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”
www.memriiwmp.org/
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RECAP:
BLOG:
www.jihadica.com/two-important-sites-back-up/
“Two Important Sites Back Up”
October 19th, 2008 | Uncategorized
SNIPPET: “Faloja, one of the second-tier sites that was closed down two weeks ago, is back up. In announcing its return, the administrators acknowledged that it had fallen victim to the same wave of closures that shut down the top-tier sites in September. It also announced that several of these sites will be back online shortly.
Even more significant is the return of Tawhed.ws. For those of you who have browsed the Atlas before, you know that this is the main online library of Jihadi literature. Although a static site, it was shut down in June when the first wave of attacks was launched on the top-tier discussion forums. Prior to that, you could only access it through a proxy if you live in the U.S. (although now it seems that a proxy is not necessary).”