Internet Ties Link U.S. Terror Cells

cbs13.com ^ | Jun 18, 2008 4:30 pm US/Pacific | CBS News

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WASHINGTON (CBS News) ―

An ex-commando, working undercover for the FBI, took photographs as aspiring terrorists plotted to carry out attacks against U.S. soldiers in Iraq.

They trained with weapons and learned how to make suicide vests.

Only this didn't happen in Iraq, Afghanistan, or Pakistan. This training played out in Toledo, Ohio, and involved three Americans drawn to the call of Jihad, CBS News justice and homeland security correspondent Bob Orr reports.

While these radicals have now been convicted, CBS News has learned e-mails and phone calls connect the Toledo cell to terror suspects in at least three other North American cities - and to a notorious al Qaeda operative.

"Its important that we just don't look at cells in isolation, we look at their connectivity to each other," said CBS News homeland security consultant Paul Kurtz.

Here's how this radical web was spun.

The Toledo trio was in frequent contact with two Chicago men who are now charged with plotting attacks of their own.

Those Chicago suspects in turn communicated with two college-age students in Atlanta, sending e-mails asking them to "come and see our preparation..." for violent Jihad.

That preparation, the government charges, was conspiring with a Canadian terror cell to bomb Toronto landmarks.

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Will put up some more Links....

H/T to the JAWA Report:

British Computer Geek: The Central Node of American Terror Plots

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Jihad in America ping!

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Related FR Thread:

Terror and the Internet: Senator Lieberman Responds

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Have not read thru this one much...JAWA link:

TOLEDO TO CHICAGO TO ATLANTA TO TORONTO TO TAMPA..."THE THIRD LEVEL", training to do violent jihad activities .

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Excerpt from the Link at post #4:

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Canadian Security Intelligence Service first caught wind of a possible cell after a tip from British authorities, who had been monitoring the Internet movements of Younis Tsouli - a.k.a. "Irhabi 007" - a London man accused of operating a series of al-Qaeda-linked websites. Officials believe Tsouli was using one of his chat rooms to communicate with radical recruits in Toronto and Atlanta. The London court was told that he and his codefendants Waseem Mughal, 24, and Tariq al-Daour, 21, had close links to al-Qaeda in Iraq and posted videos, see one here, of its attacks on coalition forces and the beheading of Western hostages. “A lot of the funding that the brothers are getting is coming because of the videos. Imagine how many have gone after seeing the videos. Imagine how many have become shahid [martyrs].”

Syed Haris Ahmed and Ehsanul Sadequee in Atlanta GA are members of al-Muhajiroun and had been linked to the two radical cousins in Chicago Zubair A. Ahmed, age 27, who had resided at 3504 Green Bay Road, Apartment 309C, North Chicago, Illinois, and his cousin, Khaleel Ahmed, age 26, resides at 4501 N. Keystone Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.

Police believe the suspects in the alleged bomb plot in Toronto (and Atlanta) may have been part of a growing trend of cyber-jihadism. Canadian authorities estimate there are as many as 4,500 jihadist websites, and they've become the main networking tool for radicals. It is uncensored terrain and authorities say it is growing fast. There are calls to arms, even step-by-step instructions, from how to make an explosive, see video here, to where a suicide bomber should stand in a crowded bus for maximum impact.

June 2, 2006: Four hundred anti-terrorism authorities led by the RCMP raid neighbourhoods and a warehouse in and around Toronto, arrest ten adults and five underage youths. The adults, are Fahim Ahmad, Zacharia Amara, Asad Ansari, Shareef Abdelhaleem, Steven Chand, Amin Mohamed Durrani, Ahmad Ghany, Qayyum Abdul Jamal, Jahmaal James, Saad Khalid. Mohammed Dirie and Yasim Abdi Mohamed, also charged, are already in jail serving time for smuggling weapons into Canada from the U.S. in August 2005. (see a CBC.ca photogallery of the raid)

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But, the connections suggest there is an active network of support for homegrown radicals looking to do us harm.

Uh...thanks, Sherlock.

[I see my hands]

Foiled again thanks to W's intelligence initiatives.

[Islander7]

Damn that George Bush!! How dare he tap the phones and violate the rights of these people!!

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The JAWA Report :

British Computer Geek: The Central Node of American Terror Plots

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June 19, 2008

Our good friend Younis Tsouli back in the news, once again. I've known about some of his connections to terror plots in the U.S & Canada, but this CBS report lays the whole thing out nicely.

How is it that a British kid, barely out of his teenage years, can become the central player in al Qaeda's recruitment efforts not only in Europe, but in North America as well? The internet doesn't make distance irrelevant, but it does make it less relevant. Tsouli, writing as Irhabi 007 [terrorist 007] could distribute jihadi propaganda and then connect with terrorists in Iraq on one end and like minded young men in Europe and Canada on the other---all from the comfort of his mother's basement!

CBS:

The Toledo trio was in frequent contact with two Chicago men who are now charged with plotting attacks of their own.

Those Chicago suspects in turn communicated with two college-age students in Atlanta, sending e-mails asking them to "come and see our preparation..." for violent Jihad.

That preparation, the government charges, was conspiring with a Canadian terror cell to bomb Toronto landmarks.

And it all connected through the Internet, and to a shadowy al Qaeda webmaster known as Irhabi 007.

For a more detailed analysis, see this story reprinted by Bill Warner and click through the links he added.

When we first started writing about the internet jihad, we were part of a small circle of people who got it. But now, to paraphrase Evan Kohlmann, if you still don't get that the internet is front and center in the war on Islamist terror, then you are so far out of the loop that you don't even know there is a loop.

Thanks to Dr. Novaculus.
By Dr. Rusty Shackleford at June 19, 2008 09:43 AM | | l digg this

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I would suspect there is activity in every California City of any size.

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Excellent graphic!

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Related thread:

Next attack: Coming soon?

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When the terrorists attack again - as Homeland Security has repeatedly warned us they will - how many survivors will be consoled because the Supreme Court and the State Department looked out for the "rights" of terrorists before the rights of their dead loved ones?

Will the dead be wrapped in a copy of the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling granting foreign detainees, whose mission is to destroy our Constitution, our country and way of life, the right to appeal to U.S. civilian courts to challenge their detention, a right that should be reserved only for American citizens? Perhaps inside the caskets can go a statement by the State Department refusing to close Islamic schools underwritten by the government of Saudi Arabia, which teach visceral hatred of Jews, Christians and all things Western.

To the second issue first. Despite the recommendation from a federal panel that the Islamic Saudi Academy in Alexandria, Va., be closed for promoting hate, the State Department won't go along.

[Little Ray]

Look on the bright side - if somebody blows up a sizeable area of LA or SF, it might swing the People’s Republik of Kalifornia over to the Republicans...

Or not.

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JAWA Report:

February 28, 2006
Internet Jihadi #1 Irhabi 007 Captured, Name Revealed (Updated)

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Internet Jihadi #1 Irhabi 007 Captured, Name Revealed (Updated)

The identity of Irhabi 007 (also known as Qaeda 007 & Terrorist 007) has finally been revealed by the SITE institute as Younis Tsouli, a 22 year old from West London. Irhabi [which means 'terrorist' in Arabic] 007 was one of the most prolific internet jihadis of the last several years. The FBI had been actively tracking down Irhabi 007 for at least a year. Aaron at Internet Haganah had been tracking him for even longer.

According to SITE, Younis Tsouli was among four terror suspects arrested by Scotland Yard on Oct. 21, 2005. Tsouli, aka "Irhab 007", may have been involved in a plot to attack the White House. He has also been linked to a string of arrests in Europe--including Scandinavia--over plots to commit acts of terrorism all over the Continent.

Through his contacts with al Qaeda in Iraq and other terror organizations, Irhabi 007 put up scores of posts. Among his many claims to fame, it was Irhabi 007 who first posted the al Qaeda video of Jack Hensley being beheaded at an Islamic forum.

In addition to being a master propagandist, Irhabi 007 was also a prolific computer hacker. Indeed, much of the present internet jihad can be traced back to 007's early and lengthy posts on Islamist forums, instructing the would-be jihadi on how to hack websites. Websites associated with Irhadi also contained a trojan virus which logged keystrokes--a technique used to find passwords which could later be used to hack servers.

Irhadi 007 is probably best known in the U.S. for the time he hacked the Arkansas State Department of Highways and used their server to distribute jihadi material.

SITE report:

In one such instance, Irhabi posted a long message titled "Seminar on Hacking Websites", to the Ekhlas forum.5 This seminar, hosted on June 6, 2005, provided visitors a detailed study comprising over twenty pages in length about the art of hacking, listing dozens of vulnerable websites to which one could upload shared media. Irhabi himself once popularly used this strategy when he uploaded data to a website run by the state of Arkansas, and then to another run by George Washington University. This stunt led many experts to erroneously believe that Irhabi may have been based in the United States. But beyond these two websites, Irhabi knew of countless others that he shared with forum members. These sites were to serve as free hosts for any material that the jihadists needed to upload and share with others. In addition to these sites, Irhabi provided techniques for discovering server vulnerabilities for others, in the event that his suggested sites became secure. In this way, jihadists could use third-party hosts to disseminate propaganda so that they did not have to risk using their own web space, and more importantly,
their own money.....

Charged with “eight offences including: conspiracy to murder, conspiracy to cause an explosion, conspiracy to cause a public nuisance, conspiracy to obtain money by deception and Terrorism Act offences relating to the possession of articles for terrorist purposes and fundraising,” Irhabi may have hoped to help the mujahideen in ways not provided solely by his Internet skills, such as with direct logistical planning or activities. Regardless, his absence from the Internet may have lesser effects than many may hope, as he has left in his shadow a rubric for jihadists on the Internet seeking a means to serve their nefarious end.

Good riddance.
By Dr. Rusty "John Doe" Shackleford at February 28, 2006 06:16 PM | TrackBack l digg this
Sorry. Comments down.....AGAIN!!!!

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It may take more than that...

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Another FR Thread:

America's Homegrown Troop Killers

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IBD Editrials ^ | June 17, 2008

Posted on Tue 17 Jun 2008 07:34:36 PM PDT by Kaslin

War On Terror: It's bad enough that Americans are bad-mouthing American troops fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. But an alarming number of Muslim-Americans are plotting to kill them.

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It's a story you don't like to hear from the mainstream media: U.S. soldiers increasingly are the prime targets of terrorism, both at home and abroad. And those who want to do them harm include fellow citizens.

Thanks to the anti-war crowd, the trend may only worsen. The ACLU recently pressured the Pentagon to shut down a domestic counterterror unit set up after 9/11 to protect troops and bases.

And a new congressional report finds that the U.S. government has no "coordinated strategy" to deal with grass-roots jihadists who more and more are meeting, training and conspiring to kill troops over the Internet.

In the most recent case, a federal jury last week convicted three Toledo, Ohio, Muslims of plotting to attack U.S. military personnel in Iraq and elsewhere.

Mohammed Amawi, Marwan El-Hindi and Wassim Mazloum were learning to shoot guns and make explosives while raising money to fund their plans to wage jihad against U.S. troops.

Amawi and El-Hindi are U.S. citizens, and Mazloum immigrated to the U.S. legally from Lebanon.

In addition, El-Hindi's two cousins from Chicago face trial next year for conspiring to kill American soldiers.

The Toledo case is just the latest in a string of troop-killing plots by homegrown terrorists.

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Related FR Thread:

3 in Ohio guilty of plot against US troops in Iraq

[Islander7]

Thanks. I lifted the picture from a moonbat website and reworded the sign. I figure if his friends ever see it he’ll have some ‘splaining to do. LOL

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ernest.

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Now that is really some Good work...

[Marine_Uncle]

At least yet another ring is being broken up.