Previously...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2896814/posts
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NOTE The following post is a quote:
To: All
“Al-Qaeda posts online recruitment adverts offering training for suicide bombers to target the US, Israel and France”
SNIPPET:
“-Advertisements ask for volunteers to get in touch via e-mail with details about their own experience
-Posted on a variety of jihadist forums”
By JILL REILLY
PUBLISHED: 21:07 EST, 6 June 2012 | UPDATED: 21:08 EST, 6 June 2012
SNIPPET: “Adverts have appeared on several jihadist web forums, offering to recruit and train potential suicide bombers.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is offering training for suicide bombers to target the US, Israel and France.
The advertisements ask for volunteers to get in touch via e-mail with details about their own experience and proposed targets, and were posted on a variety of jihadist forums, including Al-Fidaa, Shmoukh al-Islam and Honein.”
2 posted on June 18, 2012 11:35:12 PM PDT by Cindy
stepping back in time to 2011...
NOTE The following post is a quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2757099/posts
Whither the jihadi forums?
INTERNET-HAGANAH.com ^ | August 1, 2011 | n/a
Posted on August 1, 2011 1:10:28 PM PDT by Cindy
http://internet-haganah.com/harchives/007413.html
“Whither the jihadi forums?”
SNIPPET: “There are currently only three jihadi forums that are sufficiently active and well-connected to be of any interest whatsoever. Why we claim to be on the verge of defeating al-Qaida while simultaneously watching passively as they use these forums to regroup and regenerate is beyond me.
These are the forums three:
• al-Fidaa, a forum created by al-Qaida core. That it is directly linked to al-Qaida by definition moves it to the top of the list. Current membership: 2,462, all of whom can be considered “active” if only because they just joined the forum.
• al-Shmukh, a forum with a long history that includes connections al-Qaida core. Current membership: 14,327.
• Ansar al-Mujahideen Arabic Forum, which was stood up with the assistance of at least one individual with bona fide connections to al-Qaida core. Current membership: about 10,000.
Some conclusions and some speculation:
1. There are far fewer jihadi activists on the Arabic forums than there used to be. With each round of shutdowns a portion of the membership never comes back (they had probably already become inactive).
2. A portion of the jihadi community globally bypasses the forums entirely, and instead relies on Facebook and Youtube. This seems particularly true of Western jihadis, the HVEs.
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