An AP interview with our friend Laura Mansfield on how she scoops al Qaeda. We dub thee, bane of as Sahab.

Seriously, when al Qaeda knows your name (even if it isn't your real name)--and they know Laura's--you know you're good.

Watch video below. more...

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A worldwide terrorist money laundering scheme has netted 39 arrests. The al Qaeda fund raising scheme was centered in Washington, D.C, but extended around the globe.

The scheme was run from Washington, D.C. by Saifulla Ranjha's Hamza, Inc., but it had links around the country and the globe. Ranjha's right-hand man is said to be a Canadian, Mazhar Chughtai, who arranged the bank transfers.

The only other name I could find is that of a Pakistani, Aqeel Khalid, who was arrested in Seattle yesterday for trying to bribe an immigration officer so that the al Qaeda money-launderers could obtain legal permanent residency--a green card.

UPDATE: Allahakhchew notices two more names: Anar Muhammad Shan and Preces Mehmood Sandhu, both arrested in Spain yesterday. more...

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At least three U.S. companies continue to do business with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorist organization. The PIJ is a violent offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood and shares the same longer terms goals as al Qaeda. The shorter term goal of PIJ is the destruction of the state of Israel and the establishment of sharia (Islamic) law. The PIJ is known to intentionally target and kill civilians, including Israeli children.

Often web-based companies do not know who they are doing business with and do not monitor the content they serve because financial transactions and webpage building takes place online through standardized forms and templates.

Since The Jawa Report ran a story on September 5th about the PIJ websites enabled by American corporations, all three companies have been notified that they are violating US law. None of the companies have responded and all continue to help these violent terrorists spread their message, recruit new blood, and inspire the murder of civilians.

PIJ has been designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) and the leaders of PIJ Specially Designate Nationals by the U.S. State Department. Under U.S. law it is illegal to provide business services, even free ones, to terrorists such as the PIJ.

The three PIJ websites are:
http://www.shikaki.net/
http://www.sarayaalquds.org/
http://www.falestiny.net/

Below: each of the three websites carries the logo of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Above right: an image from one of the websites glorifying a rocket attack which killed an Israeli civilian.

Domain registration services are provided to PIJ for all three websites from the Sunnyvale California internet giant Yahoo!.

Webhosting is provided to all three PIJ websites from Dallas, Texas:

ThePlanet.com Internet Services, Inc.
1333 North Stemmons Freeway
Suite 110 Dallas, TX
abuse@theplanet.com

DNS service for http://www.falestiny.net/ provided by mydnsnet.com of St. Cloud, MN. Abuse: admin@mydnsnet.com

DNS service for http://www.shikaki.net/ provided by Cold Fusion's efree2net.com, also out of St. Cloud, MN. Contact: support@efree2net.com

DNS service for http://www.sarayaalquds.org/ provided by KOM.CC, which appears to also be run by St. Cloud's Cold Fusion.

Thanks to Larry for the tip.

BONUS: e-mail a Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist!
Palestineway22@yahoo.com

As always, if he replies, please FORWARD the e-mail to Rusty.

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A few readers e-mailed me wondering what the significance was of Osama bin Laden, in the most recent "new" video, urging Muslims to "join the caravan of martyrs." The phrase doesn't interest me as much as the fact that it's also the name of a popular website hosted on Wordpress.

http://caravanofmartyrs.wordpress.com/

Don't let the disclaimer fool you, the website explicitly endorses al Qaeda. They even go so far as praising the former leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musam al Zarqawi. The man who personally beheaded Nick Berg and who's brutality even prompted Ayman al-Zawahiri to urge caution lest he create a negative attitude towards al Qaeda.

After a long posting on how tender and nice Zarqawi was, the website goes on to pray:

May Allah swt accept his martyrdom. Ameen.

And just in case you don't understand where the author & website are coming from:

The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies–civilians and military–is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it...

We — with God’s help — call on every Muslim who believes in God and wishes to be rewarded to comply with God’s order to kill the Americans and plunder their money wherever and whenever they find it.

We've complained to Wordpress about the website in the past to no avail. Either the company doesn't care or they are understaffed and not equipped to deal with such complaints. Either way, their inability or unwillingness to respond to these complaints is sickening.

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UPDATE: Well, what do we have here? Another Islamic Army in Iraq site. This one very active. Oh, and hosted by AT&T.

Looks like the new "Reform and Jihad Front". The Islamic Army in Iraq wasn't exactly enamored by al Qaeda's "Islamic State of Iraq" so they have set up their own competing shadow government. This would be their website.

http://www.reformandjihadfront.org/ & http://www.rjfront.info/ =12.158.190.79
AT&T
abuse@att.net

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To be honest, one of the lamest attempts at jihadi propaganda yet seen. Even so, here it is.

Al Boraq Media is the propaganda arm of the Islamic Army in Iraq. The same geniuses that brought us "we shoot down giant American warplane". The IAI is also the same group of "resistance fighters" who murdered American civilian hostage Ronald Shulz and Italian Red Cross worker Enzo Baldoni.

The website isn't too complicated. It simply states the need for organizations like al Boraq to get the "truth" out to counter the Western media and reiterates why propaganda is so important for the jihad. But still, it's sickening enough having this stuff on the internet--but even more sickening seeing an American company helping the terrorist murderers out.

http://www.alboraqmedia.org/ = 66.7.205.205

HostDime.com
Orlando, FL
abuse@dimenoc.com

I see that the IAI has a new address.
E-mail a terrorist: katef_katef@yahoo.com

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Three members of the Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF) have been arrested in Austria. The three were involved in an online video which threatened Germany and Austria with terror attacks if they did not suspend their support of the NATO mission in Afghanistan.

AP:

Interior Minister Guenther Platter said the three — all second-generation Austrian citizens with Arab origins — were aged between 20 and 26. He said they were believed to have contacts to al-Qaida but offered no details, saying he did not want to prejudice investigations....

Platter said two of the three were a couple. House searches were continuing, he added. The three suspects are being interviewed, he said....

In a Web statement that surfaced in March, Islamic militants threatened to attack Germany and Austria unless the two nations broke ranks with the U.S. and withdrew their personnel from Afghanistan.

The video Howie uploaded in March can be seen here.

Last week Germany arrested three men for a plot to attack U.S. interests in Germany. More arrests were promised. I speculated at the time that the three were somehow connected to GIMF, al Qaeda's propaganda outlet in Europe. Today's arrests may be related.

GIMF is the European propaganda arm in support of al Qaeda and other radical Islamist organizations. They are also longtime 'friends' of The Jawa Report. GIMF operative know who we are. As such can I be the first to say ha-ha!

The video was first released on GIMF's Voice of the Caliphate online television station in March of this year. The station regularly played al Qaeda produced propaganda. It was especially supportive of the Chechen jihad. The "station" still maintains, although no longer updates, a website on Google's blogspot platform here.

In addition to showing and distributing al Qaeda produced videos from al Furqan and as Sahab, GIMF produces it's own documentaries in support of jihad. Recently al Qaeda in Iraq sent a thank you note to GIMF for their supportive propaganda efforts.

The web based TV station is no longer active, but GIMF is. Most GIMF publications are now released through Islamist forums. They still do videos, including the release of the hostage video of Fox News reporters Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig, but their mainstay has always been an online print magazine.

The group is also responsible for the release of the terrorist "training" video game, "The Night of Bush Capturing". The climax of the game is one-on-one combat against President George W. Bush.

Until recently, GIMF also maintained a large number of connected websites, most of them running on American servers. Those GIMF websites are now offline thanks to a campaign started by The Jawa Report and with help from LGF readers, Black Flag, and Weasel Zippers.

GIMF complained loudly and publicly about the campaign against their websites and has been busy trying to rebuild and recruit more online jihadis recently. We'll see if these three arrests put a dent in their organization.

These guys aren't that hard to find, and the Europeans could easily round them up if they only tried. Reporters from Germany's Die Zeit and Spiegel TV were able to interview GIMF leaders simply by requesting an interview in the comments at their now defunct website.

Thanks to Aaron at Internet Haganah for the tip and for raising GIMF's ire by diligently chronicling the online presence of their allies. He's an inspiration to us all.

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Updated by Howie: World News Network is now completely off-line. 203.121.79.134 and 203.121.79.135 are both dead. Thanks to Jawa readers for all the help in taking them down.

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At least three U.S. companies are helping the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) spread its message. The PIJ is a violent offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood and shares the same longer terms goals as al Qaeda. The shorter term goal of PIJ is the destruction of the state of Israel and the establishment of sharia (Islamic) law. The PIJ is known to intentionally target and kill civilians, including Israeli children.

PIJ has been designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) and the leaders of PIJ Specially Designate Nationals by the U.S. State Department. Under U.S. law it is illegal to provide business services, even free ones, to terrorists such as the PIJ.

The three PIJ websites are:
http://www.shikaki.net/
http://www.sarayaalquds.org/
http://www.falestiny.net/

Below: each of the three websites carries the logo of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Above right: an image from one of the websites glorifying a rocket attack which killed an Israeli civilian.

Domain registration services are provided to PIJ for all three websites from the Sunnyvale California internet giant Yahoo!.

Webhosting is provided to all three PIJ websites from Dallas, Texas:

ThePlanet.com Internet Services, Inc.
1333 North Stemmons Freeway
Suite 110 Dallas, TX
abuse@theplanet.com

DNS service for http://www.falestiny.net/ provided by mydnsnet.com of St. Cloud, MN. Abuse: admin@mydnsnet.com

DNS service for http://www.shikaki.net/ provided by Cold Fusion's efree2net.com, also out of St. Cloud, MN. Contact: support@efree2net.com

DNS service for http://www.sarayaalquds.org/ provided by KOM.CC, which appears to also be run by St. Cloud's Cold Fusion.

Thanks to Larry for the tip.

BONUS: e-mail a Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist!
Palestineway22@yahoo.com

As always, if he replies, please FORWARD the e-mail to Rusty.

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Is it just me, or has al Qaeda in Europe's online jihad brigade at The Global Islamic Media Front [GIMF] become a bunch of whiny bitches? Seriously, these guys make the Taliban Marys look like Larry Craigs--you know, kinda butch but still ghey.

In a short-lived online announcement today (tragically cut short by the unfortunate death of the website) GIMF announced that it was seeking Muslims willing to fight the online jihad. The call was part of a longer post explaining what the online jihad is, why it is important, how the internet is used in the physical jihad, and lamenting the fact that so many pro-terror websites had been taken offline lately.

No doubt they had in mind their own Wordpress hosted websites, the last of which seems to have disappeared.......

In today's statement GIMF pointed to a concerted campaign at pressuring webhosts to take down jihadi forums and websites. That effort, they admit, is paying off. In addition to an unnamed individual and the 'mercenaries' this person has been able to marshal for the 'harassment' effort, GIMF also claims the CIA and FBI are now involved in counter-cyber-jihad efforts.

GIMF claims that the CIA and FBI are organizing conferences on how to fight the cyber jihad. They have also recruited Arab intelligence agencies in the effort, naming [the British-Zionist built] Jordan and Egypt specifically.

Triumphantly they declare that for every cyber-jihadi arrested 1000-3000 more will take their place. Maybe, but since arresting the cyber-jihadis isn't the only option, one has to wonder how many Salafi geeks sitting at a computer in Mommy's basement are really ready to go that far?

Recently, the group noted that Abu 'Abdallah Al-Maqdisi, webmaster of the Al-Nusra Al-Jihadiyya website, had been killed by Lebanese forces. Soooo, sad. That's odd, I don't see 1,000 cyber mujahideen volunteering to take al-Maqdisi's spot.

These guys claim they are real mujahidin, just like their compatriots fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Chechnya, and Somalia. It's about time they were reminded that law enforcement isn't generally the model we use to fight wars.

Here we are GIMFers. Come and get us. We know you're in Germany, so it shouldn't be too hard to hop on over here. Just remember that in the US we have guns.

Q: With more and more complaints similar to this from the online jihad community, have we finally turned a corner in the cyber war?

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An interesting proposal similar to what I've advocated for years now. If the cyber-jihadis want to put their best geeks against our best geeks: bring it on, biyotches.

Only, it wouldn't be like an Army of our Davids vs an Army of their Davids. No, it would be more like an Army of Davids on our side vs a brigade of incompetent fools who should have been paying attention in hacking 101, but instead were too busy doing advanced research on whether or not it is harem or halal to wipe with the right hand.

Contentions:

But while there are some private groups (such as the SITE Institute) that monitor jihadist activity on the Internet, I haven’t heard of any that actually attack jihadist web sites. Maybe it’s already being done on a small scale, but much more could be done to target the thousands of Islamist web sites. Hackers, take it away . . .

Hat tip: Soccer Dad

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Counter-cyber jihad in the Weekly Standard. It seems that we have finally gone mainstream. You'll note that the article identifies one potential problem: that if an American webhost drops a site because of TOS violation, that site might pop up on a foreign server. And there may be some intel value in having those websites hosted in the U.S.

Wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more.

I would caution, however, that the intel value of these websites are sometimes overstated. Most of these websites are used only to dish out propaganda, and there are simply far too many consumers of this propaganda and far too little in the way of resources to keep tabs on those consumers.

Aaron has a little reminder about striking the proper balance. HT: NC

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In the ongoing sport of hide and seek between The Jawa Report and the Taliban, the Jawa comes out victorious--once again. The Taliban's backup website is now offline.

http://www.geocities.com/murchal_2006/

By my count that makes at least 20 Taliban websites we've taken down, the vast majority behind the scenes and with the full cooperation of the webhosts.

Celebratory video below: We are the champions, USA version more...

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After dozens of posts here at The Jawa Report about Wordpress hosting The Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF), a German al Qaeda support group, they've finally responded to complaints. The two main Wordpress hosted GIMF websites are down. The Weasel Zippers have the details.

Unfortunately, Wordpress is still hosting GIMF's al Battar Media in support of the Islamic State of Iraq (al Qaeda) here, and dozens of other al Qaeda support websites. But, one battle at a time.....

For their diligent efforts, we hereby pass along the blue AK-47 to the Weasel Zippers--first passed to Rusty by Sith Master Aaron of Internet Haganah for similar efforts-- for helping bring this to the attention of Wordpress, and to Blackflag for quietly working behind the scenes on the same project. We also elevate The Weasel Zippers and Blackflag to the status of "Sith Lords" and charge them each with taking a paduan learner until they too can pass the blue AK-47, signifying another jihadi website being pwned, to the next generation of online counter-jihadies.

Well done!

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Steve Emerson and Michael Scheuer were on Glenn Beck duking it out on the subject of Islamic motivations. Video here.

Transcript:

SCHEUER: Yes. I think really, Glenn, that the problem we have is -- is the motivation is very important. They don`t hate us for who we are. They don`t like who we are.

But why they`re attacking us is because we support governments like the Saudis, like the Egyptians, because we`re on the Arabian Peninsula.

Islam is a very diverse civilization, and the only reason bin Laden has been able to generate any unity is because Muslims, extremists and whiskey drinkers running the spectrum, hate U.S. foreign policy.

BECK: Steve, last word here.

EMERSON: I’m sorry. With all due respect, that`s a lot of malarkey. They may hate U.S. foreign policy. They hate the United States . They hate secularism. They hate the separation of church and state. They hate our values, and nothing will stop them, other than to see our obliteration.

Whether in fact that’s a possibility or not, they believe it is, and that`s the only thing that’s motivating them.

SCHEUER: That’s a very silly statement, and it`s dangerous because.

EMERSON: It`s not a silly statement, Michael. I mean, come on, Michael. You know as well -- you have been under...

SCHEUER: Only an uneducated person would make a statement like that.

EMERSON: I’m sorry to be uneducated.

SCHEUER: I’m sorry you are too, sir.

EMERSON: I`m sorry. You`re the most educated person in the world, yet you know nothing.

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As mentioned earlier by Howie, the website which was sponsoring online terrorism against anti-Islamists targets through their software, Electronic Jihad 2.0, is now offline.

http://www.al-jinan.org/ -- down

Just wanted to mention that before welcoming the refugees from one of the oldest and most popular pro-jihad message boards, who seem to also be having a bad day.

http://www.al-ekhlaas.net/ -- down

This was the website on which the al Qaeda linked terrorists who kidnapped Alan Johnston posted their videos. And they just happened to be co-conspirators with al Jinan in organizing the e-jihad.

That's some cyber jihad you got going there..........retards.

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I've been an admirer of Shannen Rossmiller's basement counter-jihad for awhile now. I did not know she was also involved in the Mohammed Radwan Obeid, which, long-time readers will recall, The Jawa Report had a minor hand in as well.

So, is it possible to fight the counter-jihad from your basement in your free time? Yes, it is. And what Shannen doesn't mention in her article is that you don't even have to speak Arabic to do it. In fact, while the preferred language of terrorists is still Arabic, English is a close second.

Here is the money quote, and today's food for thought:

Jarret Brachman, director of research for the Combating Terrorism Center at the United States Military Academy, points out, "It is the strategic—not operational—objectives of the jihadi movement's use of technology that engenders the most enduring and lethal threat to the United States over the long term." He argues, "If Western governments made reading the online statements posted by Al-Qaeda ideologues a priority, they would better realize how the jihadi movement is not simply using technological tools to recruit new members, receive donations, and plan attacks. In actuality, Al-Qaeda's use of the Internet and other new technologies has also enabled it to radicalize and empower armies of new recruits by shaping their general worldview."

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Daniel Henninger has a lengthy piece in the WSJ today about the cyber jihad. In it, he accurately describes, mostly relying on an RFERL report, the state of the cyber war being waged as we speak. The cyber war is every bit as real as the war with bullets. The Islamist militants engaged in it understand, far better than our own Western governments, the power of propaganda in winning converts, resupplying the troops with fresh suicide terrorists, demoralizing the enemy, & raising money.

The young Muslims in Germany running the Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF) consider themselves jihadis and mujahidin engaged in acts of war and terror every bit as much as the suicide bomber killing Shia civilians that travelled to Iraq from Britain.

What's so odd, though, is the utter astonishment that many have at learning that the cyber war even exists. I was amazed--absolutely dumbfounded--listening to a reporter today ask the President to produce evidence that there was an al Qaeda presence in Iraq! When nearly every day al Qaeda in Iraq's al Furqan media or it's press release agents release statements and videos showing their work. Not to mention the fellow travellers in Ansar al Sunna, the Islamic Army in Iraq, etc., etc., etc.

Okay, so what should we do, Henninger asks and then doesn't answer:

The answer--technical or political--is not obvious to me. But the one unacceptable answer is doing nothing.

The cyber jihadis are enemy combatants, not criminals. What they do online is an act of war to be fought, not a crime to be investigated.

And to do this, we need warriors willing to fight and equipped with the right tools. And it really is very easy. Much easier than the gainsayers imagine.

Give me a staff of ten geeks, a budget lower than the cost of redecorating a general's latrine in the Pentagon, and a Presidential pardon or letter of marqee, and I can deliver a blow to the cyber jihad that would be devastating. Hell, give me a single additional tough sounding military liason officer authorized to make physical threats of violence to webmasters who fail to cooperate and I could be even more effective.

I estimate that we could reduce the number of people viewing the propaganda produced by terrorists and their sympathizers by 80% with nearly zero effort and within a week. There really are a small number of jihadi websites that have large audiences.

And propaganda, I'll remind you, is a numbers game. It is designed to appeal to certain mass publics. The more difficult it is for mass publics to be able to view this material the less capable these groups are at recruiting, fundraising, and shaping public opinion.

The work done at the Internet Haganah, or our own pale imitations of it here at the Jawa Report, to urge webhosts to stop empowering the cyber jihad just goes to show that even private actors can have some limited impact on the cyber jihad. Mention the name Wilenski on a jihadi website and see what kind of reaction you get. Or get a hold of the Taliban's webmaster and see if he knows who Rusty Shackleford is.

But our work is limited by the present legal system which assumes that a propagandist for al Furqan sitting at a cyber cafe in Morocco glorifying a suicide bomber, or an editor for as Sahab working from and Islamabad maddrassa encouraging Muslims to murder Americans, is the same as an online pornographer: perhaps bad guys expressing some sick points of view but there's really nothing we can do about it.

It's also complicated by intelligence agents who, erroneously, believe there is more value to be had by spying on the jihadis through their online networks than to taking these websites and their propaganda down. But for every jihadi they catch through this intelligence, ten more have been recruited and thousands more have been swayed.

Moreover, going after the websites, distribution bulletin boards, and propagandists would still leave plenty of cyberspace for intelligence to be gathered and bad guys nabbed. That is all I will say about that in public. And by making the space in which the cyber jihadis operate smaller, we limit the number of players to be monitored.

Anyway, if you are not up on your cyber-jihad 101, then go check out Henninger's piece for a quick brief.

Hat tip: Astute Blogger.

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Remember the diktat decreed by Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, stating that plaintiffs (ACLU) have standing to challenge the NSA program in Federal court? You know - the one that leftists used to claim they had a right to dismantle a secret, international terrorist monitoring program because they said so with no evidence of its abuse or misuse?

YOINK. Just like that, her leftwingnut decision is overturned 2-1.

Score one for the good guys.

ht: Powerline

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The UK's Telegraph reports that 45 Muslim doctors were planning terror attacks against US targets on an online chat room run by three "cyber-jihadis" who have been arrested by British authorities: more...

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The websites of The Islamic Front for the Iraqi Resistance aka JAMI or JAAMI and The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas Iraq al Fatih al Islamy Brigades aka Hamas in Iraq are down. So what is that, like 7 websites we've been able to get taken offline in the last 10 days? Man it feels good to be a gangsta!

We'd like to thank Yahoo! for taking these websites offline and the Jawa readers for making sure Yahoo got the message.

We cannot stress enough the effect we believe this has on our enemies. The terrorists depend on the internet for many vital and practical applications to aid their jihad. Not to mention the effect on their morale when their website goes offline.

Oh, and we have a little message of our own for the goons at JAMI and Hamas in Iraq below. more...

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UPDATE: 6/20/2007 AM: The websites of The Islamic Front for the Iraqi Resistance (JAMI or JAAMI) and The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas Iraq al Fatih al Islamy Brigades (Hamas in Iraq) are down.

We'd like to thank Yahoo! for taking these websites offline and the Jawa readers for making sure Yahoo got the message. Oh, and we have a little message of our own for the goons at JAMI and Hamas in Iraq below.

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http://www.alemarah.cjb.net/

And a personal note to Qari Mohammad Yousuf, the Taliban spokesman, below. more...

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The Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF) has issued a call for the online Islamist community to infiltrate Muslim & non-Muslim websites and post propaganda in support of the al Qaeda front group, the Islamic State of Iraq. The publication in support of the Islamic State of Iraq was posted in Arabic, German, French, and English.

MEMRI:

Recently, the Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF) announced a new comprehensive media campaign titled "The Battar Media Raid to Defend the Islamic State [of Iraq] (ISI)," [1] whose declared purpose is to repel the intensive campaign against the ISI by Arab and Western media agencies and to stop the increasing military campaign against the ISI by Sunni organizations in Iraq.

In a message titled "The Battar Media Raid: How to Participate? How to Help? What Is My Role?" the GIMF announces the beginning of the campaign and provides a detailed description of the campaign's goals and ways of accomplishing them, including infiltrating non-Islamic forums for the purpose of posting pro-ISI propaganda.....

If, however, you do not possess this expertise... there are other matters you can [promote]: for example, posting matters related to the raid in most [jihad] forums... posting [material] in non-jihad forums, posting in non-Islamic forums such as music forums, youth forums, sports forums, and others. Anyone who undertakes to post the material must look into the [appropriate] manner of spreading [the material for each type of forum]... The way in which members of music forums address one another differs from the way members of jihad forum address one another."

The symbol at the bottom left hand corner is that of GIMF, but that is the flag of the Islamic State of Iraq--the al Qaeda umbrella group-- on the bottom right.

The GIMF has long been a target of The Jawa Report. The online community of cyber jihadis, based in Germany, uses the internet to spread Islamist propaganda. They have dozens of websites, and even a web based television station. While not officially connected to al Qaeda, there is no doubt that they constitute the largest pro-al Qaeda propagandist organization in the West.

GIMF has been involved, on the propaganda side at last, in the kidnappings of German hostage Hannelore Marianne Kraus and her son and in the hostage taking of Fox News reporters Steve Centanni & Olaf Wiig.

GIMF, it would seem, has a working relationship with Islamist terrorists all over the world. Including al Qaeda in Iraq.

We have mentioned these bastards dozens of times, most recently by Howie who believes it was GIMF that was behind the latest spam attack on The Jawa Report. As previously noted, the blogging platform of choice for GIMF happens to be Wordpress. This is their German website, hosted by wordpress. And yes, I'm positive this is their official website, since I was able to track Die Zeit's request for an interview, later broadcast on German TV, to a conversation the journalist had with GIMF in their comment section.

Oh, and Howie grabbed this screenshot from the GIMF publication mentioned by MEMRI above

Thanks to Gerald and Howie for the heads up. Gerald's comments about winning the propaganda war are also important.

Wordpress hosted GIMF websites:

http://gimf1.wordpress.com/
http://gimf.wordpress.com/
http://albattarmedia.wordpress.com/

See here for other Wordpress hosted terrorist websites.

Terrorists*:
Islamic Courts Union (al Qaeda linked former government of Somalia--aka, "African Taliban")
Daniel al Jughaifi (personal website of American jihadi Daniel Joseph Maldonado convicted of training with al Qaeda)
Amreekan (literature by convicted terrorist Sheik Nasir bin Hamid al Fahd who famously issued a fatwa granting al Qaeda the right to use WMD against the U.S.)

Terror supporters**:
Caravan of Martyrs (al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia support)
Ignored Puzzle (al Qaeda in Iraq/Salafi terror supporter)
Muslim in Kenya (supporter of al Qaeda backed Somalian ICU)
al Jihad (terrorist propaganda)
Truthline (general terror supporters)
Moderates Refuted (general terror supporters / followers of Omar Bakri Mohammed)
Naseeha (al Qaeda support)

CONTACT WORDPRESS HERE or e-mail them:

m@mullenweg.com
security@wordpress.org

*websites of known terror organizations, terrorists, or those acting in their name
**Few terror supporters actually say, "we support terrorism" and these blogs are no exception. What they do is define terror in such a way as to exclude every organization listed by the U.S. State Department as specially designated terrorist entities. Most of these blogs, though, openly support terror organizations such as al Qaeda in Iraq, the Islamic Courts Union of Somalia, or the Taliban.

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UPDATE 6/12/2007 12:24 p.m: All websites down! We are grateful to all those who wrote the webhosts and pressured them into taking down the websites.

If you would like to e-mail or call the Taliban, their e-mails are still at the end of this post.

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1 Hmmm, I got a similar reaction from Dreamhost.  Nada, nothing, but a form-letter.

Posted by: Howie at June 11, 2007 05:40 PM (YHZAl)

2 E-mailed them all. Nothing makes my day better than calling muslim an asshole.

Posted by: greyrooster at June 11, 2007 05:57 PM (1ZyKh)

3

Posted by: Daniel Medici at June 11, 2007 06:09 PM (wbKWg)

4 Any chance the website is being hosted in America to keep an eye on Taliban traffic and who is posting and replying?

Posted by: Daniel Medici at June 11, 2007 06:10 PM (wbKWg)

5 Discount any using the words asshole and piss be upon you. Those are from me.

Posted by: greyrooster at June 11, 2007 06:19 PM (1ZyKh)

6 I emailed them several pics of pork dishes -- yum!

Posted by: Richard Romano at June 11, 2007 06:20 PM (iD1fP)

7 Daniel,

Already checked that.  Nope.

Rusty

Posted by: Rusty at June 11, 2007 06:27 PM (JQjhA)

8 As it turns out, Tulip Systems is just a hop, skip, and a jump from my place of residence.
 
Perhaps I'll visit them personally.
 
Christopher

Posted by: Christopher Calandro at June 11, 2007 06:58 PM (+GQiL)

9 Be nice, boys. Simply invite the violent, camel fkking b@stards to play an innocent game of 'Pass the Pigs'.

Fun for the whole mosque!

Posted by: johnny rokket at June 11, 2007 06:59 PM (Cy7OH)

10 I rarely agree with pressuring American companies over Jihadi web hosting. Here's why:
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/050727/27natsec.htm

The web hosting company was complying with a DHS request to log all of the traffic coming to the web server.

However due to the pressure put on the web hosting company by being flooded in their forum with complaints
from well meaning citizens DHS ended up terminating the monitoring, and now it's back up -- most likely in a place that does not comply with warrants.

It might just be better to send a single Email to the DHS, with a C.C to the company doing the web hosting.

Posted by: davec at June 11, 2007 08:30 PM (kcDpP)

11 Does DreamHost host Taliban websites?

Their policy is strong on 1st-ammendment protection... they don't have to like you to host you.

They even host one pro-Nazi ideology site.

I don't believe, however, they hosts any site in violation of any (constitutional) law.

To repeat myself, do they in fact host Taliban websites?

Posted by: Christoph at June 11, 2007 08:51 PM (BqJ1D)

12 Can we get an address for this Tulip Systems?

Posted by: greyrooster at June 11, 2007 09:19 PM (1ZyKh)

13 "E-mailed them all. Nothing makes my day better than calling muslim an asshole."

Posted by: greyrooster at June 11, 2007 05:57 PM

Well, that's just brilliant, greyrooster. Why don't you email Maliki, the Iraqi army, and our other allies in the region and tell them that too.

Posted by: Christoph at June 11, 2007 10:37 PM (BqJ1D)

14 Christoph: Anyone who thinks muslims are our allies is nuts. Their religion requires that they be our enemies. They are serving their own self interests. We pay the bill. We have Americans and Brits killed. The payoff. None. Whoever wins, Sunni, Shite or fanatic they will turn on us in a moment. The same as they have done in the rest of the world. The only good coming from Iraq is that they continue to fight each other.  As they always have. Lets keep them fighting and blowing each other up in the name of God. When we bring the troops home they plan on following us. What war in Iraq? There is no war in Iraq. The war ended in 3 days. Ever since, its been a playground for a blood thirsty sub species called muslims.

Posted by: greyrooster at June 12, 2007 01:51 AM (1ZyKh)

15 Google search on address forTulip Systems(3495 Piedmont Road NE. Building Twelve, Suite 110 Atlanta, GA 30305) yields at least four Internet service/web hosting companies, none of which are overtly related, but all of which appear to be colocated, if not co-managed.  One site is provided in TURKISH and English, and it only has an IP address, no URL.  Several sites share the same data center photos. 
 
Companies found at that address include:
 
1) TSHosts (Tulip Systems) - http://www.tshost.com/contact_us.php
2) ETTIX Email Solutions - http://www.ettixmail.com/about.php 
3) Tulix Systems/Sollutions - http://www.tulix.com/contact_us.php
4) http://154.37.32.13/turkish/about.php 
 
Piedmont Center is a fairly upscale office complex and is not inexpensive.  It houses several telecom/Internet type businesses due to extensive fiber optic cables transiting under Piedmont Road out in front of the complex.

Posted by: pigs4allah at June 12, 2007 02:00 AM (e6oeM)

16 Grow up Rusty. Sending hate mail to a terrorist is very immature. What are you, five? Grow up. You think they care what we think. That's why you got demoted on Infovlad. You are a loser. And you say I don't have a life. LOL, next time inform doubletap and Tribeca when you want to promote Wilenski to moderator.
 
 
Anyway, at least we are winning the war in Afghanistan. We sent Dadullah to HELL. That's more than what we can say about Iraq.
 
 
Anyway, you may now proceed with calling me a leftturd and other childish remarks.
 
 
 

Posted by: None of your business at June 12, 2007 09:51 AM (TmLg9)

17 Rusty, I just received a response from the General manager of the hosting site and he wants the addresses of the Taliban sites he's hosting and states he'll rectify the situation. I can foward you the e-mail if you wish. Just contact me via my e-mail and I'll send it to you.

Posted by: Steven Miller at June 12, 2007 11:19 AM (6pa7j)

18 That's good news. We didn't need to send any hate mail to fix the problem.

Posted by: None of your business at June 12, 2007 12:05 PM (TmLg9)

19 Yeah, what Black Flag said.

Posted by: Howie at June 12, 2007 01:44 PM (YHZAl)

20 Thanks all!

Posted by: Rusty at June 12, 2007 01:51 PM (JQjhA)

21 Good job fighting the Cyber Jihad.  You are my heroes!

Posted by: Heroic Dreamer at June 12, 2007 02:30 PM (YN9Al)

22 I'm just upset that when Rusty runs these, they work out better. Sigh.

Posted by: Howie at June 12, 2007 02:32 PM (YHZAl)

23 I hope the cyber jihad never ends so I can keep seeing that pic of C3PO!

Posted by: tbone at June 12, 2007 03:27 PM (HGqHt)

24 None of your business: Lefturd asshole! Didn't want you to feel left out. Bitch.

Posted by: greyrooster at June 12, 2007 03:59 PM (S0oBW)

25 ROFLOL, like I care what you think. Anyway, great job guys. I'm surprised it actually worked. You pwned the Taliban. You are now famous.

Posted by: George Ramos at June 12, 2007 06:44 PM (TmLg9)

26

Just so you know, I use many names. You never when you might come across me. Anyway, see you later.

Posted by: George Ramos at June 12, 2007 06:45 PM (TmLg9)

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(Madrid, Spain) International weapons trafficker Monzer al-Kassar was arrested Thursday evening by Spanish police in Madrid. Earlier in the day, an indictment was unsealed charging Kassar with conspiring to sell arms to rebels in Colombia.

The indictment resulted from illegal actions by Kassar after he was caught in a sting operation crafted by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency. Good.

Kassar has been a particularly nasty player in the mix of terrorists, despots and criminals threatening U.S. interests and American citizens. He provided everything from Saturday night specials to surface-to-air missiles.

In Romania, co-conspirators Tareq Mousa al-Ghazi and Luis Felipe Morena-Godoy were also arrested in the operation. The three were indicted on four separate conspiracy counts "including the supplying of material support to a foreign terrorist group; conspiring to kill U.S. nationals, officials and employees; and conspiracy to acquire an antiaircraft missile."

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