THE JAWA REPORT - blog: "REPORT: BLOGGER THWARTS AL-QAEDA 9/11 ANNIVERSARY PLANS" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "My response: A) I'm not a hacker, although I play one on TV. B) Aaron is not a hacker." ARTICLE SNIPPET: D) "Neither I nor Aaron are responsible for the take down of al Qaeda's main forum and two of its sister forums...") (September 15, 2008)
HINDUSTAN TIMES.com: New Delhi - "HACKERS BLOCK QAEDA's 9/11 TERROR ON TAPE" by Pramit Pal Chaudhuri (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Sources close to US intelligence said, "Hackers knocked out Al Qaeda's online means of communication, thus preventing them from posting anything to commemorate the anniversary."Western intelligence suspects two hackers who have targeted Islamicist sites before were responsible: Aaron Weisburd from Internet Haganah and Rusty Shackleford from the web group My Pet Jawa." ARTICLE SNIPPET: "This is not the first time hackers have dented the plans of the world's deadliest terror network. In 2004, a hacker group called TeAmZ USA had knocked out the websites of Abu Musal al-Zarqawi, late head of the Al Qaeda in Iraq, for showing tapes of Westerners being beheaded. The hackers left the image of a gun-toting penguin on the website.") (Last updated September 13, 2008, 01:04)
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023149.php
(LOS ANGELES TIMES)
October 18, 2008
“Iraqi Shias: “Come, let us sleep with your wife, daughter, and sister, so the Mahdi may return””
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2099235/posts?page=326#326
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ADDING to post no. 326
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/22/alqaida-terrorism-internet
“Cyber-attack theory as al-Qaida websites close”
SNIPPET: “• Analysts suspect western intelligence agencies
• Propaganda groups blame technical problems”
Ian Black, Middle East editor
The Guardian, Wednesday October 22 2008
Article history
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Propaganda on Jihadi websites. Four sites linked to al-Qaida have been down since just before September 11, delaying a video commemorating the 2001 attacks
Websites being used to disseminate propaganda by al-Qaida appear to have come under systematic cyber-attack, forcing the closure of three for well over a month and fuelling speculation that governments are targeting them in a shadowy new front in the “war on terror”.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Aaron Weisburd of Internet Haganah told the Guardian by email: “Governments are certainly in hot pursuit of anyone and everyone involved with al-Qaida. The stress this must cause al-Qaida may be enough to cause some of them to act in strange and unpredictable ways. I say that AQ is primarily responsible for their recent problems. It’s a self-inflicted wound. My guess is that they are simply too embarrassed to admit to their followers what it was that happened.
“I can only imagine what excuses they made to Bin Laden and Zawahiri.” He declined to elaborate.”
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Previously...
http://www.sofir.org/sarchives/006278.php
03 October 2008
“IN CONVERSATION: REGARDING CYBERSPACE, RADICALIZATION, RECRUITMENT, CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS, AND CONSENSUAL HALLUCINATIONS OF VARIOUS SORTS”