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http://internet-haganah.com/harchives/006284.html
16 January 2008
“IF YOU’RE A TERRORIST AND YOU’RE DEPENDENT ON THE INTERNET, I HAVE BAD NEWS”
Al-Qaida’s 007
Posted on 16 January 2008 @ 03:30
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http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article3191517.ece
From The Times
January 16, 2008
“Al-Qaeda’s 007”
“The extraordinary story of the solitary computer geek in a Shepherds Bush bedsit who became the world’s most wanted cyber-jihadist”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: ““Once you get on to one guy who’s important in a network, because the structure of a network is flat . . . you get everyone he’s connected to,” Aaron Weisburd explains. “In the old days a terrorist organisation would have a much more hierarchical structure, you would have tight little cells and one guy would know maybe one person one step up and maybe one person one step down, but that’s it. In a network structure, if you get the right guy the whole thing goes down.”
That’s exactly what happened with Tsouli. His arrest has been linked to a series of others around the world, including the arrest of 17 men in Canada in June 2006 and the two Americans who travelled to Washington. There have also been arrests and convictions here in the UK of individuals who visited Tsouli’s web forums.
Others have tried to take Irhabi 007’s place, even paying homage to him and using similar names. But no one has been able to fill his shoes and al-Qaeda has been forced to use teams of people to replicate what that one young man did from his bedroom in Shepherds Bush. No one has matched his influence on the web: they have learnt to keep a lower profile than the celebrity-conscious Tsouli. “Keep in mind, those were some pretty big shoes and his name is still being talked about on the internet now like he’s a god,” Evan Kohlmann says.
The cat-and-mouse game continues: one in which the teenage and twentysomething supporters of al-Qaeda often have the upper hand over law enforcement and intelligence officers, who often come from a different, less computer-savvy generation. But for other wannabe internet terrorists, the cyber-trackers are still out there. As Aaron Weisburd puts it: “If you’re a terrorist and you’re dependent on the internet, I have bad news.”
— Terrorist 007 is on Newsnight on BBC Two tonight at 10.30pm, and on Our World on BBC News24 on Saturday (2.30 and 9.30pm) and Sunday (2.30pm)”
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=508543&in_page_id=1770
“British Muslim computer geek, son of diplomat, revealed as al Qaeda’s top cyber terrorist”
Last updated at 17:42pm on 16th January 2008
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A computer nerd from Shepherd’s Bush, West London, became al Qaeda’s top internet agent, it can be revealed today.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke, the head of the Met’s counterterrorism operations, said: “It was the first virtual conspiracy to murder that we have seen.”
Tsouli arrived in London in 2001 with his father, a Moroccan diplomat. He studied IT at a college in central London and was quickly radicalised by images of the war in Iraq posted on the internet.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “But the enterprise had become so huge, it began to attract the attention of cyber-trackers who monitor the internet for extremists, leading to Tsouli’s arrest.”
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“Does this bomb vest make me look fat?”
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A snippet from a 20 minute long video marketed under the brand of “al-Hijrat” and distributed by the LEE Media Network via their leemedia.net site. Acquired by us in February of 2008. There may be some details of the vest that the IC will find of interest, compared to the earlier Iranian design that was first put into broad circulation by Irhabi007 in 2005. (less)
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