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Aaron Weisburd @webradius is making a splash this morning on Shmukh. Forum angry abt Fox story on Shmukh hit list that Aaron undercovered

10 hours ago via web

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2011/06/very-odd-al-qaeda-hit-list/38967/

“A Very Odd Al Qaeda ‘Hit LIst’”
JOHN HUDSON
07:49 PM ET186

SNIPPET: “Today, The Atlantic Wire obtained the list of 179 names...”

SNIPPET: “A post first appeared on the password-protected Jihad discussion site Shumukh, Fox News reports, “from someone identified as Al-Assad Al-Thaer urging supporters to compile the list of executives and officials who supported the ‘war on our nation,’ calling them part of the ‘Zionist Crusaders Alliance.’”

SNIPPET: “We reached out to the Middle East Media Research Institute to ask if they had a copy of the list that had prompted the warnings. They provided it to us and MEMRI president Yigal Carmon explained how it was created. On June 6, a jihadist operating under the handle Yaman Mukhadad asked fellow users to contribute names of U.S. targets he would then provide to Al Qaeda leaders. This all took place on the web forum Shumoukh al-Islam. “The web site is accredited by Al Qaeda but the list did not come from Al Qaeda,” Carmon explained. Apparently, users in the forum were so enthusiastic about contributing names, Mukhadad asked them to stop. “He said ‘enough, enough’” explained Carmon. Then, on a second jihadist forum called Ansar al-Mujahideen, another user began soliciting names for a target list. According to Carmon, that was the 40-member list ABC News reported about yesterday. Carmon said the list he provided to The Atlantic Wire is the sum total from both crowdsourcing efforts.”