Posted on 02/15/2006 9:30:46 AM PST by FormerACLUmember
Last Tuesday, during or immediately after my appearance on Fox News Channel to discuss the Mohammed Cartoons, this blog was hit by a large, foreign-based denial of service attack. Last night, my hosting service notified me that it is receiving ongoing threats from individuals vowing to take down this site--and others along with it--which will presumably continue until I take down the cartoons. For now, we are on guard and continuing with business as usual. But you should know there's something much wider and deeper going on:
I. Security Pro News reports on the latest Islamist hacker attacks spurred by Cartoon Jihad:
Muslum hackers continue their retaliatory assault on Danish websites over the political cartoons run in Danish newspapers last year and more recently in other European publications. As this story is being written, the number is up to 1819 Danish site alone and continues to rise. The defaced sites contain messages aimed at various western folks carry a message attacking people who the hackers feel insult their religion of Islam. One site, beetlejuice.dk, was hacked by Iranian hackers calling themselves the Ashiyane Defacers Digital Security Team. This would seem to be a bit of self-promotion by the group. On this site, they left a message in different languages saying, "We are Muslims and We Cannot Let Anyone to Insult to Islam." The Ashiyane team even sent a note to Zone-H to make sure they got credit to the appropriate hackers...
The attacks are coming from all over; last week, a Tampa, Fla.-based hosting company took down a hacking site that had targeted the Jyllands-Posten, the Danish newspaper that originally published the 12 Mohammed Cartoons.
II. ISN notes the growth of the "virtual jihad community:"
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."
III. Andrew Cochran at The Counterterrorism Blog reports on Muslim cyberterrorist hacking of American websites, and posts one reader's thoughts on where this is headed:
The outstanding question is law enforcement response to Islamist "hack-tivists" defacing or otherwise compromising non-critical websites. Again, considered in isolation, defacing a women's motorcycle club website for a day or two is an aggravation but not a threat to society. Considered in aggregate, however, defacing and compromising thousands of webpages is a dangerous pattern, a sure sign of probes preliminary to a coordinated attack of potentially massive proportions. Forewarned is forearmed.
IV. Finally, here's a small sample of the threatening e-mail that has come in:
From: naser jianpour (n_jianpour@yahoo.com) To: writemalkin@gmail.com Mailed-By: yahoo.com Date: Feb 10, 2006 12:04 PM Subject: we will kill you
I am Iranian I am a mosleme . We will kill you( every ) down with you( Crectian & jowe.) world is mine.
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From: monalisa monalisa (monalisa23h@hotmail.com) To: writemalkin@gmail.com Mailed-By: hotmail.com Date: Feb 4, 2006 5:55 PM Subject: you are filth
the dishonourable the mean the prostitute I'am a müslim and turkish I kill you devil you are goto the hell shit the whore
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From: greatmastafa@web.de (greatmastafa@web.de) Mailed-By: web.de To: writemalkin@gmail.com Date: Feb 11, 2006 9:41 PM Subject: mohammed
you have one day to delete all pictures of mohammed from your server, or i hack this site and delete all files on this server. ok
mohammed have never a face. dou you now.
for ever islam
Update: Andrew Cochran nails it:
This escalation in the cyberwar is an intentional attack to deny our Constitutional right to free speech and expression, and it warrants a response by the entire tech and internet community and the federal government. Via LGF, I learned that my favorite photoblog, zombietime, has been attacked as well:
I have been seriously targetted too. Had a DDOS attack from Turkey. Just in the last hour I've been reverse-spammed with dozens of viruses from these email domain addresses: smtp2.ste.net.sy alesta.sbs.com.tr easynet.co.uk touchtelindia.net
Looks like they're coming from Syria, Turkey, Britain and India today (all countries with large populations of Muslims).
Every day the attacks come from new countries: Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Jordan, UAE, etc.
It's craziness.
Engrish, Muslim style.
No Michelle. It is evil.
Gimme the ball.
You got it......Dummies can't spell.......
It sure would be *unfortunate* for Muslims if one of 'em were to harm Michelle.
'nuff said.
Sounds like we should also be monitoring computer tech schools along with flight schools for shady islamic and arab students.
"Say to those who disbelieve: You shall be vanquished, and driven together to hell; and evil is in the resting place." - Koran, Surah III: 12
According to CAIR, this is an isolated quote, taken out of context, requiring the interpretation of an imam for proper understanding....
If any of these nut jobs touch a hair on Michelle's head, they will unleash a s**tstorm the likes of which they won't know how to handle. I can't be the only red-blooded American male who harbors a secret crush on this fine women, and won't rest till retribution is delivered to those repsonsible for harming her or even supported such action.
Having said that, it looks like a good weekend to go the range and excercise my 2d Amendment rights, just in case.
"I agree with you, why do you think the commies and the socialists are always at the anti-war rallies??? They know if Democracy spreads in the middle east, any hope of socialist revolution is OVER/DEAD/NADA/DONE"
You are both absolutely correct. Islamic terrorism, as we know it today, is a direct outgrowth of soviet sponsorship of these activities starting in the 60's and lasting right up to the fall of the old Soviet Union.
Arafat in particular was a recipient of KGB largess and training. He even attended the famous terrorist training institute "Patrice Lamumba University" (I may not have the spelling right on that), in Moscow.
Khadaffi was another regime propped up and supported by the soviets. In return, Khadaffi hosted terrorist training camps all over Libya, run, financed and supplied by the KGB. They were open to all comers, including the IRA and several central and south american terrorist groups. Most of these groups continued to receive support and funding so long as the attacked western/US/NATO interests.
Syria, too, has done this.
Along these same lines is the anarchist movement, started in Germany as an offshoot of the red brigades and Bader-Meinhoff. It attacks all things government and business related. Most peace and many environmentalist organzations were taken over by proxy and funded, first by the soviets, and later by displaced communists like Gorby (anyone remember Green Cross?).
It is no coincidence that Putin has recently said that he would enter the fray as a mediator with Hamas, the newly elected leaders of the Palestinian terrorist state. He probably knows some of these people personaly from his KGB days.
BTW "Jenny" I reposted your post on an Islam thread I started a while back. See the link at post #130 on this thread.
Oh, and notice the deafening silence from from the evil and deceitful CAIR on these sort of death threats.
IslamoNazis like CAIR are identical to liberals: Freedom of speech is for them only, for no one else!
Some "happy muslims next door" propaganda from CAIR. Islam is just all warm and fluffy!:
"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faiths, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth." - Omar Ahmad, Co-founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, aka CAIR. President and CEO of Silicon Expert Technologies. A Palestinian who grew up in a refugee camp in Jordan.
Also see post 221 on my Mohammed Thread. I screwed up the link I posted earlier, so here it is again.
Good to know there are a few others out there thinking like me.
I'm thinking of getting that cartoon that shows Mo with the bomb on his head blown up to poster size, printing a few, and using them for targets at the range.
"Every day the attacks come from new countries: Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Jordan, UAE, etc. "
Yet another reason for the DP World deal go thru.../sarc off
LOL! There you go.
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These idiots have signed their own DEATH warrant by threatening Michelle! She is worth fighting for!
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