Al-Qa'eda Places Recruiting Ads

Al-Qa'eda is advertising on the internet for recruits to boost its "virtual jihad", where the terrorist group recruits fighters, shares tactics and spreads its extremist message.

Its propaganda arm, the Global Islamic Media Front, says it has "vacant positions" for those wanting to help with producing videos and assembling footage of militants in war zones, including Iraq.

It also seeks candidates with "excellent" language skills in English and Arabic, the London-based Arabic daily, Asharq Al Awsat, reports.

The al-Qa'eda job adverts contain the warning: "Every Muslim should know that his life is not his own; it is the property of this violated nation for whom men have shed their blood."

It has recently launched the "Voice of the Caliphate", a weekly video bulletin with a newsreader in a black mask, with a gun and a Koran.

It also issued "Jihad Hidden Camera", a video of attacks on US troops in Iraq with jokey sound effects and canned laughter.

"Can't we track down the locations of these web sites? Seems to me we find out where they publishing from and send in the Marines."

It is a very difficult thing to keep track of these sites. They often are changing names login passwords etc., on a routine bases. Think of it like this. Someone gets a low grade web site account on some ISP or second, third level provider. They don't now adays even have to go throught the trouble of getting legitimate domanin name established etc..
So say you wanted to have some terrorist site set up. All you need to do is sign up for some low end web site at say Yahoo.com. You throw a few pages together. You of course get lets say 10 different alias email accounts along with the web pages. You create on your PC a flat file that contains all known goons world wide that may view your site and with appropriate password and login names be able to communicate at the site. You uploade the email listing to your new account directory etc.. You communicate via. encrypted or hashed word phrases. People see what is one your web page and understand the phrases, they are meaningless to the rest of the world. But let say one of the known commercial or Intel agencies taht routinely search the world web using various tools (data mining perhaps capabilities), find new sites. take not of something, then report it to the company that has established the web account for the individual. The company attempts to make contact with the individual. They immediately wipe out all the directories on that account, and sense they probably don't even have a real mailing address, perhaps just a postal box address, they are hard to trace. Two days later they go to another ISP under a different name and set up a new web page account. So it is hard to capture these goons. And to make things worse, they may asked some company in the USA to set up a web page account for them, while they are operating out of some hotel or home in say Yemen. Got the picture?

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