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http://internet-haganah.com/harchives/006495.html
“Thought for the Day”
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Stepping back in time...
http://www.futureofmuslimworld.com/research/id.28/comment_detail.asp
“Jihadist Virtual Culture”
by Daniel Kimmage
February 20th, 2007
“JIHADIST VIRTUAL CULTURE”
SNIPPET: “With jihadists able to operate openly only in conflict zones such as Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia, the internet has become their natural refuge. Fully aware of the medium’s accessibility and openness, they use it less a place to hatch plans and discuss operational details than as a web of virtual ties that bind together an imagined community of the likeminded. Yet their ultimate designs are real, not virtual, and the network of loosely linked websites that is for now the clearest expression of what might be called jihadist virtual culture speaks volumes about the current state of this global movement, its evolving ideology, emerging tendencies, and, finally, the vision of the future its adherents would like to impose on those around them.”
I suspect that OBL and other senior AQ leaders may have moved away from the region, and now could be somewhere like Yemen. There is no strategic reason for them to stay in the Pakistan border region where they know they are being hunted from satellite surveillance. Yemen offers a warm, usually cloudless climate and a lack of government curiosity, two things that people on the run and wary of strangers most value. Parts of Yemen are so unpopulated that the approach within thirty miles of any sort of organized US-sponsored presence would be quickly detected by low-grade surveillance. It would also be relatively easy for Bin Laden to come and go from such a location, in deep disguise, with one or two trusted aides, and make fairly extensive journeys throughout the world. Anyone with the chutzpah to knock down the twin towers would probably thrive on the excitement of such activity. In the byzantine atmosphere of Pakistan, he risks exposure in a multitude of ways, but in much simpler Yemen, he only has to bribe one or two people and he’s set.
Velveeta posted an observation on The Threat Matrix at FreeRepublic.com:
Quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2181917/posts?page=239#239
bin Laden tape observation:
UBL references “Resolution 1701” in his latest diatribe.
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701 is a resolution that was intended to resolve the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict.
It was unanimously approved by the United Nations Security Council on 11 August 2006.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_1701
The 8/11 date gives me pause - so just head’s up.
239 posted on March 14, 2009 1:14:09 PM PDT by Velveeta
ping
http://www.makingsenseofjihad.com/archiveorg_watch/
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A bit off topic:
BLOG:
http://www.makingsenseofjihad.com/2009/03/keywords-anyone.html
Keywords, Anyone
I recently did a copy and paste from the Keywords field of an Archive dot org record. Keyword lists like the one below hint at the user’s (ie, the online jihadi’s) original intentions for sharing the file, such as their intended audience or purpose, and hint at their command of English. This collection is unusual, because it reflects accurate spelling and coupling of concepts that suggests this Archive user is a native English speaker. Their UK-based yahoo account also suggests this, too.
For context, see the file record here, ...”
(March 17, 7:19 pm)
Bin Laden condemns Somalia leader
BBC | 3/19/2009
Posted on 03/19/2009 3:13:01 AM PDT by james500
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2209751/posts