org/about.htm 200 ok text/html 23.08.2006
http://al-jinan.org/mtmuslims.htm 200 ok text/html 23.08.2006
http://al-jinan.org/mtmujahideen.htm 200 ok text/html 23.08.2006
http://al-jinan.org/mthackers.htm 200 ok text/html 23.08.2006
http://al-jinan.org/mtspeednet.htm 200 ok text/html 23.08.2006
http://al-jinan.org/mtgroups.htm 200 ok text/html 23.08.2006
http://al-jinan.org/mtenemies.htm 200 ok text/html 23.08.2006
http://al-jinan.org/Attacker0.3.zip 200 ok application/zip 21.08.2006
http://www.al-jinan.org/Attacker0.4.zip 200 ok application/zip 26.08.2006
http://al-jinan.org/Doraah3.zip 200 ok application/zip 26.08.2006
http://al-jinan.org/Doraah3.exe 200 ok application/octet-stream 12.08.2006
http://www.al-jinan.org/chat/ 200 ok text/html
http://al-jinan.org/chat 200 ok text/html
http://www.aljazeeratalk.net/node/244 200 ok
http://www.aljazeeratalk.net/ 200 ok
mailto:webmaster@al-jinan.org -3 skip type
http://al-jinan.org/../%E4%D3%CE%20%E3%E4%20My%20Webs/index.htm 404 not found

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Other domain hosted on this server:

1. ahmed-d.com
2. al-jinan.org
3. alqudss.net
4. beautylines.org
5. futuredeaf.com
6. ibtekarat.com
7. jno0on.com
8. jordanbiogas.com
9. jpn-emb-sa.com
10. kingalwaleed.com
11. leschateaux.net
12. lionsjordan.org
13. lmmsah.com
14. lmmsah.net
15. routearabia.com
16. starsat-kz.com
17. ugord.com
18. ugord.us
19. wcp-gulf.net

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[JaneDoe]

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Who's linking to it?

http://www.alltheweb.com/search?cat=web&cs=utf8&q=link%3Awww.h-alali.net&_sb_lang=any
http://search.msn.com/results.asp?q=link%3Awww.h-alali.net+-domain%3Awww.h-alali.net&noredir=1
http://us.altavista.com/web/results?q=linkdomain%3Awww.h-alali.net&kgs=0&kls=0

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A search on the domain name came up with these:

http://www.musociety.org/InfoBank.htm
Islamic Websites
Org~Mirror Page Al Imam Al Hussain ALI: THE MIRCALE OF MUHAMMAD Al-Jaafaria Society (Arabic & English) Al-Jinan Magazine~Excellent site (Arabic) Al-Kawthar Page Al-Khoei Foundation of NYC All shia
Rank: ±0
WISEnut

http://abujasir.tripod.com/media.htm
Media
to Arabic and Islamic News Welcome to IslamVision.Org - An Invitation to DISCOVER ISLAM TOP Back to Khalifornia Magazine Khilafah Magazine Al-Jinan Magazine monthly Al-Shahr Online Al-Talib
Rank: ±0
WISEnut

http://forum.amrkhaled.net/showthread.php?p=938042
الجهاد الإلكتروني ادخل وشارك معنا ...
http://www.aljinan.org. تعري� بالجهاد الإلكتروني قيادة الجهاد الإلكتروني webmaster@aljinan.org
Rank: ±0
AOL

http://forum.amrkhaled.net/showthread.php?t=57080
الجهاد الإلكتروني ادخل وشارك معنا ...
ملاØ*ظة : إذا لم تكن مشترك Ù�قم بالاشتراك بالقائمة الجهادية يمين الصÙ�Ø*Ø© http://www.aljinan.org/
Rank: ±0
AOL


http://www.aljayyash.net/vb/showthread.php?p=86552
الغزوة الإلكترونية الخامسة يوم ...
http://www.aljinan.org/Doraah3.exe والمعروÙ� ببرنامج الدرة نسبة إلى الطÙ�Ù„ Ù…Ø*مد الدرة (رØ*مه الله
Rank: ±0
AOL

http://vb.arabsgate.com/archive/index.php/t-464100.html
منتديات بوابة العرب - ادخلوا !غدا ...
وللاشتراك �ي مجموعة الجهاد الإلكتروني قم بزيارة موقعها الرسمي www.aljinan.org واقرأ �كرة
Rank: ±0
AOL

http://www.7ora.net/vb/showthread.php?t=49845
شاركنا �ي موقع الجهاد الألكتروني �ي ...
الموقع http://www.aljinan.org/ لتØ*ميل برنامج الدرة http://www.9q9q.net/up3/index.php?f=RTQiIGeFC لتØ*ميلAttacer
Rank: ±0
AOL

http://www.7ora.net/vb/showthread.php?p=310849
اليوم سنقوم بضرب موقع اسرائيلي ...
مشكووور جبيبي وهذا رابط التØ*ميل http://www.aljinan.org/Doraah6.zip. التوقيع. اضغط هنا ولن تندم
Rank: ±0
AOL

http://www.islamicresearch.org/Pages/links.htm
Usefull Links
COLLEGES FOR ISLAMIC SECIENCES AL-ZAHRA PAGE READ MAGAZINE MORAL STORIES AL-JINAN ON-LINE AL-BAQI' BABUL-'ILM ORG. MASJID NET ZAINAB ORG ISLAM 1 SOUTH OF LEBANON - [ 1 ] - [ 2 ] - [ 3 ] - [ 4
Rank: ±0
WISEnut

http://lebanonheartblogs.blogspot.com/
Lebanese Blogger Forum
of the posters! Yes it is the entrance of "Al jinan's" children crèche. And they wonder how s Propaganda Site Jij Jimmy Joseph Nassar Kadmous.org Kamoua National Park Kékètt- Histoires Courtes
Rank: ±0
WISEnut

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Just a few. Haven't gotten through them all yet.

[JaneDoe]

A few more...

http://www.imambargah.com/links.asp?whichpage=3&pagesize=50
Shia Links - ImamBargah.com
com 125 http://www.aljamri.org Sh Abdulamir alJamri 126 http://www.aljawad.tripod.com Al-Jawad Foundation, West Java (Bandung), Indonesia 127 http://www.aljinan.com al-Jinan - Islamic Information in
Rank: ±0
WISEnut

http://www.moqawmh.com/vb/member.php?u=1823
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[Casey]

You can send your suggestions and Mcharkatkm the Postal briefing the World Islamic Front
Http://gimf.arabform.com (http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&langpair=ar%7Cen&u=http://gimf.arabform.com/)
***
Mode of transmission via coded messages described in detail in the electronic book exists on this link
The facility with the public key information on Front

Http://www.fileupyours.com/files/47824/jabha.rar (http://www.fileupyours.com/files/47824/jabha.rar)
***
Special Program encryption WinPT
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/w...2.exe?download
***
Digital imprint of the key year
0562 C4BB A8 66 43 6608 2 EE8 A7 9 F7C 4827 AA11 B271
Type : Key Pair
Key ID : 0 xB271AA11
Algorithm : DSA/ELG
Size : 1024 / 1792
Created : 2006-04-10

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Briefing the World Islamic Front
Global Islamic Media Front

[Casey]

It appears they were successful with these sites.




New breakthroughs sites Crusaders





The name of God the Merciful


Almighty God said : ((And make ready against them all you can of power, including steeds of war to threaten the enemy of Allah and your and others of us do not teach God and teaches them to spend anything for the sake of God kept you and you do not Ti Mon)) Sura Anfal verse 60
Almighty God said : (Katlohm often capable hands of God and compunctions and helps them and recovered the people believing)

Only the dogs West **** me right may Khalenakm right
Bayana and Osama without fear **** It protects Dhamar Almoslemina

Tell Salibein and their followers : Snthar some of the blood of the martyrs and the crying mothers and children They have threatened Muslim worshipers of the Red Cross and their followers broke and the destruction of sites on the Internet will not forget our leaders, and morale of our people and our children, who were martyred in Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya and other Snthar you, worshipers Cross and the Zionists will not rest and will not forget what reaction camouflage us, and that the electronic Jihad in the Cause of Allah victory or martyrdom.

Give these penetrations to the martyr Sheikh Mujahid Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and struggling Sheikh Osama Bin Laden and the captive nation and 007 terrorist electronic mail loving nation Sheikhs and all the mujahideen for the cause of Allah, may God preserve them and found their feet and prisoners to freedom and to the people and the children of Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan and the Chechnya vulnerable because of the Crusaders and the Zionists and the Muslim believers.

Sites that have been shell are :

Http://salisburycamra.org.uk/News/news / (http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&langpair=ar%7Cen&u=http://salisburycamra.org.uk/News/news/)
Http://www.naturstein-netz.de/lahn-m...m/public/news / (http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&langpair=ar%7Cen&u=http://www.naturstein-netz.de/lahn-m...m/public/news/)
Http://www.burchfieldtrucks.com/news / (http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&langpair=ar%7Cen&u=http://www.burchfieldtrucks.com/news/)
Https://www.biz.uiowa.edu/upo/writing/news / (https://www.biz.uiowa.edu/upo/writing/news/)
Http://www.elicar.it/pubblic/news / (http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&langpair=ar%7Cen&u=http://www.elicar.it/pubblic/news/)
Http://intranet.mag.gob.sv/asp / (http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&langpair=ar%7Cen&u=http://intranet.mag.gob.sv/asp/)
Http://intranet.mag.gob.sv/asp/legislacion/rrhh/news / (http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&langpair=ar%7Cen&u=http://intranet.mag.gob.sv/asp/legislacion/rrhh/news/)

The sites Hacked by

~ ~ The ¤ô§ô¤ Designer-Islamic HaCKEr ¤ô§ô¤ ~ ~
~ ~ ¤ô§ô¤ designer Islamic ¤ô§ô¤ ~ ~
~ ~ ¤ô§ô¤ HaCKErS aLAnSaR ¤ô§ô¤ ~ ~
Ansar AL-Jihad Hackers Team for electronic jihad
Supporters Jihad group for electronic Jihad-e-Mujahid Battalion 007 terrorist
Ansarhack@yahoo.com (ansarhack@yahoo.com)
The supporters of jihad for electronic Jihad Http://www.geocities.com/ansarhack (http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&langpair=ar%7Cen&u=http://www.geocities.com/ansarhack)
Archive hacking of sites crusade Http://logic90.jeeran.com/Page_3.html (http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&langpair=ar%7Cen&u=http://logic90.jeeran.com/Page_3.html)
If you Samehuna Ankotana ..)))

Look, grown up and claimed the Mujahideen everywhere

[Casey]

The name of God the Merciful

Almighty God said : ((And make ready against them all you can of power, including steeds of war to threaten the enemy of Allah and your and others of us do not teach God and teaches them to spend anything for the sake of God kept you and you do not Ti Mon)) Sura Anfal verse 60
Almighty God said : (Katlohm often capable hands of God and compunctions and helps them and recovered the people believing)
Qur'an 40:51







We will restore the splendor of life will come for the second of the departed and disbelieve
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Will proud of the Koran at a time of peoples and obscenity proud Balkhana
***
It will chart the road to the Koran its splendor and empowerment Victory




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With God's help and the help we have decided to mount on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, God Almighty.

















Goal


:

Www.alarabiya.net (http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&langpair=ar%7Cen&u=http://www.alarabiya.net/)


Al-Arabiya that the site is an informative those who refuse to receive support from the Slol always describes the Mujahideen in Iraq as terrorists and describes the martyrs in Palestine, Iraq and other dead, and the Arab governments support the infidel and one staff views known in Arabic Tmshm submitted his resignation because of the truth and falsehood of service who are always yachts Wan news like that are against the fighters, pose a threat to them

















Date : Tuesday, September 5, 2006 and Wednesday, September 6, 2006 and Thursday, September 7, 2006-at 10 p.m. to 2:00 Greenwich Mecca-Jerusalem-Egypt-Jordan and the same date Baliomin. God








And from 7:00 p.m. until 11 p.m. GMT.





__________________________________________________ _______________________________





The statement unite ranks









We will strike sites infidel and their followers according to the brothers in a Jihad to be one row and share with us the word to uphold the Tawhid and Jihad










Your brothers the Mujahideen in the Jihad supporters of the electronic Jihad






~ ~ ¤ô§ô¤ HaCKErS aLAnSaR ¤ô§ô¤ ~ ~
Ansar AL-Jihad Hackers Team for electronic jihad

[JaneDoe]

A little of their work (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%82+%D8%A3%D9%86%D8%B5%D8%A 7%D8%B1+%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%AF+%D9%8 4%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%AF+%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7 %D9%84%D9%83%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A+-&btnG=Google+Search)

[Vancouver]

Googling on the "signature", e.g.
"HaCKErS aLAnSaR"
(with the whole phrase in quotes) produces few hits.
From the random appearance of the list of affected URLs, I suspect that this hacking was done by aid of phishing with a mass email.
BTW is this report from tajdeed? It could be the work of Muhammad Massari's son Anmar, who has done computer work for tajdeed and other pro-terrorism sites. The quote mentions "salool", which is a derogatory name for the Saudi royal house, and is rarely heard anymore except at tajdeed. Sounds like the poor old fool Massari is up to his old tricks.

edit: Just yesterday I was poking around the "official" site of a famous Muslim terrorist organization, and when I clicked on what was supposed to be a link to a related site, it went to an editorial at an Israeli newspaper -- an editorial which puts the boots to that very same Muslim terrorist organization. So it looks as if both sides are playing this game :)

[Casey]

They are not from tajdeed.

[Casey]

It would appear the Lebanon Forum made a hasty departure sometime today.

There is still a picture of al Suri and a roughly 900 page pdf of scanned pages, probably al Suri's writings in a couple of the directories that remain.

[Casey]

And, Chip and Sky showed alhramain a thing or two.

[JaneDoe]

Checking out other domains on the server with al-jinan.org....I found something I think is interesting. In June this year someone registered kingalwaleed.com.

The site says:
Coming Soon
http://akajanedoe.us/images/untitled9999.gif
Prince Alwaleed Care Web Site

Prince Alwaleed...
8th (or 5th) richest man in the world ($20 Billion), depending on who's talking.
A Saudi Prince, though not in line to rule.
Apparent US supporter and of woman's rights and voter reforms in the kingdom.
Controversial donations to the families of palestinian martyrs.
Controversial donation, which was refused, to NYC after 9/11.

[Casey]

The Pentagon's Cyber Secret Agents
Written by Fabio Ghioni Tuesday, 03 October 2006

U.S. Air Force researchers are developing a new project based on the idea that in the future it will be possible to set up computer programs which will be used in military operations and long-term intelligence activities, such as "being to monitor a military barracks, accumulate financial information on a potentially hostile nation, or provide status on the political climate of a South American country”, an Air Force paper announces (http://www.defensetech.org/archives/002724.html).

In a short-term perspective, a similar cyber aid will be decisive to detect hidden people or dangerous items, such as explosive, without endangering human lives.

According to the project that stands behind this revolutionary technology, “Cyber crafts” will work on a variety of mediums with no distinctions, so that they could hop from computer networks, to electrical grids, to wireless nets and so on. Moreover, the programs would be able to keep up with the networks changes, performing constant self-morphing in order to be effective but impossible to detect by the adversaries.

The other revolutionary element conveyed by this technology is Cyber crafts’ ability to make decisions on whether to morph or self –destruct in case the enemy would discover them.

The Air Force paper then, makes an example of Cyber Craft application considering a squad of marines entering a residential area…

“They need updated information, and they find an electrical outlet and plugs-in. Such an outlet allows access to the town’s power grid and to the adversary’s computer network.

So, a cyber Crafty is injected into the system in order to localize insurgents or hidden military facilities The Cyber Craft detect[s] some activity at a military installation within 1000-ft of the Marines location.
The Cyber Craft performs a 'recce mission' to gather intelligence on the insurgents (exact location, number, arms, etc.) and sends back data/information to the marines.

However, in the meantime the marines have moved and have located a different means of connecting to the network. The Cyber Craft has 'sensed' this shift so readdresses the feedback information to the marine¹s new location and port. The 'Cyber Craft' acquires a positive ID, and sends an alert message back to the marines that the insurgents are about to leave and may be heading their way... The Cyber Craft executes its orders (turns power off, locks the doors), sends back an acknowledgement and self destructs.”

No doubt that, if these tools will be implemented and will work properly, they will convey a revolutionary change in the way to carry out any kind of intelligence or military action.

Anyway, the technology that would be able to support such a program doesn’t exist now, but Air Force Research Unit has already started a fund raising operation involving three companies that have agreed to finance the initial phases of the research.

Assured Information Security of Rome, NY gave its contribution to "research and develop a Cyber Craft software tool that will be able to covertly enter a network and move about the network to detect intrusions or other abnormalities."
Indialantic, FL outfit 3 Sigma Research is working to build "Cyber Craft organized in to 'cells' to allow survivability and increase resiliency to attack."
Solidcore Systems, out of Palo Alto, will try to put together a “system including a harbor (a host), and a dock (a control environment for Cyber Craft execution) and
cyber craft themselves (ordinary programs that can get launched to hosts and run there)."

According to provisions, it seems that they will implement a perfect program, but we can’t do without pointing out that reality isn’t based on “perfection”, that sometimes working conditions change many times during a single operation and that we cannot be always aware of how they will change.

The reason why certain tasks are accomplished by men-or women-, is that they can be trained to act in such unsteady conditions adapting their behaviour to the situation.

But will a machine be able to do the same? Couldn’t a Cyber Craft misinterpret given parameters and morph itself into something that performs unintended actions that would be harmful to friendly forces or provide the enemy with information about the sender?


Will it be possible to create a “thinking” machine? and if it will... which would be its limits?


http://www.zone-h.org/content/view/14208/30/

[Casey]

ooops....

[Casey]

Well, so much for muslm.net

I'm sure they will find a new home soon.

They were one of the forums mentioned in the article 49 Ways to Perform Jihad as a forum to stay tuned to for information.

[Casey]

Electronic Jihad
Written by Roberto Preatoni (SyS64738) Friday, 06 October 2006

The relationship between Western values and Islamic culture is every day more complicated, and the consequences of this growing tension are clearly visible in everyday life as much as on newscasts and on the Internet... but although street protests usually die down in a very short time, online battles keep raging for long.

Recent violent answers to the Pope’s declaration on the nature of Islam, after inflaming eastern and western streets for days, seem to have stopped, but actually the digital protest is still raging:

The series of defacements registered by Zone-H (http://www.zone-h.org/content/view/14197/30/) last week haven’t been the only expression of this protest: a new website called Electronic Jihad (http://www.al-jinan.org/), was launched by a team of “cyber jihadis with the aim to help organize an electronic jihad against websites that insult Islam and Islamic sacred figures, the Jamestown foundation (http://jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2370147) declared yesterday. The web site organizers have declared they don’t belong to any specific sect or group, but they've claimed they represent the whole Islamic community that ,according to them, should be united against anti-Islamic manifestations.

The website domain, however is registered to an "Ahmad Adel" who has an Iraq mailing address (but it is not clear whether this is a false name and address or not) .

The site itself appears to be hosted by Saudi Arabian company IBTEKARAT.com, based in Saida.
Electronic jihad has been promoted by many popular web pages and forums that openly support jihadis campaign by inciting extremist and regular Muslims to accomplish their duty to defend their religion and get engaged in electronic jihad. The target of the attacks would obviously be anti-Islamic web sites such as the Israeli website haganah.co.il who has been recently shut down.
The web site offers a number of advices for jihad followers and two programs that they need to download in order to carry out their missions.

One of these programs can be used to set up hacking attacks, it is known as Electronic Jihad Program 1.5 (Silver Edition) and it seems to have been designed by a Saudi coder.

The other program places a toolbar on the user's computer that connects automatically to Electronic Jihad and acquires data containing the specific date, time and target site for the attack. When that time arrives, the user simply has to run the first hacking program, select the target site to be attacked and then allow the program to do the rest.

The strength of these attacks is that they can be done simultaneously by many users who can overload the target site, this way. A
strong propaganda has been campaigned for convincing indifferent Muslims of the importance of electronic jihad that bases on a report on the al-Jazeera Forums (http://www.aljazeeratalk.net/forum) site mentioning Electronic Jihad's achievements in shutting down anti-Islamic websites. The al-Jazeera report, however, does not identify the attackers as "jihadis," but rather as pirates...

http://www.zone-h.org/content/view/14226/30/


You can find the dirt on AL-JINAN.ORG hackers site here:

http://wincoast.com/forum/showthread.php?p=786397&highlight=Electronic+Jihad#post786397

[Vancouver]

Ana al-Muslim www.muslm.net is back up.

[Casey]

Ana al-Muslim www.muslm.net (http://www.muslm.net) is back up.

Well I wonder what the heck that was all about....???


Site report for www.muslm.net (http://www.muslm.net)

Site http://www.muslm.net (http://www.muslm.net/)
Last reboot 19 days ago (http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.muslm.net)
Domain muslm.net (http://searchdns.netcraft.com/?host=*.muslm.net)
Netblock owner Layered Technologies, Inc. (http://wincoast.com/netblock?q=LAYERED-TECH-,72.232.0.0,72.232.255.255)
IP address 72.232.0.82
Site rank 289375 (http://wincoast.com/stats/topsites?s=5029DD75822283D37C1D0A054142#289375)
Country US (https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/us.html)
Nameserver DNS12.DT4IT.COM
Date first seen January 2001
DNS admin support@saudiprovider.net Domain Registry unknown
Reverse DNS 82.0.232.72.reverse.layeredtech.com
Organisation unknown
Nameserver Organisation dt4it.com, Ksa, Riyadh, Riyadh, 96612, Saudi Arabia

[Casey]

I haven't been here in awhile, don't know when it was hacked.

http://tasaolat.5gigs.com/

<title> oWnEd by AgReSsOr </title>


/* You have been hacked
*
* pc_labs.c - Linux x.x.x any kernel (priv8)
* Desde el 2001 en la escena hacker chilena.
* No nos creemos mas de lo que somos.
*
* Para mas informacion irc.gigachat.net #pclabs.
*
*
* NOTA: USESE CON PRECAUCION, PUEDE PROVOCAR ENVIDIA EN GRUPOS DE FARANDULEROS IMPUBERES
*
* Uso:
* $ gcc pc_labs.c -o pc_labs
* $ ./pc_labs
*
* + Comprobando sistema ... [ok]
* + Deteniendo syslogd ... [ok]
* + Deteniendo sshd ... [ok]
* + Deteniendo ftpd ... [ok]
* + Mandando lammejos a /dev/null ... [Failed]
* - Error: byond_leim_team no such file
* + Obteniendo rootshell ... [ok]
* # id
* uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),10(wheel),1337(pc_labs)
* #
*
*/

#include <pclabs/lwdz.h>
#include <pclabs/RandomHero.h>
#include <pclabs/AgReSsOr.h>
#include <greetz/xRoot.h>

...
PRIVATE CODE
...

void main (void){
cout << "pc_labs ownz this box" << endl;

[Vancouver]

Well I wonder what the heck that was all about....???
...
support@saudiprovider.net
...
82.0.232.72.reverse.layeredtech.com
...
dt4it.com, Ksa, Riyadh, Riyadh, 96612, Saudi Arabia
I dunno. Interesting.
These three seem to be all the same outfit, in Texas:
saudiprovider.net
dt4it.com
layeredtech.com

I'll bet the Riyadh address is meaningless.

[JaneDoe]

Today it looks suspended

List of redirected URLs

http://muslm.net/
redirected to: http://server-1420.saudiprovider.net/suspended.page/
status code: 302 (object temporarily moved)
linked from page(s):

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Reverse-IP
7 Results for 72.232.0.82 (Muslm.net)

almnaber.com
aoua.com
borsastars.com
ekhaa.com
janazh.com
ksu-it.com
muslm.net

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* NS History: 10 changes. Using 7 unique name servers in 5 years.
* IP History: 16 changes. Using 10 unique IP addresses in 2 years.
Whois History: 90 records have been archived since 2003-01-12
Reverse IP: 6 other sites hosted on this server.

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People who visit this page also visit:

* Alserdaab.net/alserdaab www.alserdaab.net/alserdaab
* Fwaed.net www.fwaed.net
* Naseh.net/vb www.naseh.net/vb
* Fatawaweb.com www.fatawaweb.com
* Almesk.net/vb www.almesk.net/vb
* Hawaaworld.net hawaaworld.net
* Gesah.net/vb/vb gesah.net/vb/vb
* Saaid.net www.saaid.net
* Islammemo.cc/news www.islammemo.cc/news
* Forsan.net www.forsan.net

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Sites 1 - 10 of 49 linked to muslm.org:

saaid.net:80/female/m117.htm
www.raddadi.com:80/?action=dleel.showSection&secid=313
Forum.ma3ali.net:80/showthread.php?t=40619
www.islammemo.cc:80/gbok/default13.asp?PagePosition=170
www.muslm.net:80/vb/showthread.php?threadid=111138
www.al3nabi.com:80/vb/showthread.php?p=763983
www.sudaneseonline.com:80/cgi-bin/sdb/2bb.cgi?seq=msg&b...
talk.fanateq.com:80/vb/showthread.php?t=15998
www.alnilin.com:80/womenhowthread.php?t=21846
www.muslmh.com:80/vb/showthread.php?t=7814
www.buraydh.com:80/forum/showthread.php?t=57051
www.bwady.com:80/dlili/index.php?p=bwady_fourm_arabic
www.almlekh.com:80/dalel/go_vb
www.gooh.net:80/publish/article_136.shtml
www.swalif.com:80/go/search/search.php?Keywords=%D2%E6%...
aljawariss.net:80/vb/showthread.php?s=edadbed78176c71f7...
magtrb.com:80
wahat.sahara.com:80/showthread.php?t=15785
www.al3sjad.com:80/vb/showthread.php?t=4030
www.uaeeyes.com:80/uaeeyes/showthread.php?t=9376
www.albarz.net:80/links/link1.htm
medlem.spray.se:80/golistan/aljehad%20%20al%20mojahedea...
www.alwjd.net:80/free/dlili/index.php?p=bwady_fourm_ara...
qabail.com:80/vb/showthread.php?t=1767
almorshid.hawaaworld.com:80/search.php
www.jimsyr.com:80/services/links.htm
www.dr-ghani.net:80/index.php?categoryid=113&topicid=23...
www.jeel.info:80/vb/printthread.php?t=691
www.snfoor.com:80/search.php?q=118&advance=on
sadym.com:80
m1000.net:80
ikhwan-muslimoon-syria.org:80/services/links.htm
j.domaindlx.com:80/aboamri/new_page_4.htm
www.infovlad.net:80/?p=90
m1000.com:80
555.cc:80
www.realmohamed.com:80/work/ano/2.htm
wla3.com:80
chouibo2010.jeeran.com:80/arab_sites.html
qanon.net:80/important_links/conference_sites.htm
cf.geocities.com:80/chakir_meknes
www.doook.com:80/index.php?name=News
www.bwasl.20m.com:80/montdyat.htm
303030.com:80/dir
www.al-saudih.com:80/sa
anga-ps.com:80/hero/daleel/montadaiat.htm
ab7th.com:80/link/almntdyat.htm
darbma7aba.jeeran.com:80/abateel.htm

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Sites listing email address mjmjmj50@hotmail.com

http://www.almahdy.net/vb/showthread.php?t=393
نص مناظرة مهدي الله أبي عبدالله ...
From: "الصارم المسلول" <mjmjmj50@hotmail.com> To: asedy2002@yahoo.com Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 13:37:53 +0200

http://tryme3000.20megsfree.com/violence-1-en.htm
Dear visitors
These letters are from someone called him self " alsarem almaslool ", and his email is: mjmjmj50@hotmail.com . This person is in charge of registration at the radical net called: www.muslm.net

http://tryme3000.20megsfree.com/violence-1-ar.htm
أخوتي زوار هذه الصÙ�Ø*Ø©
... لكل من يختل� عنها . من ضمنها عدة رسائل من شخص يسمى "الصارم المسلول" وعنوانه البريدي: mjmjmj50@hotmail.com وهو المسؤول �ي ...

http://members.lycos.co.uk/mjalhassan/threaten_AM3.html
الموقع الرسمي للدكتور: Ù…Ø*مد جعÙ�ر هاشم ...
... لكل من يختل� عنها. من ضمنها عدة رسائل من شخص يسمى "الصارم المسلول" وعنوانه البريدي : mjmjmj50@hotmail.com وهو ...

http://members.lycos.co.uk/mjalhassan/threaten.html
الموقع الرسمي للدكتور: Ù…Ø*مد جعÙ�ر هاشم ...
... والطائ�ية لكل من يختل� عنها. من ضمنها عدة رسائل من شخص يسمى "الصارم المسلول" وعنوانه البريدي: mjmjmj50@hotmail.com وهو ...

http://alwatan.netfirms.com/alhassan/threat-1.htm
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[Casey]

Today it looks suspended

List of redirected URLs

http://muslm.net/
redirected to: http://server-1420.saudiprovider.net/suspended.page/
status code: 302 (object temporarily moved)
linked from page(s):



http://tryme3000.20megsfree.com/violence-1-en.htm

That is an interesting read.....

[Casey]

More.....

[Casey]

The Fallujah Forum

http: //65.254.56.162/~alminbar/vb/index.php

[Vancouver]

About Ana al-Muslim (= www.muslim.net) I'm now getting an authorization-required window, plus an Apache Server 404.
Maybe dt4it of Texas decided to pull the plug when they heard about the threats coming from
alsarem almaslool
الصارم المسلول
Details about the threats here:
http://tryme3000.20megsfree.com/violence-1-en.htm

Some forum (I think it was Ana al-Muslim) used to say that it wanted no contributions from, or about, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. That policy strongly suggests that the forum, terrorist-friendly or not, has friends in the Saudi regime.

The person being threatened seems to be a Saudi female, maybe a student.

"al-Maslool" means "the consumptive" or "the sickly" and it could be a variant of "salool" which is a derogatory adjective applied to the Sauds by their Saudi enemies outside KSA.

[Vancouver]

These three seem to be all the same outfit, in Texas:
saudiprovider.net
dt4it.com
layeredtech.comLayered Technologies also hosts
www.at-tawheed.com 72.36.156.14
which is a forum (Irhabi007 was a member) run by jihadi web outfit "At-Tibyân Publications".

[Petronas]

Defeating Internet terrorists
October 8, 2006

The Internet has become the "seductive hypermedia" for radical Islamic terrorists, with official and unofficial Web sites, forums and chatrooms that appeal to supporters worldwide. Most Web sites are intended to advance a group's propaganda to increase their supporting audience, while some have operational intentions. But how do we defeat such terrorism in cyberspace?

An eclectic group of international experts in terrorist use of the Internet and graphic design specialists met recently in Israel's southern resort city of Eilat to formulate a comprehensive response campaign that deserves wide attention.

As explained by Gabriel Weimann, of Israel's Haifa University, terrorists "narrow-cast" their messages to "trap" selected audiences of adherents. Taking this further, Boaz Ganor, of the Israeli Interdisciplinary Center, showed how the "captured" adherents are then indoctrinated into radicalization by emphasizing a problem, such as threats posed by a common enemy or humiliation suffered by Muslims at the hands of their adversaries. Emphasizing the religious obligation of Muslims to confront their enemies and the challenge to their faith is the common denominator that binds the audience into their new virtual community. Segments of this community are then activated into a variety of activities on behalf of the terrorist group, such as fund-raising, recruitment, training and warfare.

The different types of terrorist activities on the Internet require appropriately differentiated responses. As outlined by Mr. Weimann, one such response is based on what he terms a "MUD" approach (Monitoring, Using and Disrupting).


First, terrorist Web sites need to be monitored to learn about their mindsets, motives, persuasive "buzzwords," audiences, operational plans and potential targets for attack. These sites will also reveal whom they consider to be their political and religious authorities, as well as moderate religious clerics they regard as particularly threatening. Monitoring also reveals their inner debates and disputes.
Second, counterterrorism organizations need to "use" the terrorist Web sites to identify and locate their propagandists, chat room discussion moderators, Internet service provider (ISP) hosts, operatives and participating members.
Third, terrorist Web sites need to be "disrupted" through negative and positive means. In a negative "influence" campaign, sites can be infected with viruses and worms to destroy them, or kept "alive" while flooding them with false technical information about weapons systems, circulating rumors to create doubt about the reputation and credibility of terrorist leaders, or inserting conflicting messages into discussion forums to confuse operatives and their supporters. In a more positive approach, alternative narratives can be inserted into these Web sites to demonstrate the negative results of terrorism or, to potential suicide bombers, to suggest the benefits of the "value of life" versus the self-destructiveness of the "culture of death and martyrdom."

An effective "MUD" approach, however, depends on several conditions. It must be interdisciplinary, involving experts in communications and rhetoric, psychologists who understand the impact of influence campaigns on their targeted audiences' cognitive and behavioral responses, graphic designers who understand the type of graphic interface and layout that would appeal to such potential audiences, and civil liberty attorneys to ensure such influence campaigns do not infringe on constitutional rights of free speech and expression.

Finally, international cooperation is required to implement and coordinate such influence campaigns worldwide.

Above all, such a response requires new counterterrorism "armies" possessing new strategies, capabilities, tactics and cyber weapons to counteract the Jihadi Web sites.

This is a dynamic arena of continuous feedback loops in which our actions must ceaselessly anticipate and respond to the reactions of the targeted terrorist Web sites. For instance, when a Web site is brought down, it usually re-emerges in a different configuration elsewhere. Moreover, we need to prioritize the audiences to be targeted by such influence campaigns. For example, devoted activists may be considered a lost cause, while potential recruits who have not yet been activated into terrorism represent new opportunities for influence operations.

Such influence campaigns must be led by moderate political and religious leaders from Islamic communities to formulate alternative messages and narratives to the radical Islamic ideologies. Here, further differentiation is required because, for example, mainstream Islam in the Middle East will be different than its counterparts in Southeast Asia or Europe. It is crucial that whatever is being countered must be as authentically Islamic and close to the "ground" truth as possible. It is here that the root causes underlying the problems that the radical Islamists are exploiting for their own purposes must be resolved.

The Eilat workshop also proposed an institutional framework to carry out such influence campaigns. Joint governmental and independent nongovernmental organization (NGO) campaigns would be driven by coordinated official and "unofficial" international monitoring entities that would form a "Web site Interpol." Guidelines would be issued to define "Red Lines" in terrorist supporters' Web sites which, crossed, would trigger measures to cease their presence on the Internet.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/commentary/20061007-104915-3656r.htm

[Casey]

Iraqi arrested in Germany for allegedly spreading al-Qaida messages on Web

The Associated Press
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BERLIN An Iraqi man suspected of spreading messages by al-Qaida leaders on the Internet over the past year was arrested in Germany on Tuesday, federal prosecutors said.

The 36-year-old, who was identified only as Ibrahim R., was arrested near the western city of Osnabrueck, prosecutors said in a statement. His apartment was searched.
He is accused, "in several cases since Sept. 24, 2005, of having spread worldwide over the Internet audio and video messages by the leaders of ... al-Qaida and al-Qaida in Iraq — namely Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahri and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi — and in doing so of having supported these groups in their terrorist activities and aims," prosecutors said in a statement.

They did not elaborate on the man's alleged activities.

The statement did not specify whether the man was suspected of posting the messages on the Web, or only of having spread messages that already were there. It gave no details of the contents.

Prosecutors declined to elaborate on how he got the messages. Regional investigators in Lower Saxony state declined to comment on the case.
The man was to be brought before a federal judge Wednesday for a decision on whether he could be held pending possible charges of supporting a terrorist organization.



http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/10/10/europe/EU_GEN_Germany_Terror_Suspect.php

[Vancouver]

This little-known Albanian Qaida or pro-Qaida website
http://www.nenhijeneshpates.net/
is giving out "509: bandwidth exceeded". So I guess either they are busy or there is a denial-of-service attack underway against them.

[al-Canine]

The growth of 'online Jihadism'

By Frank Gardner
BBC Security Correspondent, Norway

Housed in a shallow valley just outside Oslo is the Norwegian Defence Research Institute.

It is an unremarkable place to look at, but inside sits one of Europe's leading teams of researchers into the growing phenomenon known as "online Jihadism", or al-Qaeda-inspired extremism on the internet.

They are neither intelligence agents nor soldiers, but academics who use their fluent Arabic to produce unclassified research.

Like many who study this subject, they disguise their real identity by using false Arabic names and proxy addresses.

Brynjar Lia, a senior team member and author of an acclaimed book about terrorism and the internet, says al-Qaeda and its affiliates use the internet for several purposes.

Training for interrogations

"Propaganda, calling people to jihad, is the primary purpose," he said.

"It has always been like that from the beginning, but secondly it is to communicate to the internal community of jihadis with the message to continue to fight and build up the spirit of combat, and also internal communication with cell members and so on.

"This can be via e-mail or encrypted messages. Usually they don't use much encryption, they only use easy codes, simple codes that can be read by people but interpreted as something that doesn't have anything to do with terrorism.

"Then there is also the external audience, those enemies who they want to frighten and terrorise.

"The idea is to produce videos that are very scary, like decapitations and other similar movies.

"Then there is also the electronic jihad part of it, which is to destroy enemy websites which are critical of the jihadi movement.

"The last area is training. That could be anything from providing security instructions, how to withstand interrogations, how to evade surveillance but it could also be how to produce explosives, how to put together a mine, how to place the mine and so on."

English subtitles

In the last year, say the Norwegian analysts, the jihadists have been adapting their online recruiting efforts to target audiences in Europe, including Britain.

Videos of speeches, such as those by al-Qaeda chief strategist Dr Ayman al-Zawahiri, now come with English subtitles.

Al-Qaeda's Californian-born spokesman Adam Gadahn addresses Western audiences in American English, drawing attention to what he sees as the hypocrisy of Western civilisation.

Other jihadi videos are being dubbed into German, Spanish, Swedish and other European languages with the aims of both attracting potential recruits and intimidating those seen as the enemy.

Other innovations include increasingly high quality film footage, fresh from the battlefields of Iraq or Afghanistan, and sophisticated instructions on bomb-making and weapon handling.

But one of the areas where jihadist propagandists have been most successful and innovative is in targeting the youth market, reaching out to teenagers and young men through internet chat rooms in cyberspace.

Their attention is grabbed by catchy videos like the 2004 rap hit Dirty Kuffar by Sheikh Terra, online games where points are scored by simulating attacks on US soldiers with the click of a mouse, and even a video equating goals scored in the World Cup with improvised bomb attacks on coalition forces in Iraq, accompanied by tumultuous applause.

Governments slow

Thomas Hegghammer from the Norwegian Defence Research Institute describes how al-Qaeda sympathisers log onto certain internet forums to discuss the films and the latest news from Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, always trying to stay one step ahead of the authorities.

"These forums are like the sort of town square of online jihadism, it's where people meet to collect information and discuss topics," he said.

"If you look at the address it's quite anonymous, it's just numbers and this is because they move around all the time to avoid hackers and government agencies that try and take them down, so some of these sites more around on a weekly basis or even daily basis and the way you find these addresses is from other forums.

"So there is always a redundancy. So if one forum is shut down then you go to the other one to get the new address."

Western governments have been slow to wake up to the enormous potential for jihadists to recruit over the internet, but British officials now believe that, after face-to-face meetings, the internet has become the prime means of radicalisation and recruitment.

The problem has been urgently debated at this week's meeting of European security and interior ministers in Stratford-upon-Avon.

"The home secretary takes it very seriously," said a Home Office official, adding: "We are engaged in a battle of ideas and values."

'Lost battle'

But one London-based Arab journalist who monitors online jihadism contends that the British government is essentially passive when it comes to the wave of jihadist propaganda out there on the internet.

Camille Tawil said: "I believe the British have been happy just to monitor the internet.

"My impression is that they believe it's a lost battle to counter the al-Qaeda message on the internet.

"The Americans however have been a little bit ahead of the British in countering that message.

"What they do is they have people who pretend to be Islamic militants trying to lure some people from al-Qaeda or extremists into saying something, and that would lead to their arrest - however in Britain we haven't seen anything like this.

"The Americans are well ahead of the British in this."

British government officials deny they are doing nothing, but not surprisingly they decline to discuss anything to do with secret intelligence operations.

"We are doing a number of things, some overt and some covert," says the Home Office official, adding with a degree of weary candour: "But we admit some of them are not working".

BBC NEWS (http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/uk/6086042.stm)

[Casey]

Security notes: from hackers to attackers, while terrorism might decline

This week I spent a few hours at the headquarters of a UN agency in Geneva with an interesting group of about 30 people from all over the world discussing global security threats. Security in the broadest sense - physical, national, social; risks and safety; public health problems and developmental issues and vulnerabilities of critical infrastructures; "hard" power and "soft" power (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_power).
The meeting was convened under Chatham House rules (http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/index.php?id=14), which state that the content of a discussion can be reported but not namely attributed. So, in using the blog as a notepad, here are just a few running notes/quotes:

An Asian geopolitical expert talking about likely developments in global security: "the US as a superpower (values, moral authority, "soft power", share of world economy) will decline, while their "superforce" (money, tech, military) will get strengthened; terrorism will decline and extremism will grow; there will be a strong demand for multipolarity, for a redistribution of global power, driven by China, Russia and Iran; access to resources, energy but especially water, will be key grounds for conflicts".

A North-American public health expert: "We are witnessing the emergence of drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis, and there are no antibiotics for tuberculosis in the pipeline right now, and it's growing; and we could also talk about malaria and its relationship to climate change, and mutating and everchanging strains of influenza, all this is known by experts but ignored at large".
The same expert: "In Canada the reproductive rate of native Canadians is 1.6. Which means that Canadians are not replacing themselves. It's safe to say that in 5-10 years 100 percent of the growth in workforce will come from outside. In France the reproductive rate is 1.2, in Italy 1.1. No human group has ever come back from such a low reproduction rate. Which basically means that Italians will be replaced".
A European IT expert: "Hackers are getting more targeted and sophisticated. They are not at it for the "beauté du geste", for glory anymore, but for money. We're seeing a shift from hackers to attackers: they not only steal data, but they want to blackmail, to destroy your brand, your credibility, your company".
A North-American IT expert: "We're now in an era of network-centric warfare, getting inside critical network systems to steal data or manipulate them, or take the networks down. And these threats exist, are actual, are being used, you have every day countries network-attacking each other. Defenses are also getting more sophisticated, but attackers will always have the advantage".
A European cryptologist: "We should never forget two things: security is a trade-off, it is never absolute; and you cannot un-invent technologies".
A European IT expert: "The biggest problems is so-called social engineering: people are not careful, they behave wrongly or stupidly. A few USB keys containing a virus were dropped around a company's parking lot: people picked them up and plugged into their computers and it took 15 minutes for the authors to get control of the company's network".
A European academic: "Responses to security threats used to be mostly about containing, patrolling or sealing off borders, etc. Now we're engaged in the monitoring of flows of people, goods, data".
A European crisis specialist: "There is too much fragmentation in the way security threats are assessed and responses are developed. Interconnectedness is growing, but governments have organizations devoted to different sides of security that don't talk to each other, and of course those focusing on "policing" responses don't talk to those focusing on "developmental" responses don't talk to those focusing on prevention, and things are made worse by the lack of standards even for basic things like being able to communicate".
A North-American consultant: "In terms of public perception, often security issues are ultimately parochial. It's about the "beaver problem" in Montana, that of the farmer telling how beavers "are building more dams, and flooding my land: security to me is the beaver problem, and the government is not doing enough".
Someone also mentioned that next week in Athens, at the UN's Internet Governance Forum (http://www.intgovforum.org/) (see this previous post (http://giussani.typepad.com/loip/2006/10/the_forces_pull.html)), the adoption of a "Global Cybersecurity Charter" may be put on the table, possibly (am not making this up) by China (http://giussani.typepad.com/loip/2006/01/how_china_censo.html).



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from Islammemo, it's on all the forums now

http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp%3FIDNews%3D129802

Urgent : news about the American campaign to sabotage the websites of pro-Jihad

أعلنت مصادر صحافية عراقية أن الاستخبارات الأمريكية أطلقت قبل أيام حملة لتخريب كافة المواقع الإلكترونية التي تبث بيانات وعمليات المقاومة العراقية المصورة وتحرض على ما أسمته 'الإرهاب'.

Iraqi press sources announced that the CIA launched a few days ago a campaign to sabotage all sites that broadcast data and the Iraqi resistance photocopied and incite what they called 'terrorism'.

وأشار مراسل 'مفكرة الإسلام'- عن المصادر الصحافية- إلى أن الحكومة الأمريكية خصصت مبالغ مادية لهذا المشروع والهادف إلى تدمير عشرات المواقع الإلكترونية على الشبكة العالمية التي تدعم ما أسمته 'الإرهاب' في العراق وأفغانستان والناطقه باللغه العربية.

The correspondent 'Islammemo' - sources to the press - that the American government has exaggerated material for this project, which aims to destroy dozens of websites on the World Wide Web that support what they call 'terrorism' in Iraq, Afghanistan, speaking in Arabic.

كما يتضمن المشروع تحذير عدد من القنوات التلفزيونية التي تبث عمليات مصورة للمقاومة أو تعلن عن خسائر للاحتلال لم يعلن عنها الجيش الأمريكي.

The project also warn a number of television channels broadcasting operations photocopies of the resistance or declare losses of the occupation was not declared the American army

خذوا حذركمTake Hazrkm

و الله يحفظكمAnd God يحفظكم


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هناك إعداد لحملة ضخمة من قبل الدول الغربية و الحكومات العربية العميلة لمحاربة الإعلام الجهادي

There prepare for a huge campaign by the Western countries and the Arab governments proxy to fight jihad Information

ومن ذلك ضرب المواقع الجهاديةIt is striking that jihad sites

راجعوا ما كتب سابقاًGo back to what has been written previously

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I was wondering if the previous islammemo message was propaganda or disinformation.

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U.S. seen balking at challenge by Islamist Web
28 Oct 2006 14:46:32 GMT
Source: Reuters

By David Morgan

WASHINGTON, Oct 28 (Reuters) - The Bush administration is failing to counter Islamist online propaganda that could propel militancy into the next generation, experts say.

From the Middle East, Asia and Europe, Islamists have built an expansive Internet library of sophisticated texts on the ideology that underpins violence against the West and other enemies, analysts and intelligence officials said.

"It's a steady, stealthy indoctrination aimed at creating a whole new generation of jihadists. And scandalously, it is unopposed," said Stephen Ulph, who studies the Islamist Web for the Jamestown Foundation, a Washington think tank.

E-books and online pamphlets, with titles such as "39 Ways to Serve and Participate in Jihad," encourage the growth of home-grown militant cells across the world, including in such Western countries as Canada and Britain, the experts believe.

U.S. intelligence is reluctant to mount an effective counteroffensive by recruiting Islamic experts from overseas to rebut and even ridicule Islamist authors, according to experts and U.S. officials.

"Anything exposing the West as a supporter would destroy Islamic opposition to the jihadis," one intelligence official on condition of anonymity. "We are completely out of luck with the Muslim world, across the board."

Several agencies including the CIA, FBI and the office of U.S. National Intelligence Director John Negroponte are part of a closely guarded effort to monitor the content of Islamist Web sites.

But the program is hampered by stringent security standards that make it hard for intelligence agencies to employ Islamist experts from the Arab world.

"Even if we think we understand elements of the religion, we certainly don't understand elements of their cultural communications," the intelligence official said.

POP JIHAD PROPAGANDA

Others warned that U.S. policy-makers could be making a fatal error by ignoring doctrinal online texts that lay bare the substance of a violent Islamist mind-set.

"In order to be able to fight something, you have first of all to understand what is going on. And I don't think that at this stage they understand it well enough to fight it," said Rita Katz, director of the SITE Institute, which tracks and analyzes international terrorism.

In a presentation this week, Ulph said doctrinal material accounts for 60 percent of Islamist Web content and most texts are in Arabic. But many have begun to reappear in English and other European languages in an apparent appeal to Muslims living in the West.

One of the most popular is the 1,600-page treatise, "Call to Global Islamic Resistance," a comprehensive guide to militant life by al Qaeda ideologue Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, also known as Abu Musab al-Suri, who was captured in Pakistan a year ago.

The Islamist Web became a center for al Qaeda operational planning, training and fund-raising after the fall of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.

Thousands of Islamist Web sites have since sprouted, many appealing to disenfranchised Muslim youth with so-called Pop Jihad propaganda that can include films of beheadings and spectacular attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq.

But Ulph and others, including former intelligence officials, say the future of Islamist militancy depends on the more sophisticated doctrinal material, capable of guiding the life of the committed militant from childhood to martyrdom.

"The focus has been on how these guys use the Internet for fund-raising and operations," said Jarret Brachman of the Combating Terrorism Center at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York. "Only recently have we realized there are strategic implications."

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Http: / / www.islammemo (http://www.islammemo): / /.cc / the news / one_new ....DNews%3D129802 .
Urgent : the news about the the the American the campaign to the sabotage the the websites of pro pro - Jihad .
Announced sources journalistic the intelligence start off all electronic positions which transmit the photographed and Iraqi resistance operations statements accepted for a sabotage campaign days and decay on let graze freely ' the terrorism '..
The Iraqi the press sources announced that that the the CIA launched few days ago the campaign to the sabotage all sites that that the broadcast data and the the the Iraqi the resistance photocopied and incite what . They ' the terrorism '..
And a correspondent pointed ' the Islam notebook ' of - the journalistic sources - to the American government devoted materialism amounts legal and aiming to the electronic positions tens destruction on world wide web . Which support let graze freely ' the terrorism ' in Iraq and Afghanistan (walnatqh) the Arabic (ballghh) ..
The the correspondent ' Islammemo ' - sources to the the the press - that that the the the American the government has the material for this this the project, which which aims to destroy dozens of websites . On the the World Wide Web that that the support what they the call ' the terrorism ' in Iraq, Afghanistan, in the Arabic..
The project includes a number warning from the television channels which transmit photographed operations also for the resistance or announce did not announce the American army of it for the occupation of losses..
The the project also warn the number of the television channels broadcasting operations photocopies of the the the resistance or declare losses of the the the occupation was not declared the the the American the army.
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http://www.islammemo.cc/news/newsimages/british/injuredBritishsoldier.jpg (http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDNews=129967)
The Islam notebook: British Ministry of Defense confirmed in a secret memorandum that the British army suffers ' a dangerous weakness ' and difficulties ' critical and dangerous ' forces influence on operations intensely. Occupied. ... Details. (http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDNews=129967)(heeoum) (raeets) is confirmed the Iraqi internal involvement in the death difference. (http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDNews=129952)
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The Islam notebook: confirmed an organization (heeoum) (raeets) (woutsh) ' concerned Iraqi Ministry of the Interior affiliate implicated in human right . .... Details. (http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDNews=129952)(&#233;l&#224;oubzrfr) : the Taliban be ready in the winter on Kabul for the crackdown. (http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDNews=129971)
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The Islam notebook: uncovered journalistic sources British the veil analyst has the intelligence in addition to an information of expectations.... Details. (http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDNews=129971)

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The probe. (http://www.islammemo.cc/filz/index.asp?CatNo=0&IDCategory=8)[/URL]
Curdled organizations. (http://www.islammemo.cc/filz/index.asp?CatNo=0&IDCategory=8)
Approached the Islamic courts reconciled of the matters settlement in Somalia. (http://www.islammemo.cc/filz/one_news.asp?IDNews=1157)
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Dr. . Al-Rifai: the parties a not Islamic system founds for the struggle and the unrest. (http://www.islammemo.cc/culture/index.asp?catno=0&IDCategory=1)
Dr. . Wahbah Al-Zaheeli : the thought be prevalent for the knowledge renewal no for a renewal. (http://www.islammemo.cc/culture/one_news.asp?IDNews=2965)Investigations. (http://www.islammemo.cc/culture/index.asp?catno=0&IDCategory=2)
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6 governors: burned the Ummayyad mosque [ 1]. (http://www.islammemo.cc/historydb/index.asp)
A hill clash [ 1].
The Al-Sultan death second Sulaiman Al-Uthmani . (http://www.islammemo.cc/Historydb/one_news.asp?IDNews=535) The numbers harvest. (http://www.islammemo.cc/Arkam/index.asp)
[URL="http://www.islammemo.cc/arkam/one_news.asp?IDNews=673"]One thousand 30 die in Gulf of the smoking annually. (http://www.islammemo.cc/Arkam/index.asp)
A French statistics: a big height in the expelled foreigners number. (http://www.islammemo.cc/arkam/one_news.asp?IDNews=672)

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'Carter ' again demand in the withdrawal from Iraq. (http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDNews=129951)
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A prosecutor ' the Israeli ': inappropriate the (katsaf) persistence in state. (http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDNews=129968)
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President Mubarak ties (éjtmaa) for constitutional adjustments reviewing. (http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDNews=129954)
A prominent British general: (wrt) a work an insanity in Afghanistan. (http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDNews=129949)
An arrest four from the Moslems brother in Egypt. (http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDNews=129948)
An explosion harms in American mine sweeper and kills and crew hits in. (http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDNews=129941)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization in a death and an injury confess nine from soldiers the Afghanistan south. (http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDNews=129933) Africa and Europe . (http://www.islammemo.cc/news/group.ASP?CatNo=1&IDCategory=5-3)
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The French on a readiness for a nominated support from the emigrants in the elections. (http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDNews=129944)(élàmreektan) . (http://www.islammemo.cc/news/group.ASP?CatNo=1&IDCategory=4-6)
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Canadian demonstrations in the withdrawal from Afghanistan for the claim. (http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDNews=129926)Asia and Australia. (http://www.islammemo.cc/news/group.ASP?CatNo=1&IDCategory=2-7)
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Prime Minister the new Thai disqualify the negotiation with ancestor. (http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDNews=129925)Reports. (http://www.islammemo.cc/taqrer/index.asp)
The Ramadan (aqbl) and which inoculate miserable Lebanon?!.! .. [ a field report]. (http://www.islammemo.cc/taqrer/index.asp)
Camp David and the Egyptian pioneer role. (http://www.islammemo.cc/Taqrer/one_news.asp?IDNews=1043)
America and North Korea... A play catch and the mouse. (http://www.islammemo.cc/Taqrer/one_news.asp?IDNews=1041)
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The American intelligence finances an organization ' correspondents without bounds.' (http://www.islammemo.cc/Taqrer/one_news.asp?IDNews=1034)
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Spain and tampering ' in the peace functions.' (http://www.islammemo.cc/Taqrer/one_news.asp?IDNews=1026)

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هيومان رايتس تؤكد تورط الداخلية العراقية في فرق الموت


عام (http://www.islammemo.cc/news/group.asp?CatNo=0&IDCategory=1) :العالم العربي والإسلامي (http://www.islammemo.cc/news/group.asp?CatNo=1&IDCategory=1) :الأحد 7 شوال1427هـ –29 أكتوبر 2006م آخر تحديث 2:20م بتوقيت مكة http://www.islammemo.cc/news/newsimages/root/iaq-person2.jpg

مفكرة الإسلام: أكدت منظمة 'هيومان رايتس ووتش' المعنية بحقوق الإنسان تورط منتسبي وزارة الداخلية العراقية الموالية للاحتلال ـ التي تسيطر عليها العناصر الصفوية ـ في عمليات القتل التي ترتكبها 'فرق الموت' الشيعية في بغداد وغيرها.
وقالت مديرة قسم الشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا في المنظمة الدولية 'سارة ليا ويتسن': إن 'الأدلة تشير إلى تورط قوات الأمن في هذه الجرائم المخيفة', بحسب ما نشره الموقع الإلكتروني للمنظمة اليوم الأحد.
وأضافت أن حكومة 'نوري المالكي' ـ الموالية للاحتلال ـ لم تقم حتى هذه اللحظة بمحاسبة هذه القوات بل إنها تقوم بحماية المسئولين عن جرائم الاختطاف والتعذيب والقتل, وطالبتها بالتوقف عن ذلك.
وأكدت هيومان رايتس أن وزارة الداخلية مسئولةٌ عن القوات الأمنية التي يرتبط بعضها بعلاقات وثيقة باثنتين من العصابات الصفوية الرئيسة وهي 'جيش المهدي' و'فيلق بدر', التي ترتكب أبشع الجرائم بحق العراقيين السنة.
ولكن المنظمة أشارت إلى أنه 'ومن غير الواضح ما إذا كانت هذه القوات الأمنية خاضعةً لسيطرة الوزارة أو أنها تحت السيطرة الفعلية للميليشيات المذكورة'.
وكشفت هيومان رايتس ووتش أنه يجري اختطاف وتعذيب وقتل مئات الناس شهريًا على يد فرق موت تضم عناصر من القوات الأمنية, ثم يقوم القتلة بإلقاء الجثث المشوهة في الأماكن العامة بهدف إرهاب الناس.
وقالت المنظمة إنها عاينت خلال العامين الماضيين في معهد الطب الشرعي ببغداد عشرات الجثث التي بدا أنها لضحايا إعدامات منظمة، وأنها تعرضت للتعذيب قبل القتل.
ويمتلك أهالي الضحايا في كثير من الأحيان أدلة على تورط قوات وزارة الداخلية في هذه الجرائم، مثل روايات شهود عيان عن اعتقال الضحية, كما أن تصريحات مسئولي الوزارة والمعلومات التي يقدمها خبراء الشرطة الدوليون تشير إلى مشاركة أو تواطؤ مباشرين من جانب قوات الأمن الحكومية في هذه الجرائم.
وخلال العامين الماضيين تم الكشف عن انتهاكات مرعبة بحق المحتجزين في مركزين رئيسين على الأقل من المراكز التابعة لوزارة الداخلية أحدها مركز الجادرية, الذي كان لـ'مفكرة الإسلام' السبق في الكشف عنه.
ومع أن الحكومة قالت إنها قررت إجراء التحقيق في هذه الحالات، فإنها لم تكشف عن النتائج أبدًا.

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The Islam notebook: confirmed an organization (heeoum) (raeets) (woutsh) ' concerned supported Iraqi Ministry of the Interior affiliate implicated for the occupation which controlled on it in human right the members in the killing operations. Commit ' distributed the death ' Shiite in Baghdad and other..
And and north of Africa in the international organization said section directress Middle East ' Sarah for O be possible ': ' the evidences point to the security forces implicated in these scary crimes ',. According to what electronic position publishing for the organization the day Sunday..
And added a government ' the two Al-Malki lights ' supported these forces not stand up in accounting until this moment for the occupation but hijacking and the torture and killing stand up of crimes in the officials protection, and student. In the stoppage of that..
And (heeoum) confirmed (raeets) Ministry of the Interior an official of the security forces some connect in the (bathnteen) document relations from the gangs president and she ' mobilized Al-Mahdi ' full moon (w'feelq) ',. Commit uglier the crimes in the Iraqis right the year..
But the organization pointed to he ' from and inconspicuous what was these security forces a subordinate for the ministry control or she under the factual control for the militias mentioned '..
And (heeoum) uncovered (raeets) (woutsh) by hijacking and a torture and hundreds killing perform the people a month a death difference embraces members of the security forces, then the killers stand up in (éljthth) throwing deformed in. The public for the people terrorism..
And the organization said that the medicine examined legitimate in an institute during the two previous years in Baghdad (éljthth) tens which seemed she for organization executions victims, resisted for the torture before killing..
And own the victims in many while evidences on the Ministry of the Interior forces implicated also of the victim arrest as eyewitnesses stories in these crimes, statements officials. The ministry and the information the international police experts present point to a participation or a collusion direct by the governmental security forces in these crimes..
Uncovering be complete in two centers in the detainees right of frightened violations and during the two previous years two presidents at least the dependent centers for Ministry of the Interior a one (éljadreea) center, ' the Islam notebook '. The precedence of it in uncovering..
And although the government said that the investigation measure decided in these conditions, did not uncover a father of the results..

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الأوبزرفر: طالبان تستعد للانقضاض على كابول في الشتاء


عام (http://www.islammemo.cc/news/group.asp?CatNo=0&IDCategory=1) :العالم العربي والإسلامي (http://www.islammemo.cc/news/group.asp?CatNo=1&IDCategory=1) :الأحد 7 شوال1427هـ –29 أكتوبر 2006م آخر تحديث 5:20م بتوقيت مكة http://www.islammemo.cc/news/newsimages/Afghanistan__2/taliban350.jpg

مفكرة الإسلام: أماطت مصادر صحفية بريطانية اللثام عن توقعات لدى محللي الاستخبارات إضافة إلى معلومات من داخل حركة طالبان الأفغانية مفادها أن مقاتلي الحركة يخططون في الوقت الحالي لتنفيذ هجوم شامل خلال فصل الشتاء يدمجون خلاله مختلف أنواع الهجمات بهدف السيطرة على العاصمة الأفغانية كابول.
ونقلت صحيفة 'الأوبزرفر' البريطانية أن هذه الجهود من جانب قيادة حركة طالبان تعتمد في التخطيط لها على التنسيق بين مختلف قطاعات الحركة بحيث تكون هناك انقضاضة قوية على مختلف المحافظات الأفغانية، مع قطع الطريق السريع التجاري الرئيس الذي يربط العاصمة كابول بمدينة جلال آباد الواقعة شرق أفغانستان، وهو الطريق الاستراتيجي لقوات الناتو في نقل التجهيزات والإمدادات لقوات الاحتلال البريطانية في جنوب أفغانستان.
وأشارت الصحيفة إلى أن مقاتلي طالبان ومنذ تصعيد هجماتهم بشكل ملحوظ في وقت سابق من هذه السنة أحرزوا تقدمًا ثابتًا نحو كابول انطلاقًا من المناطق الشرقية والمناطق الجنوبية حول قندهار وفي محافظة غزنة.
وبحسب ما يراه محللو الاستخبارات فإن طالبان لا تعول كثيرًا في مخططها لهذا الهجوم الشامل على الاستيلاء على العاصمة لكنها تهدف من ناحية لمواصلة الاستمرار في استراتيجية زعزعة حكومة الرئيس الأفغاني حامد كرزاي الموالية للاحتلال والتي تعاني من ضعف مركزها، ومن ناحية أخرى إلى تسليط الضغط على الرأي العام الغربي لإجبار الاحتلال الأجنبي على الجلاء عن أفغانستان.
وبحسب 'الأوبزرفر' قال مصدر مطلع من داخل حركة طالبان: 'الهدف من هجومنا الشتوي واضح، وهو إجبار المشاركين في التحالف الصليبي الصهيوني على الخروج من أفغانستان وإنهاء دعمهم للحكومة الأفغانية الهزلية'.
وقال محلل استخبارات عسكرية غربي موجود في كابول: 'الهجوم الشتوي سيكون خروجًا على المتعارف عليه، لأن الأفغان يميلون في الشتاء للكمون والبحث عن مصادر التدفئة، لكن المؤشرات توحي بأن الأشهر المقبلة ستشهد معارك قتالية شرسة وعمليات تفجير وانفجارات ناجمة عن عبوات ناسفة، وسيكون ذلك تعبيرًا عن التغير والتطور الذي لحق بحركة طالبان'.


(élàoubzrfr) : the Taliban be ready in the winter on Kabul for the crackdown.



In the Arab World and the Moslem: Sunday 7 (shoual1427) - 29 5:(20m) last update (2006m) October in the Mecca time.





The Islam notebook: uncovered journalistic sources British the veil analyst has the intelligence of a Taliban movement inside in addition to a information of expectations Afghani purport the movement fighters plan in the current time. For an comprehensive attack execution during wintertime during incorporate Kabul on the Afghani capital in the control goal different the attacks kinds..
And moved a newspaper ' (élàoubzrfr) ' British these efforts rely in planning to it on the coordination by a Taliban movement leadership between different the movement choppers (énqdhadha) strong there. On different the Afghani conservations, with the commercial fast way cut the president which binds the capital Kabul in the falling Jalalabad city the Afghanistan east, and he the strategic way for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces in moving. The preparations and supplying in the Afghanistan south for the British occupation forces..
And the newspaper pointed to and since attacks escalation the Taliban, fighter, raced tongues from this noticeably in a time (tqda) achieved returned towards Kabul (éntlaa) from the eastern regions and the southern regions about. Qandahar and in the (ghzna) conservation..
According to and what the intelligence analysts see the Taliban because does not lament brushy in plan the comprehensive attack on the seizure the capital but the persistence targets in a government shaking strategy for a pursuance from an aspect. President Afghani Hamed Karzay supported for the occupation and which suffer on the other hand and which that center weakened, to the pressure was dominated on the clarity of Afghanistan for occupation forcing foreign on the western public opinion..
According to and ' (élàoubzrfr) ' said a read source of a Taliban movement inside: ' the goal wintry attack clear, and he participants forcing in the Zionist Al-Saleebi alliance on exiting. For the comic Afghani government Afghanistan and support ending '..
And said a existing western military intelligence analyst in Kabul: ' the wintry attack will become excrements on conventional on it , Afghanis bend in the winter for the latency and the search of the warming sources,. But the pointers reveal the next months will witness an explosion violent combatant clashes and resulting explosions operations of explosive charge and that will of the change and the development become tired, followed in Taliban movement '..

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Online Jihadi Forums Provide Curriculum for Aspiring Mujahideen
Volume 3, Issue 41 (October 24, 2006)

A recent discussion on http://tajdeed.org.uk demonstrates the increasingly common practice of training up-and-coming mujahideen via the internet. The postings attached archived copies of al-Ansar magazine, Sawt al-Jihad and Mu'askat al-Battar, all of which were clearinghouses for al-Qaeda's jihadi strategists. Such forum postings illustrate the way in which the community of mujahideen and their supporters not only develop and distribute curriculum for the aspiring, inexperienced youth who wish to join their ranks, but also consolidate jihadi strategy and serve as a conduit to implement that strategy at the lowest levels. The posting announced the "Encyclopedia of Periodicals and Publications on Jihad," containing dozens of files and links to magazines, mostly published in 2002-03. The author describes the project as a presentation and explanation of mujahideen communications being made available to all Muslims.

The encyclopedia set out an ambitious collection for future postings: a video course and seven-part audio course by Abu Musab al-Suri on the call to organized resistance (which advertise "a file of the sheikh's most prominent book, The Call to Global Islamic Resistance"); the writings of Abdullah Azzam; jihadi periodicals and publications; statements from Osama bin Laden; courses on security precautions; responses to the mujahideen's critics; poetry in praise of jihad; and war videos, among others.

This first installment of the encyclopedia, apparently to be presented serially, is that of the magazines and publications on jihad. The magazines feature the writing of leading jihadi ideologues that have in essence become the core curriculum for the current generation of mujahideen. They include articles by Yusuf al-Uyayri (alternatively known as Yusuf al-Ayyiri), a Saudi-born al-Qaeda strategist who was a leading commander and trainer of the mujahideen. Al-Uyayri was killed by Saudi security forces in 2003 and is memorialized in the Mua'skar al-Battar, which takes its title from his nom de guerre. The influential group of authors guiding the jihadi movement also includes Abdullah bin Nasir al-Rashid, Sayf al-Din al-Ansari, Abu Ubayd al-Qurashi and other Saudi mujahideen; these are all Saudi-raised Salafis who espouse the jihadi cause.

While online training material has been an essential part of advancing the jihadi movement during the past five years, such postings also suggest that there is now a tendency to consolidate the abundance of existing jihadi strategic and tactical material. If this trend is in fact a reflection of al-Qaeda's intention to unify its doctrine and present a coherent body of materials to the mujahid "in his place of isolation," as they describe him, it would logically present a number of clear benefits to the organization as it prepares for the next stage of the conflict.

Having a core set of jihadi strategists tightly in-line with Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri allows al-Qaeda to translate its broader, rhetorical goals of defeating the "crusader" and "Zionist" forces into more practical measures like selecting targets and providing training and guidance to their supporters, as well as legitimizing their operations and instilling the proper ideology to those who fight under their banner. This core set of materials on jihadi strategy—like other collections of jihadi material such as the Mawsu'at al-I'dad, or the Encyclopedia of Preparation—also allows the movement to review lessons from the past and assess the effectiveness of their strategy.

It is also noteworthy that the majority of al-Qaeda's contemporary jihadi strategists are of Saudi origin. These individuals were a product of the Saudi Salafi establishment, but found themselves betrayed by the Saudi regime when the official clergy condemned the actions of the mujahideen after September 11. These Saudi Salafi-Jihadis authored a sizable share of the jihadi material produced during 2001-2003, much of it influenced by their ongoing insurgency campaign against the Saudi security forces. This output was disrupted in 2003 after the Saudi mujahideen took heavy losses, including the deaths of a number of key leaders. Yet, they have been far more prolific in producing jihadi literature than their counterparts in Afghanistan, Iraq or other battlefields, most likely due to their Islamic training and education in the kingdom and more hospitable conditions on the ground.

In the larger context, collections of online jihadi literature such as these present a serious challenge to U.S. counter-terrorism efforts. They provide an outlet for al-Qaeda and other jihadi leaders to distribute their materials, and while certain websites can be monitored or removed, the material remains available online at other sites. In this case, the "Encyclopedia of Periodicals and Publications on Jihad" attracted 3,814 readers. Yet, it is one of many other such postings on various websites frequented by the mujahideen. Such efforts are clearly the easiest and safest way for them to reach young militants, who likely lack training, and steer them under al-Qaeda's general command.

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A number call ( 2) : : from Mohammad for the Islamic movements leaders (élhkaeema) .
In a pen: Mohammad Khalil (élhkaeema) .
In the name of God and praise be to God and the prayer and the peace on Prophet ..
Must of an impartiality stance....
A stance with....The self....And the reality....And the legitimate judgments....
A meditation stance.... And considered.... And wondering....
Where the characteristics?
The Islamic groups age of a century quarter after the more discuss of a citizen.
The defect movement and experiences stay overnight today of necessities write future a date..
And no can deny the Islamic movement groups.
And a reality supports situation that ( the causing difference for the brigade and the failure)..
And the Islamic movement groups (latzal) separated different..
And the poet honesty a while said.:
Breaching had expanded (walraqàoun) is slept and awake (haé) .
And with the opinion and (khaé) interests slow.
And with the selfishness (n) determination and the unfair route spoiled.
Breaching and mending had expanded were failed and surrounded.
And despite the attack the crusader the Americans violent on the Islamic nation may share.
Enemies roles the world today despite and on us in the war, let live era .
The political coalitions and the military alliances and the cooperation the economist but the movements.
Islamic not stand up until now in the inclusion (llm) efforts or an invitation for the cooperation..
O God except in Iraq and Afghanistan broke where that succeeded ( the struggle base group) in not.
Included most fighters groups under one banner.
And some groups remained the unit (latreed) other or the cooperation not was for causes a pretext.
Legitimate prevented from (élahoual) in.
And the Islamic movement reality had become described today Balati .:
1- knowledge deficiencies some the reasons and flag students in the disagreement kinds be allowed from it and, and what (laeesough) ,.
And what from it be silent on it and or advise in it and execute the distinction in the principles between the disagreement,.
Or the branches, and types consideration all dropped the principles disagreement all (dhalk) performed to many.
The oppression and Al-Jahhaf and the brigade and the difference (éldha) be just familiarize (mùtlfeen) ..
2- bad-tempered nervousnesses which thwarted the times and the efforts lose a partiality to a group or.
An imam or see and bequeathed..
3- injustice public in the man evaluation and the difference and the books because of the lapses magnification, and a nonexistence.
The Mhasen triumph consideration, and for the dealing nonexistence in the suitable respect with violator , cursing and.
The oppressive defamation for loves psychology exaggerating in the (élmsaouaà) photography..
Many 4- (istbàd) the Moslems of the Islamic sect department from a general cursing .
The disagreement performed (waltàda) and the alienation and the rupture of the oppression to photos, and a courage many.
The represented reasons desertion many the nation scientists but and campaigns launching on them for opinions.
Jurisprudential or transient slips performed to an oppression for many from the scientists and the soul oppression in the deprivation.
Teach.
5 - missing many the reasons for the budget between the interests and the banes in dealing with.
And execute the experience, in the wise methods in the dialogue..
6 - execute in nescience violator (iàdhar) or diligence be explained and or suspicion rising he has and a rising nonexistence.
The excuse on it what performed violator and the judgment to (tàtheem) in aberration..
7 - an extravagance many the reasons photographed life in all ( a love.. Be hateful and.. A documentation.
And a defamation) moved in the position to the extravagance in them controversial, and associated thus weakened.
In disagreement issues understanding and the weighting ways and (dhabta) and inherit the extravagance with decreased.
The knowledge an inequity and an oppression..
8- (fqdalseetra) on the disagreement and towards lines ripping and the nation unit threat a vector get and paralyzation .
The fighters effectiveness because of a despotism all groups in opinion and banishment (llàkhreen) and all a friend movements.
(laeerdha) starts the others be finished to it imagined method comprehensiveness moved and a failure.
The (élàkhreen) methods or the (braeeh) admiration the diligence seeks in it in issues..
9 - the intellectual terrorism use as a tool for foe silencing..
And what tried the causes performed to that all and will find. :
1- fighters unit exposures by intelligence service and make the brigade on the sow.
In (élashaàat) publishing and the lies..
The 2-(éltbaeen) in reality labeling process the Islamic movements (tàeesha) from and then the difference in.
The legitimate judgments a diminuendo falling hereupon..
The 3-(wjoud) a condition convulsion at some and resultant Islamic movements leaderships individuals of.
(istshàar) the custody on the nation or of ailed in the opinion (élaàjab) ..
But these causes will not dismiss the Islamic movements neglect the work in the texts.
The legitimacy which forbids the Moslems of the difference and from the dispute and the brigade warn said.
Rose ( and (ftqshloua) did not rival and wind goes.... (élaeeh))(élanfal19) .
That ignoring be complete the Islamic work interest curtain and building safety..
Did not abide the Prophet guidance God prayed on it and the difference submitted in a citizen.
Clear in an issue ( the era prayer in the (qreedha) brown) and which ratified Prophet in it .
God prayed on it and a peace the two teams from friends ( Radwan God on them entireties) the matter.
Which mean the fighters line unit presentation in an execution on the diligences in the war time.
(élaouamr) juristic ..
The collective work necessity (laeejeez) in any prevented also for the failure of the bequeathed dispute (élahoual) .
Means passport nonexistence if to a brigade and a disunion prevent..
Said the front Al-Shatibi God have mercy on him rose ( all issues tell in the Islam and disputed the people.
In it and that difference did not inherit (àdouaa) between them (wlabghdhaà) flag (wlafrqa) she of issues.
The Islam..All issues befell and imposed flag (waltnabzoualtnafr) and the rupture enmity she .
Not not to be in a thing of the religion matter she and of me in it Prophet God prayed on it and a peace.
Rose in saying interpretation [ be thin and lent and escorted for six from them in a thing....].)
The approvals (j4s186) ..
Here must realize two truths in the seriousness purpose.:
1 - any from the Islamic movements groups unable alone can for a prestige God law.
Be afraid in the land..
2- the method dynamic for one group of the Islamic movements platoons thwarting capable .
Changed from the dynamic methods for the futuristic the other and plans smashing platoons what blame was .
The cooperation and the coordination and the counsel..
The Islamic movements the day because accept matter through practical positions a rein.
Put sharpened for the brigade and the difference..
She a claim (bilajaba) of questions three.:
1- when will unite for enabling and the victory married to the Islamic groups have a morning draught ?
The 2-(keef) orphans an adoption the Jehadiyah strategy unified between the Islamic movements groups?
The 3-(lmadha) does not orphan establishing ( a scientists council for the Islamic movement) be formed from scientists all groups.
The Islamic movements and (msùla) for concerned legitimate fatwa issuance .
In the nation reality?
Say spoiled and perished and if met thrived.
And owned the group because a mercy and the brigade an agony) fatwa the 3/421.
(Gabriel master O God (wmeekaéeel) and (israfeel) the conceal world (fatralsmouat) and the land and the testimony.
You sentence between were worshipped different in it calm to what disputed in it from the right.
In permit you guide want to a straight path....An amen.)
Http: / / althabeton ..Byethost6 ..Com / new ....Tion=view&id=94 .A number call ( 2) : : from Mohammad for the Islamic movements leaders (élhkaeema) .
In a pen: Mohammad Khalil (élhkaeema) .
In the name of God and praise be to God and the prayer and the peace on Prophet ..
Must of an impartiality stance....
A stance with....The self....And the reality....And the legitimate judgments....
A meditation stance.... And considered.... And wondering....
Where the characteristics?
The Islamic groups age of a century quarter after the more discuss of a citizen.
The defect movement and experiences stay overnight today of necessities write future a date..
And no can deny the Islamic movement groups.
And a reality supports situation that ( the causing difference for the brigade and the failure)..
And the Islamic movement groups (latzal) separated different..
And the poet honesty a while said.:
Breaching had expanded (walraqàoun) is slept and awake (haé) .
And with the opinion and (khaé) interests slow.
And with the selfishness (n) determination and the unfair route spoiled.
Breaching and mending had expanded were failed and surrounded.
And despite the attack the crusader the Americans violent on the Islamic nation may share.
Enemies roles the world today despite and on us in the war, let live era .
The political coalitions and the military alliances and the cooperation the economist but the movements.
Islamic not stand up until now in the inclusion (llm) efforts or an invitation for the cooperation..
O God except in Iraq and Afghanistan broke where that succeeded ( the struggle base group) in not.
Included most fighters groups under one banner.
And some groups remained the unit (latreed) other or the cooperation not was for causes a pretext.
Legitimate prevented from (élahoual) in.
And the Islamic movement reality had become described today Balati .:
1- knowledge deficiencies some the reasons and flag students in the disagreement kinds be allowed from it and, and what (laeesough) ,.
And what from it be silent on it and or advise in it and execute the distinction in the principles between the disagreement,.
Or the branches, and types consideration all dropped the principles disagreement all (dhalk) performed to many.
The oppression and Al-Jahhaf and the brigade and the difference (éldha) be just familiarize (mùtlfeen) ..
2- bad-tempered nervousnesses which thwarted the times and the efforts lose a partiality to a group or.
An imam or see and bequeathed..
3- injustice public in the man evaluation and the difference and the books because of the lapses magnification, and a nonexistence.
The Mhasen triumph consideration, and for the dealing nonexistence in the suitable respect with violator , cursing and.
The oppressive defamation for loves psychology exaggerating in the (élmsaouaà) photography..
Many 4- (istbàd) the Moslems of the Islamic sect department from a general cursing .
The disagreement performed (waltàda) and the alienation and the rupture of the oppression to photos, and a courage many.
The represented reasons desertion many the nation scientists but and campaigns launching on them for opinions.
Jurisprudential or transient slips performed to an oppression for many from the scientists and the soul oppression in the deprivation.
Teach.
5 - missing many the reasons for the budget between the interests and the banes in dealing with.
And execute the experience, in the wise methods in the dialogue..
6 - execute in nescience violator (iàdhar) or diligence be explained and or suspicion rising he has and a rising nonexistence.
The excuse on it what performed violator and the judgment to (tàtheem) in aberration..
7 - an extravagance many the reasons photographed life in all ( a love.. Be hateful and.. A documentation.
And a defamation) moved in the position to the extravagance in them controversial, and associated thus weakened.
In disagreement issues understanding and the weighting ways and (dhabta) and inherit the extravagance with decreased.
The knowledge an inequity and an oppression..
8- (fqdalseetra) on the disagreement and towards lines ripping and the nation unit threat a vector get and paralyzation .
The fighters effectiveness because of a despotism all groups in opinion and banishment (llàkhreen) and all a friend movements.
(laeerdha) starts the others be finished to it imagined method comprehensiveness moved and a failure.
The (élàkhreen) methods or the (braeeh) admiration the diligence seeks in it in issues..
9 - the intellectual terrorism use as a tool for foe silencing..
And what tried the causes performed to that all and will find. :
1- fighters unit exposures by intelligence service and make the brigade on the sow.
In (élashaàat) publishing and the lies..
The 2-(éltbaeen) in reality labeling process the Islamic movements (tàeesha) from and then the difference in.
The legitimate judgments a diminuendo falling hereupon..
The 3-(wjoud) a condition convulsion at some and resultant Islamic movements leaderships individuals of.
(istshàar) the custody on the nation or of ailed in the opinion (élaàjab) ..
But these causes will not dismiss the Islamic movements neglect the work in the texts.
The legitimacy which forbids the Moslems of the difference and from the dispute and the brigade warn said.
Rose ( and (ftqshloua) did not rival and wind goes.... (élaeeh))(élanfal19) .
That ignoring be complete the Islamic work interest curtain and building safety..
Did not abide the Prophet guidance God prayed on it and the difference submitted in a citizen.
Clear in an issue ( the era prayer in the (qreedha) brown) and which ratified Prophet in it .
God prayed on it and a peace the two teams from friends ( Radwan God on them entireties) the matter.
Which mean the fighters line unit presentation in an execution on the diligences in the war time.
(élaouamr) juristic ..
The collective work necessity (laeejeez) in any prevented also for the failure of the bequeathed dispute (élahoual) .
Means passport nonexistence if to a brigade and a disunion prevent..
Said the front Al-Shatibi God have mercy on him rose ( all issues tell in the Islam and disputed the people.
In it and that difference did not inherit (àdouaa) between them (wlabghdhaà) flag (wlafrqa) she of issues.
The Islam..All issues befell and imposed flag (waltnabzoualtnafr) and the rupture enmity she .
Not not to be in a thing of the religion matter she and of me in it Prophet God prayed on it and a peace.
Rose in saying interpretation [ be thin and lent and escorted for six from them in a thing....].)
The approvals (j4s186) ..
Here must realize two truths in the seriousness purpose.:
1 - any from the Islamic movements groups unable alone can for a prestige God law.
Be afraid in the land..
2- the method dynamic for one group of the Islamic movements platoons thwarting capable .
Changed from the dynamic methods for the futuristic the other and plans smashing platoons what blame was .
The cooperation and the coordination and the counsel..
The Islamic movements the day because accept matter through practical positions a rein.
Put sharpened for the brigade and the difference..
She a claim (bilajaba) of questions three.:
1- when will unite for enabling and the victory married to the Islamic groups have a morning draught ?
The 2-(keef) orphans an adoption the Jehadiyah strategy unified between the Islamic movements groups?
The 3-(lmadha) does not orphan establishing ( a scientists council for the Islamic movement) be formed from scientists all groups.
The Islamic movements and (msùla) for concerned legitimate fatwa issuance .
In the nation reality?
Say spoiled and perished and if met thrived.
And owned the group because a mercy and the brigade an agony) fatwa the 3/421.
(Gabriel master O God (wmeekaéeel) and (israfeel) the conceal world (fatralsmouat) and the land and the testimony.
You sentence between were worshipped different in it calm to what disputed in it from the right.
In permit you guide want to a straight path....An amen.)
Http: / / althabeton ..Byethost6 ..Com / new ....Tion=view&id=94 .

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In the name of God the Gracious Merciful .
You can now send (iqtrahatkm) and stimulations voted in an institution to brothers the struggle for the informational production and Al-Qaeda Organization in Arabian Peninsula .

And warn brothers stand up to following security reserves taking in correspondence. :
1.Execute the correspondence from know telephone line , but crossed the public, or crossed a safe intermediary firmer..
2.The " (brouksee) use at the correspondence..
3.Mentioning execute any information and towards that as the name and, the telephone number, indicate and the housing place or the work on the sender,.
And in the sender nickname or borrowed name warn brothers to the letter appending necessity also.

Existed two ways for sending. :
First: the other ordinary system encoded.
The second: the encoded system for the letters.:
You can (mrsltna) apparently believed in a God permit, through encoded letters (érsal) in, the struggle voice special year key (bistkhdam) , a job this key use for letters coding (warsalha) to us ..
And this method promises world from the discussed coding ways (éqoua) , and she know PGP algorithm and use (élalktrounee) was specified in the mail applications..
The step numbered 1: ordinary letters which want (érsalha) .
The step numbered 2: encoded letters will send to the struggle voice mail.

A remark: you can (éeedh) a binding general key (bistkhdam) coding special be complete in the struggle voice a letter or any other files for a encoded file,..
For the coding method knowledge you can the special explanation review in a noun coding know program (bistkhdam) : WinPT ..
An illustrative model for an encoded letter you can work, from and then (érsalha) to the mail.

An important remark the encoded letter contains on special Al-Koud in the program, " the introduction and the end."
Also in the previous shape.
-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE .-----
Version : GnuPG v1..2.1 ( MingW32 .)
-----END PGP MESSAGE .-----

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The documentary movie will visit " the orange revolution and minutes the eighth hour today in the venerable Mecca time.
Does not miss maybe benefit from it in a method or in an other.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.
An other member there is poison in the renewal forum Jacob, Abu , ( without (hmza) .)

Not be obscure the members between me between it and.

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[Casey]

'Tech industry must aid Al-Qaeda fight'

Cyber / Cyber and Technical
Date: Nov 01, 2006 - 06:30 AM
IT Director

By Tom Espiner
Published: Wednesday 1 November 2006

Home Secretary John Reid has called on the security and technology industries to aid the UK government's counter-terrorist efforts.

Speaking at an anti-terror technology conference in London, Reid said business must innovate and compete to stay "one step ahead" of the game.

He said: "Islamist terrorism embodies much of what threatens our security today. It is vital that enterprises sustain delivery of innovation at a pace that outstrips terrorists. Resilience must, by definition be enduring. And endurance in changing circumstances requires continuing innovation."

The Home Secretary predicted a sustained war of attrition against terrorists, and warned that economic disruption was a substantial threat.

Reid said: "Al-Qaeda's threat to bleed us to bankruptcy is clear. This threat will last a long while. The struggle will be long, wide, and deep. To respond adequately we have to employ all aspects of a free society in a multi-faceted response."

In a clear signal to industry that the government wants to work yet more closely with it, Reid said close public/private partnerships would "enable the state to promote the security of citizens". Counter-terrorist efforts needed to be "sustained in a way that keeps us ahead of the enemy", with an emphasis on the speed of delivery, said Reid.

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However, he warned that while the security community must innovate, it must not ignore essential values of liberty. "Your task is not only to innovate but to devise a way to respond to the heinous threat in proportion to our values of liberty and openness.

"Everyone is involved in the struggle to enhance our values."

Reid said he favoured the advancement of a security innovation taskforce composed of public- and private-sector organisations. According to the Home Secretary, the public, private and voluntary sectors "need to utilise all of their skills and expertise in the battle against terror".

Reid was speaking at the Security and Resilience Forum organised by Smiths Detection, a security hardware company.

http://management.silicon.com/itdirector/0,39024673,39163748,00.htm (http://management.silicon.com/itdirector/0,39024673,39163748,00.htm)

[Vancouver]

A site that seems to belong to the British part of Ahl us-Sunnah wal-Jamaa'ah:
http://www.aswj.eu/
They have subpages about Omar Bakri and the mysterious Anwar al-Awlaki as well, but the links on those pages are giving 404's. They still have a copy of the CNN interview with gutter-imam "Abu Abdullah", who succeeded Bakri as the boss of Finsbury Park Mosque.

[Casey]

Identity Theft and Terrorists in the Workplace: The Price of IT Globalization?

By Ken North

Recent arrests for identity theft and a terrorist attack have heightened concerns about the work force in India's high-tech industry. The arrests validated security issues presented in my 2003 keynote at the Enterprise Data Forum conference. The presentation (view) emphasized that outsourcing and exporting business processes means exporting access to data. The presentation contained a list of 21st century privacy concerns and security challenges. It included threats from hackers, terrorists, cyber-warfare and outsourcing of software development and IT services. Recent arrests for a terrorist bombing in India confirm those threats have indeed become an unwanted by-product of information technology (IT) globalization.
Exporting Access to Data

Because of IT outsourcing, medical records and financial records of Britons, Americans and other nationalities are accessible to workers across the globe. Outsourced work to India and the Philippines includes radiological records review, customer support and tech support call centers, tax return preparation and banking and financial business processes. Britain's Sun newspaper reported the ease of obtaining information for identity theft from employees of Indian outsourcing companies. A ring in India, with links to outsourcing provider MphasiS, stole funds from Citibank accounts. An Indian employee of an HSBC call center was arrested for hacking the system to sell customer data to fraudsters who stole more than £233,000. The BBC News noted

"The incident follows dozens of cases where banks and other financial institutions have lost customer details - whether through negligence or criminal activities - both in the UK and around the world."

Another threat is the existence of active terrorist networks in countries with an outsourcing industry, such as India and the Philippines. That opens the door to terrorists being part of the work force at outsourcing companies and multinational corporations. With responsibilities for bank business processes, developing software, providing customer support and preparing tax returns, outsourcing workers have access to confidential and proprietary data. In some cases, they may also have access to extraordinary computing resources.

Terrorists in the Work Force

The reality of terrorists in the computer industry's work force has come to pass in India. A software engineer employed by Oracle in Bangalore is in police custody with his brother after a raid on his house. Following the July 2006 train bombings in Mumbai, police have pursued suspects who are members of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist organization. The Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) arrested Faisal Sheikh of Mumbai and identified him as the person responsible for LeT operations in Western India. According to the ATS, Faisal received hawala funding each month and sent LeT recruits to Pakistan for training.

LeT operatives have been linked to the train bombings in Mumbai and to a cache of arms seized near near Aurangabad in May 2006. During interrogation, Faisal Sheikh admitted sending suspects in the Aurangabad case to Pakistan for training. Indian authorities report Faisal received 37,000 riyals in hawala funding from Saudi Arabia to finance the Mumbai train bombings.

Following Faisal Sheikh's arrest in Mumbai, police arrested his brother Muzammil in Bangalore on July 27, 2006. Police are holding Muzammil and Faisal Sheikh on charges of murder, attempt to murder and criminal conspiracy. Muzammil reportedly has been to Pakistan for terrorist training. During a raid on his home, police seized three computers.

Muzammil Sheikh is a software engineer employed by Oracle in Bangalore. ATS officials identified him as the critical link between LeT terrorists and the organization's high command. Muzammil provided the technical expertise to ensure communications among LeT terrorists were shielded from intelligence agencies. The Telegraph (Calcutta) reported the Bangalore police made a mistake when doing a background check on Muzammil. He reportedly submitted phony college credentials when applying for the Oracle position.

The Times of India reported that Faisal Sheikh was under orders to collect intelligence about the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), major business process outsourcing centers, big business centers and several Indian officials. Another detainee in the investigation, Sohail Sheikh, had orders to gather intelligence about hundreds of police officers.


http://www.sqlsummit.com/Trends/Terrorism.htm

[Casey]

Jihadi Forums Tune into History Channel for Counter-Terrorism Intelligence

Terrorism / Cyber and Technical
Date: Nov 07, 2006 - 09:21 PM


By Abdul Hameed Bakier

Recent chatter on jihadi websites has focused on monitoring the counter-terrorism strategies of the United States and its allies in the global war on terrorism. Jihadi websites and forums are studying and translating the texts of Western analysts who assess current counter-terrorism efforts. The jihadis use these self-critiques by Western analysts to find areas of weakness and tension in U.S.-led counter-terrorism strategy; through this information, they are better able to devise physical and psychological operations to exploit these weaknesses. Additionally, their monitoring of U.S.-led counter-terrorism efforts is an attempt to lift the morale of jihadis by: showing that vulnerable points in the U.S.-led terrorism coalition exist; disseminating false analysis on the plans and intentions of those states allied against the mujahideen; and publicizing artificial casualty accounts of these states, especially those of the U.S. military.

By translating and posting reports about casualties from the United States and its allies in Iraq and Afghanistan, for example, jihadi websites are enhancing the mujahideen's arguments of their righteousness; this encourages more fighters to take up the jihad. These individuals are monitoring U.S. military casualty reports on the internet and reposting them in Arabic for their forum participants. One casualty report about an attack by Iraq's Islamic Army on the U.S. military's Falcon Base in Iraq on October 10 listed the names and ranks of 300 American soldiers who were allegedly killed in the attack (http://www.tajdeed.org.uk/forums, October 26). The U.S. casualty report, posted by a user nicknamed Fata al-Jazeera, was received victoriously by the internet jihadis, who expressed their joy with victory phrases such as "Allah Akbar." Another forum translated and posted the U.S. president's skeptical comments about Washington's performance in Iraq published in the National Review Online on October 27. The forum considered Bush's comments a confession of the U.S. defeat in Iraq (http://202.75.35.74/vb/index.php). In the same context, another jihadi website posted an article entitled "America Loses Control in Afghanistan and European Forces Refuse to Fight." The article highlighted the U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Ronald Neumann's frustration over British forces' uncoordinated withdrawal from Qala district in southern Afghanistan and the warning released by the supreme commander of NATO over the intention of Taliban fighters to use booby-trapped vehicles against coalition troops (http://www.muslm.net, October 27).

On the jihadi website al-Tajdeed, a translator by the nickname of "Morsi" translated an article entitled "How al-Qaeda Views a Long War in Iraq" by Dan Murphy, a journalist for the Christian Science Monitor. Murphy's article analyzed al-Qaeda's plans for a long war against the United States in Iraq. The analysis is based on a letter, confiscated by U.S. forces in Iraq, presumably sent to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi from al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and signed by the alias name "Atiyah." In the same context, some jihadi forum participants are cooperating by translating videotapes released by the History television channel in the United States and by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. To demonstrate their intentions, they provided a video for download that included a program from the History Channel that outlined the capabilities of the U.S. Navy. Information included in the video could be used by al-Qaeda and like-minded militants to improve their capabilities against naval forces. Additionally, the jihadis are always interested in Western articles and television shows that analyze al-Qaeda; by using the West's free press, they are able to find out what the "enemy" knows about their capabilities.

Commenting on a Washington Post article entitled "Letter Gives Glimpse of al-Qaeda's Leadership" from October 2, jihadis accused the "Zionist media" of disseminating false propaganda insinuating that al-Qaeda's leaders are in Pakistan's tribal Waziristan agencies. They argued that this "faulty" information about al-Qaeda's whereabouts is a pretext for "crusader aggression" on the Pakistani people to punish them for their support of the mujahideen. The jihadis argue that it is illogical for any al-Qaeda leader to reveal the whereabouts of al-Qaeda and that al-Zarqawi would never leave such an important letter behind. A forum participant nicknamed the "Hamburg Cell" warns that this press campaign against al-Qaeda's leaders is very suspicious and that "vicious" plans might be underway against those leaders.

Although irregular and non-systematic, the monitoring of Western media analysis helps jihadis learn from the enemy and to better prepare defensive counter-measures. The question, however, can be asked: what makes these forum comments significant, and are these participants actually operational? It is likely that many participants have been in contact with jihadi ideologues and field commanders since these leaders use the forums to communicate with each other and to post training manuals and other jihadi documents—such as in the recent cases of Muhammed al-Hakaima and his controversial book, the "Myth of Delusion"; Abu Yahia al-Libi, a leading member in al-Qaeda; and Yusuf al-Uyayri, ex-leader of al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia and a renown ideologue of Salafi-Jihadis. Forum participants are constantly interested in subjects related to military tactics and terrorism, a fascination that non-violent individuals do not dwell on each time they log onto the internet.

http://jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2370197

[Casey]

Monday, November 13, 2006
al-Qaeda intensifies recruitment online
By Lizanilla J. Amarga

A STUDENT group voiced apprehensions on reports and observations that the al-Qaeda and Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) terrorist cells are increasing their use of the Internet, thus further "touching base and bridging the gap" with more terrorist organizations from other foreign soils.

Already, the military reported earlier that the Abu Sayyaf Group and Rajah Solaiman Movement are local terrorist cells operating in Mindanao and helping out these al-Queda and JI foreign terrorists.

Student Movement for Peace and Development in Mindanao spokesperson Sheila Macapanton said more reports and observations from their very own members have been gathered on suspected terrorist cells using the computer and the Internet.

"We fear that they are using this technology to further wreck terror in our beloved Mindanao," she told this paper.

To illustrate, Macapanton said records and documentation reports revealed that when al-Qaeda had its training camps in Afghanistan, the instructors used a collection of textbooks called the "Encyclopedia of Jihad."

She said this training aid had sections covering such topics as: making explosives; using guns, grenades and mines; espionage; acts of sabotage; security precautions; secure communication and brainwashing; and even first aid.

She added that there were also sections on: reconnaissance; infiltration; use of compasses; how to read maps; the use of artillery, machine guns and armor-piercing weapons; and, finally, physical fitness.

"Because only 30 complete copies of this encyclopedia existed, recruits had to copy down the text by hand as it was dictated to them," she said.

Macapanton said their group has also observed the case of Imam Samudra who is on death row in Indonesia for the 2002 Bali bombings but is using a computer and the Internet in his own prison cell.

"Samudra's scheme, using a computer from his cell, surprised the Indonesian police. Yet it should not come as a surprise that terrorist cells are increasing their use of the Internet," she said.

Macapanton said there were reports that a prison guard smuggled the computer into Samudra's cell where Samudra used a wireless connection to hook up to the Internet and to communicate with his associates.

She said there were reports that at first, Samudra used the computer to spread terrorist propaganda and, perhaps later, to plan another bombing in Bali.

"Police are now investigating this possibility given that the second Bali bombing took place in October 2005, just a few months after Samudra obtained the laptop," she said.

"Police also discovered that Imam Samudra had a mobile phone. As it was not known he had one, his phone activity was not monitored. Some time later, Samudra's laptop disappeared."

Macapanton said it is "uncanny" how young students like her and those who are known for their knowledge in technology could easily be conned and then later enticed to join these terrorist cells.

She cited how Prabowo was recruited online in chat rooms operated by Samudra and Seyadi.

Macapanton said police has earlier reported Prabowo as having been arrested for his role in registering a "terrorist Web site" in the United Kingdom and Germany.

"The site described in great detail how to kill foreigners; for example, it gave instructions on how to shoot them. Maps of places frequently visited by tourists were also provided," she said.

"The site, which also included militant Islamic teachings, is believed to have been created at the direction of Malaysian Noordin Top, Asia's most-wanted terrorist. That particular site is no longer on the Web."

Earlier, Indonesian police reported Samudra plotted another attack from his prison cell, using a smuggled laptop computer.

Police Colonel Petrus Golose of Indonesia's anti-terror task force testified that Imam Samudra was plotting an attack in Jakarta similar to the Bali bombings that killed 202 people.

"That this plot could be planned from his cell using the Internet illustrates the lax security in some Indonesian jails and the high level of corruption among jail officials," Macapanton said.

She said Golose said Samudra had outside help in creating a Web site as evidence of this were found after police arrested Samudra's two close associates.

Agung Prabowo and Agung Seyadi are now in jail, charged with helping to create a website in 2005 that provided detailed instructions on how to murder foreigners in Jakarta.

Macapanton said their group noted how the arrests also reveal how terror cells linked to Jemaah Islamiyah get funding for their activities through donations over the Internet, instead of getting cash directly from al-Qaeda.

"Now they recruit people who understand technology," she said adding that this is more like a "technology-based crime."

Macapanton said the connection between Samudra and the two computer experts came to light during the interrogations of Seyadi and Prabowo.

This as Seyadi was a lecturer in computer studies at a university in Semarang in Central Java where Prabowo was a student and an active computer hacker.

Macapanton said there were reports that Samudra recruited Prabowo to raise funds illegally by computer as the latter had previously been successful at committing some computer fraud but had not collected large amounts of money.

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/cag/2006/11/13/news/al.qaeda.intensifies.recruitment.online.html

[Casey]

MOROCCO: ISLAMIST HACKERS TO TARGET AIRLINE SITE

Rabat, 13 Nov. (AKI) - Islamic hackers are targeting the internet website of Morocco's aircarrier Royal Air Maroc (RAM), after it reportedly prohibited workers from praying within the company's premises during working hours and banned the veil for its female employees. Internet messages posted on Islamic fundamentalist websites called for an attack on the website of the airline (www.royalairmaroc.com/). The messages follows a similar threat by extremist Islamic websites last week to hack into the website of the Vatican.

The message calling on all Islamist hackers to carry out a 'virtual jihad' said that "the unfaithful Moroccan airline has violated some precepts dictated by our Prophet banning the veil and prayers in the office."

Last week, Moroccan transport minister Karim Ghellab denied media reports that the government has banned prayer time for employees with national air carrier Royal Air Maroc (RAM) owned by the royal family, but acknowledged that workers were asked not to pray in their offices. Ghellab however said they were allowed to go to the nearest mosque.

The decision follows another measure approved last month under which RAM female employees will not be allowed to wear the Islamic headscarf (hijab) but will be required instead to wear official uniforms.

So far the only recent attack claimed by Islamic hackers carried out successfully occurred on 22 October, when a group calling itself 'Guard of Turkey and Islam' attacked from France the website of the Italian journalists' association and paralysed it.

The association says the hackers posted a message denouncing France's role in the "genocide of the Algerian population" and calling for a cyber war.

(Ham/Aki)

Nov-13-06 12:03

http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Religion&loid=8.0.359162279&par=

[Petronas]

Google Hosts al Qaeda Website
November 16, 2006

The Google owned Blogger network is hosting an al Qaeda linked website. The website, The Caliphate Voice Channel, appears to be part of the growing media arm of the al Qaeda umbrella organization which once called itself The Mujahidin Shura Council.

That group recently changed its name by declaring itself The Islamic State of Iraq.

You can see the al Qaeda linked website here. http://cvc-online.blogspot.com/ [check out the Global Islamic Media Front flat screen monitor, brand "Terror Co.", about 3/4 of the way down]

If you do visit the website, you will see several of the posts link to various translations of the Global Islamic Media Front's latest installment of the Voice of the Caliphate news program. In it, al Qaeda forces declare that they are winning the war in Iraq. You can see this bit of terrorist propaganda with English subtitles here.

Does Google know that it is hosting a terrorist website? A website from the same group that beheaded Shosei Kodai and Nick Berg? Probably not as of this writing. But I just e-mailed them about it.

Keep your fingers crossed that they will do the right thing, but don't hold your breath.

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/185393.php

[Petronas]

Homegrown Terrorists Recruited to Attack America
11/21/2006 11pm report

It's a video showing a room full of children sharing their dreams. They are not excited about being doctors, lawyers or teachers. Instead, the children shout, "We are the nation of Hezbollah. I shall sacrifice my life for Allah." A group of children in training to be a mujahideen, or holy warrior.

Online there are videos of those warriors. One suicide bomber announces he is readying himself to blow up a group of American soldiers. The video goes on for eight minutes and even shows the explosion. In the background are cheers from those taking the pictures.

The video is just some of the many the First Coast News I-team found on the internet from sites like Youtube and Myspace.

"I think right now we are a ticking time bomb," says Tom Hayden, a retired Lt. Col Marine, who is also a counter terrorism expert. Hayden says some of the videos, while disturbing, are online for a reason. "Something like myspace, probably the most well known, popular website right now, it's even being used to transmit messages," says Hayden.

He says there are messages left on the internet for those recruited to carry out another 9/11 type attack. Hayden says those Jihad soldiers are getting messages in chat rooms and on message boards. "There is a specific time that a message is coming. Then it's on there and then it is taken off," says Hayden. He says hidden messages are also being sent in pictures and videos and the solider is already equipped with the code to unlock the secret. "It's being used quite frequently."

In fact, some of the videos we found and recorded were gone in a matter of days, removed by the user. There was no trace of what was there or who the page belonged to. The experts will tell you that's a problem, because there is a new breed of terrorist out there. "You won't see anymore like we have Mohammad Atta and that group that came," says Hayden.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation agrees, saying the internet has created a series of new problems.

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/news-article.aspx?storyid=69676

[Vancouver]

http://www.new-arabia.com
This forum seems to be in the UK and I think it is run by Sa'ad al-Faqih, whose Castle forums (qal3ah, islah, and other names) were shut down a while back.

http://www.new-arabia.com/showthread.php?t=32
mentions "Dr. Sa'ad" in connection with radio broadcast licenses; that sounds like al-Faqih.

[Vancouver]

Somebody at al-firdaws says that the dead website Jihad Online was run by a
عبد الرحمن الراشد
Abdur-Rahman ar-Rashid
and he also says (correctly) that this famous outfit
النداء
al-Neda
was run by
الشهيد يوسف العييري
the martyr Yusuf al-'Iri.

[Petronas]

Islamist Websites Succeed in Recruiting Muslims for Jihad
Volume 3, Issue 46 (November 28, 2006)
By Abdul Hameed Bakier

Jihadi leaders continue to establish new websites on the internet by which they spread their ideology and identify users who can be recruited for the global jihad. If preaching and disseminating fanatical and extreme ideas on the internet is itself a concern, the use of jihadi forums to entice potential terrorists is even more threatening and must be addressed before the young and pious are lured into extremism. There are thousands of jihadi websites, and each time one is shutdown it often reappears under a different URL.

It only takes a quick glance at a handful of these websites to realize how effective and appealing they are to young Muslim men and women who seek to practice correct Islamic ideology and who wish to rid the Muslim world of "infidel colonizers." One of the latest websites that jihadis have launched is called al-Boraq Media (http://www.alboraqmedia.org). The site contains up-to-date information about the jihad in Iraq and Afghanistan, in addition to other theaters of operations. The most effective media materials are the video clips of shootings, explosions and the destruction of U.S. military vehicles; these videos are uploaded to their websites in different sizes and qualities. Also, because jihadis are not content with television channels like al-Jazeera—since the networks often edit and omit parts of speeches delivered by Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri and other lower-ranking al-Qaeda leaders—they upload the full speeches and lectures to their websites. The video clips mostly fall under four categories:

- Training: explanation of how to make bombs and explosive substances;
- Operations: ambushes, bombings and the killing of "enemy" forces;
- Speeches: full speeches of jihadi leaders and Salafi ideologues;
- Photography: pictures of civilians killed and injured by enemy bombs.

Currently, the most effective jihadi propaganda videos are the two clips of Baghdad's sniper, nicknamed "Juba" by the U.S. military. "The Baghdad Sniper" was produced by the al-Fajr Media Center for the Islamic Army in Iraq and was posted on many jihadi websites. The videos show different sniper attacks on U.S. soldiers patrolling the streets of Iraq. The video clips are well produced with fervent Islamic chanting songs in the background and translated comments made by U.S. officers about the Baghdad sniper that appeared in the Western media. These videos also demonstrate the vulnerabilities of U.S. soldiers, attracting more aspiring mujahideen to the jihad since they show that defeating U.S. forces is possible.

Why do jihadis spend so much time and effort on their media operations? The requisites of jihad and field operations are correlated to the jihadi media objectives in the sense that jihadis need money and manpower to sustain terrorist operations. Therefore, the jihadis chat with sympathizers of the jihad on Islamist forums, show them video clips of successful operations against the "occupiers" and provide religious lectures on the virtues of either participating in jihad or donating money to the mujahideen. Many discussions result in willing recruits posting their e-mail addresses and imploring actual jihadi operators to contact them and guide them toward the path of jihad. The following quote, for example, is from a user with the alias of Abu al-Qassim al-Yemeni who wrote from Yemen. His statement on the forum illustrates the eagerness of many to participate in jihad: "I am a young man from Yemen thirsty for jihad. May Allah place you in the land of jihad and resistance and I hope to be along your side. I also look forward for your letters in my e-mail box." Some websites have more than 14 pages of such requests. The aspiring mujahideen are from many countries, Arab and non-Arab. In some cases, the requests to take part in jihad are straightforward, where the forum user asks to go to a specific country for jihad (http://www.watein.com, September 10). The most popular destinations for jihad appear to be Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine.

In addition, jihadi websites that post explosive and other military training techniques have links encouraging the willing to join their jihadi cells to fight the "creeping crusaders." Other users declare the establishment of new jihadi cells and post their e-mail addresses to solicit funds for their operations. Such was the case with a cell called Saraya al-Tawhed (Detachments of Monotheism) (http://alsayf.com, August 16). The directions on how to transfer funds are not provided until contact is initiated and after a vetting procedure takes place. Also, jihadis encourage the use of different internet chat utilities such as Yahoo Messenger since it is more difficult to monitor these methods of communication when compared to e-mail transmissions (http://moqaawama.jeeran.com).

The mujahideen phenomenon can be divided into three categories. The majority are "sympathizers," who are influenced by the websites into supporting bin Laden, al-Zawahiri and other jihadi leaders in their calls to implement Islamic Sharia and to fight the enemies of the ummah; these sympathizers do not take tangible action to further the cause. The minority of the jihadis are staunch adherents to the Islamic holy war doctrine. The third type of jihadis are those who have been successfully radicalized and are willing to travel to jihadi battle fronts. The success of these willing recruits in reaching jihadi theaters of conflict and participating in violent activities is obvious judging from the replies they receive to their requests from jihadi website owners and moderators. Until action is taken to prevent sympathizers from actively participating in the jihad, the internet will remain a useful recruiting tool for jihadi leaders.

http://jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2370219

[Petronas]

Fighting jihad in cyberspace
December 2, 2006

The setting is familiar to anyone who watches the evening news. A large, executive-style desk, a laptop perched on top, a logo in the background and a screen showing shifting images to reinforce the newsreader's message. The only difference is the presenter, who is swathed in an Arab headdress and masked to hide his identity, and the subject of the broadcast, a call for an Islamic state for Iraq and a vow to use Iraq as a launching pad to crush the "Zionists" in Israel.

Welcome to the "Voice of the Caliphate", the latest offering from the Global Islamic Media Front, widely regarded as the mouthpiece of al-Qaeda and the worldwide jihadist movement. Distributed over the internet, the mock news format is just one of many employed by al-Qaeda's highly sophisticated propaganda arm. Previous instalments, many subtitled in English, have included detailed instructions on how to "gear up" for jihad and long theological justifications for Muslims to target innocent civilians to attack the interests of the US and its allies.

Almost invariably, the webcasts contain up-to-the-minute denunciations and rebuttals of recent statements by Western leaders. The rapid reaction is another feature of the way Islamic extremists spin their story for maximum effect.

If, as we are increasingly being told, the war on terrorism is a battle of ideas, to be won ultimately by force of argument rather than armed forces, then the overwhelming presence of jihadists on the web must be countered. The question is: how?

Professor Bruce Hoffman, a Georgetown University academic and one of the world's foremost terrorism analysts, says the use of the internet by jihadists has fundamentally changed the ground rules of terrorism. For the first time, the monopoly of commercial and state-owned media over the mass communication of a terrorist group's message has been usurped.

The implications, Hoffman says, are "enormous", not least because terrorism, at its core, has ultimately been about generating publicity, communicating a message through a violent - and preferably spectacular - act to achieve a political outcome. "The art of terrorist communication has evolved to a point where the terrorists themselves can now control the entire production process," he says.

The target audience ranges from potential recruits, financial contributors and passive supporters to Western governments and their voting public. Young or old, male or female - Islamic extremists will have a tailored message only a mouse click away.

Blogs, chat rooms, and video and audio files - there is little from the online world that jihadists have not employed to spread their message.

In September the Global Islamic Media Front released a video game, The Night of Bush Capturing, which can be downloaded off the web. As songs of praise to jihad play in the background, players work their way through six stages, including "Americans' Hell" and "Bush Hunted Like a Rat". The final mission is to slay George Bush, in one-on-one combat.

Adam Raisman, an analyst who monitors extremist Islamic websites for the SITE Institute in Washington, says the internet is the most potent tool terrorists have.

Given the antecedents of the web in US military research during the Cold War, there is a bitter irony in the development for the West's military and intelligence establishment. The Cold War may have passed but the technology has been dramatically turned against its creator.

And it is not just the propaganda war, or using the internet to entice new recruits. The internet has also been a crucial planning tool and conduit for command and control for jihadists planning their attacks. The attacks of September 11, 2001, the Iraqi insurgency, the London bombings and the alleged terrorist plot in Sydney and Melbourne uncovered last year all used the internet to plan and execute operations.

There is also the use of the web to raise money, everything from T-shirt sales to advice on how to undertake credit card fraud and the details of bank accounts where funds can be sent.

More often than not, terrorists can spread their propaganda, plan their attacks and gather funds without being detected. It's a critical development because intelligence agencies have had considerable success penetrating radical mosques where much of the organising previously took place.

"Unfortunately, it's incredibly difficult for governments to track them down," Raisman says. "They set up proxy addresses, virtual servers and use password-protected sites."

Some of the techniques of evasion are disarmingly simple. Rather than send emails, some jihadists simply write and save draft emails, storing them in an account with a password that's known to other members of the cell. Because they are never actually sent, they can't be detected by intelligence agencies.

Raisman points to a recent publication by the al-Fajr group, another communications arm of al-Qaeda and its fellow travellers. He said it contained a very sophisticated manual on internet security, how to avoid hackers, secure personal files and ensure any computer that is captured is of little value to Western authorities.

Then there are offensive cyber operations, the possibility of terrorists bringing down critical electronic systems that underpin key sectors such as energy and banking. Warnings on Thursday from the US Department of Homeland Security that al-Qaeda was planning an attack to disable online financial institutions and disrupt trading on Wall Street showed this threat in stark relief.

Interestingly, many experts on terrorism and the internet have downplayed this danger in recent times. But the fact such threats from al-Qaeda can spook US authorities, despite no other evidence of an impending cyber attack, shows that terrorist groups' mastery of the web has, at the very least, an extraordinary power to intimidate.

When it comes to jihadist propaganda on the internet, the fundamental message is the same: the West - the "Jews and Crusaders" - hates Islam. It seeks to occupy Muslim lands and it only understands violence. Jihad, therefore, is the only option and, moreover, is sanctioned by God.

Jihadist claims that they are winning the war are often accompanied by graphic images of terrorist blasts and the agonising deaths of hostages and soldiers.

"Unfortunately, Western governments have been slow on the uptake about the potency of this story-line," says Dr Kumar Ramakrishna, the head of the Centre for National Security Excellence at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies in Singapore. "In the Middle East in particular, the balance of influence is skewed much more to the radicals, mostly because of the Iraq war."

In testimony to the US Congress earlier this year, Hoffman warned the US was "dangerously behind the curve" in dealing with the terrorist presence on the web.

The message should resonate in Australia, where the internet has wide penetration and is proving pivotal in inspiring militant Islamists. Indeed, when police and ASIO agents swooped on the homes of 19 alleged terrorists in Sydney and Melbourne last year, they found an astounding array of violent material on their computers. Their electronic library was as voluminous as it was disturbing, including recipes for homemade explosives, poems in praise of jihad and grisly video and audio files of beheadings and terrorist attacks.

If shutting down the jihadists on the internet is impossible, Ramakrishna says, the West needs a multifaceted and integrated approach to sell its "counter-story". "To discredit the story, you need to undercut it by showing their mistakes … and a positive message about the West."

It's a theme that the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Alexander Downer, has addressed in two speeches over the past month. First, the West needs to highlight "the bleak results of this extremist ideology in practice", he said this week. That is, an authoritarian, Taliban-style regime where entertainment and sport are banned and girls are not allowed to go to school. The trump card for the West, Downer says, is democracy, "the extremists' Achilles heel".

Of course, the US and its allies have promoted the democracy agenda ever since they discovered that the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein did not have any weapons of mass destruction. But the democracy project has proved to be an absolute disaster. Afghanistan, the first experiment with democracy, has produced an ineffectual government unable to control large tracts of the country or provide basic services.

Elections in Iraq have a produced a Shiite-led administration that's similarly lame when it comes to enforcing security and is widely regarded in the Middle East as a Western stooge. The Iraq invasion, of course, reinforced the central tenet of the radical Islamic view that the West wants to subjugate Islam and will use its overwhelming military power on the flimsiest of pretexts. The one great hope, Lebanon, has proved to be short-lived, despite the ousting of its Syrian-backed regime.

The war with Israel greatly emboldened Hezbollah and its terrorist wing. While the Lebanese state was in disarray, Hezbollah's well co-ordinated welfare arm gave relief, including large cash handouts, to those who had lost homes and family members. It's a similar story in the Palestinian territories, where Hamas also has a finely honed humanitarian operation. As such, Hamas and Hezbollah have made great strides in winning the "hearts and minds" of Muslims in the region and around the world.

Downer also noted, correctly, that the "battle of ideas" will be largely won by a debate between Muslims, with moderates reinforcing that the Islam forbids the killing of innocents and that Muslims are often the victims of terrorist acts. What he didn't say was this has to be the case because, five years into the war on terrorism, the West is seriously on the nose in the Islamic world.

It's a reality that has been acknowledged by one of the most celebrated institutions of the US armed forces, its venerable military academy, West Point. "Since Western governments lack credibility in the Muslim world, they should pursue these [information] efforts indirectly," its Combating Terrorism Centre said.

The centre also made a telling observation about who the primary target of the campaign should be, and what exactly should be considered "moderate" Islam. In its Militant Ideology Atlas, it says that the target should be the Salafis - many of whom hold views abhorrent to many Westerners regarding women and secularism but who do not support violence. "While it may be distasteful to work with non-violent Salafi leaders, they are best positioned to delegitimise jihadi violence and monitor the more militant efforts of their movement," it says.

In an Australian context, that means working closely with Muslim clerics such as Sheik Taj el-Din al Hilaly. It is known that Australian counter-terrorism authorities were in despair about the rabid pursuit in the media of Hilaly after his comments likening rape victims to uncovered meat. His demonisation, however justified to many Australians, was viewed as vastly disproportionate by many Muslims and is seen by counter-terrorism officials as creating another grievance to be exploited by violent radicals.

Ramakrishna says it is vital the West recognises that the international jihadist movement "is not monolithic". He is calling for more efforts to address local grievances, the targeting of education and welfare, and co-ordinating activities with non-government Muslim groups. Such policies will have to be integrated with more broad-brush diplomacy and strategic initiatives undertaken by Western governments. Foremost among them is the urgent need to bolster the failing states that are its newly created democracies.

TERRORISM'S SERVER: JIHADISTS ON THE WEB

- There are over 5000 militant Islamic websites, up from less than a dozen in 1998.

- They are an extremely effective way for terrorist groups to plan operations, recruit followers, raise funds and distribute propaganda.

- Their mastery of the web could extend to cyber-terrorism, such as disabling the communication systems that underpin key sectors such as banking and energy.

- Western agencies are almost powerless to stop the jihadists' internet activities.

- Western governments have been very slow to respond and are only now turning their attention to combating the potent "story" promulgated over the internet.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/fighting-jihad-in-cyberspace/2006/12/01/1164777791383.html

[al-Canine]

Al Qaeda: As-Sahab's Revealing December Productions

Summary

The latest video released by al Qaeda's production house, As-Sahab, offers little new information from the jihadist network, but it does indicate problems in the mechanism As-Sahab uses to release statements to the world.

Analysis

Al Qaeda No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahiri issued his second statement of December on the 29th. Although it appeared directly on the Internet, as have most of the other releases from al Qaeda's core leadership over the past year, this one neither contained a fresh image of al-Zawahiri nor displayed the sophisticated production techniques usually seen in releases by al Qaeda's media branch, As-Sahab. On Dec. 20, al-Zawahiri did appear in a new As-Sahab video, though the jihadist network took a step backward, releasing that video through Arab television network Al Jazeera.

Al Qaeda's last two releases of 2006, then, stand out more for how they were delivered to the public and for their inconsistent production quality than for anything al-Zawahiri had to say. This is further indication that some part of As-Sahab's production or distribution cycle -- or perhaps both -- has been compromised.

The latest statement, dated December 2006 and posted on several Web sites known to carry messages from the global jihadist network, was released to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. The image of al-Zawahiri that appears on it, however, is not new, but rather is a still shot taken from the Dec. 20 release. The video, which carries As-Sahab's logo, was issued in Arabic with English subtitles.

Little is new in al-Zawahiri's most recent message, which runs more than 15 minutes. The statement, in fact, reads like a "state of the jihad" address, with al-Zawahiri spanning the globe to discuss nearly every segment of the jihad. He refers to fighting in Kashmir, Chechnya, the Philippines, Afghanistan, Iraq, East Africa and elsewhere. He also condemns Muslim leaders, including Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh for opposing al Qaeda, or for serving the interests of the West.

Although the message might not be particularly telling about al Qaeda's intentions or capabilities, the lower quality of the production itself suggests something is amiss inside As-Sahab. In the past, As-Sahab has released professional-quality videos of al-Zawahiri, often with elaborate digital backdrops. This latest message, while a new recording from al-Zawahiri, shows only a still image of him. This is out of character for al-Zawahiri, who often appears in new videos separated by mere weeks. He has not issued an audio message in nearly a year. This one, then, is more like the statements attributed to al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

Al Qaeda has a history of releasing statements to coincide with Muslim holidays. Eid al-Adha is a fixed date on the calendar, meaning As-Sahab would have had plenty of time to plan and produce a more elaborate video. The video's simplicity, however, does not mean it was rushed into production. There is no mention of the retreat beginning Dec. 26 of Islamist forces in Somalia following the Ethiopian assault, or of the execution of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, indicating the message was recorded prior to these events.

For most of 2006, following the Jan. 13 airstrike on an alleged al Qaeda safe-house in Damadola, Pakistan, al Qaeda delivered most of its messages via the Internet, rather than through Al Jazeera using a system of couriers. For the Dec. 20 video, however, As-Sahab reverted to its former method. This inconsistency in distribution could indicate something has been compromised in al Qaeda's ability to get these statements onto the Web.

Furthermore, although other factors could be involved, it would appear that whatever facilities were at As-Sahab's disposal for the Dec. 20 video were not available for this latest release. This could be because the production cycle was compromised, or because security considerations dictated a move to a less-vulnerable, more-austere location. It could also be that operational and security conditions made it too difficult to get to al-Zawahiri to make a new video.

It seems clear that either As-Sahab's production or distribution methods -- or possibly both -- have been degraded. However, the group's command and control for media releases seems to be intact to the extent that it is able to release a video to coincide with a fixed date on the calendar.

http://www.stratfor.com/products/premium/read_article.php?id=282456&selected=Analyses

[Casey]

http://www.al-shia.org/ hacked.


The name of God the Merciful

(( ولا تقولوا لمن يقتل في سبيل الله أموات بل أحياء ولكن لا تشعرون

And tell those who kill in the name of Allah dead, but alive, but you ))

صدق الله العظيم

Qur'an 40:51

مسك القرآن و هتف باسم الامه و الاسلام و الشع

Keeping the Koran and chanted the name of the Nation of Islam, and people

ابتسم برباطة جأش، سعيدا بملاقاة ربه، لا يهاب موتا

Smiled with equanimity, happy Bangkok Rabbo, do not fear death

و نقول للشيعه الرافضه و على رأسهم الكلب مقتدى الصدر

:And say to the Shiites, the Shiites headed dog Muqtada al-Sadr :

لا تأسفن على غدر الزمان لطالما .:. رقصت فوق جثث الأسود كلابا

Not Tasven on things for a long time. :. Danced on the bodies of black dogs

لا تحسبن برقصها تعلو اسيادها .:. تبقى الأسود اسود و الكلاب كلاب

اDo not think Bargsha override the masters. :. Black remains black and dogs canines

عذرا سيدي الرئيس صدام رحمك الله فأنت الأسد و هم الكلاب

Sorry, Mr. President Saddam Rakhmk God, you are the lion and dogs

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[Casey]

The media front presents :: The Egyptian initiative and the international electronic jihad media
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The Egyptian initiative and the international electronic jihad media

Thanks god and the prayer and the greeting on the creatures master our master is Mohamed and on its auspicious inexperienced family and its friends the nobles

As for till now :

Recently we heard about an Egyptian initiative to fight what they name the electronic terrorism in the Internet ...He means that imagined that the Egyptians Intelligence will fight the sites and the forums that support the militants media ......The Americans themselves not and can not stop this the great jihad media extension on the Internet ....Does he be capable of it the conspirators from the Egyptians Intelligence ? he means their American masters and with them from the West till today who stopped confused and confused about the way of a rein control this the escalating electronic Islamic media revolution day after day .

The experiences taught us that do not underestimate the enemy and who with him ..But we spoke through a real reality and through a science and an experience ....And love we to say we to these the owners of the unsuccessful initiative you dig in the water and with God's Help that will not can our hitting whatever you did and Allah will distract you from us ....And we yearn with God's Help in our battalions Wsrayana Wmgamiana we will prevent you as we faced and we were still to your American masters and from a house in their orbit ...We have a belief in God and we have a knowledge, an experience and a knowledge ....We result from legitimate and scientific bases, then we have the experts, the programmers, the engineers and the Internet security experts and the different networks and other than that ...Thank God we know your plans and your programs ....Because you are penetrating .....Yes you are penetrating ...And the days will withstand to you very soon God willing ......And Allah and by Allah you will see from us what it amazes and what it makes you afflict .....And we believe in the actions and not the sayings only ...Our habit is a saying and a doing .....We think and penetrate ....Seeking help of Allah Glorified and Exalted be He .....Our arrows are directing to you as she is directed to your infidel masters ...They got ready to it .

And here we renew the call to the sons and the girls of the Islam

O Al Mostafa's following peace be upon him they rushed to the defense of your religion and your nation .........They rushed to the militants's support of a media man .....The opportunity is in front of you an available O the sons of Islam and O the Islam girls .....And Allah is that the scale is in our interest .....The important that you seek help from Allah ....And they mastered in taking the reasons the necessary Walthoutat .....You seek help by the experts and the knowledge .....They united and became harmonious in organized and coordinating groups .....And you do not make Frada ...So that the attack on you is not easy ......Until that the militants leaders and from them the wise sheikh doctor Ayman Al-Zawahiri urge the unity and the coalition to all of the workers in the jihad media .

Allah is Allah in the media jihad .....Allah is Allah in the support of militants .....Allah is Allah in the jihad ....Allah is Allah in the sacrifice and the redemption for God's sake .

Ahmed confident in Allah -

The international Islamic general command of the media front .

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المبادرة المصرية والإعلام الجهادي الإلكتروني العالمي



الحمد لله والصلاة والسلام على سيد الأنام سيدنا محمد وعلى آله الغر الميامين وصحبه الكرام


أما بعد:


في الآونة الأخيرة سمعنا عن مبادرة مصرية لمحاربة ما يسمونه بالإرهاب الإلكتروني بشبكة الإنترنت...يعني تخيلوا ان المخابرات المصرية ستحارب المواقع والمنتديات التي تدعم المجاهدين اعلاميا......الأمريكان انفسهم لم ولن يستطيعوا وقف هذا المد الإعلامي الجهادي الهائل على شبكة الإنترنت....فهل يقدر عليها المتواطئين من المخابرات المصرية ؟ يعني اسيادهم الأمريكان ومن معهم من الغرب الى يومنا هذا وقفوا حائرين ومتخبطين في كيفية كبح جماح هذه الثورة الإعلامية الإسلامية الإلكترونية المتصاعدة يوما بعد يوم.


علمتنا التجارب أنه يجب ان لانستهين بالعدو ومن معه ..ولكن نحن تكلمنا من خلال واقع حقيقي ومن خلال علم وخبرة....ونحب ان نقول لهؤلاء اصحاب المبادرة الفاشلة انكم تحفرون في الماء وبعون الله لن تستطيعوا ضربنا مهما فعلتم وسيشغلكم الله عنا....ونحن بعون الله بكتائبنا وسرايانا ومجاميعنا سنصدكم كما تصدينا ولازلنا لأسيادكم الأمريكان ومن دار في فلكهم...فلدينا إيمان بالله ولدينا علم وخبرة ودراية ....ننطلق من أسس شرعية وعلمية , فلدينا الخبراء والمبرمجين والمهندسين وخبراء أمن الإنترنت والشبكات المختلفة وغير ذلك...بحمد الله نعلم مخططاتكم وبرامجكم....لأنكم مخترقون.....نعم إنكم مخترقون...وستثبت الأيام لكم في القريب العاجل ان شاء الله......والله وتالله سترون منا ما يذهلكم وما يجعلكم تتخبطون.....ونحن نؤمن بالأفعال وليس الأقوال فقط...فديدننا هو قول وفعل.....نفكر وننفذ....مستعينين بالله عز وجل.....سهامنا موجهة إليكم كما هي موجهة لأسيادكم الكفرة...فاستعدوا لها.


وهنا نجدد النداء لأبناء وبنات الإسلام


يا اتباع المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم هبوا للدفاع عن دينكم وامتكم.........هبوا لدعم المجاهدين اعلاميا.....الفرصة امامكم متاحة يا ابناء الإسلام ويا بنات الإسلام.....والله إن الكفة في صالحنا.....المهم ان تستعينوا بالله ....وأتقنوا في الأخذ بالأسباب والتحوطات اللازمة.....استعينوا بأهل الخبرة والدراية.....توحدوا وائتلفوا في جماعات منظمة ومنسقة.....ولاتعملوا فرادى...لكي لايسهل الإنقضاض عليكم......حتى ان قادة المجاهدين ومنهم الشيخ الحكيم الدكتور أيمن الظواهري يحث على التوحد والإئتلاف لكل المشتغلين في الإعلام الجهادي.


الله الله في الجهاد الإعلامي.....الله الله في مساندة المجاهدين.....الله الله في الجهاد....الله الله في التضحية والفداء في سبيل الله.





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الجبهة الإعلامية الإسلامية العالمية



Global Islamic Media Front



والله اكبر- ولله العزة ولرسوله وللمؤمنين ولكن المنافقين لا يعلمون



رصد لأخبار المجاهدين وتحريض للمؤمنين

[Vancouver]

The website of the Islamic Courts Union has been martyred (http://www.midowgamaxkamadaha.com/).

[Casey]

يسرنا أن نعلن عن موعد أولى غزواتنا بإذن الله لمعركة بغداد الكبرى فهل من مشمّر؟؟!!

We are pleased to announce the date for the first Gzwatna God for the battle of Baghdad Region Is rolled? "

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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيمThe name of God the Merciful

تعلن القيادة العليا لسرية الشيخ أبى مصعب رحمه الله التابع لكتائب مهاجرون التحريضية عن بدأ أولى غزوتها يوم الجمعة القادم بإذن الله الموافق 19-1-2007 الساعة السابعة مساءً بتوقيت مكة المكرمة الرابعة بتوقيت غرينتش وذلك بعد إعلاننا دخول معركة بغداد الكبرى .. فسنقاتل بطريقتنا وسننصر إخواننا بكل مالدينا من خبرات وقوة .. حيث سنضرب وكالات أنباء مهمة لدى الرافضة بالإضافة لإستهداف كبرى منتدياتهم .. وستكون الغزوات تلو الغزوات .. فنسألكم بالله أن تشاركوننا في المعركة لنثأر لأختنا فاطمة وعبير ... ثأراً لأخواتنا اللواتي إنتهكت أعراضهن وامتلئت بطونهن بأحفاد بن العلقمي .. ألا فلنعة الله عليهم أجمعين .. وعليه يا إخوة التوحيد ندعوكم لمشاركتنا لتلكم الغزوات حيث سننصر إخواننا المجاهدين بقطع وسائل الإعلام الرافضية الخبيثة فلا تبخلوا على إخوانكم بهذه الخدمة اليسيرة .......

Announces senior leadership of the confidentiality of Sheikh Abu Musab, God bless his soul's battalions inflammatory immigrants from the first incursion began on Friday next, God approved 1-19-2007, seven p.m. Time Mecca fourth GMT, after announcing the entry of major battle of Baghdad.

Fsnkatel Sennasser our own way, each Maldina of experience and strength. We will strike with news agencies in the task of Shiites in addition to targeting major websites.

The invasions after the invasions. Vensalkm God that Excellencies, in the battle for the spillovers of my sister, Fatma Abir ...

Revenge of the sisters who abused and violated Amtlet disembowelled descendants Ben Allqumi. Only God Vnah them all. Therefore, we call on you my brother reunification of our optimism for the invasions as Sennasser our computer sever and media Rafidiyah malignant not stingy on your brothers this service easy ...

فوالله لا خير فينا إن رأينا أخواتنا تنتهك أعراضهن وتداس كرامتهن ونحن في غيّنا وشهواتنا ماضون .. ألا فجهزوا أنفسكم وشمروا في سبيل الله واحتسبو الأجر عند الله .. فمعاركنا ستسبب بإذن الله خسائر فادحة في صفوف أحفاد بن العلقمي....

Voallah not the best in us that our sisters violate abused and trampled on the dignity and we are in Guinea and from our desires are continuing. Only Fjehezwa Shamroa yourselves and for the sake of God and God Ahtsbo pay. Vmaarkna God would cause heavy losses in the ranks of the grandsons Ben Allqumi ...

ونحب أن نُبلغكم بأننا سوف نمدكم ببرامج بسيطة وسهلة للغاية يتقن إستخدامها الصغير قبل الكبير فلا حجة اليوم لقاعد

...........We would like to inform you that we will Nmedkm programs are simple and easy to use extremely small mastered before the big day there is no excuse for sitting ......

وسيتم مدّكم بالبرامج اللازمة قبل الموعد بساعة تقريباً وسيتم الإعلان عن الموقع المستهدف قبل الغزوة بربع ساعة تقريباً وعلى كل من يريد أن يشمر معنا في الغزوة أن يكتب عبارة "أني معكم بإذن الله" نسأل الله التوفيق والسداد والإخلاص في القول والعمل والله غالبً على أمره ولكن أكثر الناس لايعلمون

The program will supply you needed almost one hour before the deadline and will be announced before the invasion target site about an hour and a quarter to anyone who wants to display us in the invasion to write the words : "I am with you, God" and ask God to reconcile payment and sincerity in the words and acts of God and often helpless, but more people Ayalmon


القيادة العليا لسرية الشيخ أبى مصعب الزرقاوي التابع لكتائب مهاجرون التحريضية

The top leadership of the secret
Sheikh Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's Al-inflammatory immigrants

[Petronas]

Internet Security Company Cracks Special Jihadist Software
January 26, 2007 03:41 PM

On January 1, 2007, the pro-terrorist group, "Global Islamic Media Front" (GIMF) announced the "imminent release" of what they called "the first Islamic computer program for secure exchange on the Internet." Some Western websites that track online terrorist activity reported on the GIMF announcement, but it has otherwise not received any serious media attention. iDefense/VeriSign has since found a copy of this program, "Mujahedine Secrets," on a pro-terrorist Arabic language forum and has begun analyzing its capabilities and assessing what its impact will be. Earlier this week we announced this to our client base, which includes numerous key elements of the U.S. government. We are continuing to discover new aspects about the software, which we believe is bound to spread quickly in the online pro-terrorist world. As far as is known, none of this new information has been announced publicly anywhere else other than among the pro-terrorists themselves.

The "Mujahedine Secrets" encryption program offers terrorists and their sympathizers several key features, some of which are common features of PGP programs that are currently available elsewhere as well as other features that appear to be new. Technical analysis is ongoing and will be assessed in future iDefense reporting. Most importantly, this program is an executable application that does not need to be installed onto a PC and can be used with a USB drive. According to iDefense Middle East analyst Andretta Summerville, "the program's 'portability' as an application (not requiring installation) will become an increasingly desirable feature, especially considering the high use of Internet cafés worldwide by pro-terrorist Islamic extremists." The use of the 'Mujahedine Secrets' on a portable USB drive will offer additional anonymity to those who use the program, which may make it increasingly difficult or even impossible for investigators to track down the source of activity further than the Internet café itself.

Due to the strong "marketing" campaign of the program by the Global Islamic Media Front in Arabic-language forums, specifically on hacker and pro-terrorist forums, "Mujahedine Secrets" is likely to reach a broad audience of pro-terrorist supporters online and Arabic-speaking hackers. The PDF file included with the software assists non-English speaking users in the application's operation. This, unfortunately, could greatly impact the threat landscape of pro-terrorist communications worldwide, since it will make it easier and more comfortable for those Arabic speakers who may have been wary of using English-based encryption programs to use a program developed by "their own" people. According to a statement within the Arabic PDF file, this is a code that they have been developing for years. iDefense/VeriSign is continuing to assess what the impact will be with this new software - both as to its technical characteristics as well as how it will be greeted in the pro-terrorist online world. Requests for follow-on information on this development or information on how to obtain iDefense products can be sent to: di@idefense.com. Jim Melnick, Director of Threat Intelligence, iDefense/VeriSign, Inc.

http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/01/internet_security_company_crac.php

[Casey]

the Soldiers of Heaven website(s):

http://www.almahdyoon.org/

http://eyoon.com/sites/45951.html

Forum
http://ansaralmahdy.goodforum.net/login.forum?connexion

http://ansaralmahdy.goodforum.net/



Iraq army kills Shia cult head in battle
Correspondents in Baghdad
January 31, 2007

IRAQ'S army announced it had killed the leader of a heavily armed cult of messianic Shi'ites called "the Soldiers of Heaven" that planned to attack leading Shia clerics in a bizarre plot aimed at bringing about the return of a revered 9th century saint.
Ahmed Bin al-Hassani, who headed the previously little-known group, told his followers he had descended from heaven with a message from the Imam Mahdi saying he was planning to return to earth yesterday.
Hassani was among more than 200 people killed in battles that erupted on Sunday near the southern Shia city of Najaf, Iraqi officials said.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21144193-2703,00.html

[rectar]

may be worth a peek.....

http://www.megaone.com/7adi/index.htm

[Casey]

Nice pic they left!

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[Petronas]

Islamist Forum Participants Discuss Threat to Islamist Sites and Ways to Avoid Exposure On-Line
February 15, 2007

A recent discussion on an Islamist forum reflected Islamists' growing concern over the threat posed to their websites by Western intelligence agencies, and over the danger of exposure mujahideen face when online. Forum participants suggested various strategies for ensuring the circulation of Islamist materials and for protecting the Islamists' online anonymity.

The following are the main points of the discussion:

Addressing the issue of the threat to Islamist websites, one of the forum participants wrote: "We are all aware of the Zionist-Crusader campaign that has been launched against the Islamist websites... The most recent [manifestation of this campaign] is... the effort of American intelligence to completely eliminate websites that distribute communiqués [by the mujahideen] and films [documenting] attacks of the Iraqi resistance, or which encourage so-called terrorism.... As part of this campaign, [the Americans also] threaten TV networks that broadcast videos [documenting] attacks... or that report [Coalition] casualties not reported by the U.S. military."

To safeguard the distribution of jihad-related materials, the forum participants suggested posting them on multiple sites, both jihadist and non-jihadist, thus making them more difficult for U.S. authorities to remove. The participants compiled a list of suggested sites, and, in order to keep it out of the hands of non-Islamists, proposed that the list be posted on a special site and the URL sent to the mujahideen in private messages.

Regarding the danger of discovery by intelligence agencies, a participant wrote: "The various intelligence agencies have realized the significance of [the jihad websites and forums] and have seized upon them as an opportunity... to hunt down 'terrorists'... The [agencies] attempt to infiltrate the forums and plant their own [agents] in them, in order to [detect the terrorists] or in order to pressure the website owners into cooperating with them in this matter..."

Several suggestions were made for minimizing this danger, including tips on maintaining anonymity when posting and reading material and when communicating with other forum members. One writer, for example, reminded mujahideen that not all forum participants were authentic Islamists, so identifying information should never be revealed. Participants cited a number of messages posted on Islamist websites which they suspected of being "bait," surmising that the messages had been placed by agents posing as Islamists in an attempt to win the trust of forum participants, with the aim of getting them to cooperate with the agent offline and thus expose themselves.

Mujahideen were advised to be wary when posting jihad-related materials at Internet cafés, since "many of [these cafés] spy on their own customers, especially [those] with a Muslim appearance," and since their servers are insufficiently secure and easily accessed by intelligence agencies. They were also advised to avoid using Internet cafés near their homes.

Another recommendation was to provide false information when registering on jihad websites, since the servers of these websites could be hacked by intelligence agencies. It was pointed out that using the same user name and password on all Islamist websites could jeopardize the user's anonymity. Users were also advised to suspect every downloadable file being circulated on the forums, because some contained spyware.

The discussion also focused on common software and built-in computer tools to protect online anonymity. For example, members were advised to use proxy sites when accessing forums, to configure browsers to block "cookies," to empty the "Temporary Internet Files" and "History" folders each time they closed their browsers, and not to save encrypted pages to disk. They were further told to use anti-spyware programs and various other tools available to the general community of users.

http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD146207

[Petronas]

DNS Attack: Only a Warning Shot?
FEBRUARY 7, 2007

An attack on the Internet infrastructure yesterday may signal a hint of bigger things to come. The distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack that temporarily crippled -- but didn't take down -- two of the Internet's 13 Domain Name System (DNS) root servers was likely a test-run for a potentially larger and more disruptive attack, researchers say.

This was the latest in a series of DDOS attacks on DNS servers that began late last year, when DNS providers EveryDNS and EasyDNS each separately experienced attacks. Experts had predicted it was only a matter of time before botnet operators hit a bigger and higher-profile DNS target, and that's just what happened yesterday, they say.

The attackers targeted five of the Internet's DNS root name servers, using bots or zombified computers to execute the DDOS attack. Two of the root name servers eventually dropped 90 percent of their DNS query traffic, but the remaining servers kept the service operational. (See DNS Attacks on the Rise and DNS Service Under DDOS Attack .)

"Yesterday's attack was likely a precursor to a larger attack. The rise of DNS attacks in the last year has been worrisome," says David Ulevitch, CEO of OpenDNS, and founder of EveryDNS, both DNS services. "I believe the attack yesterday and the night before were tests to see how far someone could push the limits."

Ulevitch says the attackers split their attack capacity among a half-dozen or so targets. "Their overall DDOS capacity is significant, and is something to pay attention to," he says.

DNS root servers basically answer queries in the DNS infrastructure, which translates a computer's "human-readable" domain name into its machine-readable IP address.

The attackers used an army of bots from around the globe to hammer the servers with bogus and abnormally large DNS requests -- partially formed DNS messages of over 350 bytes each, according to a report from the ISC. The majority of the traffic came from nodes in Seoul (61 percent of the attack traffic) and Beijing (18 percent). Another 13 percent originated from nodes in San Francisco and another 7 percent elsewhere, according to ISC numbers.

The good news is investigators have been able to isolate many of the IP addresses of the offending machines and will therefore be able to shut down the botnet behind it all, Ulevitch notes. "The botnet operator will likely not be found, but at least he or she will have to start all over back at square one," he says.

Still, there's no way to be sure the attacker or attackers don't have other armies waiting in the wings to launch new and more aggressive attacks. This one only hit about a third of the DNS servers -- a larger attack using bigger armies could be more damaging to the Net.

"This attack is a strange one," says Craig Labovitz, director of engineering at Arbor Networks. "This has some people scratching their heads. It has some of the earmarks of a trial run, but it wasn't insignificant enough to fly under the radar. It was fairly large and disruptive."

But a scarier prospect is what such an attack could do if aimed at a business. The distributed and protected nature of the root servers kept the attack at bay. "How many midsize to large enterprises do you know that have 13 highly redundant data centers with highly redundant DNS servers?" says Paul Parisi, CTO for DNSstuff.com. "I'm worried about the corporate environment... This proves the technology is out there and can be leveraged autonomously.

"It would be trivial for an aggravated hacker to do serious damage to a company," Parisi continued. DDOS attacks are not only annoyances and service disruptions, but often are used as a distraction or cover for a "backdoor" attack, where an attacker can infect or steal data.

The saving grace for the DNS root servers in yesterday's attack was "anycasting" -- the streaming of DNS queries to multiple servers so they don't get lost or jammed up at a given server. "Anycasting is tremendously helpful, but it hasn't trickled into all of corporate America yet," Parisi says.

The servers were also bulked up and overbuilt to handle heavy loads, leaving end users blissfully ignorant of the attack. Several DNS root operators had added anycasting and redundancy to their servers in the wake of a similar, but more damaging, DDOS attack nearly five years ago.

But the underlying problem isn't really DNS: It's the pervasiveness of botnets, which automate and broaden these kinds of attacks. "Networks need to stop letting botnets run rampant across their backbones," OpenDNS's Ulevitch says. And "end users need to be running up-to-date antivirus software. Software manufacturers need to write better code. There are a hundred things that need to be done. And unfortunately, none of them are going to happen anytime soon."

Arbor's Labovitz says he's worried what the firepower of these botnets, many which contain ten or hundreds of thousands of machines, could to the Internet infrastructure if they were used against it. "The firepower is daunting to say the least," he says.

http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=116685&WT.svl=news1_3

[Casey]

POLICE IN BULGARIA TAKE DOWN RADICAL ISLAM WEBSITES
09:04 Wed 21 Feb 2007

Police in Bulgaria managed to uncover two websites focusing on radical Islam, religious hatred and intolerance.

Investigators from Sofia worked together with police to find out who the people behind the websites are.

The websites call for a change of the constitutionally set national order, an Interior Ministry press release said.

Four people have been detained. A 51-year old is seen as the organiser of the scheme. The Interior Ministry said the man was connected to Ahmad Mousa from Jordan who was deported from Bulgaria in 2000.

Police also detained a woman responsible for collecting content for the websites and uploading it online. The administrator was detained as well.

The texts advocate Jihad, or a holy war against non-believers.

Police are increasingly focusing their effort on the internet and on preventing groups from using websites to promote terrorism, religious hatred and religious and ethnic intolerance.

http://www.sofiaecho.com/article/police-in-bulgaria-take-down-radical-islam-websites/id_20727/catid_66

[Petronas]

I am not posting the whole article, since it is 24 pages long.

How Modern Terrorism Uses the Internet
Wed, 2007-02-21 02:17

... The World Wide Web is home to dozens of sites that provide information on how to build chemical and explosive weapons. Many of these sites post The Terrorist's Handbook and The Anarchist Cookbook, two well-known manuals that offer detailed instructions on how to construct a wide range of bombs. Another manual, The Mujahadeen Poisons Handbook, written by Abdel-Aziz in 1996 and "published" on the official Hamas website, details in twenty-three pages how to prepare various homemade poisons, poisonous gases, and other deadly materials for use in terrorist attacks. A much larger manual, nicknamed "The Encyclopedia of Jihad" and prepared by al Qaeda, runs to thousands of pages; distributed through the Internet, it offers detailed instructions on how to establish an underground organization and execute attacks. One al Qaeda laptop found in Afghanistan had been used to make multiple visits to a French site run by the Société Anonyme (a self-described "fluctuating group of artists and theoreticians who work specifically on the relations between critical thinking and artistic practices"), which offers a two-volume Sabotage Handbook with sections on topics such as planning an assassination and antisurveillance methods.

This kind of information is sought out not just by sophisticated terrorist organizations but also by disaffected individuals prepared to use terrorist tactics to advance their idiosyncratic agendas. In 1999, for instance, a young man by the name of David Copeland planted nail bombs in three different areas of London: multiracial Brixton, the largely Bangladeshi community of Brick Lane, and the gay quarter in Soho. Over the course of three weeks, he killed 3 people and injured 139. At his trial, he revealed that he had learned his deadly techniques from the Internet, downloading The Terrorist's Handbook and How to Make Bombs: Book Two. Both titles are still easily accessible. A search for the keywords "terrorist" and "handbook" on the Google search engine found nearly four thousand matches that included references to guidebooks and manuals. One site gives instructions on how to acquire ammonium nitrate, Copeland's "first choice" of explosive material. In Finland in 2002, a brilliant chemistry student who called himself "RC" discussed bomb-making techniques with other enthusiasts on a Finnish Internet website devoted to bombs and explosives. Sometimes he posted queries on topics such as manufacturing nerve gas at home. Often he traded information with the site's moderator; whose messages carried a picture of his own face superimposed on Osama bin Laden's body, complete with turban and beard. Then RC set off a bomb that killed seven people, including him, in a crowded shopping mall. The website frequented by RC, known as the Home Chemistry Forum, was shut down by its sponsor, a computer magazine. But a backup copy was immediately posted again on a read-only basis. ...

http://www.asiantribune.com/index.php?q=node/4627

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The jihadi security software was released again yesterday.

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TERRORISM: TWO ALLEGED JIHADI WEBMASTERS ARRESTED IN SPAIN
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 - 07:15 AM

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Saragozza, 14 March (AKI) - A Spanish man has been arrested in the northeastern town of Zaragoza on suspicion of promoting terrorism on the Internet. A Moroccan citizen was also arrested Wednesday in an unspecified Spanish location during an ongoing anti-terror operation by the Civil Guard which says it may lead to further arrests. The 31-year-old Spaniard and the 23-year-old Moroccan - both male - are allegedly the webmasters of the Spanish jihadist website Al-Andalus Islamiya which publishes messages supporting and justifying Islamist terrorism.

The Spaniard, a web designer who converted to Islam, is alleged to have posted videos to the Al-Andalus Islamiya website containing calls to Jihad and martyrdom. The man, who always used pseudonyms to conceal his identity, spoke of a "front" and posted messages to the website that spoke of a "front" to fight back against "Zionist and/or Islamophobic aggression."

The Moroccan was born in Oujda but is resident in Huelva province in the southern Spanish region of Andalucia. Anti-terrorism experts in Spain have recently stepped up Internet checks, hunting for prosletising messages on radical Islamist websites.

Three years on from the deadly 11 March 2004 attacks on commuter trains at Madrid's Atocha station, the risk of a fresh terror attack in Spain is now higher than ever, according to several terrorism experts quoted last week by El Pais daily.

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Mar-14-07 12:16

http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Terrorism&loid=8.0.394928458&par=

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Security expert cracks RFID in UK passport
08/03/2007 11:42:12 Print this story

A security expert has cracked one of the U.K.'s new biometric passports, which the British government hopes will cut down on cross-border crime and illegal immigration. The attack, which uses a common RFID (radio frequency identification) reader and customized code, siphoned data off an RFID chip from a passport in a sealed envelope, said Adam Laurie, a security consultant who has worked with RFID and Bluetooth technology. The attack would be invisible to victims, he said. "That's the really scary thing," said Laurie, whose work was detailed in the Sunday edition of the Daily Mail newspaper. "There's no evidence of tampering. They're not going to report something has happened because they don't know."

The British government, which began issuing RFID passports about a year ago, eventually wants to incorporate fingerprints and other biometric data on the chips, although privacy activists are concerned over how data will be stored and handled. Currently, the chip contains the printed details on the passports, the person's photograph and security technology to detect if those files have been altered.

The attack was executed while the passport was still in its original envelope used to send it from the passport service, since RFID chips can be read from a few inches away, Laurie said. He used a passport ordered by a woman affiliated with No2ID, a group that opposes the U.K.'s biometric passport and ID card programs. The data on the passport's chip is locked until an RFID reader provides the encryption key, Laurie said. The encryption key is calculated using a combination of the person's personal data, such as date of birth, and is contained in the "machine-readable zone" (MZR) -- the string of characters and digits on the bottom of the passport's first page.

At an immigration desk, the optical character reader scans the MZR and gets the key. The RFID chip is unlocked, and the information on the chip is matched with that on the passport.

However, Laurie was able to do this process himself. He analyzed ICAO 9303, the standard from the International Civil Aviation Organization that been adopted worldwide for machine-readable passports, to see how the MZR is organized. Laurie also knew some of the woman's personal details -- used to calculate her passport's key -- and found out more through Internet research.

He then wrote what's known as a "brute force" program, which repeatedly tries different combinations of data to discover the key. After about 40,000 attempts by the program, he cracked the key. To scan the chip, he used a common RFID reader from ACG ID, now part of Assa Abloy Identification Technology GmbH of Germany.

The attack could then let Laurie begin the process of making an exact copy of the woman's passport. However, the U.K. Home Office defended the passports on Tuesday, asserting the hack doesn't make them less secure. "The key point ... is that the information on the chip cannot by changed, rendering the procedure described by Adam Laurie pretty pointless," wrote Peter Wilson, senior press officer, in an e-mail. Further, a cloned chip would have to be inserted into a forged passport, and new security measures in the passports make that "virtually impossible," the Home Office said, quoting a report released last month by the National Audit Office.

But Laurie said the new passports were marketed as enhancing security, "but so far I don't see anything about it that increases my security." The greatest weakness with the passports is using relatively easy-to-find data to compose the encrypted key, Laurie said. It would be better to include more random elements that would render brute-force style programs nearly useless, he said.

Laurie's work spawned from concern over how users can know what's on their passport's chip. "At the moment, if you want to see what's in your own passport, you have to go to passport office," Laurie said. "With my code, you can do it at home." Laurie has published a library of open-source tools written in the Python programming language that will run on RFID readers made by ACG and by Frosch Electronics OEG, based in Austria.

http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;212599195;fp;2;fpid;1

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Security expert cracks RFID in UK passport
08/03/2007 11:42:12 Print this story

A security expert has cracked one of the U.K.'s new biometric passports, which the British government hopes will cut down on cross-border crime and illegal immigration. The attack, which uses a common RFID (radio frequency identification) reader and customized code, siphoned data off an RFID chip from a passport in a sealed envelope, said Adam Laurie, a security consultant who has worked with RFID and Bluetooth technology. The attack would be invisible to victims, he said.

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This has been on my mind, a lot.

Obviously they are going ahead with this technology, I'm glad it has already been cracked.

Until the security can be improved my thinking, until I read this was to implement a 2 part authentication to read the information.

One part being a pass code known only to the person whose information it is and the other part known to the agency who has to read the information.

Now that the technology has been cracked and until the security is better, I think there should be 3 part authentication, add a second pass code to the person whose information it is.

My 2 cents....

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Interesting .....

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The video explains the various ways the Juba media campaign was successful.

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Military readies Internet assault capability

Jim Michaels
USA TODAY
Mar. 28, 2007 12:00 AM
WASHINGTON - The U.S. military has been quietly developing capabilities to attack enemy computer networks, including hacking into terrorist Web sites, military officials and experts say.

The move comes as al-Qaida and other groups fighting in Iraq and elsewhere have expanded their activities on the Internet and increased the sophistication and volume of their videos and messages. Much of the material is designed to raise money and recruit fighters for Iraq.

"You should not let them operate uncontested" on the Internet and elsewhere in cyberspace, said Marine Brig. Gen. John Davis, who heads a military command at the National Security Agency. The command was established to develop capabilities to attack computer networks.

Davis and other officials declined to say whether the military has attacked computer networks, which would require presidential authorization. The techniques are highly classified.

Pentagon contract documents show the military asks companies to develop a "full spectrum ... of computer network attack techniques." Run by the Air Force Research Laboratory, this program aims to spend $40 million over four years, documents show.

The growth in offensive capabilities signals a shift in military thinking from just monitoring terrorist Web sites for intelligence to attacking them.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0328terror-cyber0328.html#

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The New Issue of Technical Mujahid, a Training Manual for Jihadis
March 29, 2007

The Cover from Technical Mujahid, Issue #2
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The al-Fajr Information Center, a jihadi organization, recently published the February 2007 issue of Technical Mujahid, a magazine released once every two months that is available online. The release marks the second issue of the publication. The various jihadi websites have posted links to different locations to download the publication, that way stifling any attempts by outside forces to remove the document from the web (http://www.arabteam2000-forum.com, March 13). According to the editor-in-chief of Technical Mujahid, Abu al-Mothanna al-Najdi, the objectives of the magazine are to eradicate the phobia and anxiety suffered by those who refrain from participating in jihad because they erroneously believe that intelligence services are monitoring their every move. Additionally, the publication aims to spread a sense of security, vigilance and self-confidence, in a scientific way, among members of jihadi forums by educating them in jihadi propaganda and enhancing their knowledge of field operations. To achieve these objectives, the magazine is organized into six sections of technical training that are aimed at helping the mujahideen carry out certain tasks.

Section 1: Covert Communications and Hiding Secrets Inside Images

Secure communications, a significant and important tool for any underground group, is the first training subject in the magazine, authored by Abi Musab al-Jazayri, "the Algerian." After a brief historical account of the evolution of secret communications from the use of secret ink to Morse code to binary 256 bit and 2048 bit encoding, al-Jazayri launches into the body of his training article with "the thing that scares the FBI most is the use of secret communication techniques, by jihadis, known as the concealment science." The training article outlines steganography, which is the art of hidden messages; steganalysis, the art of detecting hidden messages; and the merits of hiding data in innocuous-looking images. Al-Jazayri appears to be an expert on the subject judging from the details he included such as image pixels, mathematical equations to prevent distortions in pictures used to hide data and the disadvantages of encryption software available on the market like Ezstego, S-Tools and Hide and Seek, which can all be easily deciphered using hexadecimal editors. He explains that a good program to use is the "Secrets of the Mujahideen" software application because it is a dual system that hides encrypted data in a picture and compresses the files to nullify steganalysis methods. He then provided an example of hiding 20 communiqués of the Islamic Army in Iraq in a 100 x 50 pixel picture. His example highlights the necessity of applying steganalysis before choosing a picture to hide data. Al-Jazayri concludes the training by warning jihadis not to use ineffective encryption programs in their secret communications, reiterating that the best encryption uses multiple concealment techniques such as compression, encoding and concealment or uses communication-engineering techniques such as Spread Spectrum.

Section 2: Designing Jihadi Websites from A-Z

The second section, prepared by Abu Dojaina al-Makki, simply explains the steps of designing websites and uploading them to the internet via a host company. There is nothing unusual about this training except that the writer recommends hiring foreign website host companies because Arabic companies are incompetent, have "attitude" problems and break down frequently. To jihadis, experience in website development is important since the web is one of their key communication venues across various theaters of conflict. It also provides a recruitment opportunity for jihadi operations.

Section 3: Smart Weapons, Short Range Shoulder-Fired Missiles

The training magazine recommends two types of short range shoulder-fired missiles for the jihadis as the most appropriate anti-aircraft weapons: the U.S.-made Stinger and the Russian-made Igla missiles. Abi al-Harith al-Dilaimi, the writer of the smart weapons section, included many details about the specifications of the missiles, operating manuals and the electronic heat-seeking control systems of the missiles. The section is very thorough and even includes pictorial illustrations. Al-Dilaimi does not fail to brag about the recent downing of U.S. aircraft using these missiles, saying "The best example we can give about these missiles is the downing of 10 helicopters in one month in Iraq such as the Apache, Black Hawk, Chinook and even an F-16 supersonic fighter jet that was shot down in al-Karma area west of Baghdad by the Islamic State of Iraq mujahideen in cooperation with the Mujahideen Army on November 27, 2006."

Furthermore, the training touches on the types of supersonic aircraft, helicopters and slow military cargo planes and missile counter-measures employed by these aircraft, such as heat flares that can throw off-course heat-seeking missiles and infrared missile repelling systems. The Russian-made Igla is an exception as it has a Nitrogen-cooled heat seeking system capable of resisting the heat flares and identifying the real target among the decoy targets. The section also includes Igla and Stinger specification lists and a table of the English equivalents of the technical terms used in Arabic. Al-Dilaimi ends the training with a note saying, "we would like to assert that the mujahideen have proven skillful use of these weaponry by inflicting heavy loses on the colonizing U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan."

Section 4: The Secrets of the Mujahideen, an Inside Perspective

Also mentioned in other jihadi publications, the "Secrets of the Mujahideen" is a computer program for internet communications. According to the security section of the Global Islamic Media Front, who wrote this training section, it is the first Islamic encryption software. The section on the program affirms the necessity of creating Islamic encryption tools due to the currently ineffective programs available on the market. In general, the section talks about the following five topics: 1) encryption and correspondence through the internet; 2) encrypting personal emails; 3) the degree of encryption and the symmetric, 128 bit, and asymmetric, 1024 bit, encryption keys; 4) public encryption keys and pass phrases that protect them; and 5) private encryption keys and decryption keys.

The authors claim that the Secrets of the Mujahideen program offers the highest level of encryption in asymmetric encoding that furnishes safe transfer of public encryption keys over the internet. The keys, which use "key prints" to identify the recipient, can be advertised in the jihadi forums. In general, the strength of the jihadi encryption program lies in the following: the use of the best five algorithms in encryption science; strong symmetric encryption; private and public asymmetric 2048 bit keys; strong compression of data; use of stealthy encryption keys and algorithms; secure deletion of files, elimination of retrieval possibilities; and the ability to run it from a flash disc, i.e. the program does not have to run from a computer hard drive. The encryption training section is extremely detailed and explains all the technical implications of the program. The writers claim that the program surpasses all international symmetric encryption systems.

Section 5-6: Video Technology and Subtitling Video Clips

This is the second lesson in a series of training that will be included in future issues of the magazine. Although very technical, there is nothing unusual about the video training as it talks about signal reception, sample rates and vertical video samples. In the same context, the training explains how to dub video clips with subtitles and background voiceovers. Video skills are clearly needed by jihadis for their propaganda campaigns. One well known example would be the videos released of the "Baghdad Sniper" (Terrorism Focus, February 14). Abu al-Hassan al-Magribi, the writer of this section, concludes by stressing the importance of translating jihadi propaganda into as many foreign languages as possible.

The Conclusion of the Magazine

The editor-in-chief ends the magazine with an article calling upon jihadi forum participants to contribute technical information to the magazine, saying "Haven't you thought that you might have some knowledge that would assist your brothers in our nascent Islamic state of Iraq? My technical jihadi brother, this magazine gives you the opportunity to share whatever scientific knowledge you have with tens of thousands of jihadis frequenting the Islamic forums. Half of the efforts we exert in our battles against enemies of God occupying our land in Iraq, Palestine, Chechnya and Somalia lie in the media that will enlighten our fellow Muslims with facts about the crusaders." He reminds the readers of the al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Hamza al-Muhajir's call to Muslim scholars and scientists to utilize their knowledge for the benefit of jihad. Finally, the magazine instructs willing participants to send their technical articles to http://www.teqanymag.arabform.com. That website contains a welcoming note from the board of editors of the magazine and a contact form where participants can send in their technical articles.

The next issue of Technical Mujahid is set to contain the following subjects: jihadi forums and secure surfing on the internet; smart weapons such as night vision and thermal imaging; and information on how intelligence agencies can bug cellular phones. Also, al-Fajr Information Center has announced the release of an interview with a jihadi leader in Afghanistan that will be posted soon. Clearly, the Technical Mujahid is not a magazine for the common jihadi since it contains many scientific details. To comprehend and apply the training the magazine offers, the jihadi has to have a certain level of education and specific academic background or be tutored by an expert in training camps or safe houses. Nevertheless, it is another example of how the internet is used to train fellow mujahideen in topics ranging from weapons training to secure communications.

http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2370293

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Pakistan blocks radical mosque's website, radio station
Wednesday, April 11, 2007 - 06:55 AM
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Pakistan said Tuesday it had blocked the website and radio station of a radical mosque that has launched a Taliban-style morality campaign in the heart of the capital.

The move comes after the Lal Masjid or Red Mosque in Islamabad issued a "fatwa" against a female minister pictured hugging a foreigner following a charity paragliding trip, and also threatened to carry out suicide attacks.

"We have blocked the website of Lal Masjid and also blocked the radio station," Deputy Information Minister Tariq Azeem told AFP.

Azeem said the government blocked the website (www.lalmasjid.org) and the illegal FM radio station under laws brought in five years ago by President Pervez Musharraf, a key US ally and proponent of moderate Islam.

"We will block anything that promotes religious hatred, calls for suicide attacks -- this cannot be tolerated. The law says that no such activity can be allowed. This website was projecting what was prohibited by law," he said.

Deputy mosque leader Abdul Rashid Ghazi denied there was hate material on the website. "They have curbed freedom of expression by blocking our site. They cannot tolerate a dissenting voice," he told AFP.

Ghazi said the website was now operating from a different domain (www.lalmasjid.com) -- although the government insisted that it had made it impossible for the mosque to update the new site.

Mosque leader Abdul Aziz said on Friday that Lal Masjid was setting up a self-styled Islamic court and warned that his students would carry out suicide attacks if the government tried to clamp down on him or his followers.

Two days later the court issued the "fatwa" against Tourism Minister Nilofar Bakhtiar for posing in "obscene" pictures with a French instructor after going paragliding to raise money for earthquake victims.

Female students from a religious school attached to the Red Mosque in March kidnapped an alleged brothel owner and made her publicly repent. Their male counterparts briefly abducted two policemen at the same time.

The mosque's baton-wielding devotees have also set up so-called morality patrols telling shops at popular local markets not to sell "un-Islamic" music and movies.

They have occupied a nearby children's library since January in protest at plans to demolish several illegally-built mosques in Islamabad.

The government has said it wants to negotiate with the mosque's staff before trying to crack down on it, despite concerns that its behaviour represents a creeping "Talibanisation" of Pakistani society.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070411/wl_asia_afp/pakistanreligionmosque;_ylt=Ak1jOdF1BokOWzyClISfx_ IBxg8F

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A World Wide Web of terrorist plotting
The Internet has become a virtual operations center replacing the Al Qaeda bases in Afghanistan and Bosnia.
By Sebastian Rotella
Times Staff Writer

April 16, 2007

SARAJEVO, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA — They never met face to face, but the two young zealots became brother warriors in the new land of jihad: the Internet.

Investigators say their bond made them central figures in a terrorism network that spanned eight countries, involved more than 30 suspects and hatched plots in Washington, Toronto, London and Sarajevo.

Maximus was the online moniker of Mirsad Bektasevic, a lanky Bosnian refugee with a dark stare and a hunger for action. At 18, he returned from Sweden to this war-scarred city, where he assembled an arsenal for a suicide attack and filmed a "martyrdom" video.

Irhabi007 was Younis Tsouli, a Moroccan living in London with his diplomat father, investigators say. Hunched day and night over his computer, the diminutive 22-year-old allegedly served as a pioneering cyber-operative for Al Qaeda, oversaw Bektasevic's mission and was at the hub of other plots.

Their case shows that the Internet has become a virtual training camp and operations center replacing the Al Qaeda bases in Afghanistan and Bosnia that produced a legion of fighters, formed them into cells and launched them at targets.

The soldiers of this looser network were more technologically and culturally agile than the grim fanatics who executed attacks in the past, according to trial evidence, court documents and interviews with investigators, defense lawyers, family and friends. They spoke more English than Arabic and listened to the rap of Kanye West along with the harangues of Abu Musab Zarqawi. Their Western ways enabled them to communicate and cross borders with ease. And investigators say they had a youthful disregard for life.

At the same time, many were amateurish and reckless. That made them easier to track, but presented investigators with a dilemma: A fighter may lack experience, but he remains a menace if he is willing to die for his cause. As militants radicalize more quickly and operate more independently, the threat they pose often is harder to assess.

One thing hasn't changed. Fledgling holy warriors still need real-world arms and expertise.



Al Qaeda takes hold

Eleven years after the siege of Sarajevo ended, downtown bustles: stylish young crowds, cafes full of smoke and talk, the call to prayer echoing among ornate Ottoman mosques.

On the edge of this capital city, however, the Butmir neighborhood looks somber and shuttered, as if nursing old wounds. There are flak-shredded ruins on Polygonska Street, where Bektasevic's uncle owns a house with an eagle statue on a balcony. A haze floats over a garbage dump at the end of the street.

Beyond the dump rise the mountains from which Serb snipers and artillery rained fire onto Sarajevo. The onslaught brought fighters from across the Muslim world to defend Bosnian Muslims.

The battleground became a spawning ground for Al Qaeda. After the war, hundreds of militants gained Bosnian passports and stayed. Extremists groomed here were involved in plots such as the bombings of Paris trains in 1995 and one targeting Los Angeles International Airport in 1999.

Bektasevic's family fled to Sweden at the start of the war when he was 5, and he lived with his widowed mother on welfare. Most Bosnians practice a tolerant Islam, but some refugees in Scandinavia have been swept up by extremism that has spread among young Muslims there. At about 13, Bektasevic grew interested in his religious heritage after memorizing a Koranic verse to pray at the funeral of a friend.

"This was the thing that change [sic] my heart," he later told interrogators. "I liked it and I wanted to know more."

The pimply teenager dropped out of school after ninth grade and racked up juvenile arrests. He spent six hours a day on the Internet, soaking up rage and gore. On a radical website, he befriended half a dozen teenagers in Denmark. Their families were Palestinian, Moroccan, Turkish, Bosnian; after the youths visited an extremist cleric in London in 2004, Danish intelligence put them under surveillance.

Bektasevic drifted to Copenhagen, where he slept at a mosque and became a leader of the group. In the summer of 2005, they filmed a video declaring themselves "Al Qaeda in Northern Europe." It featured a logo allegedly designed by a long-distance associate: Irhabi007.

The word means "terrorist" in Arabic. Court documents and investigators identify him as Younis Tsouli.



'A flair for marketing'

Tsouli had moved to London about four years earlier with his father, a deputy director of the Moroccan tourist office. Father and son shared a basement flat on a quiet street in West London that mixes brick apartment houses with ethnic restaurants.

The younger Tsouli sometimes attended the Shepherd's Bush mosque near a stretch of Uxbridge Road where black-veiled women push baby strollers and men smoke hookahs in scruffy cafes. He registered for college computer studies, officials say. But he apparently spent most of his time at his computer.

His alleged alter ego, Irhabi007, appeared on radical sites in 2003. His first real coup came in May 2004 when he copied and disseminated a video of Zarqawi beheading Nicholas Berg, an American contractor in Iraq. Two months later, he hacked into the servers of the Arkansas highway department to distribute Zarqawi videos.

Irhabi007 came up with revolutionary ways of finding space to disseminate big multi-media files without getting caught. He allegedly posted materials about bomb-making and hacking, trolled Web pages of U.S. soldiers in Iraq for tips on targets, discussed a plot against the U.S. warship Kennedy.

"He had a flair for marketing, advertising," said Evan Kohlmann, a private anti-terrorism consultant who helped investigators track him. "It was all so professional…. He had a unique, bloodthirsty brand of humor."

In one online exchange, Irhabi007 celebrated the slaying of a U.S. diplomat in Iraq, according to a transcript. The victim's name "sounds Jewish," he jeered. "Not any more! LOL. !!!! nice catch. (:! NEXT."

When Kohlmann proposed an online dialogue, he answered: "Dear Evan: I don't do interviews. If you wish to discuss anything, then the forum is a good platform."

A Zarqawi aide gave Irhabi007 instant notoriety in October 2004 by praising his talents in an online statement. Zarqawi's Al Qaeda in Iraq organization started sending him videos and asking him to post them, according to Bosnian court documents. In addition to acting as "media guy" for Al Qaeda in Iraq, he also allegedly began recruiting fighters and assisting with their journeys, Kohlmann said.

"He was working like a telephone operator, putting people in touch with the Zarqawi organization," Kohlmann said.

Soon, Tsouli allegedly turned to a new front.

American prosecutors say he communicated with Syed Haris Ahmed, a Pakistani American, and Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, a Bangladeshi American, both in Atlanta. In March 2005, the two took a bus to Toronto and met with Canadian extremists to discuss possible attacks on military bases and oil refineries, and a trip to a Pakistani terrorist camp, according to a U.S. indictment.

The next month, they drove Ahmed's pickup truck to Washington, where court documents say they videotaped the Capitol, World Bank headquarters, a subway station, a hazardous materials vehicle and fuel storage tanks. The video was intended "to establish their credentials with other supporters of violent jihad as well as for use in violent jihad," the U.S. indictment says.

Sadequee allegedly communicated with Tsouli before and after the trip to Washington, and sent him the alleged reconnaissance video, which Tsouli stored in a PowerPoint format, according to the indictment.

Tsouli was also in contact with the Toronto cell, investigators say. For the Bosnian plot, he allegedly provided guidance, financing and a video on assembling a suicide bomb vest, investigators say.

Tsouli activated a new cellphone Sept. 19 to call Bektasevic, according to court documents. Upon arriving in Sarajevo a week later, Bektasevic bought a phone card and sent a text message with the number to a suspect in London with the words: "Give this to Bond."

"Bond," according to Bosnian prosecutors, was Tsouli.



40 pounds of explosives

Bektasevic first stayed at a cheap hostel in Sarajevo, a city he knew from family vacations. Although his uncle gave him the keys to the house near the garbage dump, he chose to sleep in an apartment across town that he rented under an assumed name.

On Oct. 7, he phoned Abdul Basit Abu-Lifa, 17, a baby-faced Palestinian Dane with shoulder-length curls.

"Try to get more money because I think, thank God, brother, I have found some really good stuff, you know?" Bektasevic said, according to a Danish wiretap transcript. The intercepted calls to Copenhagen also referred to "the trainees" and "the best place to do you know what."

In his search for explosives, Bektasevic enlisted two friends who worked at a halal grill. He met them in 2003 after prayers at the King Fahd Islamic Center, a big Saudi mosque that draws Muslim radicals.

Bajro Ikanovic was 27: bearded and bear-like, he had returned to Bosnia-Herzegovina and found Islam after a series of criminal escapades in France. He was trying to reform his friend, Amir Bajric, 25, a fast-talking ex-convict with striking gray eyes. Despite the likeness of Osama bin Laden tattooed on his chest, Bajric had a weakness for alcohol and women.

The grill belongs to a meat company run by former foreign fighters. It is among the Muslim businesses targeted by Bosnian authorities investigating the underworld of arms and extremism that is a legacy of war, officials say.

In mid-October, the Copenhagen crew sent help. But it wasn't Abu-Lifa, whose father sensed trouble and confiscated his passport. Instead, Abdelkader Cesur, 18, a pudgy Turk who spoke confident English, got on a bus for Sarajevo despite a warning from Danish intelligence agents that his radicalism was going to get him in trouble.

Two days after the Turk arrived, Tsouli called Bektasevic from London, prosecutors say. Three days after that, on Oct. 19, 2005, the two Bosnians handed over more than 40 pounds of explosives in a metal strongbox from an abandoned military base.

Bektasevic got to work assembling his explosives vest in the sparsely furnished safe house on Polygonska Street. He chopped slices of a mixture of nitroglycerin and ammonium nitrate and put them in the refrigerator to harden. Dizzied by the chemical stench, Cesur slumped on a couch.

At 3:55 p.m., there was a knock on the door: three plainclothes detectives with a search warrant. Bektasevic snarled, "Who are you to search my house, you trash?"

They wrestled him to the floor. A detective charged in and saw that Cesur had his hand under a coat. The detective yanked away the coat, revealing a silencer-equipped pistol. He slapped the gun out of the Turk's hand and overpowered him.

Alerted by Danish intelligence, police had shadowed the two since their arrival and decided to nab them as soon as they got their hands on explosives.

"We found a detonator in the suicide belt," said Ifo Sako, chief of counter-terrorism for the Bosnian federal police. "Only a crazy individual, or someone about to do something, keeps a detonator hooked up to explosives."

Police also arrested Bajric, Ikanovic and a third Bosnian. A search turned up a video of a masked Bektasevic and another man posing with rifles, bomb timers, ammunition and a grenade-launcher.

"These weapons are going to be used against Europe, against those whose forces are in Iraq and Afghanistan," Bektasevic declared in the video.

But police could not find those weapons or identify the second man. Bektasevic had conducted reconnaissance on international troop contingents, investigators say, but his exact target in a city full of foreign troops, embassies and relief agencies remains unclear.

Intelligence officials had wanted to keep watching the young suspects, said Vjek Vukovic, an assistant security minister who is leading a crackdown that recently stripped more than 300 foreign suspected militants of their passports. But the police insisted on quick arrests, he said.

"I am sure the network was much bigger," he said. "Who knows how many got away?"

Nonetheless, phone and Internet clues indicated that the cell in Bosnia was in contact with suspects in Western Europe and North America. Investigators from half a dozen countries picked up the leads.



Violent struggle

Three days after the Sarajevo arrests, the second domino fell.

British police already had been watching Tsouli for some time, investigators said. Now they raided the basement apartment in West London and arrested him after a violent struggle, according to Bosnian court documents. Two other suspects also were arrested.

Police accused all three of credit card fraud for "financing terror at home and abroad," documents say. Tsouli and another man also face charges of plotting a bomb attack in Britain.

The Copenhagen group was rounded up five days after the Britons.

After extended surveillance in Atlanta, the FBI arrested Ahmed, 23, last July as he returned from a trip allegedly to seek terrorist training in Pakistan.

Sadequee, 21, fled to Bangladesh, got married and spent eight months there before authorities captured him and sent him back. Both men are charged with conspiracy and providing material support to a terrorist group.

Also last summer, Canadian police rounded up 17 suspects in Toronto. They are charged with a bomb plot and conspiring to take legislators hostage and behead them in Parliament.

The defendants in London, Atlanta and Toronto have pleaded innocent, and trials are likely to begin this year.

In January, a Bosnian court convicted five men including Bektasevic, who was sentenced to 15 years, and Cesur, who received 13 years.

The next month, a jury convicted four youths in Copenhagen on terrorism and theft charges. The judge sentenced Abu-Lifa to seven years in jail, but overturned the other terrorism verdicts, citing insufficient proof.

That mixed outcome shows the difficulties of prosecution when a case involves extremist activity on the Internet. Investigators are still learning about the online culture, and experts say that European judges in particular are often skeptical of computer-related evidence.

On the other hand, militants who operate on the Internet leave a trail that makes them vulnerable when they venture onto real-world battlefields, investigators say.

"Irhabi downloaded an image that says a lot to me," Kohlmann said. "It was a caricature labeled 'Beware of the Nerd.' It's like he's saying he revels in his geek status. And he thinks nobody can catch him. He wasn't a stupid guy. But at some point, he starts believing he's untouchable."

[Casey]

He overtook :O the brothers of electronic battle on Bratha site Al Rafdi Fnrgoualmsharka

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In the Name of Allah, the Benificent, the Merciful

( they promised for them what could from a strength and from the steeds of war you terrify by it an enemy Allah and your enemy and others you do not ascend them Allah knows them ) ... The verse
Thanks god the Lord of the Worlds and the prayer for the envoy are the mercy of a Lel-Halmin
As for till now :

My beloved brothers in network forum are Muslim praise be to God and the favor today is established an electronic battle on Bratha site Al Rafdi and the battle starts exactly at the seven o'clock 7 : 00 evenings in the local time of Holy Mecca then we hope from the honorable brothers the participation in this blessed battle then from the duty the taking by all material and fiducial reasons of the battle then the issues duty is Lel-Adoubkl what came from strength of a main and important matter then he is an obedience to Allah and as for the victory then he we refer it to Allah any by its meaning that we, a taking by the reasons from a material and fiducial preparation to the battle and do not look into the victory then the victory from Allah and do not make the victory is a reason to enter the battle and from the guidance Allah .Therefore then we do not neglect a certain kind from the battles then the media battle a pressure does not decrease from the military battle then I hope from all of the participations in this battle, the sincerity of intention and the taking by the reasons

And God willing the program we will put the program specified for the attack half hour before the attack date
The brigade term so that it does not realize the issues then they take their caution

And as for by the ratio the date Lel-Akhoualaraqien at eight 8 : 00 evenings in the local time of Baghdad

No forget you Yakhoua that the attack unit and its thickness extremely important then we hope the commitment to the date and so that it knows the absent present
To we hit the blow of a single man

And from the Allah of victory and reconciliation

Your brother is in Abduooo_ Allah

[Casey]

He overtook :O the brothers of electronic battle on Bratha site Al Rafdi Fnrgoualmsharka


And God willing the program we will put the program specified for the attack half hour before the attack date
The brigade term so that it does not realize the issues then they take their caution



Peace, mercy and blessings of Allah be upon you :
My brothers are this the program ties


http://www. gulfup.com/up/download.php?file=m25369.zip
http://www. gulfup.com/up/download.php?file=k25540.zip

http://www. gulfup.com/up/download.php?file=Y25632.zip
http://www. gulfup.com/up/download.php?file=Y25632.zip

They lowered it and after the appointment you will find on the right of the program a group of simple options
We choose from it the option before the last in the missiles digit which is the highest present number .......
And the digit of the higher number to the planes ..........
And we put the address of the targeted site so from not an increase and no decrease ............
www.burathanews.com

A very important note ..........

Toward the infliction of program they closed a struggling Al Faerousat at you ..................


And Al Nasser's Allah and no Nasser are other ................


Allah is the greatest ..........Allah is the greatest .........And the honour to Allah and to its messenger and to the ones who believed
( the brave father Jordanian )

[Casey]

May 16, 2007

"Web site" baffles Internet terrorism trial judge


By Mark Trevelyan

LONDON (Reuters) - A British judge admitted on Wednesday he was struggling to cope with basic terms like "Web site" in the trial of three men accused of inciting terrorism via the Internet.

Judge Peter Openshaw broke into the questioning of a witness about a Web forum used by alleged Islamist radicals.

"The trouble is I don't understand the language. I don't really understand what a Web site is," he told a London court during the trial of three men charged under anti-terrorism laws.

Prosecutor Mark Ellison briefly set aside his questioning to explain the terms "Web site" and "forum." An exchange followed in which the 59-year-old judge acknowledged: "I haven't quite grasped the concepts."

Violent Islamist material posted on the Internet, including beheadings of Western hostages, is central to the case.

Concluding Wednesday's session and looking ahead to testimony on Thursday by a computer expert, the judge told Ellison: "Will you ask him to keep it simple, we've got to start from basics."

Younes Tsouli, 23, Waseem Mughal, 24, and Tariq al-Daour, 21, deny a range of charges under Britain's Terrorism Act, including inciting another person to commit an act of terrorism "wholly or partly" outside Britain.

Tsouli and Mughal also deny conspiracy to murder. Al-Daour has pleaded not guilty to conspiring with others to defraud banks, credit card and charge card companies.

Prosecutors have told the jury at Woolwich Crown Court, east London, that the defendants kept car-bomb-making manuals and videos of how to wire suicide vests as part of a campaign to promote global jihad, or holy war.

The trial continues.

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?alias=web-site-baffles-internet&chanID=sa003&modsrc=reuters

[Klaus]

www.homelandsecurityus.com

18 May 2007: A posting on an Arabic language forum earlier this week has garnered the attention and received updated embellishment by an Internet poster known as "Raken Ben Williams." For those unfamiliar with the name "Raken Ben Williams" or his history in counter-terrorism and media venues, he has been presented as an "al Qaeda undercover soldier" possibly living inside the U.S. or Great Britain. He is also the purported author of an Internet posting called the "Last Warning to American People" that gained media attention in the spring of last year.

According to the London daily Arabic language newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat on November 8, 2005, Raken Ben Williams was introduced by The Global Islamic Media Front. Raken ben Williams is reportedly a "new soldier" in the Islamic war against the West, and is a "white Englishman who converted to Islam."

For a comprehensive analysis about Raken Ben Williams, consider consulting the article published by Michelle Malkin on March 12, 2006. Meanwhile, the latest posting by Raken Ben Williams that has yet to be circulated among the Arabic language forums or reported in the media was obtained by "Archangel." The initial posting appeared earlier this week, followed by additions made by "Raken Ben Williams." An analysis by Archangel follows the "warning" published by Raken Ben Williams.

Begin post [formatted for easier reading]:

Quote: For your information operations are ready, but we are waiting for orders from our leader Sheikh higher ((Osama bin Laden, may God preserve him))

Quote: 1) a more qualitative operation in the largest cities of America and nerve economic fundamentals:

Not surprisingly, these operations strike nuclear weapons deadly and destructive, even in the number of trucks, which are not detectable by the grace of God, and the selection of three cities nominate President, are:

* New York again: because it is the backbone of economic + proof that God is with us and that the mujahideen are capable of beating several times.

* Los Angeles: to be the most important city on the west coast of the States atheist.

* Florida : because it is the gathering on the east coast in addition to the presence of the Kennedy Center for Space Research. - Could increase the number as demand will and to include for example - as long as we dreamed and only God knows, we witnessed the right-:

* Texas, to contain the largest American oil companies, [companies Bush and paucity Riza Rice, Rumsfeld and poorly evangelists from the new Crusaders]

* Seattle, the strategic position on the Canadian border in the far west of the United States. We do not forget Washington, of course, the political status.

End post

An extensive analysis of this posting notes that this was most likely written using an English keyboard by an English speaking person. This is clear by the punctuation used in the article. For instance, the colons and semi-colons are on the right when they should be on the left:

وحقيقة يا أحبابي الإرهابيين أنني متوقع للضربات من فترة طويلة وكلي شوق إليها إعادة لأمجاد غزوات الثلاثاء، ولا سيما بعد ظهور رسالة أخينا: راكان بن ويليمز -حفظه الله أنى كان- والتي قال فيها:

and the asterisks are on the left when they should be on the right:

* نيويورك من جديد: لأنها عصب اقتصادي+ إثبات بأن الله معنا وأن المجاهدين قادرون على الضرب مرات ومرات.
* لوس أنجيلوس: لأنها أهم مدينة على الساحل الغربي للولايات الملحدة.
* فلوريدا: لأنها منطقة تجمع على الساحل الشرقي بالإضافة لوجود مركز كينيدي للبحوث الفضائية.
- يمكن زيادة العدد حسب الطلب بحول الله ليشمل مثلاً -طالما أننا نحلم ومن يعلم إلا الله بانبلاج الحق-:
* تكساس، لاحتوائها على أكبر شركات النفط الأمريكية، [شركات بوش وكندرة ريزا رايس ، ورامسفيلد وأشياعهم من الإنجيليين الصليبيين الجدد]
* سياتل، لمركزها الاستراتيجي على الحدود الكندية في أقصى غرب الولايات المتحدة.
ولا ننسى واشنطن طبعاً، المركز السياسي.

Arabic reads right to left in its true form. This posting does not. Additionally, the translation is "too clean," suggesting that someone who either speaks both English and Arabic created and posted this, or they used translation software to transpose from English to Arabic.

Either this is a planted or "seeded" post (noting that we have previously identified self-proclaimed analysts who have been caught doing such things in the past), or it is actually from an English "Raken Ben Williams," or lastly, it is from a good hoax writer.

In any event, this will eventually make its rounds in counter-terrorism venues. It's intelligence value, however, remains under analysis. With the specificity that this particular posting provides, we would be remiss not to publish it - well in advance of it being circulated in the more commonly frequented al Qaeda Arabic language forums.

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Note from the Northeast Intelligence Network investigative analysts: We agree with an assessment made by a man named John Noonan at "The Officer's Club:"

"Real 'large scale operations' come after periods of relative tranquility. Surprise is the most important factor in war, a condition religiously followed by off-the-grid asymmetrically minded AQ types..."

[Casey]

A Speech Of Rakan Ben Williams, Al-Qaeda under cover soldier USA

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The coming blows are in America middle ...When and how ? { ...He decreased might if he is soon } ( a dangerous is !)

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* ( In the Name of Allah, the Benificent, the Merciful ) *
[ warning is !: For the benefit from the article by the greatest amount from the effectiveness it is hoped the concentration with the conscious reading and the closure of the rest of pages ]

The coming blows are in America middle ... When ? when ? when ? and how ?
This is only an area of the wide imagination and the fertility of the brothers and the brothers - God bless them - to record their opinion and their expect in the coming blow in the change of America God willing,

And she has thought of a scenario in my head and Allah a more knowledgeable rose and I ask Allah rose that it is these blows ..

A relative
A very close relative

With One and Only permission

And a truth O my terrorist lovers that I am expecting the blows from a long period and a total interested in it a return to battles glories Tuesday and specially after the appearance of our brother message : Rakan Bin Welimz - Allah kept him how was - and that said in it :


A quotation :

And for your knowledge then the operations are ready but we expect the orders from the Commander in Chief the sheikh ( Osama bin Laden that Allah kept )
So that he decides what sees it suitable either the hitting or the waiting

And Allah is that there is from the tricks and the tactics what will amaze you God willing and will make you kneel their dimension that sooner or later but after your loss of more blood and many of the destruction

O Allah is !!! And Allah is a wonderful view of close operations God willing if it imagines them man and my sister after the last warning . Where the brother Rakin says :

A quotation :

And know you that this warning is the last warning of you then if you neglected it then will force sorry that we execute destructive operations in all America states and will not have mercy on you at that time because you are the one who brought the destruction for yourselves and the one who refused the truce with the Muslims and the one who supported the White House thieves and you were pleased with their actions and not for you and Allah from us is except the equal treatment

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And as for a scenario the fall of the American united atheist states in my opinion - by God's power he rose - then he in stages we ask Allah that it hastens them, and may be so and a more knowledgeable Allah :


1)An occurrence more than a qualitative operation in the biggest American cities and in the main economic nerves :

And no wonder that these operations are a blow by the destructive and destructive nuclear weapon and if by a number of the trucks amount that can not be disclosed thank God, and nominates the choice of three main cities, she :

* New York again : Because it is an economic mainstay + a confirmation that Allah is with us and that the militants are capable of the hitting times and times .

* Los Angeles : Because it is the most important city on the western coast to the atheist states .

* Florida : Because it is gathering region on the eastern coast with the addition to the presence of Kennedy's center to the space researches .

- The increase of number is possible according to the request by Allah ability so that it includes for example - as long as that we dream and who knows except Allah with the emergence of right - :

* Texas, for its inclusion of the biggest companies of the American oil, [ Bush's companies Riza Rice's rarity, and Rumsfeld and their Shiites from the new crusade Evangelists ]

* Seattle, to its strategic center on the Canadian borders in far west of The United States .

And we do not forget Washington of course, the political center .

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2)As a result to this qualitative shift for the brotherhood in Al-Qaeda - Allah supported them - the next God willing Glory be to Him will happen :ا - the occurrence of a sharp and sudden descent in the economy .

By - the occurrence of a big number of the deaths and the sustainable nuclear defects .

ج - the infidel support of a big number of the peoples for the blow for them who swirled it with America : ( Japan in particular ), and we do not forget Cuba and Venezuela, and a sharp decrease for the American popular support of its government from the Americans power themselves then they understand only the blood language .

Dr. - the articular and more important point she : The withdrawal of the infidel armies after the addiction of the defeat cup the sudden from the Muslims lands because of :

1 * the aid operations from the US army to its affected people are Al Mnkous [ you mention Allah soldier - so to speak - Hurricane Katrina is !!].

2 * a sharp decrease and a complete failure in the fulfillment of the army budget, leads God willing to matters from it :

Hroub's Prof., a number of soldiers from the army and their non will for the return to those countries, which mean their keeping a subject either for the killing in the countries that raise in them the Islamic rituals or their entrance in the Allah's religion and Afrin [ they remembered quantity he embraced Islam after September battles !!].

By - the occurrence of a rebellion on a large scale and internal separations between the soldiers and the officers and this a wanted represented the Battle of Al-Ahzab .

ج - the non ability of the armament until by the fuel to flight the planes because of the economic defeat .

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3)The exercise of the vital and effective role in the Middle East as the next is from ... Our beloved country :

The country of Islamic Iraq - Allah preserved its booty on generality of the Muslims -

* an important note : Man the reader noticed that the escaping US army will force by Allah ability, his will of leaving his sites and their discovery, and leaving his mechanisms and their more important the air force then read and describes as this basis .

1)Sharp blows from the Islamic state to the apostasy edifices are marked by the violence because of the closeness of the dawn appearance and the imminent one and a more knowledgeable Allah by the serious beginning to the epics and near Al Mahdi's appearance - peace be upon him - which leads to two matters :

ا - a great massacre in the army and the police the apostates .

By - the defeat of who remained and its surrender and its submission to the sultan of the Islamic country of Iraq .

2)Beginning * the golden Islamic conquests age * again thank God he rose by the country soldiers .

And this golden age is marked by what follows by Allah ability :
* the hatred of an a big number of the true faithful young men and their support of Iraq .

* the beginning of the expansion in the application of God's decree so that it includes : The liberation of Mohamed's island - peace be upon him - from the influence of Saloul's family + the liberation of countries in the east of the Jordan River from the ruling American family is ! And the cleaning of Islamic countries of the tyrants .

* the great march towards the beloved Palestine with the internal support who is present God willing from the sons of the triumphant sect on Palestine protections that Allah guarded and with the appearance of leaders true to Allah, after fading the people dreams by the false appearances to the movements the Al Mtmslma and the return of the nation with truth of its Lord book and its prophet Sunna - peace be upon him - and its arbitration in the life .

* the liberation of Bait Al-Maqdis after violent and crushing battles makes speak in it the interdiction and the trees except Al Ghrqd - as in a Sahih Muslim - God willing .

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4)The fourth stage and the task : Fatah is Roman - Al Dgal and seeking refuge in Allah follow it - and also the fall of Washington by the militants hands ...

And in this stage by Allah ability it rose and its strength will be with the militants - after the guidance of an Allah for them - the factors of many support from them :
Big numbers and peoples supporting to Al Mahdi - peace be upon him - and the triumph in this round of a single party ...He is the divine party no not :

{ Laghlbn Allah wrote I and my messengers Allah is strong and dear } [ the argument :21]

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5)This great shrine ends - God willing - after the epics and the killing of Al Dgal - May Allah protect us from it - with the extension of the Islam influence over the earth areas :

And this its Hadith proof peace be upon him in Musnad Al-Imam Ahmed, the ruler and Ibn Hban - and the dismissal of Imam Ahmad - :

( about Tamim Al Darye he said
I heard the messenger of Allah peace be upon him that says so that they reach this matter is what the night and the day reached and Allah does not leave Madaren house and no hairs except Allah inserted him into this religion with noble glory or with the humiliation of a submissive a glory Allah reinforces by him Islam and a humiliation Allah humiliates by him the disbelief

And Tamim Al Daryo was saying that have known that in my Prophet's Family he has been right who submitted from them the good, the honour, the glory and has injured who he was from them an infidel the humiliation is Walssagharu and the tribute )

And also what he is in a Sahih Muslim from Jaber Bin Abdullah's Hadith - may Allah be pleased with them - :

( I heard the prophet peace be upon him that says that a sect of my nation was still fighting on the right apparent to the Doomsday that said then Isa Ibn Mariam descends peace be upon him then their prince says come pray for us then he says no some of you on some princes were kind Allah this nation ) .

O the jihad rule lions in all of the earths .. The stability the stability until the death !
And O our country men the Islamic country of Iraq .. The stability the stability until the death !

And O Taurus Mountains braves in the jihad rule in the Islamic Morocco .. You repeat it a greatest full moon she touches the infidels by the fire Al-Shafa and Al-Watr !!!

He says Exalted be He who said glory be to :

{...Fsinghdoun to you their heads and say when he say might that it is soon } [ the Night Journey :51]

[ now man the awakening is hoped from the effect of article !! And the return to the reality with working for its change ]

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( I dedicate this article to the emir of the believers our beloved sheikh Omar Al Baghdadi's father - Allah kept it - a love and a support )

Your brother in Allah /
Kandahar father Al Zarkoi
The Salafi Raslan Bin Abdullah the Shami
Sunday night 25 - Rabi II - 1428 of the migration of the chosen lover - peace be upon him -
13-05 - 2007 AD

Important notifications :

- The publication of article was delayed to artistic circumstances in the Internet .

- To more of the information around the Signs of the Hour he reconsiders a book : ( the Dooms Day portents ) to its author : Abdullah Bin Ghniman Al Ghfili who is a good book in his collection and do not know his author condition .

- For the scientific legitimate consolidation for the giving by the nuclear weapon he reconsiders a book : ( a thesis in the judgement of the use of the weapons of mass destruction against the infidels ) to its writer the His Eminence Sheikh : Nasser Bin Hamad Al Fhd - freeing his capture Allah - .

- This article as mentioned that is not guessing at the unknown and a prediction but an expectation in the light of the Book and the Sunna with the understanding of reality and more knowledgeable Allah, and its linking to the result on a great wish from Allah by the coming Al Bashaer and for the hour portents then she came in more than a verse and a talk and the reconciliation between it took place in order in the light of the Book and the Sunna also from the scientists .

This and a more knowledgeable Allah and Allah invoked peace upon Mohamed and upon its family and its friends and greeted .

* Allah rewarded a wealth with each unknown soldier that do publish it what could to that way ; approving of the monotheists eyes, teasing of the apostates and the infidels as a wholes, then the referring on the good as its doer [ a Muslim ] .

[Casey]

Saudis arrest three Qaeda suspects

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(AFP)

5 June 2007

RIYADH - Saudi authorities said on Tuesday they had arrested three members of the Saudi branch of Al Qaeda, including a leading member suspected of being the group’s link to the outside world.


That man was named as Abu Ussaid Al Falluji, a Saudi, who occupied a ‘top position in their deviant organisation,’ the interior ministry said in statement carried by the state news agency SPA.

‘Through his information role over the Internet ... he advanced to become the link between the followers of the deviant group and its sympathisers outside and inside the homeland,’ it added.

‘Deviant group’ is the term Saudi authorities used to refer to the Al Qaeda branch in the kingdom.

A second Saudi suspect was identified as Abu Abdullah Al Najdi, said to be a member of a group attempting to publish a new edition of a jihadist publication named ‘Sawt Al Jihad’ (The Voice of Jihad).

The ministry did not say when and where the two men were arrested.

A third suspect was arrested in the Muslim holy city of Medina while attempting to post another jihadist publication online. The ministry did not identify him, nor disclose the date of his arrest, but said he was a foreigner.

Al Qaeda had said in a February edition of Sawt Al Jihad that it was planning major operations aimed at driving Western interests out of the Arabian peninsula.

Al Qaeda has been responsible for a wave of violence that has shaken the country since May 2003.

At least 90 civilians, 55 members of the security services and 136 militants, have been killed since then, according to official figures.

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2007/June/middleeast_June75.xml§ion=middleeast

[Casey]

alsader.com hacked

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[Casey]

Singapore detains suspected jihadist, 4 alleged terror group members

The Associated Press
Saturday, June 9, 2007

SINGAPORE: Singaporean authorities said they have detained a local man who intended to join mujahedeen fighters in Afghanistan after being influenced by extremist propaganda on the Internet, and four suspected members of the Southeast Asian terror group Jemaah Islamiyah.

All are being held under the Internal Security Act, which allows arrest without charges and indefinite detention without trial, the Home Affairs Ministry said.

The suspected jihadist, a 28-year-old former lecturer named Abdul Basheer Abdul Kader, traveled to a Middle Eastern country last October to learn Arabic to communicate with mujahedeen fighters, it said in a statement late Friday.

Abdul Basheer was planning to train with Lashkar-e-Taiba militants in Pakistan before crossing over into Afghanistan to fight alongside the Taliban, the ministry said.

Before his arrest in the unidentified Middle Eastern country in February, Abdul Basheer had purchased an air ticket to Pakistan, but he was repatriated to Singapore before he could make the flight, the ministry said.

It described Abdul Basheer as a "self radicalized" former lawyer and lecturer at a school who in late 2004 decided that he had to become part of what radical Muslims consider a holy war, or jihad, to defend territories and ideals they see as being under attack by the West.

It said his views were shaped by radical discourse that he actively followed on the Internet.

"There is a troubling new phenomenon today of individuals who are self-radicalized, independent of direct recruitment by established terrorist groups," the ministry said.

Authorities also detained four Singaporeans suspected of being members of Jemaah Islamiyah, a loose network of Muslim militants, between November 2006 and April, while five previously detained JI suspects were released at the beginning of June, it said. It did not explain the delay in announcing the detentions.

The four detainees, identified as Ishak Mohamed Noohu, Mohamed Hussain Saynudin, Mohamed Yassin Mohamed Nooh and Ibrahim Mohd Noor, are alleged to have undergone terrorist training with various militant groups in the Philippines, Pakistan or Malaysia, the statement said.

The ministry said they had plotted attacks on foreign targets in the city-state or helped raise funds for Jemaah Islamiyah.

Singapore — a close ally of the U.S. — was recently named an al-Qaida target according to a transcript from al-Qaida operative Khalid Sheikh Mohamed's so-called Combatant Status Review Tribunal, held recently at the U.S. military detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The island nation was also the apparent target of a plot by Jemaah Islamiyah to blow up the U.S. Embassy, a U.S. Naval facility and other Western targets in 2001. Nearly 40 alleged operatives were arrested in a security swoop then.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/09/asia/AS-GEN-Singapore-Terror-Arrests.php

[Casey]

Plan to block terror recruiting websites
June 21, 2007 12:00am

THE Federal Government is considering "screening" technology to stop terrorist groups from recruiting vulnerable young members in Australia over the internet.
Attorney-General Philip Ruddock told The Daily Telegraph yesterday the software plan - still in its infancy - was just one option in the escalating online war against terrorists.

"At the moment the internet is the biggest problem in this war and we are only going after people we can get our hands on, but that is changing," Mr Ruddock said.

"We are looking at ways and means of using technology that detects hate publications and removes them.

"To do it effectively we will need the help of law enforcement agencies in the US and Europe."

Mr Ruddock revealed he had himself visited terrorist recruitment websites - to gain an understanding of how they operated - and believed many of them presented a "dire threat".

"But how do you go about stopping something that crosses so many jurisdictions?" he asked.

"As we have seen with child pornography, for every benefit the internet brings there is a downside."

Mr Ruddock will today introduce legislation making it an offence to produce or disseminate material that "advocates" terrorism, such as offensive books and DVDs.

He also launched a savage attack on New South Wales Premier Morris Iemma, accusing him of failing to support changes to the terrorism legislation.

"The Commonwealth is going to legislate on it anyway. I have worked with the states to find a solution and all they are doing is frustrating it," he said.

"This needs to be introduced before APEC (in September). It needs to be introduced right away because the public expects it."

However, he acknowledged the internet - with its lack of controls and global network - presented one of the biggest threats to national security.

"It's very disturbing and I have been on some of the chatrooms and sites that promote terrorism," he said.

Mr Ruddock made particular reference to the Granville Boys High School video circulated on the internet, in which students posted race hate messages and posed with illegal firearms.

"As we saw with the Granville High School incident, some of these messages are getting on to the internet and into schoolyards," he said.

Mr Ruddock also took aim at critics who trivialised anti-terror laws by claiming they attacked free speech.

"The idea we should be stepping back and saying terrorism is not a serious problem is ridiculous," he said.

"The reality is something like 10,000 people were training with al-Qaeda before September 11, 2001.

"They were not training for picnics. Some of those people are here. We are not going to say how many, but they are here."

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21941947-421,00.html#

[Casey]

innovations-report 22.06.2007
URL: http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/physik_astronomie/bericht-86280.html

DIY Anti-Satellite System
22.06.2007

Satellite tracking software freely available on the Internet and a smattering of textbook physics could be used by any organisation that can get hold of an intermediate range rocket to mount an unsophisticated attack on military or civilian satellites. Such an attack would require modest engineering capability and only a limited budget. That is according to researchers writing in Inderscience Publishers' International Journal of Critical Infrastructures.
A terrorist organisation or rogue state could threaten essential satellite systems, say Adrian Gheorghe of Old Dominion University Norfolk, in Virginia, USA and Dan Vamanu of "Horia Hulubei" National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, in Bucharest, Romania. Military satellites, global positioning systems, weather satellites and even satellite TV systems could all become victims of such a simple attack.

Gheorghe and Vamanu have carried out an analysis of just how easy it could be to knock out strategic satellites, their findings suggest that dozens of systems on which military and civilian activities depend make near-space a vulnerable environment. The team used a so-called "mathematical game" and textbook physics equations for ballistics to help them build a computer model to demonstrate that anti-satellite weaponry is a real possibility.

Accuracy and elegance are not issues in carrying out a satellite attack, the researchers say, as long as the projectile hits the satellite. In fact, all it would take to succeed with an amateurish, yet effective anti-satellite attack would be the control of an intermediate range missile, which is well within the reach of many nations and organisations with sufficient funds, and a college-level team dedicated to the cause. "Any country in possession of intermediate range rockets may mount a grotesquely unsophisticated attack on another's satellites given the political short-sightedness that would be blind to a potentially devastating retaliation," the researchers say.

On January 11, 2007, China deliberately destroyed one of its own weather satellites in a test, which some analysts suggested as having the potential to revive a techno-political race believed to be defunct since the 1980s. According to Gheorghe and Vamanu that was the cool analytical view, but some hot diplomats are quoted as saying this demonstration is inconsistent with international efforts to avert an arms race in space and so undermining security.

"While it may be true that, when it comes to nuts and bolts, things may not be quite as simple as they sound here, the bare fact remains - it can be done." Their conclusions suggest that the risk of deliberate satellite sabotage should be placed higher on the security agenda.

Jim Corlett | Quelle: alphagalileo

[Casey]

When jihadists go online

Noor Huda Ismail, Jakarta

Aris Widodo and Arif Syaifudin were among the suspected terrorists the police arrested on June 9. The two, police say, were tasked by alleged Jamaah Islamiyah military wing commander Abu Dujana to send and receive emails from JI counterparts here and abroad.

The terror group's use of the Internet as a medium of communication is a phenomenon that looks paradoxical for a movement generally regarded as anti-Western. In the World Wide Web, they discovered a friendly method of communication. It fulfills their need for secrecy and camouflage more effectively than any other medium, and allows them to transmit messages around the globe instantly.

The trend to utilize the Internet by jihadists, especially via email and websites, as a central means to disseminate or propagate their beliefs, and quite often for fund raising, is not a new development. A diligent jihadist can easily surf the Internet and finds sites in order to keep up with jihad activities in Afghanistan, Iraq, Chechnya and Israel.

One such example is Al-Muhajirun. This is the Internet site of a British organization that openly declares its intention to work for the establishment of a caliphate.

On jihad, its website says: "The Muslim, if he does not get the honor to participate in the battlefield with mujahideen (jihad warrior), he should be engaged on speaking about the jihad, promoting the jihad and mujahideen."

Here in Indonesia, the use of email as a means of communication is very common among jihadists. It suggests that the terrorists are not the ignorant individuals most people in our society think. In fact, they are computer savvy and understand how to exploit the Internet to cement their ties and networks.

An Afghan veteran and JI talent scout for suicide bombers, Tony Togar, in an interview in a Medan prison said that Asmar Latin Sani, the JW Marriott Hotel suicide bomber, sent him an email saying that he was ready to "get married" as a code for being a suicide bomber.

Abdullah Sunata, a former leader of hard-line group KOMPAK in Ambon, used the code "sexy girl" to communicate with Dulmatin and Umar Patek, who sought sanctuary with the Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines.

Also, when JI still had a branch in Pakistan, Gun Gun, Hambali's younger brother, was asked to act as an intermediary for email exchanges with alleged al-Qaeda operatives.

After his release from prison, Abu Bakar Ba'asyir made some positive comments to his followers. "Don't do bombings here in Indonesia," he told his followers.

However, his "fatwa" discouraging violence in Indonesia has not been well received by fringe young and impassioned jihadi recruits. Young jihadis have instead turned to the Internet to download fatwas from mainly Middle Eastern jihadists, including fatwas from the late Jordanian born Zarqawi and a jailed Saudi Arabian cleric, Al Maqdisi.

These examples illustrate how effective jihadi websites have become in turning the hearts and minds of young Muslims toward radicalism. The consequences of jihadi websites are likely to reverberate far beyond the artificial world of the Internet.

The various means to keep messages and information hidden online are a practice that jihadi groups will continue to build on and refine in the future. This may be part of the explanation for how in the last seven years JI has shown resilience as a clandestine organization and demonstrated an ability to adapt to internal rifts and crackdowns by the authorities.

The ease of the Internet is also the reason why jihadists are keen using it. One jihadist commented to me that "the sprawling and anarchic nature of web makes it easy to operate: Just put up a site, run it until it is closed down, and then put it up again somewhere else".

Therefore, there is no choice for Indonesian authorities and beyond but to constantly monitor such websites to track and trace the war that has been declared in both the electronic and real worlds.

An ideology of violence still occupies the minds of a fringe group of impassionate young recruits who are disappointed with their old leaders, whom they believe have abandoned the call of jihad.

Without careful and well-planed efforts and initiatives to counter their virulent justification of violence, the Indonesian government and beyond may suffer from more terrorist attacks, which although simply planed and implemented can still kill many people.

http://www.thejakartapost.com/detaileditorial.asp?fileid=20070702.E02&irec=1

[Casey]

Trio admit inciting terrorism on Internet

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Reuters

July 4, 2007 at 9:24 AM EDT

LONDON — Three men said to be linked to al Qaeda, including one using an Arabic name meaning "Terrorist 007", have pleaded guilty to inciting terrorism over the Internet in the first case of its kind in Britain, police said on Wednesday.

The men, said by prosecutors to have close ties to Osama bin Laden's network, pleaded guilty to inciting acts of terrorism "wholly or partly" outside Britain via Web sites which advocated the killing of non-Muslims.

Moroccan-born Younes Tsouli, Briton Waseem Mughal and Jordanian-born Tariq al-Daour changed their original not guilty pleas part way through a trial which had begun at Woolwich Crown Court in east London in April.

Police said the men had set up Web sites, using stolen credit cards and identities, to promote al Qaeda propaganda, including the beheading of Western hostages.

Officers said they believed it was the first time anyone had been convicted in Britain of using the Internet to incite terrorism. In another unique aspect of the case, detectives said Mr. Tsouli and Mr. Daour had never met and had only communicated online.

Prosecutors said the men had also kept car bomb-making manuals and videos of how to wire suicide vests as part of the campaign to promote global violent jihad, or holy war.

Other documents included "The Mujahideen Poisons Handbook" and "The Mujahideen Explosives Handbook'.

Mr. Tsouli, the suspected ringleader, used the online identity "irhabi007" — the Arabic word for terrorist, followed by the code number of the fictional British spy James Bond.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070704.wbritqaeda/BNStory/International/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20070704.wbritqaeda

[Casey]

The Media Sword Campaign: How can I participate? What can I do? & What is my role?
26-06-2007

The Media Sword Campaign:

How can I participate?

What can I do? & What is my role?


The Media Sword Campaign, to defend the state of Islam

{…but if they seek help from you in the matter of religion then it is your duty to help (them)…} 008:072

Praise be to Allah, Lord of the heavens and the earth, and Lord of the great throne. And may peace and prayers be upon the leader of Mujahedeen and the white-headed and white-footed, who was sent with sword before the judgment day to establish worship for Allah only, and upon his family, companions and the followers.


Brothers of Islam, Jihad supporters, Lovers of “Al-Taoba” and “Al-Anfal” ..

Here is our long waited media campaign has shone at last .. That campaign that cost your brothers in the GIMF days, weeks and months of preparation .. Long nights did they spend and beautiful hours did they sacrifice in order for it to see light.

They have no difference from most of you .. some of them are students at schools, universities and institutes, teachers in classes and doctors in clinics and hospitals .. some of them are married and others are singles. All of them have responsibilities .. just like you!!. However, all these life responsibilities couldn’t inhibit their enthusiasm and their determination to work and support our religion.

My brothers, I swear that one of them did postpone his marriage for months and devoted these months to help his brothers, some others dedicated their beautiful times with their families and children sitting behind the monitors doing their best to support the religion of Allah, and there are others who divorced their prosperous lives, lived by the least possible means of food and money (very little of money that one of us could spend in a picnic), uploading files and making links for you my dear brother .. all of them had sacrificed .. and they are still sacrificing and, after by the will of Allah, they will continue on that duty supporting the religion of Allah as far as they can, after they felt the guilt of staying without Jihad, without fighting with their souls and money.

They sacrificed just as their preceding brothers did on this way:

§ Sheikh Yuseif AL-Uyairy, may Allah’s mercy be upon him.

§ Sheikh Eysa AL-Oshan, may Allah’s mercy be upon him.

§ Sheikh Abu Hajar AL-Muqren, may Allah’s mercy be upon him.

§ Irhabi 007, may Allah release him

§ Saif AL-Deen AL-Kinany, may Allah’s mercy be upon him.

§ Mulla DAD Allah, may Allah’s mercy be upon him.

Those are some of them and the caravan is still on its way .. joined by those who are guided by Allah .. and many unlucky miss it. So, hurry up, my brothers, to catch up with the blessed caravan, which I swear that the glory of life and the winning in the Hereafter exist in it.

Dear brothers and sisters, here are some points that might help you participate in this campaign, so that no one has an excuse to stay behind not supporting his brothers.What we want from you, brothers and sisters, is to turn the forums into bee cells during the period of the campaign .. some help in publishing .. others renew the links .. others write articles .. others write poets, and everybody must feel radical changes in the forums during this campaign.

Here are the points:

A) The role of the administrators of forums, sites and blogs in this campaign: They have an essential role in this campaign by:

1- Putting the logo of the campaign in the forums, sites and blogs as a way expressing their support to the campaign.

2- Creating a special thread for the campaign in their forums to group all the subjects related to the campaign in order not to miss them in-between the other threads, making them easy to find.

3- Helping their brothers in the GIMF by opinion and experience.

B) The moderators of forums: The moderators are the unknown soldiers in forums. No one remember them in achievements, but they are the first to blamed in troubles. And any mistake by them might collapse the whole forum, as they are the guards of forums. Our brothers, moderators, we need you in:

1- Reacting strongly to anyone who tries to sow dissension between the Mujahideen through your forum.

2- Sticking the subjects that your forum’s members participate with in the campaign, thereby encouraging and supporting them.

3- Don’t accept threads and replies that contain no benefit, and encourage the members of your forums to work and participate in this campaign.

C) Supporters of Jihad in general: Dear brothers, you are the backbone of this campaign, it cannot proceed without your participation and work, it is all yours, dear brothers, and by you. So we expect a lot from you and don’t fail us .. Here is some of what is needed from you:

1- Any experts, especially in the following fields:

i. - Scholars (Islamic Shari’a Students)

ii. - Video’s montage

iii. - Translation to any language that you are good at

iv. - Uploading

v. - Designers (for websites, magazines, bulletins, …etc)

vi. - Hackers and security

If you have any of these skills, please contact us through our representative in any forum ..

Even if you don’t have any of these skills, don’t worry as there are many other things you might participate with like:

2- - Publishing the subjects of the campaign in forums, which is a mission that everyone can do, all you need is an email and a username, register in forums and publish .. just copy and paste!!

3- - Publishing in non-Jihadist forums

4- - Publishing in non-Islamic forums; like music, youth and sports forums .. The publisher here has to choose the best way when communicating with the visitors of these forums, as the way you talk to a member of a music forum isn’t the same that you use in Jihadist forums ..

And you shouldn’t just copy and paste here, but you have to choose the convenient subjects and words. What’s more important is watching the replays of the members and replying to them accordingly .. if there is some difficult issue, you can ask for help from your brothers in the Jihadist forums.

5- - Commenting in the various news agencies’ websites, like AL-Jazeera, AL-Arabiya …etc, even if your comment wasn’t published don’t get desperate, carry on, even if you comment with only one word, and try to put the name of campaign as a signature under your comments.

6- - Participation in the live programmes in TV channels, so after following the necessary security precautions you can call and participate in any program, especially those that talk about Jihad in Iraq, and try to mention that you are participating in the Media Sword Campaign defending the State of Islam after becoming on air, not before that .. As we said before, this shouldn’t be done unless you take all possible security precautions .. that will play very important role as millions will hear the name of the campaign and they will curiously search for it, may Allah enlighten the hearts of some of those who are watching the programme.

7- - Some of you make groups to email the live programs with large numbers of emails so that the interviewer or preparer would have to bring some of them out.

8- - Downloading the various releases of the campaign and publishing them among people, showing them to your family and friends. You can avoid being known by means like putting a CD in your friend’s bag without him noticing, or putting it in the bag of someone during shopping, putting it in the mail box of your neighbours, try to figure out someway to do that and surly you will find .. you can, for example, cooperate with your friends or brothers for everyone of you buy 100 DVD (for example) and publishing them among people after filling them with the releases of the campaign .. this part is easy and most of us can do it, as the price of the DVDs in the wholesale malls are cheap to afford.

Dear brothers,

There are many ways and methods in which you can join our campaign. It is easy and most of you can join in, by Allah’s will.So, organize yourselves, Jihad supporters, and start working, I swear that you will be rewarded for that, by Allah’s will.

Your leaders will be glad with you and your God will be satisfied with you as well.

The most important issue when joining the campaign is to use nice words and invite the others with nice advice and wise discussion .. Never say what angers Allah and keeps people away from you.

Allah the Almighty said:

{72 Lo! those who believed and left their homes and strove with their wealth and their lives for the cause of Allah, and those who took them in and helped them; these are protecting friends one of another. And those who believed but did not leave their homes ye have no duty to protect them till they leave their homes; but if they seek help from you in the matter of religion then it is your duty to help (them) except against a folk between whom and you there is a treaty. Allah is Seer of what ye do.}008:072

Allah is the only helper, and upon Him we rely.

And Allah was predominant in his career but most of mankind know not.

Written by,

garib_aldiyar

[Petronas]

Lovers of “Al-Taoba” and “Al-Anfal” "Al-Anfal" = Sura 8 [“I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads” … (8:12)]

"Al-Tawba" = Sura 9 [The "Verse of the Sword": “Slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush." (9:5); “Fight those who do not believe in Allah … until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection.” (9:29); “Fight the idolators utterly” (Qur’an 9:36)]

[Vancouver]

http://www3.telus.net:80/ldh/pix/upyours.JPG

[Vancouver]

www.qa3edoon.com
redirects to
http://mohajroon.net/suspended.page/
which suggests that the former operators are in the UK.

www.mohajroon.net
gets a mangled page. Judging from the html, it had some relation to
www.filmaclub.com
which is also out of business.

mohajroon.com and mohajroon.net have the same IP: 208.64.27.42

[Vancouver]

An imam called Mamour Fall, who was excreted from Italy back to Senegal in 2003,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3233438.stm
now has a blog in which he applauds bin Ladin, al-Zawahiri, and himself:
http://imamfall.splinder.com/

[Vancouver]

An imam called Mamour Fall, who was excreted from Italy back to Senegal in 2003,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3233438.stm
now has a blog in which he applauds bin Ladin, al-Zawahiri, and himself:
http://imamfall.splinder.com/

That blog has gone on the martyr pile. The Splinder company seems to be quite reputable, and it's in Italy -- an odd choice for a guy like Mamour Fall.

[Vancouver]

al-boraq.org is not responding.

[Vancouver]

Al-Boraq, Tajdeed, and this one
http://www.sada-alansar.com
are all dead it looks like.

[Vancouver]

http://newarabia.org/vb/index.php
-- a Sunni anti-Saud forum, strongly reminiscent of various sites run by Sa'ad al-Faqih.

[Vancouver]

http://www.almqdes.net/arabic/
A childish-looking site called the Jerusalem Jihad Network -- Wahhabi/Qaida sort of stuff, writings of Qutb, Maqdisi, Abu Qatada, bin Baz and one or two other Saudis, and (suspiciously) the Syrian Abu Basir at-Tartusi of Londonistan. Makes the ususal obeissances to bin Ladin and Zarqawi. Hosted in the US by Layered Technologies, but based in Europe I suspect. Is that you again, Tartusi?

[Vancouver]

http://www.almqdes.net/arabic/
A childish-looking site called the Jerusalem Jihad Network -- Wahhabi/Qaida sort of stuff, writings of Qutb, Maqdisi, Abu Qatada, bin Baz and one or two other Saudis, and (suspiciously) the Syrian Abu Basir at-Tartusi of Londonistan. Makes the ususal obeissances to bin Ladin and Zarqawi. Hosted in the US by Layered Technologies, but based in Europe I suspect. Is that you again, Tartusi?Account suspended ...

The logo of that outfit was very similar to the one in this new "Army of the Ummah" video
http://www.archive.org/download/ekhlaas5_210/view.zip
which seems to have been uploaded by Ekhlaas and is probably the video picked up by the Israeli press recently, and mentioned at Ekhlaas:
http://www.wincoast.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1115788&postcount=295

[Vancouver]

Ekhlaas, a fairly senior al-Qaida and Ansar al-Sunna platform, has been killed.
http://www.ekhlaas.org/forum/

[Vancouver]

Another big terrorist forum bites the dust:
http://www.almedad.com
It was hosted by British Telecom.
The URL has been taken over already, by a blogger.

[Vancouver]

Another big terrorist forum bites the dust:
http://www.almedad.com
The URL has been taken over already, by a blogger.The blogger claims to be, and very likely is, the same guy who ran the forum. Yesterday one of the forum admins said it would be locked up, temporarily at least, because of some security concern they were having.

[Vancouver]

Ekhlaas, a fairly senior al-Qaida and Ansar al-Sunna platform, has been killed.
http://www.ekhlaas.org/forum/Ekhlaas is already back, with a different URL, which I don't think I should blab just now.

[NYer]

Memri posts a list of Jihadist websites hosted in the US. (http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD167807)

[al-Canine]

Terror videos flood Internet

BY CAROL EISENBERG
11:45 PM EDT, August 12, 2007
WASHINGTON

The video has all the bells and whistles of a Nintendo game: Three times, a small white subcompact rams a vehicle with American flags, igniting a fireball that rips the cars to pieces in a simulation of the March 2006 suicide attack that killed American diplomat David Foy in Karachi, Pakistan.

The latest al-Qaida offering in the war of ideas -- complete with warnings that U.S. embassies are prime targets, the bomber's testimonial and footage of past carnage -- had been promoted for days before its Aug. 6 release with the Internet teaser: "Coming soon ... the big surprise."

Experts say al-Qaida and its offshoots are engaged in a jihadi sweeps season, flooding the Internet with propaganda in an increasingly aggressive campaign to radicalize and recruit a global army of believers. "The subtext is, 'We're still here. We're still alive. And we're in charge,'" said terror expert Brian Jenkins of the Rand Corporation think tank.

As of July 25, al-Qaida's media arm, As-Sahab, had released 67 videos this year -- averaging one every three days -- compared to an average of one every six days in 2006, said IntelCenter, a private company that tracks the postings. The busiest month was May 2007, when 17 videos were released.

"You are talking about a very large and sophisticated campaign that is addressed to the best and brightest of the Muslim world," said Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA's bin Laden unit. "They started in 2002 with a couple of electronic journals ... every few weeks, mostly with text and a few photographs, and have gone almost to a 24-hour news service.

"... We do a lot of worrying about Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya . What we should worry about is al-Qaida becoming the CNN of the Muslim world."

Exploiting new media

U.S. intelligence officials and terror experts say that jihadist groups are masterfully exploiting new media to reach out to disaffected young men who are seen as keys to building their movement. The videos are deftly executed, with computer simulations, voice-overs, English subtitles and copies in multiple languages. They draw eyeballs all over the world as they are recirculated on blogs, Web sites, chat rooms and bulletin boards.

"This is part of an overall growing sophistication of al-Qaida," said Charles Allen, assistant Homeland Security secretary for intelligence and analysis. "... the messages are certainly more intense and tailored at times to Western audiences. It's my view they're used for propaganda, not as forum for coded messages."

That is small consolation to those who see the communications as driving the spread of fanaticism and violence -- and the nation that invented the Internet and modern marketing lagging behind.

"We think of the war on terror in terms of a military contest," Jenkins said. "They think of it in terms of building an army of believers -- a completely different strategy. Unless we can effectively blunt that narrative ... we are condemned to a strategy that is the equivalent of stepping on cockroaches one at a time."

Although the extremist narrative, built around themes of humiliation, God, honor and heroism, often mystifies Westerners, Jenkins said it stirs deep feelings in the young men al-Qaida hopes to incite. "It is an American conceit that Osama bin Laden is engaged in a debate with us," he said. "We are merely foils. ... His narrative rests upon themes of faith and history that resonate throughout the Arab world."

Indeed, al-Qaida has been increasingly adept at using the videos to cast local political grievances in places such as Asia and Africa as part of its storyline of the clash of civilizations and, that way, drawing new groups into its orbit. Many analysts agree that those developments demand more than a simple military or police response.

"I think there is an increasing awareness that we can't simply kill and capture our way to success," said Frank Cilluffo, director of the Homeland Security Policy Institute at George Washington University. "It's time to start looking at attacking the adversary's strategies. And that requires taking a step back to understand his narrative. Why is it sticking? Why is it spreading? We have to unpack it and expose its inconsistencies."

Such efforts are under way, but a series of reports by the U.S. Government Accountability Office say they suffer from insufficient focus and manpower.

Not so, said Rena Pederson, a spokeswoman for Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy Karen Hughes.

"They may be producing more on the Internet, but so are we," Pederson said.

She said a slew of new initiatives has been undertaken, from the expansion of educational and economic outreach programs to the creation of a counterterror communications center to oversee rapid response to extremist messages.

A sign of shifting public opinion, she said, is a recent Pew Research Center poll of Muslim countries that found support of suicide attacks on civilians had fallen dramatically in many countries, as had support for Osama bin Laden.

Comic book strategy

Terror analysts have no argument with public diplomacy, but say it isn't sufficient to the challenge. "During the Cold War, our strategies were informed by a great deal of scholarship about the Soviet Union," Jenkins said. "Yet we don't devote the same amount of attention to terrorists because we view them as mindless fanatics and crazies ... and if you have a two-dimensional cartoon understanding of your foes, then what you're going to end up with is a two-dimensional, comic-book strategy."

Cilluffo says the key players in the counter-narrative to al-Qaida must come from the Muslim world, including scholars who can challenge extremist interpretations of the Quran, Muslim relatives of terror victims who can speak about the human toll of terror and former members who have renounced their tactics.

"They talk about their martyrs," he said. "Well, we've had martyrs too. ... If their narrative is that the West is at war with Islam, then why are so many Muslim women and children being killed by al-Qaida? We need to bring those sorts of contradictions into focus."

Copyright © 2007, Newsday Inc.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usvide0813,0,2171021.story?

[NYer]

I'm so ready for the next Frank Miller (http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2007/04/holy_terror_fra.html) graphic novel.

[NYer]

I-War (http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=071807B)

The "virtual siege" of Estonia in which distributed denial of service attacks shut down important banking, government and media websites throughout late April and May 2007 is an example of "iWar". The Estonian example should be considered as a sign of things to come.

A short time from now it is likely that a new form of Internet based warfare will erupt across the globe. The potency of this iWar will grow as the economies of the world steadily embrace the Internet to deliver services. At the same time, iWar will maintain its ease of adoption and low cost. iWar may also maintain its deniability.

War without Green Helmet Guy?

[Vancouver]

Weird new blogger
http://bridah.blogspot.com/
comes with the endorsement of one of my old Londonistan friends.

[NYer]

Online Islamist Forum Hosted in Texas Posts Guide for kidnapping Americans. (http://www.memri.org/bin/opener_latest.cgi?ID=SD168007)

The popular Islamist-jihadist forum www.alhesbah.org, hosted by RealWebHost in Texas, U.S., recently posted an anonymously written document from 2003 titled "The Excellent Summary of the Rules of the Art of Kidnapping Americans." The 60-page guide describes each stage of the kidnapping, explaining how to select the target and then how to follow him, seize him, transport him to a safe location, and hold him there, as well as how to conduct negotiations. The guide also explains how to execute the hostage should negotiations fail.

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The popular Islamist-jihadist forum www.alhesbah.org, just got the bum's rush from its host in Texas. Hesbah was the most senior al-Qa'ida forum of them all.

I think the word "hesbah", which means calculation, is in this case an acronym for the Arabic name of the religious police, called The General Presidency of the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, on which the religious gestapo of the Taliban was modelled.

[NYer]

Aaron Weisburd suggests hesbah may have put itself on suspension. (http://www.internet-haganah.co.il/harchives/006206.html)

It apparently wouldn't be the first time.

[Vancouver]

Aaron Weisburd suggests hesbah may have put itself on suspension. (http://www.internet-haganah.co.il/harchives/006206.html)

It apparently wouldn't be the first time.
I think Aaron is right in thinking that cpmax.net is just Hesbah. About the physical hosting, I'm not so sure. The registrar of the URL may have told Hesbah to move along, I suppose.

cpmax.net gives the address
P.O. Box 821650
Vancouver, WA 98682
US
which is also used by other companies. The post office box probably belongs to an office services company of which cpmax/Hesbah is only one of several clients.

66.150.161.140 : IP, formerly used by cpmax.net, and probably exclusive to cpmax.net, since at the moment "ping 66.150.161.140" gets no response.
66.150.161.128 - 66.150.161.159 : IP range assigned to the big Dotster outfit.

[Vancouver]

http://dinozore.free.fr/portal/board/index.php
an amateur, possibly in France, ran an al-Qaida-friendly forum about North Africa at
http://hasana.new.ma
It might come back.

[NYer]

The Web of YouTube Terrorism. (http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/189130.php)

You'd think Mujahidin Media would raise eyebrows at an American company ...

[Vancouver]

http://www.otiby.net
Anybody here know anything about this guy, Abu Omar Usama al-Otaibi? Thx.

[Petronas]

There was a mention on Jill St. Clair's website of an "Abu Omar Al Otaibi" ( http://www.homelandsecurityus.net/osama%20posts/to_osama_bin_laden_and_the_al.htm - second to last paragraph). From the context I suspect that this one might be "Omar bin Mohammad Al Otaibi" and perhaps not the Usama you are looking for. Omar bin Mohammad Al Otaibi apparently bit the dust in Iraq three years ago ( http://www.globalterroralert.com/pdf/0105/iraqmartyrs04.pdf - p.13)

[Vancouver]

Here's a fuller form he uses:
أبو عمر أسامة بن عطايا العتيبي
Abu Omar Usama bin 'Ataya (?) al-Otaibi. That means his father's name is 'Ataya and he has a son Omar. A Salafi dogma-writer. He parrots bin Ladin re having non-Muslims in the Arabian Peninsula. Invites bin Ladin to respond, which he hasn't.

He is in conflict with Sa'ad al-Faqih:
http://www.aljazeeratalk.net/forum/showthread.php?p=571771
http://otiby.net/makalat/articles.php?id=21
The second of those two, from 2004.12.12, seems to have been posted by al-Otaibi on behalf of
ابو عبد الرحمن النجدي
Abu Abdul-Rahman al-Najdi
who is probably the al-Qaida bigshot on this list, top row, 7th from the left:
http://www.dia.mil/site6_images/cards/AF.html

[Vancouver]

Article about al-Qaida's internet presence, at a terrorism-friendly Wahhabi website in Saudi Arabia:

http://www.islamtoday.net/albasheer/show_articles_content.cfm?id=72&catid=76&artid=9495

It mentions al-Neda, which is not common nowadays. Also al-Medad, which was operated in Londonistan by Yassir al-Sirri.

The clerics who run Islam Today are no longer trusted by al-Qaida, although the two top guys, al-Ouda and al-Hawali, were once favorites of Usama himself.

[Vancouver]

http://www.almqdes.net/arabic/
A childish-looking site called the Jerusalem Jihad Network... Is that you again, Tartusi?

Dead.

[al-Canine]

Anyone care to comment on this?

From Al Jazeera (http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E2EDB797-31D0-4C50-9B18-9E7D00A65C9B.htm)

Website shutdown

Soon after Washington announced it had the [UBL] video, all the websites that usually carry statements from al-Qaeda went down and were inaccessible, in an unprecedented shutdown, according to the Associated Press news agency.

The reason for the shutdown was not immediately known.

Evan H Kohlmann, an expert at globalterroralert.com, said he suspected it was the work of al-Qaeda itself, trying to find how the video leaked to US officials.

Others suspected the US might be behind the shutdown.

[Casey]

1 out of 4 instances of the website in question is not responding.
The other 3, that I am aware of and there may be more, are all up and running as usual.




Anyone care to comment on this?

From Al Jazeera (http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E2EDB797-31D0-4C50-9B18-9E7D00A65C9B.htm)

Website shutdown

Soon after Washington announced it had the [UBL] video, all the websites that usually carry statements from al-Qaeda went down and were inaccessible, in an unprecedented shutdown, according to the Associated Press news agency.

The reason for the shutdown was not immediately known.

Evan H Kohlmann, an expert at globalterroralert.com, said he suspected it was the work of al-Qaeda itself, trying to find how the video leaked to US officials.

Others suspected the US might be behind the shutdown.

[Vancouver]

http://www.tajdeed.net is setting up again, on a new host is Germany. Massari says the forum is coming soon.

[Vancouver]

Watchers of Palestinian-friendly terrorist forums have come across this username:
Abu Anas ash-Shami
أبو أنس الشامي
named after one of Zarqawi's dead lieutenants. The new Abu Anas is now dead too.
http://ia341239.us.archive.org/3/items/dhdhdfh/f9817a8b40.jpghttp://ia341212.us.archive.org/0/items/fhcvnbcvn/majzra1.jpg
Killed in Gaza by Israeli special ops, according to the well-connected al-Qaida source of this story. The same source says he was also known as Abu Ibrahim
and as 'Aoudh al-Masri.

[Vancouver]

Haganah will like this one. The script says he was an administrator of "qassimy net forums", named Fahd al-'Anazi. He was one of the e-jihadis killed in Riyadh a few days ago, according to mourabitun.
http://www.qassimy.com/up/users/star/almosmim.jpg

[NYer]

Scientists use Dark Web (http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=110040&org=NSF) to snag extremists and terrorists onlin.

I'd just phone Chris Hanson, Dateline MSNBC.

[NYer]

The Belmont Club has more on the Wizard War. (http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2007/09/wzard-war.html)

[Casey]

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SPIEGEL ONLINE - September 13, 2007, 06:58 PM
URL: http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,505618,00.html

TERROR ARRESTS IN VIENNA
Austria's 'Jihad by Telecommute'
By Yassin Musharbash

They translated and prepared terror videos, claims of responsibility and al-Qaida propaganda on the Internet. Austrian police have now attributed this handiwork to the Global Islamic Media Front and the leader of this network is reportedly among the arrested.


DPA
Austrian special unit police officers lead away a suspected terrorist in Vienna on Wednesday.

It's been three weeks since the Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF) put out an ad for a translator to help with the growing workload in terror news. "Brothers and sisters with English language skills are especially sought," wrote a GIMF member. "We're looking for someone with time to sacrifice for Allah and thereby support the jihad." Instructions were to send an e-mail response, after which one would receive "a little job" in return.

"Jihad by Telecommute" could have been GIMF's business slogan. For almost two years it operated a pair of Internet sites in German, one of which used a discussion forum to publicize acts of terror committed by bin Laden & Co. No one else in the German-speaking world was more effective at this task.

At least until Wednesday, when Austrian police took three people into custody believed to be connected with the site -- including two men, 26 and 21, and a 21-year-old woman. They are accused of having been involved in the production of a video published on the GIMF homepage on March 11 that showed a disguised Arabic-speaking spokesperson threatening attacks in Germany and Austria if those countries did not withdraw their soldiers from Afghanistan.

One line from a video asking the question, "Is it not dumb to embolden the mujahedeen to carry out attacks in your country?" proved particularly worrisome to the authorities.

Austria has no troops in Iraq and only four officers serving in Afghanistan.

Police did not elaborate on details of the arrests, though they did say that a fourth person was arrested but later released due to a lack of evidence.

Contact with the English-language GIMF

Not much is yet known about the three persons arrested. The woman and one of the men are married to each other. All three are Muslims and Austrian citizens, though not converts, and all were unemployed. They are second-generation immigrants from the Arab world, according to Austrian Interior Minister Günther Platter, who spoke at a hastily convened press conference on Wednesday evening.

According to information obtained by SPIEGEL ONLINE, one of those arrested is the presumed head of the German-language GIMF, founded in fall 2005. Its model was the international GIMF, which came into being sometime around 2002 -- originally only in Arabic -- in order to redistribute al-Qaida material on the Internet.


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An English-language branch was then founded, whose Web site presumably inspired the alleged head of the German GIMF to open up another franchise. Among the things that points to some cooperation between the sites is that the German-language site started off as a blog set up on a free service provider just as the English-language version was. The two sites had links to each other.

One of the men, whose identity is known to SPIEGEL ONLINE, was very active on Arabic-language jihad Web sites. In the name of GIMF, for example, he posted offers in an Islamic discussion forum used by almost all terror organizations to publish claims of responsibility for terrorist acts.

Virtual Contact with al-Qaida?

Austrian authorities revealed on Thursday their belief that the suspects arrested were in direct contact with al-Qaida over the Internet. According to Erik Buxbaum, Austria's general manager for public security, Austrian terror specialists followed events 'live' while the groups communicated. E-mail traffic was observed, and the group of young Muslims was kept under observation as part of a "large bugging operation" code-named "Target."

According to information obtained by SPIEGEL ONLINE, contact between the group and al-Qaida was most likely made in jihadist Internet forums.

German terror investigators had been keeping a close eye on the German-language GIMF Web site, which appeared in fall 2005. "You can follow radicalization in real-time here," said a concerned official a few months ago, referring to the Web site. There was serious discussion on the GIMF discussion forum about issues such as whether Muslims who have strayed from their faith must be killed, and photographs of the corpses of US soldiers were shown.

Both Web sites run by the German GIMF have been down for a few weeks, but that has nothing to do with investigations that have been underway in recent months. Instead, there has been a general blackout among many of the jihad Web sites brought about by a campaign of al-Qaida opponents in the US, who sent e-mails of protest en masse to the Internet providers and hosts of these sites.

In the meantime, it has been reported that the arrested have admitted to having had contact with al-Qaida. Their apparent claim, however, to not have built a terrorist cell corresponds with the information held by German authorities, who have not assumed that the German GIMF was planning a terror attack in the real world.

The SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors al-Qaida activity on the Internet, stated Thursday that the leader of the Vienna-based GIMF may have had links to the Army of Islam, the group that kidnapped BBC journalist Alan Johnston earlier this year.

After having the three under observation over a period of months, Austrian police and a special forces unit called "Cobra" carried out the arrests. Officials claim that they worried that the suspects might flee abroad and perhaps erase computer hard-drives. Documents and computers seized during the raid will most likely provide information about who numbered among the GIMF's supporters.

Although no weapons or bombs were found, the head of the group is believed to have tried to obtain bomb-making materials. In addition, the Austria broadcaster ORF has reported that the 26-year-old leader attended a terrorist training camp, although German intelligence officials are skeptical of this claim.


The threatening video from March 11 was uniquely worrying enough to bring about an emergency indictment, according to officials in Vienna. Unlike the group's other terrorist propaganda, which was merely distributed, the group is thought to have been directly involved with producing the March 11 video. On the same day that the video was made available online, an anonymous source alleging to be part of GIMF told SPIEGEL ONLINE in an e-mail message: "Yes, this message was from the GIMF, but not just from its German division."

It was as a result of one slip-up that investigators were put on the apparently right trail. In his speech in Arabic, the speaker in the video spoke angrily and at length about domestic politics in Austria. He accused the government of having broken its promise by introducing student fees -- a clear indication of the speaker's everyday concerns.


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Like its English- and Arabic-language forerunners, the German-language GIMF is part of a phenomenon that originated right after 9/11 and the war in Afghanistan began: al-Qaida sympathizers began to affiliate themselves with members of the network. No longer were they merely observers; now, they could -- when they wanted to -- be global players on the field of cyber-jihadism, who could use their threats to scare the world into a state of fear and anxiety without having to go to Afghanistan or build bombs. "If the Americans think that they can treat and rule over the Internet as if it were their own property, we turn the spell back on the magician," proclaimed the international GIMF leadership in fall 2005 in a communication obtained by SPIEGEL ONLINE.

A New Type of Activist

In the meantime, these activists for al-Qaida & Co. have become just as important as the terrorists themselves due to the success they have had in radicalizing others with their Internet offerings. The GIMF has an aggregating function with the terrorist material in that they "re-format and alter (it) to make it more attractive," writes the Norwegian terror expert Brynjar Lia in a recent edition of the security and intelligence magazine Jane's.

Despite this cooperative effort, the GIMF organization would seem to be proud of its independence from al-Qaida. Last year, it declared: "The GIMF is an Islamic media source on the Internet. It is an ambassador for the mujahedeen (SP)...The GIMF belongs to no one. It is the property of all Muslims." Nor has the German-language GIMF ever represented itself as being part of al-Qaida.

It is reasonable to believe that the GIMF activists did not expect to be arrested. After their Web sites went down last August for a short period, they wrote: "We were there and we will also remain."

To some extent, this might be true because it is almost certain that the three people arrested were not the only people involved in the project. It should become apparent in the days to come whether those who were not arrested plan to take the reigns of the organization.

A Hot Topic inAustria

The arrests take place in Austria in a climate of anxiety about integration and terrorism fuelled by successful and frustrated terror attacks throughout Europe and most recently in Germany, where three men were arrested for allegedly obtaining the materials necessary to bomb various targets related to US military forces stationed there.

For their part, Austrians are worried about whether or not they can successfully integrate the 400,000 Muslims residing in the country. Ariel Muzicant, the head of Vienna's Jewish community, warned on Wednesday that the number of al-Qaida sympathizers in Austria has seen "massive growth" in recent months. A planned mosque in the state of Carinthia may be blocked if far-right politician Jörg Haider, the state's governor, is successful in his attempt to get the permits revoked by changing building laws, claiming that the mosque would disturb the "image of the place" and that "Western culture must be protected.

[Casey]

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SPIEGEL ONLINE - September 13, 2007, 06:58 PM
URL: http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,505618,00.html

TERROR ARRESTS IN VIENNA
Austria's 'Jihad by Telecommute'
By Yassin Musharbash

They translated and prepared terror videos, claims of responsibility and al-Qaida propaganda on the Internet. Austrian police have now attributed this handiwork to the Global Islamic Media Front and the leader of this network is reportedly among the arrested.


DPA
Austrian special unit police officers lead away a suspected terrorist in Vienna on Wednesday.

It's been three weeks since the Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF) put out an ad for a translator to help with the growing workload in terror news. "Brothers and sisters with English language skills are especially sought," wrote a GIMF member. "We're looking for someone with time to sacrifice for Allah and thereby support the jihad." Instructions were to send an e-mail response, after which one would receive "a little job" in return.

"Jihad by Telecommute" could have been GIMF's business slogan. For almost two years it operated a pair of Internet sites in German, one of which used a discussion forum to publicize acts of terror committed by bin Laden & Co. No one else in the German-speaking world was more effective at this task.

At least until Wednesday, when Austrian police took three people into custody believed to be connected with the site -- including two men, 26 and 21, and a 21-year-old woman. They are accused of having been involved in the production of a video published on the GIMF homepage on March 11 that showed a disguised Arabic-speaking spokesperson threatening attacks in Germany and Austria if those countries did not withdraw their soldiers from Afghanistan.

One line from a video asking the question, "Is it not dumb to embolden the mujahedeen to carry out attacks in your country?" proved particularly worrisome to the authorities.

Austria has no troops in Iraq and only four officers serving in Afghanistan.

Police did not elaborate on details of the arrests, though they did say that a fourth person was arrested but later released due to a lack of evidence.

Contact with the English-language GIMF

Not much is yet known about the three persons arrested. The woman and one of the men are married to each other. All three are Muslims and Austrian citizens, though not converts, and all were unemployed. They are second-generation immigrants from the Arab world, according to Austrian Interior Minister Günther Platter, who spoke at a hastily convened press conference on Wednesday evening.

According to information obtained by SPIEGEL ONLINE, one of those arrested is the presumed head of the German-language GIMF, founded in fall 2005. Its model was the international GIMF, which came into being sometime around 2002 -- originally only in Arabic -- in order to redistribute al-Qaida material on the Internet.


NEWSLETTER
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An English-language branch was then founded, whose Web site presumably inspired the alleged head of the German GIMF to open up another franchise. Among the things that points to some cooperation between the sites is that the German-language site started off as a blog set up on a free service provider just as the English-language version was. The two sites had links to each other.

One of the men, whose identity is known to SPIEGEL ONLINE, was very active on Arabic-language jihad Web sites. In the name of GIMF, for example, he posted offers in an Islamic discussion forum used by almost all terror organizations to publish claims of responsibility for terrorist acts.

Virtual Contact with al-Qaida?

Austrian authorities revealed on Thursday their belief that the suspects arrested were in direct contact with al-Qaida over the Internet. According to Erik Buxbaum, Austria's general manager for public security, Austrian terror specialists followed events 'live' while the groups communicated. E-mail traffic was observed, and the group of young Muslims was kept under observation as part of a "large bugging operation" code-named "Target."

According to information obtained by SPIEGEL ONLINE, contact between the group and al-Qaida was most likely made in jihadist Internet forums.

German terror investigators had been keeping a close eye on the German-language GIMF Web site, which appeared in fall 2005. "You can follow radicalization in real-time here," said a concerned official a few months ago, referring to the Web site. There was serious discussion on the GIMF discussion forum about issues such as whether Muslims who have strayed from their faith must be killed, and photographs of the corpses of US soldiers were shown.

Both Web sites run by the German GIMF have been down for a few weeks, but that has nothing to do with investigations that have been underway in recent months. Instead, there has been a general blackout among many of the jihad Web sites brought about by a campaign of al-Qaida opponents in the US, who sent e-mails of protest en masse to the Internet providers and hosts of these sites.

In the meantime, it has been reported that the arrested have admitted to having had contact with al-Qaida. Their apparent claim, however, to not have built a terrorist cell corresponds with the information held by German authorities, who have not assumed that the German GIMF was planning a terror attack in the real world.

The SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors al-Qaida activity on the Internet, stated Thursday that the leader of the Vienna-based GIMF may have had links to the Army of Islam, the group that kidnapped BBC journalist Alan Johnston earlier this year.

After having the three under observation over a period of months, Austrian police and a special forces unit called "Cobra" carried out the arrests. Officials claim that they worried that the suspects might flee abroad and perhaps erase computer hard-drives. Documents and computers seized during the raid will most likely provide information about who numbered among the GIMF's supporters.

Although no weapons or bombs were found, the head of the group is believed to have tried to obtain bomb-making materials. In addition, the Austria broadcaster ORF has reported that the 26-year-old leader attended a terrorist training camp, although German intelligence officials are skeptical of this claim.


The threatening video from March 11 was uniquely worrying enough to bring about an emergency indictment, according to officials in Vienna. Unlike the group's other terrorist propaganda, which was merely distributed, the group is thought to have been directly involved with producing the March 11 video. On the same day that the video was made available online, an anonymous source alleging to be part of GIMF told SPIEGEL ONLINE in an e-mail message: "Yes, this message was from the GIMF, but not just from its German division."

It was as a result of one slip-up that investigators were put on the apparently right trail. In his speech in Arabic, the speaker in the video spoke angrily and at length about domestic politics in Austria. He accused the government of having broken its promise by introducing student fees -- a clear indication of the speaker's everyday concerns.


NEWSLETTER
Sign up for Spiegel Online's daily newsletter and get the best of Der Spiegel's and Spiegel Online's international coverage in your In- Box everyday.

Like its English- and Arabic-language forerunners, the German-language GIMF is part of a phenomenon that originated right after 9/11 and the war in Afghanistan began: al-Qaida sympathizers began to affiliate themselves with members of the network. No longer were they merely observers; now, they could -- when they wanted to -- be global players on the field of cyber-jihadism, who could use their threats to scare the world into a state of fear and anxiety without having to go to Afghanistan or build bombs. "If the Americans think that they can treat and rule over the Internet as if it were their own property, we turn the spell back on the magician," proclaimed the international GIMF leadership in fall 2005 in a communication obtained by SPIEGEL ONLINE.

A New Type of Activist

In the meantime, these activists for al-Qaida & Co. have become just as important as the terrorists themselves due to the success they have had in radicalizing others with their Internet offerings. The GIMF has an aggregating function with the terrorist material in that they "re-format and alter (it) to make it more attractive," writes the Norwegian terror expert Brynjar Lia in a recent edition of the security and intelligence magazine Jane's.

Despite this cooperative effort, the GIMF organization would seem to be proud of its independence from al-Qaida. Last year, it declared: "The GIMF is an Islamic media source on the Internet. It is an ambassador for the mujahedeen (SP)...The GIMF belongs to no one. It is the property of all Muslims." Nor has the German-language GIMF ever represented itself as being part of al-Qaida.

It is reasonable to believe that the GIMF activists did not expect to be arrested. After their Web sites went down last August for a short period, they wrote: "We were there and we will also remain."

To some extent, this might be true because it is almost certain that the three people arrested were not the only people involved in the project. It should become apparent in the days to come whether those who were not arrested plan to take the reigns of the organization.

A Hot Topic inAustria

The arrests take place in Austria in a climate of anxiety about integration and terrorism fuelled by successful and frustrated terror attacks throughout Europe and most recently in Germany, where three men were arrested for allegedly obtaining the materials necessary to bomb various targets related to US military forces stationed there.

For their part, Austrians are worried about whether or not they can successfully integrate the 400,000 Muslims residing in the country. Ariel Muzicant, the head of Vienna's Jewish community, warned on Wednesday that the number of al-Qaida sympathizers in Austria has seen "massive growth" in recent months. A planned mosque in the state of Carinthia may be blocked if far-right politician Jörg Haider, the state's governor, is successful in his attempt to get the permits revoked by changing building laws, claiming that the mosque would disturb the "image of the place" and that "Western culture must be protected.

[Vancouver]

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/19880.html
article about enemy websites and whether or not to shut them down

[NYer]

More Jihadi websites hosted in the West. (http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD174107)

[Casey]

Cyberspace Command: Replace al-Qaeda Vids with Baywatch?
Shaun Waterman
United Press International
Oct 17, 2007

Recent pronouncements by U.S. Air Force officials about their view of cyberspace as a war-fighting domain have attracted little attention. But the questions they raise for U.S. military policy and doctrine are profound.

“Cyber(space) is important to the nation,” said Gen. Robert Elder, the military officer in charge of the U.S. Air Force’s day-to-day cyberspace operations, acknowledging the dependence of U.S. commerce and banking on the Internet, “But to the Air Force, it’s really important.”

He told a recent briefing organized by the Air Force Association that cyberspace was vital because it was the key to the U.S. military’s fabled cross-domain dominance.

“When we talk about the speed range and flexibility of air power” — to deliver satellite-guided strikes to effect the outcome of a battle on the ground for example — “the thing that enables this for us is the fact of our cyber-dominance,” the ability to move data and control signals through cyberspace — which as the Air Force defines it is the entire electromagnetic spectrum.

The Air Force is in the process of standing up a fully fledged Cyberspace Command, alongside its Space and Air Commands, but Elder, like other senior officials, denied that the move was a turf grab.

He elaborated on the consequences of the Air Force’s view of cyberspace as a war-fighting domain by analogizing it to the maritime and air domains, both of which were simultaneously the venues for commerce and daily life, and potential vectors for military action by or against the United States.

“We in the Air Force think the air is a war-fighting domain,” he said, “but that doesn’t mean we expect Delta or United (Airlines) to think it is.”

He said there was a diverse and overlapping series of authorities and legal frameworks for activities in cyberspace, and the full policy implications of seeing it as a war-fighting domain had yet to be worked through.

“We have had situations before where the intersections (with other agencies) ¿¿ have been difficult,” he said.

He said there were “shades of gray from law enforcement (to) homeland security, (to) homeland defense to some kind of expeditionary operation (like Iraq). Where do we say, ‘We’ve crossed the line now’?” into the war-fighting realm.

He said there was also a tension between war-fighting objectives and intelligence-gathering ones.

Elder said partnership with civilian agencies like law enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security, which has the lead in securing the nation’s critical infrastructure including its cyber-capacity, was the key for the Air Force.

“What we’re really trying to do with these partnerships is close the gaps” between military and civilian authorities and agencies. “We need to have clearer interaction with these other agencies,” he said.

Some believe the laws governing cyberspace might need to be changed, he said. “Ultimately they may, but until we fully understand how it works between these very different areas of business — law enforcement, homeland security, commerce — we can’t just say, ‘Here’s what we should change.’”

But other Air Force officials see U.S. military policy as too timid. “Legislation, policies and international law are lagging the technology” in the cyber-domain, Lani Kass, a senior adviser to U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Michael Moseley, told another recent conference. “The United States is late to the fight.”

She said U.S. tactics in cyberspace were constrained by political correctness.

“Today it is much easier to get permission to kill the enemy, to drop a bomb on a terrorist hideout, than to culturally offend them. In other words, take a beheading video, take it off the net, and substitute — whatever you like: Bay Watch? The technology is there. It’s there in the civilian world. But the policies are such that you can’t do that.”

One congressional official told United Press International that caution was appropriate in what he called “virgin territory” from a strategic theory point of view.

“If we drop a bomb on a house, we have a pretty good idea of what the collateral damage will be ¿¿ if we take down a server somewhere, the possible results are a lot less clear.”

Elder said from a defensive point of view, the Air Force is interested not just in protecting its own networks, which he called “perimeter security,” but also in “getting out beyond the wire” and building “defense in depth” in the cyber-domain.

On any Air Force base, he said, the ultimate last line of defense is the sidearm that every airman carries. He said a “cyber-sidearm program” would give “every airman the tools, right on their laptop or desktop” to defend the cyber-domain.

But Kass believes “if you’re defending, you are late.”

“Cyber favors the offense. Defense in cyberspace in my humble opinion is a loser’s game.”

She said cyberspace “is a domain that allows you to deliver effects disproportionate to the level of investment,” and that could thus provide U.S. adversaries with asymmetric advantages.

“To dominate on land, at sea, in the air, and in space, you need to invest a fairly significant amount of capital, training, equipment. ¿¿ In the electromagnetic spectrum of the cyber-domain a very minimal investment allows you to inflict damage totally disproportionate to your level of investment.”

http://www.truthnews.us/?p=379

[Casey]

Europe News
Spain detains six Islamists with links to Iraq (2nd Roundup)

Oct 24, 2007, 11:23 GMT


Madrid - Spanish police Wednesday detained six suspected members of an Islamist group that promoted a 'holy war' against the West in Iraq and other parts of the world, the Interior Ministry said.

The Algerian leader of the group, his Moroccan deputy and four others were being held in northern Burgos province.

Police searched their homes in the city of Burgos and two other localities. They also searched a Burgos butchery owned by one of the suspects, who was an imam, according to police sources.

Nearly 90 police participated in the swoop, seizing documents and computer materials.

The detainees were suspected of collecting money for jailed terrorists, spreading Islamist propaganda and recruiting people who could commit attacks.

The suspected leaders admitted to adhering to principles of Salafist Islamism, the ministry said.

The detainees were believed to have used internet forums and chat rooms to push a world-wide Jihad (holy war). They had contacts in several countries, and Spanish investigators cooperated with police in Sweden, Denmark and the United States.

The ministry described the network as the first radical Islamist one based on the internet that had been discovered in Spain.

The arrests followed a decision by the National Court on Tuesday to try 22 suspected Islamists who were also believed to have links with the Iraq conflict.

The Moroccan leader of the group had allegedly been under the direct orders of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian al-Qaeda leader in Iraq who was killed by US forces in June 2006.

The Spanish cell was believed to have sent about 10 fighters to Iraq, including a Moroccan who had participated in the 2004 Madrid train bombings that killed 191 people.

The cell was allegedly planning to stage attacks in France and Italy. Ten of the suspects were jailed unconditionally as a preventative measure.

Spanish authorities have arrested 44 people this year on charges of links with Islamist terrorism. Of these, 24 were detained in connection with the recruitment of fighters to be sent to Iraq and Afghanistan, while nine were suspected of helping two of the Madrid train bombers to flee.

http://news.monstersandcritics.com/europe/news/article_1368165.php/Spain_detains_six_Islamists_with_links_to_Iraq__2n d_Roundup_

[Casey]

electronic jihad - Battalion members impacted: the announcement of the imminent entry of the blessed

http://www.wincoast.com/forum/showthread.php?t=68801

[Casey]

alfirdaws is offering some hacking books.

One is available to read online here:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/262245/-1

[stewey]

hopefully those hacking books are as useless as the ones you can download here in the West.

[Casey]

hopefully those hacking books are as useless as the ones you can download here in the West.

I expect they are legit hacking books however I believe alfirdaws is looking to stir the pot and propagandize the situation on his jihadi website.

The books are on real hacking sites that deal not only with hacking but how to protect yourself from being hacked.

[Casey]

Careful downloading the books from alfidaws.

They are infected with a BackDoor Trojan.

Search for them from other download sites if you really want to look at them.


alfirdaws is offering some hacking books.

One is available to read online here:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/262245/-1

[al-Canine]

Well, kids... I am in the midst of major internet use and have noticed a substantial slowdown this morning, many of my regular sites (ecommerce) are not functioning properly... maybe a dry run for 11/11? Any one else noticing a difference?

[NYer]

Dark Web tool seeks online terrorists. (http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8SRL9480&show_article=1)

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/jawalogo_large.jpg

[JaneDoe]

As usual the mujihid wannabes are impotent...
Realtime Internet Health Report (http://www.internetpulse.net/)

[NYer]

Cyber Jihad of Loser's Super Cyber Dud (http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/190084.php)

Via Washington Times:

A planned cyber-attack by al Qaeda supporters against Internet sites today has its intended targets in the U.S. on guard.

Robert Spencer, whose Web site Jihad Watch is a lightning rod for criticism from Islamist groups, said he is consulting with his technical advisers to ensure his page is inoculated from intrusion.

"Jihadists and their allies cannot compete in the arena of open debate, and so they resort to thuggish tactics to silence their opponents," Mr. Spencer said.

The plans were uncovered by several Web sites in October, one of which launched a counterattack earlier last week.

"Sheikh Osama [bin Laden] may Allah protect him said: '90% of the battle is through the media and the remaining is through weapons,' " according to a translation posted on the Jawa Report (http:// mypetjawa.mu.nu), whose host blogger goes by the handle of "Dr. Rusty Shackleford."

"From this blessed forum I call on to the formation of 'Jihadi Battalions to Attack the Internet' for the triumph of truth in the age of darkness so contribute with us in establishing these blessed Battalions," the announcement said.

A Homeland Security Department spokeswoman dismissed the threat as rumor and said the agency did not issue any warnings in advance.

Aaron Weisburd, who operates Internet Haganah and has shut down more than 1,000 jihad and al Qaeda sites, predicts the attack to be "unsophisticated and will have minimal impact."

Rusty gets another quote on page 2.

"It may cause some problems on some Web sites, but it won't take down the State Department or military," Mr. Shackleford said.

"The reason why is that cyber-jihadists think they are clever, but they are really morons," Mr. Shackleford said.

Indeed Master, morons.

[NYer]

Where is Adam Gadahn? (http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/190095.php)

[Petronas]

Terrorism accused explains Islamist internet code
29 November 2007

Schleswig - A terrorism suspect on trial in Germany declared Thursday his devotion to Osama bin Laden and explained the code words used by Islamists during internet chat. Moroccan-born Redouane al-H said that when a member of an Islamist internet community was arrested, the others told one another he was "sick." The codeword for explosives was "dough." He added that a "taxi driver" meant a suicide bomber and to "marry" meant dying as a martyr. ...

http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp?subchannel_id=26&story_id=46491

[Casey]

Where is Adam Gadahn? (http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/190095.php)

Binny's latest reads like one of Gadans messages.

It doesn't sound like Osama's words to me.

[NYer]

Binny's latest reads like one of Gadans messages.


Rusty Shackleford has doubts. (http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/190281.php)

The subtitles are awkward and obviously not the work of long time al Qaeda as Sahab English language propagandist Adam Gadahn. Gadahn is a native of California and has demonstrated in past videos that he has a solid grasp on the English language. This is not his work.

I've asked this question many times over the past two months, but where is "Azzam al Amriki"?

[Casey]

Al Qaeda-linked Web sites number 5,600: researcher
Tue Dec 4, 2007 12:12 PM EST



By Ibtihal Hassan

RIYADH (Reuters) - There are now about 5,600 Web sites spreading al Qaeda's ideology worldwide, and 900 more are appearing each year, a Saudi researcher told a national security conference on Tuesday.

Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter, has identified the Internet as a key battlefield with militants who launched a campaign to topple the U.S.-allied ruling royal family in 2003.

"Research shows there are more than 5,600 sites on the Internet promoting the ideology of al Qaeda," Khaled al-Faram told the Information Technology and National Security conference in the Saudi capital Riyadh.

"There are some 900 news sites appearing every year, and despite the retreat of some media outlets specifically run by al Qaeda, extremist Web sites are constantly on the rise."

He said it was difficult to track most of the sites, though hardcore al Qaeda sites often change addresses to avoid detection or start up again elsewhere once infiltrated.

Faram was addressing a conference organized by the Saudi intelligence agency to encourage the public to cooperate more with the government and share expertise on how to survey the Internet for militant activity.

This week the Saudi intelligence agency launched a Web site in an effort to open up to the public and change the negative perceptions of security services. People can send information anonymously to the site about any suspicious activity.

"Mukhabarat" (intelligence) agencies are generally feared around the Arab world as tools of governments that abuse human rights. Saudi Arabian intelligence uses the name "Istikhbarat" partly to avoid the negative connotation of the traditional term.

"The real battle with al Qaeda is no longer on the ground, but rather a media battle, and it is a real threat to national security," Faram told Reuters.

"For al Qaeda media coverage is more important than the actual operations," he said.

The Islamist network al Qaeda is headed by Saudi-born Osama bin Laden, but analysts say al Qaeda has transformed from a close-knit militant group to a brand that disseminates radical ideas for sympathizers to act on independently.

"The Internet, chat lines, text messages -- these are the new warriors," said Alessandro Zanasi, an expert on Internet monitoring known as "text mining."

(Additional reporting by Andrew Hammond; Editing by Giles Elgood)

http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2007-12-04T171216Z_01_L04884656_RTRIDST_0_TECH-SAUDI-MILITANTS-WEB-COL.XML&archived=False

[Petronas]

Online Terror Camps Cut Overhead
December 10, 2007

Western governments have ceded the Internet to terrorists, security experts are warning. Most European Union governments as well as the United States have dismissed pro-Al Qaida websites as merely propaganda without understanding their capability to recruit and carry out operations.

Western experts said Al Qaida's use of the Internet has been so successful that the movement has shut down training camps in Afghanistan. Instead, they said, the Internet is used to teach operatives how to kill and maim. 'Now they meet in cyberspace,' Gabriel Weimann, a professor in Israel and Germany, told a conference on Internet security at the headquarters of Germany's Federal Police Office. 'They teach people how to become terrorists on-line. Al Qaida has launched a practical website that shows how to use weapons, how to carry out a kidnapping, how to use fertilizer to make bombs.'

Here's how it works: Al Qaida operates a series of websites that covers everything from indoctrination, recruitment, targeting and operations. Those with questions can use Al Qaida's chat rooms. The Internet has vastly reduced the need for target reconnaissance by Al Qaida. Weimann, regarded as a leading expert in Al Qaida-aligned websites, told the Nov. 21 conference in Wiesbaden that Al Qaida uses Google Earth, which scours satelllite images, to locate targets.

But Western governments have been torn between following Internet crime and terrorism. Several EU states have strict regulations regarding monitoring users on the Internet and reserve their authority to track child pornography, organized crime and espionage.

Joerg Ziercke, president of the German Federal Police Office, raised another issue. Terrorists and other criminals often use laptops in apartment buildings where they latch on to the connections of other wireless users. Ziercke said this often prevents authorities from identifying users of Al Qaida websites.

Olga Maitland, a former British parliamentarian and president of the British Defence and Security Forum, agreed, Maitland said terrorists operate 7,000 websites that remain in operation and uncensored. 'The authorities tend to concentrate on the threats from interception and hacking, which is serious, but I think they should be paying more attention to the use of the Internet by terrorists,' Maitland told a Gulf security conference in Manama in late November. 'Personally, I think they are going to grow in power and influence as more and more people go online. Government agencies should be spending more and more time finding and monitoring these websites.'

Maitland's fear, echoed by strategists in NATO, is that Al Qaida will try or succeed in hacking air traffic control systems or national banks. That could lead to thousands of dead as well as the collapse of national economies. 'We must concentrate on monitoring what they talk about and gain information on what they are planning,' Maitland said.

http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2007/me_terror_12_10.asp

[Petronas]

Dark Web Terrorism –The Threat That Got Lost in Traffic
12/10/2007

Cyber-terrorism is a form of extreme Islamic terrorism that poses a threat to almost every facet of our daily life. Part II of a three-part series on Dark Web terrorism, the "military" version of cyber-terrorism, which is even less well known.

"There have currently been no cyber-terrorist attacks or evidence of Al Qaeda or any other terrorist organization attempting one," said Seymour Goodman, professor of international affairs and computing at Georgia Tech, in November 2004. "We are much more imaginative in thinking what they could do to us then I suspect they are." Yet Prof. Goodman warned against "the presumption that terrorist organizations simply do not have or will never recruit the people with the expertise to carry out a cyber-attack." He stressed the need to take the threat of cyber-terrorism seriously because "as terrorists begin to realize the full potential of such an attack, cyber-terrorism will become more of a threat later."

These remarks are a typical example of the duality surrounding the issue of cyber-terrorism. Many professionals agree that the potential for damage exists, but differ over whether the threat will crystallize, and if so, what would be the real damage terrorists would be able to inflict on global support and processing systems.

The Nay and Yea-Sayers Concerns over the potential danger posed by cyber-terrorism are well-founded. That is not to say, however, that all the fears that have been voiced in the media, in Congress and in other public forums are rational. Some fears are simply unjustified, while others are highly exaggerated. Furthermore, the distinction between the potential and the actual damage inflicted by cyber-terrorists has too often been ignored, "and the relatively benign activities of most hackers have been conflated with the specter of pure cyber-terrorism" argues Gabriel Weimann in "Cyberterrorism: How Real Is the Threat?" And he's not alone. Many differentiate between the possibility and the capabilities that terror organizations have at hand to carry out cyber-attacks that could create real chaos and crash critical infrastructure systems. In his 2002 report, "Assessing the Risks of Cyber-terrorism, Cyber War and Other Cyber Threats," published by the Center for Strategic & International Studies, Jim Lewis writes, "The idea that hackers are going to bring the nation to its knees is too far-fetched a scenario to be taken seriously. Nations are more robust than the early analysts of cyber-terrorism and cyber-warfare give them credit for. Infrastructure systems [are] more flexible and responsive in restoring service than the early analysts realized, in part because they have to deal with system failures on a routine basis." On the other side of the spectrum, experts like Frank Cilluffo, who served with DHS in 2004, declared, "While Bin Laden may have his finger on the trigger, his grandchildren may have their fingers on the computer mouse." In a more powerful and decisive opinion, other experts like Denning Hereon argue, "Future terrorists may indeed see greater potential for cyber-terrorism than do the terrorists of today. Furthermore, the next generation of terrorists is now growing up in a digital world, one in which hacking tools are sure to become more powerful, simpler to use and easier to access. Cyber-terrorism may also become more attractive as the real and virtual worlds become more closely coupled. For instance, a terrorist group might simultaneously explode a bomb at a train station and launch a cyber-attack on the communications infrastructure, thus magnifying the impact of the event. Unless these systems are carefully secured, conducting an online operation that physically harms someone may be as easy tomorrow as penetrating a website is today."

Surprisingly, the results of a senior IT members survey conducted by Insight IT magazine in December 2006 show "82 percentof IT executives believe that a cyber-terrorist attack on US companies is likely to occur in the next five years." Furthermore, the same survey reports that "over half of companies [worth] over $1 billion report security breaches in the past 12 months, and 45 percent have been targeted by organized criminals. Penetration by spyware and viruses remains a problem, but they're not the only problem: nearly half of all companies that have had security breaches say equipment containing company data has been lost or stolen." This is what they really think, despite fat budgets and layers of protection invested by the companies to protect their system against penetration. Based on this survey and many similar results from repeated polling of IT professionals on this issue, there's an obvious duality, characterized by an innate disbelief terrorists are capable of launching a powerful cyber-attack on one hand, and a private conviction and real fear that such an attack could take place at any given moment.

The results support the fact that there is a constantly growing threat that terrorists will use a massive cyber-attack as part of a multi-pronged attack strategy. In his thorough description of this threat, Gregory J. Rattray wrote: "Increasingly, cyber-terrorists can achieve effects in the US from nearly anywhere on the globe. Terrorist groups can access global information infrastructures owned and operated by the governments and corporations they want to target. Digital attackers have a wide variety of means to cause disruption and/or destruction. Response in kind by the US government against sophisticated attackers is near impossible due to the difficulty of pinpointing activity in cyberspace and legal strictures on tracing attackers."

As early as 1996 renowned historian and terror expert Walter Laquer wrote, "Why assassinate a politician or indiscriminately kill people when an attack on electronic switching will produce far more dramatic and long-lasting results?"

There is little doubt that the means to generate a digital attack continue to become more developed, meaning that the US will be more vulnerable to cyber-terrorism. Terrorists using cyber-terrorism have already reached a high degree of sophistication, developing technological attack tools and effective targeting strategies. On the other hand, Rattray points out that "limits to hitting back against cyber-terrorism will remain a difficult problem."

Can We Rely On Existing Defense Systems?

As industrial development continues worldwide and giant new economies such as Russia, China and India emerge, the business community, governments, entire industries and the private sector are totally addicted to the instant information Internet provides. This reliance on information, which did not exist just 20 years ago, created a new field of opportunities in which terrorism flourishes. Why? Because as Internet access becomes simpler and software more complex, defining targets and bringing them crashing down becomes simpler as well. IT companies, which obviously have a vested interest, IT managers and system administrators, and many in the academic world, dismiss the actual threat by pointing out that each system is independent, redundancy systems are in place, contingency plans are ready for emergency situations and past experience and special war games have shown that the overall damage would be contained and systems would be reactivated faster than expected.

Maybe so, but imagine a day without the Internet and its ramifications into the businesses, industries and private users What would be the price of a sudden business and e-commerce crash sustained for just 24 hours? The answer: $17 to $24 billion dollars in direct losses. And what would happen if the banking system alone were to crash for 24 hours? A loss of approximately $30 billion.

Information is the lifeblood of commerce. Modern life has made "information," especially real-time information, the most important factor in commerce. Of vital importance is the ability to access it anytime and anywhere, transfer, exchange and act upon it, all based on the assumption that the information is accurate, in real time and protected. This demands wider, deeper, faster and more sophisticated networks, an ever-growing infrastructure and a continuous demand for more: more speed, more security, more options and more information.

Besides the financial implications, the psychological impact on the whole Western system would be enormous, not to mention the disastrous impact on the military and security systems. Imagine a simultaneous attack targeting a critical infrastructure site like a nuclear power plant and its supporting and connecting network; beside the physical damage and the psychological effect, the collapse of the communication network could send a shock wave of secondary crashes that would affect connected, related and remote networks and locations, creating an unstoppable ripple effect. And it doesn't take a rocket science to realize that from the terrorists’ point of view scores of casualties may be the ultimate goal PR wise, but financial havoc and business chaos can be more destructive, because they impact everyone's lives directly.

Sophistication, Complexity and Bait-Testing Attacks

Redundancy, backup systems, layers of infrastructure protection, etc., can serve as defenses against cyber-terrorism, but they suffer from gaps in protection, under-protected sub-systems, old hardware and software and a lack of IT professionals who understand both the technological and security challenge. Nonetheless, the most critical problem to deal with is we really don’t know what the terrorists' capabilities are. If the technical, software and IT development terrorists have reached in their Internet activity alone in recent years is any indication, then we have a big problem on our hands. Another indication comes from studying how terrorists prepared and launched cyber-attacks against selected target, and the results may scare some naysayers.

For example, a newly identified trend regarding the rapid development of cyber-terror has created a big buzz lately. Professionals have expressed a growing concern related to the rise in the frequency of attacks on the Internet marked by a significant increase in sophistication and terrorists' ability to detect and use weak spots in the protective software to attack networks, mainly sites that are aggressively anti-Islamic or anti-Jihad, including Muslims.

Why Do IT Experts Minimize the Threat?

One of the major reasons why IT experts tend to downplay the threat is simply because they don't have a solution. Tens of thousand of hacking events and network takeovers resulting in billions in damages happen every day, in spite of better systems and better protection. But they point out that so far there have been no catastrophic results due to IT security breaches and attacks by hackers and/or terrorists. What they fail to mention – or prefer to overlook – is that based on their own analysis, the immediate results and the fallout following the attack were disastrous. If so, what would be the result of a coordinated terrorist cyber-attack?

Jihad websites are becoming more and more "liberated" and more upfront in defining the goals of their activity. http://www.al-jinan.org/, for example, recently redefined e-jihad: "The electronic jihad is the method and the means to inflict maximum human, financial and morale damage on the enemy by using the internet." The website reiterates the importance of organizing synchronized mass attacks on anti-Islamic websites and calls on fellow jihadists to sign up for the list of targets and to study the techniques and programs used in e-jihad.

E-jihadists are encouraged to believe that they are engaging in an online form of true jihad, which is no less important than physical jihad, i.e. becoming a martyr. "The website distributes a program called Electronic Jihad, which assists in overwhelming the servers of certain websites, thereby taking the websites offline, at least temporarily," writes Abdul Hammed Bakier in Terrorism Focus.

• Time and again we see the typical arrogant approach so many security and IT experts follow when analyzing terrorists' cyber-attack capabilities. Could it be the same denial almost all experts propounded between the first attack on the Twin Towers in 1993 and the 9/11 attack? All signs and warnings were there but collectively dismissing Al-Qaeda’s is not unlike today’s situation.

Conclusions

We are bombarded daily by unsupported, sometimes dubious evidence that the threat is not critical, and reassurances that terrorists are far from being able to launch a major dark-web cyber-attack to match the impact of 9/11. The following quote is one of hundreds like it: "Amid all the dire warnings and alarming statistics that the subject of cyber-terrorism generates, it is important to remember one simple statistic: so far, there has been no recorded instance of a terrorist cyber-attack in the US."

True, but this may be misleading, because if one gathers the hundred of cyber attempts and cyber-attacks of what the naysayers define as "kid hacking," there is a growing volume of minor incidents that did harm the attacked target, which became part of a broader and more powerful set of disturbances of the networks and flow of information.

http://www.omedia.org/Show_Article.asp?DynamicContentID=2742&MenuID=603&ThreadID=1014010

[Casey]

German Anti-Terrorism Forces Go Online Looking for Extremists -
Germany makes a new step in the fight against terrorism
By: Bogdan Popa, Security and Search Engines Editor


Enlarge pictureThe German authorities try to make another step in the fight against terrorism and attempts to move online, for a closer surveillance of potential terrorists. Germany's top anti-subversion official, Federal Prosecutor General Monika Harms, says that the web is becoming one of the most popular ways for organizing terrorist attacks, as many of the extremists go online to give orders and set up some details of their attacks, Deutsche Presse-Agentur reported today. Because of that, a closer surveillance of the potential terrorists would be welcomed, the German official thinks.

"It provides a technical platform for new forms of telephony and written communication, where effective encryption is able de facto to prevent interception by third parties. It is indispensable for investigative authorities to have access to the communications of suspects. There are established instruments, such as telephone tapping, or the use of technology to establish the location of mobile phones. But technical change forces one to constantly review the technical arsenal", she said according to Deutsche Presse-Agentur.

Germany is one of the countries which tried to promote laws that would permit the authorities to hack suspects' computers, in order to look for incriminatory evidence and other material that would help them in the fight against criminal actions. Although it may sound a little bit unfair and like a privacy infringement, some of the German officials thought this would be a great way to reduce the illegal activities in their country.

Getting back to the online terrorism, more and more extremists go online to organize attacks, get information about their targets and even find new recruits for their groups. It has been proven by a recent analysis, which reveals that thousands of terrorist websites are already available out there, while several hundreds are being published every year.

In fact, even the terrorists admitted they went online for organizing attacks. For example, some extremists confirmed they used Google Earth to get details about the JFK International Airport, one of their latest targets. However, the authorities managed to stop them before they launched the attack.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/German-Anti-Terrorism-Forces-Go-Online-Looking-For-Extremists-73932.shtml

[Casey]

December 18, 2007

Policing Terrorism on the Internet
Euro-View: Internet Policing
By Mark Burgess

This article was first published by SECEUR.

BRUSSELS – On the face of it, passing legislation to prevent the internet from being used to promote terrorists’ ideology or enhance their capabilities is a no-brainer. The European Commission should be commended and supported for its November 2007 proposal to make punishable any public provocation to commit terrorist offences or recruit or train terrorists via the Web. However, the Commission’s approach is not without its problems and risks rendering any counter-terrorism campaign towards the internet less effective than it could be.

Recent prosecutions for such offences in the UK seem to underscore the need for such legislation. In one case, Samina Malik, a female shop assistant in the UK who is given to writing bloodthirsty ‘jihadist’ poetry was cleared of possessing certain materials such as “The al Qaeda Manual” or “The Mujahideen Poisons Handbook” intended for terrorist purposes. However, she was found guilty of possessing other ones “likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism,” as noted in the UK’s Terrorism Act.

In another UK example, three people in July 2007 were sentenced to jail terms of between seven and ten years for inciting others to wage jihad, while four students and a schoolboy were sentenced for having a collection of jihadist videos and documents which, in the UK court’s view, they intended to use for terrorist purposes.

The motives for possessing such documents are paramount. If it were only a question of possession, then there are many (including myself) who might risk being similarly accused under the relevant clauses of the UK Terrorism Act and any proposed EU equivalents.

Underlying this approach is the dilemma of how to ensure that prudent prevention does not become presumptuous pre-emption. Or – taken to an extreme – will we end up with a society akin to that in the 2002 movie Minority Report where a special ‘pre-crime’ unit arrests people before they broke the law?

Such fears are often overstated. The checks and balances inherent in most Western political systems, combined with the unceasing attention that Euro-sceptics and civil liberties watchdogs give to such matters, should go some way to preventing any irreversible, terminal, or un-noticed erosion of freedom of expression.

Yet terrorists have been able to use the internet too freely in recent years, and this problem is an urgent, if difficult, one to address. It is not merely a question of civil liberties. Shutting down offending internet sites, as the EU has suggested, is a short-sighted and short-term tactic if used in isolation.

The internet is neutral. Rather than trying, King Canute-like, to hold back the virtual sea in which the terrorists swim, the EU and other like-minded bodies should learn how to better negotiate the currents themselves. Shutting down internet sites may be effective as a stop-gap measure or form of harassment but this cannot be the cornerstone of any online counter-terrorism campaign. Nor can policy based on tracking and locking up anyone who has ever looked at materials featured on such sites.

Too much focus on closing down websites could also be counter-productive since since it likely forces terrorist websites to go underground to the so-called ‘deep’ or hidden web or to simply move to another internet service provider. At any rate, the EU will be able to effectively control only a small slice of the ever-expanding internet universe.

There are other surveillance problems too. The West is often hard-pushed to deploy the right human assets for intelligence purposes as its agencies often lack the requisite ethnic, linguistic, and cultural assets needed.

The internet can be exploited by European intelligence agencies in effective ways, however, by using counter-propaganda, disinformation, or – when it suffices – the plain old truth. The vulnerability of ‘internet jihadists’ to such tactics, whether real or imagined, was particularly evident in the first half of 2006 when frenzied online debates expressed fears that the Global Islamic Media Front, a distributor of much al Qaeda material, had been infiltrated by Saudi intelligence. Also, the West should do more to encourage moderate Islam to better engage in the online debate and to more visibly assert its place vis-à-vis the extremists who, after all, represent only a small faction in Islamic cyber-space.

Finally, wider general education campaigns can also play a role, particularly regarding the role of parents in assessing the vulnerabilities, temptations, and heresies their children confront when they venture online. Saudi authorities, for example, recently launched a series of television advertisements that point out the hidden dangers of surfing the Web.

Such initiatives are welcomed and should be expanded. They offer more counter-terrorist potential that trying to close down websites faster than they can be put back online or locking up people faster than they can be indoctrinated. If twinned with measured legislative instruments and media-savvy ‘hearts and minds’ campaigns, they may work to make the internet a less neutral but more benevolent jungle.



Mark Burgess is the Director of the World Security Institute’s Brussels office. For information, see: www.wsibrussels.org.

http://www.cdi.org/program/document.cfm?DocumentID=4162&StartRow=1&ListRows=10&appendURL=&Orderby=D.DateLastUpdated&ProgramID=39&from_page=index.cfm

[Casey]

Top Issues For IT Pros: The War, Terrorism, Internet Regulation, Privacy

Most of the IT workers polled support free trade, a hands-off approach to the Internet, individual responsibility for privacy, and stronger intellectual property protections.

Report and full article:

http://wincoast.com/forum/showthread.php?t=70582

[NYer]

Jihadinets. (http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/12/jihadinets.php)

How can traditional counter-intelligence operations deter or undermine this emerging threat? They can't. Not unlike Iraqi IEDs, these innovative technologies require new doctrines, new training and new tactics to cope. Would the rise of jihadidworlds make 'humint' the more important counterintelligence investment? Or do novel forms of digital surveillance and subterfuge become more valuable? Should network penetrators be close and intimate? Or is their work best done from a (virtual) distance? Should these worlds be continually hunted down and disrupted? Or should they become vehicles for more targeted intelligence gathering? The answers to those questions depend in large part whether policymakers believe that a (virtual) world war is being waged or if these are merely criminal activities that pose little national - or international - security threats. But if the physical past can service as a digital prologue to the future, it's clear that allowing terrorist training infrastructures to take root in either nation-states or virtual worlds invites lethal violence. Safe havens for 'terror capital' online are every bit as much a threat as safe havens in Afghanistan, Iran or North Korea. Policymakers who take the safety and security of their citizens seriously must invest in both the capacity and capability to deny aspiring terrorists this medium for mayhem.

Merry Christmas indeed.

[NYer]

Reading Their Lips (http://www.sofir.org/sarchives/006274.php)- The Credibility of Jihadi Web Sites as ‘Soft Power’ in the War of the Minds

Most importantly, these groups are above all targeting their own societies and not Western regimes and their citizens, in order to fight what they perceive as “Western cultural on-going colonialism.” The Internet may be used occasionally to intimidate Western publics, knowing the audiences’ wide exposure to the global media and the huge effect that exposure has upon the sense of security in the West. Jihadis know that the widely circulated video clips of beheaded and executed foreigners and Muslims in Iraq or Afghanistan, and numerous suicide or martyrdom operations, terrorize Western publics. Even so, the main reason why Jihadis circulate these clips, photos, audio material, books, articles, or military manuals, is to indoctrinate their own Arab and Muslim audiences; plant feelings of pride, a sense of belonging, and a new identity in their minds; and recruit their support. The Internet provides by far the best means to achieve the desired goal of virtual nation-building of the Muslim nation—Ummah—an aspiration anchored in the doctrines of the Jihadi-Salafi currents. In other words, the Internet is the global Open University for Jihad Studies.

[NYer]

Irhabi007 and Co. to Remain on Holiday (http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/7150641.stm) for an extended period of time.

HT - Aaron

Three men linked to al-Qaeda, who admitted inciting terrorist attacks against non-Muslims via the internet, have had their sentences increased.

Younes Tsouli, 24, had a 10-year jail term raised to 16 years, while Waseem Mughal, 24, had seven-and-a-half-years lengthened to 12.

And Tariq Al-Daour, 22, originally jailed for six-and-a-half years, had his term increased to 10 years.

The Court of Appeal agreed the original terms were "unduly lenient".

The decision was taken after being referred under the Unduly Lenient sentence scheme by Vera Baird, the Solicitor General.

Maybe Irhabi can reset a whole new countdown clock.

[Petronas]

Dark Web Terror – Part Three
12/21/2007

Global connectivity, rapid technological development, highly skilled professionals, experienced employee mobility and lack of knowledge, expose IT and network infrastructure to a myriad of risks of which the risk of a malicious cyber attack by terrorists is the most threatening because of its final goals. Debating the terrorists capabilities to launch a sustained cyber-attack on networks and IT infrastructure argument, suffice to quote Kent Anderson in “Managing the Cyber Threat”: “Traditional wisdom holds that insiders are the greatest threat to an organization. This is based on two assumptions: first, insiders have access and second, that they have knowledge of a company’s systems, applications and processes” .

This quote summarizes in essence the extent to which terrorists can reach into our supposedly protected systems. The restrictions and self-inflicted disabilities in checking certain information and background on employees, which could unveil inside terrorist activities is restricted either because of the fears of infringing privacy and civil rights or because of “profiling” deemed as inappropriate. This irresponsible way of providing crippled security serves as an opened invitation for Jihadi sympathizers, devoted supporters and dormant terrorists - especially among the newly converted - to take advantage of the security gaps in many ways. There are four critical factors, as seen above, which are sure to make a cyber attack devastating:

Insider restricted information – usually available to employees
Access to hardware and software (codes, PW, systems status, etc) – which are part of the professional tasks and interacting with other employees
Knowledge of the systems – a “must” task in order to be able to perform the work-duties
Opportunity – by the very fact that opportunity situations occur daily for insiders

Kent Anderson’s quote should be a shining red light to all the experts and threat deniers ( “until I see it I don’t believe it exists”), and those that still believe that the threat level is low and that the terrorists lack the knowledge to launch a heavy duty attack. Have they fallen prey to “consensus thinking”? Maybe. Given the above, should we be surprised that UBL and alike see the internet as an effective weapon to fight the West; should we again underestimate what they can do and to what extent?

A deadly scenario
It’s Wednesday, December 24, 2008. The financial markets are closed, the banking systems is inactive and the entire commerce and business system is in a low-key, standby mode worldwide; people in the US are in a celebrating atmosphere following a good year without terror attack in the homeland. It is an ideal picture of pre-Christmas. But then, without warning, at 2:15 am, “the worm” roared.

An extremely sophisticated and complex virus, the “Storm Worm 2”, launched by UBL’s IT group three month before, was cleverly engineered to keep multiplying into and from itself, expending exponentially, constantly infecting and taking over the full control of more and more computers, servers and networks worldwide.
By December 31, Storm Worm 2 - or “The Jihadi Storm”, the name given by Al-Qeida’s IT chief Jawad Ramadan - has already penetrated and quietly installed itself in a dormant mode inside hundreds of vital financial, commercial, military and private infrastructure networks, ready to be activated.
In the early hours of January 2, 2008, at 1:20 am eastern time zone, twelve remote unmanned regional switching & control centers, and ten strategically located communication antennas towers and comm boosting and relay stations, were blown up by powerful C4 explosive charges planted in advance and activated by drive-by remote activation.
At 1:25 am, The Jihadi Worm, started drilling, neutralizing the network protection software programs and opened the gates for external unauthorized access. The systems were left “bare-naked” and helpless. An the shift system administrators didn’t even know, because no alarm was triggered and no sign of intrusion was detected
At 1:28 am, Joseph Stapleton(alas Gibran Hammuda), the IT shift manager, opened the door to the main surveillance & monitoring control room at Google’s HQ using his high-security special badge and his confirmation tag key, and deactivated the antivirus and protective systems, by running a short and simple command program from a CD that was sent to him by regular mail a day before, which was written based on the information supplied by him. In order to avoid his covert activity, Joseph wrote a short report message to his chief letting him know that “there is a glitch in the main frames but I believe the system will be up again shortly”.
At 1:45, a bombardment of millions of e-bombs were launched from hundreds of locations all over the globe, using software that kept creating automatic messages, inundated public, government and open systems until the systems began collapsing, dragging with them a host of directly and related networks, which were suppose to be independent, therefore protected from exactly such an attack.
At 1:55 am, Hamzi Tauafik Hilal, the cook of the two million cubic meters LNG super-tanker “Independence Day”, climbed up to the deck, and confirmed that the tanker is docked and is surrounded by several other LNG and LPG tankers within the perimeter of the Mississippi port. Being Muslim, he volunteered to remain on duty with a crew of other three shipmen. He walked calmly into the control room and shut off the refrigerating system that kept the natural gas below the freezing point, went back to the kitchen, cut off the gas tube from its wall socket, prayed for a minute praising Allah for the opportunity to become a shaiid, and without hesitation pulled the trigger of his Ronson lighter; a monstrous explosion shattered the surroundings. An enormous ball of fire engulfed the entire port, triggering tens of secondary explosions farther from the center, in a terrible ripple effect.

On December 25, at 06:00 am, hell began: the West was on the verge of collapsing. There were no commanders, nor security forces to activate within a radius of 7 miles from the port. It was all but flatten, scorched earth.

If this imaginary scenario sends an icy shiver down your spine, it should, because it much more realistic than what you think.; It’s not accurate in its details but makes sense, and if you’re scared, you definitively should be. Given that so many security breaches occur daily, and so many local cyber attacks take place every minute on the internet, it can happen, and we’ve seen this degree of sophistication from Al-Qeida in the near past. No doubt that the new flat decentralized structure facilitates better coordination and synchronization through the internet. It takes time to put in place such a daring plan, but as mentioned in Part Two, terrorists have time and patience. And there is a continuous infiltration of Muslims with terrorist connections into government jobs, research institutions, the military and security forces, including the FBI lately, (Nada Nadim Prouty, who also worked for the CIA). Thousands convert to Islam every year and the government doesn’t and shouldn’t control or monitor the process, but do we know how many convert to Islam and don’t tell their employer; is this detectable by security managers, I doubt it; and if the authorities would be able to acquire the details via legal venues, what could they do?

Is the above scenario realistic? Yes, because the accumulated threat of vicious, life-threatening cyber terrorism is far more higher than the sum of its parts. Can this really happen? It sure can. It’s not that the information and the warning signs don’t exist, they are all over the place; in the media, on the web, in chat rooms and forums, in lessons learned from breaching events, deep penetration into highly-secured networks, through hacking into academic networks, banks, stock exchange and public domains, etc. The problem stems from the same misunderstanding and arrogance which led us to military, security and moral defeat in the near past. It emanates from a sense of technological superiority many in the industry walk around with, which is factually true. What they miss though is the simple fact that the more they amass protective layers on the already sensitive systems and networks, the easier it becomes to find holes to penetrate it.

System administrators, computer engineers, programmers and security managers who battle every day with such problems, are actually very concerned. Again, like we’ve seen before 9/11, the executive management, driven by other than professional interests, prefer not to believe that it is much easier than what they’ve been manipulated to believe, to bring down their sophisticated grand networks. They are constantly tutored that terrorists using non-savvy internet “beginners”, which they believe them to be, don’t have the required knowledge to really expose the system to serious danger. Instead they pay lip tribute to the media partially agreeing that dark-web terrorism may develop into a real danger, sometime in the future. Such statements are typical acts of self-protection in case the threat materializes faster than expected. But this is by no means an answer to the real threat which keeps growing by the day. Some eye-opening examples:

Immediately after 9/11, several studies have shown certain signs of dark web cyber attacks generated by terrorists. It was obvious as early as 2001-02 that the level of sophistication, the targets chosen, the scope of the attacks, the sources and the numbers kept growing rapidly. Collection of data regarding those attacks indicated that the attacks focused on what terrorists perceived as very important targets, such as vital communications and critical infrastructure systems. In time, since 2001, cyber attacks developed and evolved exposing various problems and vulnerabilities of networks which were suppose to be untouchable.

It is extremely important to emphasize that studies and analysis of cyber attacks launched by terrorists have shown an interesting pattern:

A cyber attack came shortly before the terror attack, or
The cyber attack was launched almost simultaneously with the physical attack (maybe a field test designed to coordinate and synchronize cyber and physical attacks)
The cyber attack began immediately after the physical attack – meaning that it was prepared in advance, intended to propagate the victory whether true or not


Very important data can be found in “Cyber attacks during the war on terrorism: a predictive analysis” released on September 22, 2001 by The Institute for Security & Technology Studies at Dartmouth College. The importance of this study is in that it was published just two weeks after 9/11, and while the research was all done much earlier, the conclusions are still viable today.

Stop using the “run away logic”
“Terrorist groups are increasingly using new information technology and the Internet to formulate plans, recruit members, communicate between cells and members, raise funds, and spread propaganda. Terrorist groups including Hezbollah, the Abu Nidal Organization, and UBL’s Al-Qeida Organization are using computerized files, email, and encryption to support their operations.” stated Louis Freeh, FBI Director in his Congressional Statement, “Threat of Terrorism to the United States,” as early as 2001.

Six years have passed since. Al-Qeida’s rebirth in many aspects, its fast-track evolution after 9/11 and how resilient they’ve become despite the flat non-centralized structure, should tell us a similar story as to the development of the cyber attack factor in their ideology. There are several UBL confirmed quotes indicating the importance of the internet and of cyber attacks as part of the total Jihad against the West; why shouldn’t we take those threats seriously.

Gigantic intelligence mistakes were made by forcing explanations to questions that did not have a proper answer, simply because they didn’t know. And most of those were assessment mistakes. The tendency exists to apply an expected or projected answer every time a real time answer is not available, which in turn leads to wrong analysis and wrong assessment. The run away logic is a subconscious way to find a “logic” reasoning thus allowing one to evade the need to deal with the bits and pieces that can’t be placed in the puzzle that intelligence is; every time it is applied, run away logic “kills” the path to the problem, making it invisible or transparent. Running away from the problem or bypassing it results in the same “there is no problem”, and that is very dangerous. This quote from the Daily Telegraph article “How real is the threat of cyber terrorism?” is another telling example: “This is a difficult message for some, because these days anyone who causes widespread damage is being given the label "terrorist." But imagine for a minute the leadership of al Qaeda sitting in a cave somewhere, plotting the next move in their jihad against the United States. One of the leaders jumps up and exclaims: "I have an idea! We'll disable their e-mail....". The misconceptions and basic lack of understanding of the matter displayed speaks volumes. More concerning is the fact that the newspaper conveys the views of the experts and politicians who overwhelmingly believe the threat of a powerful terror cyber attack is nonsense and scary tactics.

The US Naval War College used a research group to simulate a massive cyber attack on the nation's information infrastructure. Government hackers and security analysts initiated in the summer of 2002 in Newport, Rhode Island the "Digital Pearl Harbor" war game intended to confirm or dismiss the threat of a cyber attack with serious implications on the national level. According to reports, the results were far from devastating: the hackers failed to crash the Internet, although they did cause serious sporadic damage. CNet.com reported in August 2002, that “officials concluded that terrorists hoping to stage such an attack "would require a syndicate with significant resources, including $200 million, country-level intelligence and five years of preparation time." This conclusion meant to be the last nail in the coffin of potential cyber attack, and the ultimate convincing argument that terrorists are not, and will not, be able to stage such an attack in the foreseeable future. Yet by analyzing the details of their own conclusion, the exact opposite conclusion are more plausible, and this is why:

The syndicate – this is what we see today – a conglomerate of terror organizations, Jihadi groups and Islamic radical movements, all cooperating with and through the internet, in an amorphous, almost fluid structure
Significant resources – Iran, Iraq, Syria and the terrorists’ pact with syndicated crime provide a myriad of financial, support, backup and manpower sources, not to mention the “charity funds”, internet and mosque donations, and high profits from other venues
Country level Intel – The deep involvement of Al-Qeida and many other Jihadi groups in the Iraqi and Afghanistan wars, has transformed them into experienced fighters and very good information gatherers. From seized documents we know that terrorists have real-time intelligence which is quickly dissipated, and are very apt to acting upon it
Five years of preparation time – we enter now the seventh year since 9/11 and in spring 2008 it will be the fifth anniversary year of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Shouldn’t we worry?

Therefore, by their own words, the conditions designed by the “Digital Pearl Harbour” war game managers as critical for terrorists to be able to launch a nation-wide cyber attack, are all fulfilled as detailed thereof. What other convincing reason experts can provide that would let us to believe that terrorists are not ready yet? Wasn’t UBL who claimed in 2002 that "hundreds of Muslim scientists are with me and will use their knowledge in computers and electronics against the infidels."

Dan Verton in his book “Black Ice: The Invisible Threat of Cyber-Terrorism” quotes Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad, UBL’s messenger: "I would advise those who doubt al Qaeda's interest in cyber-weapons to take Osama bin Laden very seriously” . Verton further mentions that “The third letter from Osama bin Laden … was clearly addressing using the technology in order to destroy the economy of the capitalist states"

Furthermore, why should we accept blindly the assessment and judgment of the same experts that failed repeatedly either in “connecting the dots” or draw the right conclusions. This in addition to what we’ve learned a-priory that information on our enemies is too often frivolous, based on unsubstantiated “facts”, and often fed by terrorist sources as disinformation.

SCADA vulnerabilities and the resulting implications
A less known fact is that critical infrastructure, delivery systems and control center depend entirely on SCADA networks. Furthermore, SCADA is intermeshed with tens of thousands of sub systems who in turn control their own sub systems, and so on and so forth. Every crash, glitch or delay in any of those systems, secondary, tertiary and farther remote sub-networks, creates a ripple effect which can be tracked back thousand of miles away from where the actual event occurred.

SCADA systems monitors and controls all major industrial and civil networks among which:


Air traffic and railways
Power generation and transmission
Oil and gas – from extraction through the refining process to delivery
Manufacturing and production
Water management, including sewage
Maritime control
Any and all daily public and civil activities, like elevators, refrigerating systems, backups, etc.


But more so, it is important to understand that SCADA is not one system, but a name given to any control network that is based on the specific supervising and collecting information methods from any system that uses a network of computers, servers and communication it is connected to. Therefore, virtually any private, public, industrial, business military and financial structured system is connected to, or makes use of certain SCADA version, adapted to its specific needs. As such, when a problem occurs, there is an immediate impact on a host of other systems which we aren’t aware that they are connected somehow to each other. Any combination of problems within any of the networks controlled by SCADA, could trigger:

Cutoff or water floods
Sewage getting mixed in drinking water
Open dams, release water and inundate lower grounds (i.e. Katrina storm)
Massive power blackouts
Cutting off the central control room of nuclear power plants or shutoff of the cooling system, thus overheating the nuclear reactor (i.e. the Chernobyl incident)
Explosions in refineries and processing plants
Overloading oil and gas pipelines causing it to burst and explode
Incapacitating defense systems by shutting them down or altering commands
Train collisions
Oil spillage in the ocean
Blocking financial systems and interfering in the stock exchange trade
Transfer huge amounts of money from financial institution, draining its sources and potentially creating a financial domino-effect collapse
Disrupt simple daily tasks such as office buildings, malls and government facilities air conditioning shutoff or over-heating

SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) is designed to deal with mission-critical networks by definition. Yet SCADA’s basic operation principles have raised security concerns from the very beginning, way before the threat of dark web cyber-terrorism was raised. Hundred of events all over the world since the mid 1990s, of which an estimate of 40% were defined as cyber attacks even then, define its innate vulnerabilities and security gaps:

the common baseless belief that SCADA networks are fully protected because the networks are not connected to the internet, therefore not accessible from the outside
the lack of awareness regarding security design flaws, problems of authentication and protection and difficulties in upgrading existing operational networks without creating new gaps (patching)
a false sense of security, emphasized by the developers and software designers and manufacturers, that the systems are well protected because unique specialized protocols and proprietary interfaces are used, thus making a successful break-in almost impossible
the typical mistake that leads to the false belief that SCADA networks – especially those defined as critical infrastructure - are safe from outside attacks by the very fact that they are physically secured, thus very difficult to penetrate and alter or change the system.

Obviously, any successful attack, local or partial, on a mission-critical SCADA system could cripple or destroy financial networks, prevent recuperate loss of data order destruction of critical information, distort commands and trigger physical destruction of sites; it could collapse a banking system, the stock exchange, or take over the air control causing airplanes to crash.

It is important to mention, that even today, in the era of total Jihad, there are still decision makers that resist the call of many not to patch up the existing SCADA, but develop more secure systems and build new architecture and configuration that fit today’s threats. Those anti-change figures, both in the private sector and the government, believe yet that the benefits provided by the existing SCADA systems are greater than the risk of a massive attack. A comprehensive study by the British Columbia Institute of Technology, showed that major companies in the US and four other nations have recorded about 135 SCADA security incidents in a little more than four years. Aren’t the results of this study alone substantiated enough to prove that there is a growing threat of terrorists cyber attacks; must we wait for another devastating blowout to happen? The awakening time is now.

Well known SCADA security incidents:

in 1992, Chevron’s emergency system was disabled by an employee, causing the alert system to be shut off in 22 states in the US. The problem was discovered only when an emergency which had to be transmitted occurred
in 1997, a “kid hacker” broke into NYNEX, cutting off Worcester, MA airport for more than six hours, creating traffic problems which spread out farther that the specific location affecting air traffic and creating delays and other local problems
NATO used information warfare against the Serbs in the war to liberate Kosovo. Russian hackers, who sympathized with the Serbs, launched a heavy attacked on NATO’s computers.
When US air forces accidentally bombed the Chinese embassy, Chinese hackers attacked computer systems in the US
in 2000 the Russian authorities confirmed that hackers were able to gain control over GazProm, the world largest natural gas pipeline network
in 2000, Vitek Boden, a former employee took control of the SCADA system controlling the sewage and water treatment system at Queensland's Maroochy Shire in Australia. Using just a wireless connection and a stolen computer, he released millions of gallons of raw sewage and sludge into creeks, parks and a nearby hotel and the coastal waters of Queensland, Australia
in 2003, the east coast of America experienced a total blackout, which is indicative of what a cyber attack on such a network could create. It was found that many related and connected systems were infected with the Blaster Worm virus, which wouldn’t have been detected shouldn’t the blackout have happened. Computer glitches in Ohio caused inaccurate readings along First Energy's electric power lines, and cascading effects among northeastern utilities dealing with the summer heat prompted the shutdown of more than 500 generating units in the US and Canada
in January 2003, the Slammer Worm virus hit the Ohio based Davis-Besse nuclear power plant safety monitoring system, causing it to be off-line for more than five hours
Instruction manuals and computers seized by American troops in Al-Qeida training camps in Afghanistan and Iraq, had lots of information regarding dams and other related critical structures.
Mitigating factors
“Many in the cyber-security world - consultants seeking clients, academics chasing grants, companies selling software - were deemed to have a vested interest in exaggeration. As were politicians” wrote Simon Finch in his article “Cyber-terrorism is real - ask Estonia” in the British newspaper “Daily Telegraph”.

This duality goes both ways: those that argue that it’s a much ado about nothing, and those that preach for a much serious approach in dealing with this new threat of cyber terrorism by Islamic terrorists. The problem is the fast global spread of networks which leads to the fact that almost all systems are interconnected. Software-wise the only means that maintain a partial independency of each network is the firewalls and its add-ons and derivates. With this easy to circumvent (instead of penetrate) protection software, viruses can easily infect networks that are regarded as being totally protected.

Another amazing fact is that most Islamist websites are hosted on servers located in the West, especially in the US as shown in MEMRI’s recent research. Needless to say that Islamists, Jihadists and their supporters have learned to exploit Western freedom of speech, and use it in many creative ways to connect with each other, spread their message and prepare.

There is little doubt that the American IPs don’t know what the content of the hosting websites is, mainly because the language of most of these websites is Arabic or other non-western language.

The use of hacking to sabotage Internet sites becomes more prevalent. In those activities, which Jihadists call e-Jihad, they attack websites they believe to be anti-Islam or active enemies, aiming to create at this stage, as much as possible morale damages. Other hacking type focuses on attacking infrastructure, strategic, economic and military networks aiming to inflict substantial damage on western infrastructures. Many of these partial successful and failed attacks are seen as a real time proof to the terrorists’ incompetence, but the notion that those are training activities and drills becomes more prevalent these days.

To understand the mini-revolution that the Jihadist groups undergo, suffice to study the depth of the online activity and the content richness of their websites, whether in indoctrination, collection of charity(da'wa) or military training and information. Today, the internet is seen by terrorists as an integral part of their total Jihad, an additional ramification to the military, economic, and political fronts carrying the same values as field activities. And more compelling is the fact that e-Jihad is characterized as the type of Jihad for those who cannot participate as field fighters. The name they’ve given is The media jihad (al-jihad al-i'lami).

Epilog/Afterword
Instead of an ordinary summary, I decided to list the main reasons why we should not panic but seriously worry. Because worry emphasizes the need for counter measures and encourages public pressure on the political and business leadership. Hereafter is the compiled “why should we worry”:

Authentication doesn’t exist at all or is easy to brake
It is increasingly difficult to manage “rights” of entry/usage for each person and identity
Every time updating or patching is involved, there is a gap opened that allows penetration
Even if a network is designed, run and supervised as an independent closed-end network, there are many temporary uncontrolled interconnections through which an unauthorized entry is easy
The so-called “Stand-alone Systems” connect to the Internet through direct links, open, unprotected Wi-Fi, laptops, cellphones, etc as part of their routine activities. Interconnection with the main targeted core system is relatively easy to achieve by creating a VPN-like path via the SQL server which allows collection of data sent from the server to the system. Once inside, reaching the production controls is easy since it is usually not protected
A known fact is that there are always discrepancies between the diagram of a system and its actual deployment, especially if it is a relative “old”. This flaw is an easy prey to hackers since system administrators consider self-contained – self- managed system as untouchable, and they have the diagrams to prove it, while in reality the system is indirectly connected to outside entities unauthenticated or unknown sources
A serious security flaw can be found on the production level, where many systems have to synchronize with NTP over the internet and the tech support of the supplier connects to the system remotely
Contrary to popular belief, targeted e-storms/e-bombing can cripple, disrupt and destroy, and shut down critical lines and processes. Proof of the threat level can be found in the creation of the new Cyberspace Command by the US AF, which will also develop a cyberspace warfare doctrine, following many past incidents topped by two major cyber attacks this year:

The barrage of cyber attacks emanating from Russia which crippled the banking, police, and government offices of Estonia in April
The Chinese military hacked into a computer network used by top aides to U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, in June
In many cases, the production floor is the most vulnerable to invasion because it is the easiest to connect to from outside via many uncontrolled channels, such as suppliers, technical support, etc
The hottest development in cellular connectivity is “the real world web” which merge GPS information with network connectivity via ad-hoc links, Wi-Fi and cellphones and Google’s Android project. For example, your smart phone will tell you where to find what you’re looking for, thus it will be much easier to find where a certain network’s servers are physically located
There are news from the hackers world as well. The old proven hacking method where hackers “zombify” computers by infecting them with viruses and worms creating what is called huge “botnets”, a network of computers under their control. And in spite of the creation of new threats every day, software companies developed and constantly update protection and anti-virus software which have the capacity to deal with the problem, and they keep improving. The efficiency of the anti-virus software is entirely based on researching new viruses, but lately hackers are responding by attacking computers and systems used by professionals. It is done by and automatic “calling to duty” command of armies of zombie computers, when a new virus is probed, flooding that computer with useless data and chocking the system. The same technique could be used for terrorism purposes
Open entries into secured systems is also available due to common mistakes or lack of simple procedures such as not changing the initial password provided by the manufacturer, using predictable PW, sending critical data on the system without encryption, weak authentication by using generic names, etc
Attacks by direct dialing into systems
Problems in identifying penetration attempts and differentiating between a malicious entry and benign incident
Ineffective firewalls, sloppy patching and non-secured coding practices

Bottom line
Using well-known and new hacking techniques, taking advantage of security holes and using simple proven methods, terrorists have the capability to create chaos and havoc to the extent never seen before. And we are reminded by them that this is exactly what they intend to do. Remember 9/11?

http://www.globalpolitician.com/articleshow.asp?ID=3906&cid=11

[Casey]

S. Korea's military on alert against overseas hackers: ministry
2 hours, 48 minutes ago

South Korea's military has been put on alert against overseas hackers who have gained access to some soldiers' personal computers, the defence ministry said Thursday.

It did not identify the country where the hackers are based but Chosun Ilbo newspaper said it was China.

The Defence Security Command, which handles counter-intelligence, this week warned all military units to be on the alert against hacking, a ministry spokesman said.

"The alert was issued after the counter-intelligence command found 'third-nation' hackers had successfully broken into some soldiers' computers via e-mails to steal private data," the spokesman told AFP.

"No military information has been leaked."

The South's military runs its own Intranet, usually disconnected to the Internet, and also has separate servers for processing confidential data, he said.

But the command instructed troops to keep no official data on personal computers and also to update anti-virus programmes.

The spokesman said hackers used emails entitled in Korean "Current state of the North Korean army's capabilities" to arouse the curiosity of soldiers. The hacking virus starts working when the emails are opened.

Chosun Ilbo said military investigators had traced the hackers to China but failed to identify whether they are ordinary citizens or military personnel.

It noted that China launched a military unit called NET Force to carry out online warfare against enemy computer networks in 2000, with one million civilian "red hackers" operating in the country.

The Korea Institute for Defence Analyses, a state think-tank affiliated with the defence ministry, said one of its researchers had his computer hacked by a Chinese in 2004.

"The Chinese hacker took out private data, neither official nor confidential, from the researcher's personal computer while pretending to be a Korean e-mailer," a spokesman told AFP.

South Korea is one of the world's most wired societies with 34 million people or 70 percent of the population using the Internet.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080103/wl_asia_afp/skoreachinaitmilitaryalert;_ylt=Ao3PyhpyZX3Swd6ReJ aJR68Bxg8F

[NYer]

Official Taliban sites hosted in the US. (http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/190823.php)

Sheesh ... Don't they know we're AT WAR with those guys?

[al-Canine]

U.S. Web site said to offer strengthened encryption tool for al-Qaeda backers

Jaikumar Vijayan

January 23, 2008 (Computerworld) An Arabic-language Web site hosted on a server located in Tampa, Fla., is apparently offering a new version of software that was designed to help al-Qaeda supporters encrypt their Internet communications.

The new encryption tool is called Mujahideen Secrets 2 and appears to be an updated version of easier-to-crack software that was released early last year, said Paul Henry, vice president of technology evangelism at Secure Computing Corp. in San Jose.

The tool is being distributed free of charge on a password-protected Web site that belongs to an Islamic forum known as al-Ekhlaas, according to Henry and a blog posting by the Middle East Media Research Institute. MEMRI is a Washington-based organization that monitors what it describes as jihadist Web sites and publishes translations of online content originally posted in Arabic, Persian or Turkish.

Henry said that he contacted the FBI about the al-Ekhlaas site and its contents last weekend. But as of this afternoon, the site was still up and running. Prior to being hosted on the server in Tampa, the site appears to have been run off of a system in Minnesota, Henry said.

MEMRI identified the Web hosting firm that owns the server on which the al-Ekhlaas site is running as Tampa-based Noc4hosts Inc. Officials from the hosting firm didn't immediately return calls to a general toll-free number listed on its Web site.

Because of the password protection, Henry hasn't been able to download the new tool and therefore can't say what level of encryption it supports. But he said that a banner ad on the site claims that the software offers the highest level of encryption now available. That means it likely uses at least 1024-bit encryption, whereas the first version of Mujahideen Secrets used 256-bit AES encryption, he said.

A Reuters story posted Jan. 18 and datelined Dubai quoted the al-Ekhlaas Web site as saying that the new release was a "special edition" of the encryption tool created "in order to support the mujahideen in general and the Islamic State in Iraq in particular." That organization was described by Reuters as being linked to al-Qaeda.

Efforts by groups that support al-Qaeda to develop their own encryption tools appear to be driven by concerns about possible back doors being built into publicly available encryption software, Henry said. He added that the upgraded Mujahideen Secrets tool could cause problems for law enforcement and antiterrorism agencies that are tracking the activities of such groups.

"Up to this point in time, we have been able to discount al-Qaeda's use of the Internet as an attack vehicle because of their use of outdated and easily thwarted technologies," Henry said. But, he warned, that could begin to change if al-Qaeda backers start adopting more up-to-date tools.

MEMRI posted a notice last January about the release of the original version of Mujahideen Secrets. The initial release was announced by the Global Islamic Media Front on Jan. 1, 2007, according to MEMRI. It noted that the GIMF advertised the tool as "the first Islamic computer program for secure exchange [of information] on the Internet" and went on to say that the software provided users with "the five best encryption algorithms, and with symmetrical encryption keys (256 bit), asymmetrical encryption keys (2048 bit) and data compression."

Last February, MEMRI also posted an analysis of so-called electronic jihad activities. According to the institute, radical Islamic groups have been trying over the past few years to carry out coordinated attacks against Web sites belonging to organizations that they consider to be their enemies. "As [is] evident from numerous postings on the Islamist Web sites, many of these coordinated attacks are organized by groups devoted to electronic jihad," MEMRI wrote in its analysis.

Six prominent electronic jihad groups have emerged on the Internet, according to MEMRI, which said that four of them had their own Web sites "through which they recruit volunteers to take part in electronic attacks, maintain contacts with others who engage in electronic jihad, coordinate their attacks and enable their members to chat with one another anonymously."

Among the content available on one of the sites was a document explaining how to carry out electronic jihad attacks, along with technical information about the software needed to do so and descriptions of previous attacks and their results, MEMRI said.

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyId=16&articleId=9058619&intsrc=hm_topic

[Vancouver]

Anybody know the situation of Islamic Network's home site?
http://www.islamicnetwork.com/
It seems to be dead. It was part of the mainly Londonistani "muslimpad" http://www.muslimpad.com/wp-signup.php
which hosts numerous belligerent and threatening blogs.

(It's not all Londonistani, though. "inshallahshaheed", although very typical of that group, is American. He got blown by the New York Times after making some mistakes of the kind that mouthy and narcissistic punks like himself so often do.)

More later.

[Casey]

Jihad Videos 2 for mobile phones have been released.

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المجموعة الثانية لإصدارات مؤسسة السحاب بصيغة الجوال بأعلى جودة

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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

نخبة الإعلام الجهادي

تقدم


المجموعة الثانية


لإصدارات مؤسسة السحاب للإنتاج الإعلامي

بصيغة الجوال بأعلى جودة






بعد نشرنا للمجموعة الأولى لإصدارات مؤسسة السحاب لإنتاج الإعلامي بصيغة الجوال بأعلى جودة

نشر موقع الـ ( CNN) تقريراً نقتطف لكم منه بعض الفقرات :


القاهرة, مصر, (أسوشيتد برس)-- أعلنت شبكة إرهابية على الانترنت في إطار محاولاتها توسيع التأثير, أن الرسائل المرئية للقاعدة و الخاصة بأسامة بن لادن و أيمن الظواهري أصبح بالإمكان تحميلها على هواتف خلوية.

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نخبة الإعلام الجهادي تقدم الدفعة الاولى من تسجيلات السحاب للتحميل على الهواتف الخلوية’’, هذا ما ذكره الإعلان. و قال بن فيننكز, رئيس مجموعة أنتيل سانتر لمراقبة و تحليلات رسائل المقاتلين, أنها ليست المرة الأولى التي تصدر فيها السحاب أشرطة فيديو للتحميل على الهواتف الخلوية.

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و هذه الصيغة من الفيديو هي الأكثر انتشارا و تناميا في الشرق الأوسط. الملفات يتم إرسالها من جهاز تلفون إلى آخر باستعمال البلوتوث أو التكنولوجيا اللاسلكية تحت الحمراء. ففي ديسمبر 2006 انتشرت عبر الجوالات, أشرطة إعدام الرئيس العراقي السابق صدام حسين مباشرة بعد موته. و في مصر و عبر الجوالات ظهرت صور تبين وحشية رجال الأمن و أيضا شريط فيديو يظهر ضرب و اعتقال سائق شاحنة خريف 2006.

الرسائل المرئية و الصوتية لمختلف الجماعات الإسلامية بما فيها القاعدة متوفرة على مواقع الانترنت التابعة للمقاتلين لكنها تحتاج جهاز كمبيوتر و خط انترنت سريع للتحميل —و هذا غير متوفر كثيرا بالمنطقة--. لكن الأشرطة الثمانية المتوفرة حاليا من طرف السحاب للتحميل على الجوال تتراوح بين 17 ميغا و 120 ميغا, و تحتاج إلى جوالات ذات قدرة تحمل عالية للمعلومات. و وعدت السحاب بنشر مزيد من إصداراتها المرئية السابقة بصيغة الجوال و بجودات مختلفة.


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وها نحن اليوم بفضل الله تعالى ، نغيظ الكافرين وننشر لكم المجموعة الثانية

من اصدارات السحاب بصيغة الجوال بأعلى جودة

و الحمد لله رب العالمين

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لقاء مع الشيخ أيمن الظواهري-1428




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لقاء مع الفاروق العراقي -رحمه الله -1426





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وحرض المؤمنين





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و لا تنسونا من صالح دعائكم

إخوانكم في

[Vancouver]

Logo used by a female francophone Qaidaista who seems to be in France.

[al-Canine]

Updated encryption tool for al-Qaeda backers improves on first version, researcher says

Jaikumar Vijayan

February 04, 2008 (Computerworld) A recently released tool that allegedly was designed to help al-Qaeda supporters encrypt their Internet-based communications is a well-written and easily portable piece of code, according to a security researcher who has analyzed the software.

However, messages that are encrypted using the tool, which is known as Mujahideen Secrets 2, should be relatively easy for law enforcement authorities to spot and track, said Paul Henry, vice president of technology evangelism at Secure Computing Corp. in San Jose.

Henry said that based on his analysis of the encryption tool, "it will not be a difficult matter for law enforcement to identify files created using this software," because it puts a unique fingerprint on them. "You may not be able to read the messages, but you will be able to figure out where it was sent from and to whom," he added.

Mujahideen Secrets 2 was released last month via an Arabic-language Web site set up by an Islamic forum called al-Ekhlaas. At the time, the password-protected Web site was running on a server that belonged to a Web hosting firm in Tampa, Fla., after previously being on a system owned by another company in Rochester, Minn. But the URL that the group was using on the server in Tampa is no longer working.

As of last week, the al-Ekhlaas site had been moved to a server owned by yet another hosting firm, this one based in Phoenix, Henry said. But the link to the site on that server also now appears to be broken.

The new encryption software is an updated version of an easier-to-crack tool that was released early last year by the same group. Henry said the copy of Mujahideen Secrets 2 that he evaluated was provided to him by J.M. Berger, a Cambridge, Mass.-based freelance journalist and documentary filmmaker who focuses on terrorism as well as science and business topics.

Mujahideen Secrets 2 is a very compelling piece of software, from an encryption perspective, according to Henry. He said the new tool is easy to use and provides 2,048-bit encryption, an improvement over the 256-bit AES encryption supported in the original version. What makes the update especially interesting, he noted, is the fact that it can be used to encrypt Yahoo and MSN chat messages in addition to e-mails.

Another interesting aspect of the tool is its ability to take a binary file and encrypt it in such a way that the file can be posted in a pure ASCII or text-only format, Henry added. As a result, individuals could use Mujahideen Secrets 2 to encrypt files and post them on sites that aren't even on the Internet -- for instance, on a telephone-accessed bulletin board system. "If you wanted to do something covert, that's one way of doing it," Henry said.

The new version of the tool also has a much better graphical user interface than the initial release did, he noted. And he thinks the tool's developers have done a better job of integrating bits and pieces of RSA Security Inc.'s encryption code in order to handle functions such as key generation and key management. Many of the mistakes they made in the first version seem to have been addressed in the new one, thereby making it harder to crack, he said.

In addition, the revamped tool is highly portable, Henry said. For instance, he explained, someone could put the software on a USB memory stick, go to an Internet cafe, plug in the USB device and run Mujahideen Secrets 2 to encrypt any communications from that cafe.

According to Berger, the new version of the tool sounds worrisome both because of its increased sophistication and the ease with which it can be used. The software appears to be designed for use by relatively low-level operators in the al-Qaeda hierarchy, he said.

The capabilities offered by Mujahideen Secrets 2 fit a pattern for al-Qaeda groups, Berger said, noting that the terrorist organization "has always been pretty current with what they use — cutting edge, but not bleeding edge."

Berger added that there is a "robust discussion" taking place within the counterterrorism community over the issue of online forums such as al-Ekhlaas being hosted on U.S.-based servers. Some people believe it is easier to monitor what's going on in the forums when they are hosted on U.S.-based servers, he said. Others, though, want the Web sites to be taken down immediately.

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9060939

[NYer]

If you're a terrorist and dependent on the internet, I have bad news. (http://internet-haganah.com/harchives/006284.html)