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“Casting a shadow of crime”
“Recent events draw attention to the misuse of the Internet to unleash terror.”
(July 16, 2007)
R.K.Raghavan
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “UK conviction
That the fears expressed over misuse of the Internet are not imaginary would be best illustrated by a criminal case that recently ended in the conviction of three persons in the UK. The trio (Waseem Mughal, Younus Tsouli and Tariq Dour) were experts at stealing credit card information online (mainly from gambling Web sites), using which they made huge purchases from online stores. The goods they so bought were mainly that required by Jihadists.
According to a Washington Post report, the three established a network of communication forums and Web sites for the benefit of such Jihadists. Incidentally, the sites carried tutorials on hacking and how to prepare explosives. Vol uminous material on the happenings in Iraq, especially on suicide bombing, was also made available. A posting on one of the sites carried a discussion following which was a message: “We are 45 doctors and we are determined to undertake jihad and take the battle inside America.” The involvement of doctors in the recent London and Glasgow terrorist attempts should not, therefore, come as a surprise to those who had knowledge of the activities of Mughal and company. It is certain these three will also be under scrutiny during the current investigations by the UK Police.
Interestingly, one of the conspirators, Tsouli, was arrested from his West London apartment while he was logged on to a Web site titled ‘youbombit.r8.org’. In his laptop, the investigators located a folder entitled ‘Washington’ that carried short video clips of the city’s important landmarks, and a hazardous chemical response vehicle.
Investigation against the three youths began in late 2005 after a tip-off from the Bosnian Police. The latter were examining the involvement of a Swedish and a Danish national in a plot to cause explosions in Europe, after they were found in possession of substantial amount of plastic explosives. Also seized from the two was a video carrying a message from them supposedly after causing the explosion they were planning. Obviously this was meant to be posted on the Internet for propaganda purposes!”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The spate of instances of Internet misuse for disseminating propaganda that glorifies violence has spawned a new class of experts who are constantly hunting for terror-based Web sites so as to bring them to the notice of law enforcement.
One of them is Aaron Weisburd who runs a Web forum, Internet Haganah, which is solely on this laudable mission. He recently undertook an intensive study of the sites in vogue and established that there was a nexus between those engaged in setting up terrorist sites and counterfeit online banking Web sites.
In his view, credit card frauds are also linked to such individuals. Terrorist organisations badly need resources, and it looks as if the one main source of funding is stolen financial information that facilitates online thefts from banks. This means, there is only a thin line of distinction between some of those who preach terror in cyber space and those who can rightly be labelled classic cyber criminals always on the prowl for victims.”
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Terrorists’ suicide attack on British embassy plot foiled
Daily Mail ^
Posted on 09/09/2007 9:06:50 AM PDT by UKrepublican
Terrorists’ suicide attack on British embassy plot foiled
By JASON LEWIS - More by this author » Last updated at 23:32pm on 8th September 2007
Terrorists plotting a suicide attack against the British Embassy in Denmark were rounded up last week as they put the finishing touches to a devastating bomb.
The men are believed to be the remnants of the so-called “007” terror network, co-ordinated by London based Islamic militants using a series of secret internet sites.
Senior intelligence sources say the group planned to target Western embassies in Copenhagen with the British and American missions at the top of their list.
The arrests came one day before police in Frankfurt arrested three men on suspicion of planning a “massive” attack on US facilities in Germany.
The planned attacks in Denmark were apparently designed to mark the anniversary-of the September 11 attacks in New York and Washington.
Eight suspects were arrested after a surveillance team learned they were mixing unstable chemicals to make deadly TATP inside a block of flats in Copenhagen.
The men, who are aged between 19 and 29 and from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Turkey, are believed to be part of an Al Qaeda network that had received orders from a group of British-based cyber terrorists.
The British group’s activities were stopped by an MI5 investigation earlier this year when three men were jailed for encouraging suicide missions using online forums and websites.
Their websites were also used as a secure communications centre by several senior Al Qaeda operatives, including two Bosnian-based terror chiefs known as “Maximus” and “Danish Turk”.
The pair were jailed over a plot to mount a suicide attack against a Western embassy in Sarajevo.
And The Mail on Sunday understands that two of those arrested in Copenhagen had been in regular telephone contact with them and under longterm surveillance by Danish intelligence.
It was also the Bosnian pair’s arrest that led to MI5’s exposure of the British internet gang.
The group - led by an IT expert using the online name Irhabi007, Arabic for Terrorist007 - set up websites from their bedrooms in London and Kent.
Three men, Tariq Al-Daour, 21, Younis Tsouli, 23, and Waseem Mughal, 24, were jailed in London in July after pleading guilty to inciting terrorist murder and conspiracy to defraud.
After the Copenhagen arrests Jakob Scharf, head of the Danish intelligence service PET, said: “With the arrests we have prevented a terror attack. They also have been producing an unstable explosive in a densely populated area.”
He said Danish investigators had worked with “several foreign co-operation partners”.