AL QAEDA'S GRAND STRATEGY: SUPERPOWER BAITING

What is al Qaeda's grand strategy? An in depth interview with Saad al-Faqih, an expert on al Qaeda, provides some insight into this. Dr. al-Faqih (picture) highlights the role of Dr. Zawahiri in evolving the strategic thinking of bin Laden:

Zawahiri impressed upon Bin Laden the importance of understanding the American mentality. The American mentality is a cowboy mentality-- if you confront them with their identity theoretically and practically they will react in an extreme manner. In other words, America with all its resources and establishments will shrink into a cowboy when irritated successfully. They will then elevate you and this will satisfy the Muslim longing for a leader who can successfully challenge the West. Zawahiri advised Bin Laden to forget about the 12 page statement as nobody had read it and instead issue a short statement identifying every American as a target. Even though this was controversial from an Islamic perspective, Zawahiri argued on pragmatic grounds that it had to be sanctioned. The statement in February 1998, which was only 3 or 4 lines, effectively sanctioned shedding the blood of every American.

This decision resulted in the east African embassy attacks of 1998. The result of these attacks were as follows:

Zawahiri had prophesised correctly—the Americans over-reacted by bombing Afghanistan and Sudan and consequently shifted the focus of blame away from al-Qaeda. If the Americans had not over-reacted to that attack they would have won a great moral victory. Clinton himself identified Bin Laden as the enemy and, in effect, delivered a hero to the Muslims. Before the embassy attacks only a few intellectuals and people with scholastic and practical interests in Jihad remembered Bin Laden but after the attack Bin Laden was transformed into a popular hero. The Americans thereafter persisted in turning Bin Laden into an obsession. The immediate effect of this was that thousands of Muslims travelled to Afghanistan. I was told that before the Kenya and Tanzania bombings hardly one or two people from the Arab countries would make their way to Afghanistan in any given month but after the bombings almost ten people would make their way there on a daily basis….

He goes on to explain the motivation for 9/11 and the result of the American reaction:

The next stage involved initiating a full scale polarization between Muslims and America. Therefore, even if al-Qaeda disappears there would be a huge interest in fighting the U.S. and its allies. This underpinned the planning of the 9/11 attacks. The purpose was not to kill thousands of people. Nobody saw the attacks as an assault against buildings and people, almost everyone saw it as a symbolic action. And everybody is agreed that the world changed after 9/11. The way the attacks were orchestrated had a lot to do with this—those young boys came with nothing and only relied on their will, secrecy, devotion and great perseverance. How on earth could 19 young men with box cutters wreak such humiliation on the sole Super Power of the world? The answer is linked to the “asymmetrical warfare” that I will address later. The 9/11 attacks forced America into a cosmic battle with Muslims. Of course America claims it is waging war against terrorism but actually Muslims perceive this war as an unprecedented assault on Islam. Ultimately the real issue here is the perception of Muslims and the vast majority of Muslims around the world feel besieged by America.

The result of this, according to al-Faqih will be internal turmoil in America and its eventual adoption of an isolationist policy:

Now strategically I think America has not only lost but it is likely to vanish. It has started a campaign which has forced the majority of Muslims against it. But of course tactically it has scored major gains. A lot of these so-called strategic analysts mistake these tactical gains for strategic leverage. The point is that these people are not strategic analysts because they never bring the historical, ideological and social dimensions into their calculations. They only consider political and military factors....

There are many people in America who want to tackle the matter in a much more intelligent manner but they have been silenced by this pervasive McCarthyism. There are people that are very tired with this cowboy attitude. Once the next attack occurs they are likely to say that Bush has had two years of this cosmic battle against terrorism and we ended up with an even bigger attack. Now is the time to try a different approach. Now of course the right wingers, the Zionists and the arms lobby will refuse to give ground and then a clash inside America is likely to ensue.

Comments

[weblogger]

Bad advice from this guy. Rather than seeking over-reaction, Bin Laden's propaganda portrayed the US as a paper tiger that runs away from aggression. Moreover, he portrayed Afghanistan as a place of jihad where they would defeat the US. Instead, Al Qaeda and the Taliban lost and fled. No matter how they spin it, they were defeated. No second Vietnam, no cutting and running. No Al Qaeda is in a dead-end: They can neither defeat the US nor cause an uprising nor topple the Saudis or Egyptians. They cause a lot of destruction but seem to have lost the plot stretegically. Meanwhile, Western governments increase security every day. Al Qaeda is doomed.

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[Scott Trow]

I have lived most of my adult life in the Islamic world and I believe I have a fair grasp of the "situation".

Let's first dispense with the physo babble, the bare bones of these Islamic militants is religous based, they, as all muslims are sworn to the elimination of infidels, for the unaware that all christian's, jews, hindus etc etc.

Now lets, broaden the discussion, we (the west)have been displaying double standards and reacting to vested interests, Palestine etc. we need to stop it once and for all be fair, then we dont open ourselves to critisism.

Also we need to stop treating everybody as our best friend, we should be dealing with countries on a recipical basis i.e. religious freedom is a two way street, where are the churches in Riyadh, Jeddeh, Dammam, where is the freedon of speach. These are fundemental rights of the West we grant them to eveybody who sets foot on our land, do they?

We also need to address the sloppy way we allow people into our countries, 9/11 was easy to execute especially with a country that at the time does'nt even stamp a passport when you leave / overstay! We also have to not be afraid to say no to migrants, we have become lazy there are jobs we want immigrant to do that are somehow beneth us, are we not the maker of our own problems?

[Charlie]

bin Laden's "US is a paper tiger" propaganda is precisely one of the ways in which an overly-aggressive American response was provoked. It's like the bar room tactic of calling someone a coward in order to provoke a fight.

[jim]

I think that America wants a real enemy to fight as much as Bin Laden wanted to create one.

That bin laden gives America the opportunity to have an economically stimulating set of wars while exerting control over most of the world's oil supply is not entirely without benefit to the US.

[prodigalsunn]

al qaeda and bin ladden have no real stratagy except to ignite passion and furver within in the muslim world to the cause of jihad,and even then they are only doing it becuse they perceive things to be so "out of there controlle (islamist controlle that is)" within there own society and rather than confronting there own country men,as they decided it would be in vein, because everyone wants to live as he wants not as you tell them to , they made there enemy the west and just like america gave the ultimatum of your either your a muslim or an infidel supporter, specifically america wich by the way is "far more dangerous and evil than anything al qaeda can conjour up", to kill two birds with one stone and re grip there own societies back into line in accordance to the sunna, and away from western values, this was the only way, as most zealots in islam are uneducated and cannot properly articulate to the intellectuals what they feel about society, at the same time the intellectuals are the brains and the ones with the money so they have the power and look down at the zealots who are ignorant but the zealots have the great leveler with the gun and the bomb and it dont matter how much you know when someone is dtermined to blow himself up for a cause there is nothing you can do so bin ladden thought that after sept 11 that within the muslim world the power will swing away from the moderates back to the hardliners wich is basically what has happend..

they used the excuse of israel and the holy land occupations as a gimick to try and justify there objectives not to the west but to there own people, mainly the muslims in the middle who arn`t down for jihad but hate israels treatment of there fellow muslims.

also in my opinion there is really no more al qaeda there mission is complete, they have done what they came to do and now the onis is on regional factions to continue the struggle within there own society`s and with there enemies,really bin ladden is like this for radical islam , like a man who is walking throught the hot desert(islam) who stumbles accross an oasis of fresh water(bin ladden),he is like the refresher, this i believe was his misssion all along, he himself understands he cannot destroy america with his little al qaeda but a radical muslim world with over 1.5 billion adherants who`s prime enemy is the west/america can.

also the world in some wierd way must thank osama bin ladden as he has exposed to the ignorent west the evil agenda that lurks with in islam, and also the the three main countries that are the upmost danger to human existance israel america and saudi arabia who all have the same ambition world domination.

[Ali Baba Brooklyn]

Let's look at how Al Qaeda was organized. There were 5 key departments of Al Qaeda -- the army of terrorists; the programmers of chaos; the clergy of terrorist theology; the media relations experts; and the MBAs of terrorist enterprises. With apologies for som speculative analysis, here is a quick explanation of the roles and functions of each:

-- The Mujahadeen Army: In 2001, this was probably more than 29,000 trained fighters. That represents about 2,000 to 5,000 hangers on from the Afghan war against the Soviets, and about 2,000 trainees per year until 1999. Of course the number could be more, since many of the Taliban became soldiers for Al Qaeda and vice versa.

-- Al Qaeda's IT Department: These guys are very well-versed in programing languages and internet protocols, this very scary arm of technically trained hackers and programmers probably numbered over 1,000 religiously inspired IT experts.

-- Al Qaeda's theocratic department: These were the ulema of Al Qaeda, headed by Dr. Zawahari. They are generally faithful to the teachings of salafism and Sheik ibn Wahhab, Sayed Qtub and then a mish mash of radical islamic clerics. Predominantly sunni, there may be some Shiites who were admitted into this arm. I suspect that many mujahedeen and others were dual hatted into the role of terrorist theologian.

--Al Qaeda's public relations experts: Like bin Laden and Zawahiri, many leaders of the global terror movement are largely western trained and have lived their entire lives sucking up western commercialism. However their faith precluded them from buying into that philosophy, especially as they each made their personal jopurney into salafism. However, smart as they were, they each decided that they could use western style media relations to foster their own ends. And they did. How else do you think they managed to publish all those recruiting posters and books and gain access to the visual media across the globe? This very important part of the organization probably thrives on about 200 well-connected media experts.

-- The MBAs of terror enterprises: You've seen these guys at your local college. They studied western businesses in the USA, England, France, Spain, and Latin America and elsewhere. They then used these skills to move billions into financing jihad and terrorism. And some of these guys were very rich. Check out bin Laden himself. He was the #1 controller of the whole organization.

Today, who knows what's left -- the talent has spread out across the globe. No body has become demoralized, and the fighting and recruiting are up. The question today is, are these cells creating allies in the world that they can trust? Now is the time to begin infiltrating all of these new spinoff networks.

[Shaikh Milak seb]

Muslim Mind
Cowboys is a very fitting word for Amriki mentality. Amrika & Izrail is an abomination on our planet. It has repeatedly acted as a cowboy in the wider world in ways which deny & uproot basic individual rights & welfare in order to further increase thier power. It is the strong cannibalisticaly devouring the weak, and not on a matter of survival but indulgence. They camoflage thier lack of civilisation by porno pictures of beutiful women & other cheap 'hype' mechanisms.
Thier may have been a time when Amrika was a responsible country, but civilisation is a fragile state which in amrika seems to have been devoured by cowboys.
The act, or acceptence of Killing of innocent lives is something that is beyond my human limits as a muslim. However, in the dehumanised world we cohabit, i can sympathise ( but not agree) with usama's message i.e stop kiling ours & we'll stop killing yours. However, he should not associte this brutal message with islam & the compassionate teachings of Rasul-Allah.
If anything, he should propogate his message from a political platfrom (i.e like Amrika in the case of hiroshima etc..)
BUT - obviously, the ideal in the situation is the resolving of the crisis which plague our planet in a civilised manner

[Philip Van Wichelen]

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[Stephen]

I think the article was absolutely correct about the American predisposition towards the 'cowboy' mentality. It seems that in the land of free speech the loudest are free to shout down those who require some quiet time to properly represent themselves. Of course, when the left capitulates to the 'loudest says all' mentality, we end up with something possibly as offensive, mangled left-wing flailing, like Michael Moore. The whole Evil Western Imperialism rant is as misguided as the cowboy rant regarding the solution to terrorism as being as simple as smoking them out.

The divisions here have arisen. I can't see how anyone can argue with that. I'm not a Muslim, and I cannot pretend to understand the Muslim mentality. All I know is that militarily speaking the Muslim world is no threat to us. As a westerner however, I am more concerned with the effects that fighting this war on terror is having upon us. Upon our mentality, it's expression and consequences.

Perhaps this new polarisation will serve to fuel a new kind of diffuse, mild fascist self-improvement distantly reminiscient of the perfect Ayran specimen, but one inspired not out of burgeoning pride, but out of self-loathing. Perhaps the mentality necessary to eliminate obescity will coincide with the mentality which might evolve from a cultural clash, one which I think we are definitely seeing. Perhaps I'm being tangential, and completely off topic? That's more likely. Still, our mentality is not static. It's changing. It's evolving. 'Change', however, suggests that it's guided under the aegis of something conscious and intelligent. Our ad hoc propaganda is hardly that.

However, this isn't Vietnam. In Vietnam, an entire American generation resonated (however pretentiously) with the cultural landscape of those whom we were bombing. Students protested war, but they were also deeply interested in Eastern philosophy, Buddhism, Tantra, etc. The image of the Far East was also very different in the eyes of the young. They regarded the Vietnamese as essentially peaceful people, who had done nothing against America. It's true, in our mentality, the evil empire perception of the United States is loosing ground. I don't even capitalise evil empire any more.

I can propose one comparison of mentalities. In the west an independent life-style is exalted, whereas living as part of a tightly organised community is the norm of the middle east. This is why there is so much freedom in America. You can say and do what you want, because nobody cares, everybody is independent. Therapy, antidepressants, sensationalist media and the need to always be over-stimulated (ameliorated with Prosac), divorce, etc. Then the Middle East; inter-tribal conflict, persecution, rigid social roles and fewer opportunities, etc. I'm don't want to apologise to anybody who might want me to appreciate the richness of these peoples lives when I 'ignorantly' refer to their rigid social roles; richness of life is sentimental and has nothing to do with what I'm talking about. As a westerner, I'm sick of being sympathetic to every culture. I'm sick of being guilted into trying to imagine how rich life must be in some distant part of the world. As a westerner, I have to deal with the problems of a western mentality for what they are; not by pretending that I live somewhere else. We're all alone here. Each one of us. That's the west. That much I can tell you. Force us into isolationism? Bin Laden's a tool if he thinks he's forced us into isolationism. What a wanker!!! I'd like to laugh right in his face :D We've been that way forever! Why do you think the hippy culture (our one official attempt at togetherness) dissolved into a crash-burn of drugs and sex.

Wherever this is headed, the forces that dictate it's direction, are not new.

[Sick of Cowboy]

I live in Montana where there is no shortage of REAL cowboys. We like to do our work, nuture the stock and land. We leave other people alone and keep pretty much to ourselves. We don't care what New Yorkers and Los Angelinos think. We are not uneducated, guns a-blazin' yahoos. I'm sick of all the psuedo intellectual's use of the word "cowboy". Leave us alone. Fight your wars and kill each other. It's ironic that Muslims kill each other and blame "cowboys" for it. I hope Muslims keep killing each other.

No matter what the muslims do, the bottom line is we (the U.S.) have nukes, and we can turn their frickin' sand deserts into glass.

Start substituting the word "Hollywood" for the word "cowboy" and you will start getting your hyperbole correct.

[v]

Since 911 I have seen things spun both ways. Either invading Afghanistan was "just what OBL wants" or Spain pulling out of Iraq after madrid was "jsut what OBL wants".

Commentators with political agendas seem to love framing the debate with this type of goading about "that's what he wants you to do". A tactic reminiscient of Brady Bunch "reverse psychology" (Only americans will get this one).

I do not thnk it is possible to read the mind of someone whose every word seems like calculated propaganda.

So: Who cares what Bin Laden wants us to do? Doing the exact opposite is just as stupid as fulfilling his expectations. We should define our own strategy vis a vis theirs.

http://veraciraptor.blogspot.com

[some guy]

No matter what the muslims do, the bottom line is we (the U.S.) have nukes, and we can turn their frickin' sand deserts into glass.

Dennis Leary, is that you?

[Jeremiah]

From 2004: "They cause a lot of destruction but seem to have lost the plot stretegically. Meanwhile, Western governments increase security every day. Al Qaeda is doomed."

(True for very small values of "doomed.")

[G W Navyman]

Good blog.

[Peter]

Top Comment: "Instead, Al Qaeda and the Taliban lost and fled. No matter how they spin it, they were defeated. No second Vietnam, no cutting and running. No Al Qaeda is in a dead-end: They can neither defeat the US nor cause an uprising nor topple the Saudis or Egyptians. They cause a lot of destruction but seem to have lost the plot stretegically. Meanwhile, Western governments increase security every day. Al Qaeda is doomed."

Can I get an independent confirmation of the fact that we actually won in Afghanistan? That would be like so totally awesome!

Sadly, what I keep reading and hearing is that Karzi is not so much the the president as merely the mayor of Kabul. The warlords and Taliban basically control the other 99% of the country.

I'd be ecstatic to hear otherwise from a credible source.

[Darko Trifunovic]

Darko Trifunovic
University of Belgrade
Faculty of Civil Defense

– Security Management Counter Terrorism-

Bosnia in the Network of Al Qaeda terrorists

Al-Qaeda (“The Foundation”) is a conglomerate of groups spread throughout the world operating as a network. It has a global reach, with a presence both on its own and through some of the terrorist organizations that operated under its umbrella, including: Egyptian Islamic Jihad, which was led by Ayman al-Zawahiri, and at times, the Islamic Group (also known as “el Gamaa Islamia” or simply “Gamaa’t”), and a number of Jihad (a Jihad- “Muslim Holy War”) groups in other countries, including Sudan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bosnia, the Kosovo province of Serbia, Croatia, Albania, Algeria, Tunisia, Lebanon, the Philippines, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, the Kashmiri region of India and the Chechnya region of Russia.
Al Qaeda has also maintained cells and personnel in a number of countries to facilitate its activities, including Kenya, Tanzania, the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, Malaysia, and the United States.
Since September 11, U.S. peacekeepers in Bosnia have been watching radical Islamic Mujahadeen (Mujahadeen - holy warrior) who came to fight the Balkan wars - and then stayed on. Several people in Bosnia have been questioned for links to international terrorism. Six of them, “all Algerians,” were arrested and handed over to the U.S. Government. They still are reported to be in Guantanamo Bay.
The United States has long been alarmed by the presence in Bosnia of hundreds of Arab-born Muslim fundamentalists who first traveled there in the 1990s to fight for the nation’s substantial Muslim population during the civil war. Many went there at the direction of Osama bin Laden, who apparently saw the opportunity for a Jihad defending Muslims against Serb and Croat Christians.
Osama Bin Laden directly aided the Bosnian Muslims, both financially (weapons procurement) and with training. In addition, that same “aid” was extended to the separatist Albanians of Kosovo and Macedonia. Ironically, the US found Bin Laden and his supporters “convenient” allies when dealing with Bosnian Muslims and Kosovo Albanians, again in another so-called struggle for “freedom ”.
Dangerous terrorists of the Iranian origin, who have Bosnia-Herzegovina citizenship and passports, most notably Mustafa Kamal, Shah Mohammad Ali Tala’ti, Talati Ali Sahmed, and Javad Hesarbani [spelling as received] in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Hasan Ali Fateh, one of Usamah Bin Ladin’s closest associates, was in Bosnia-Hercegovina. Fateh was granted the Bosnia-Hercegovina citizenship and passport in the Bosnia-Hercegovina General Consulate in Istanbul under the number U-06-616-4/95 on 25 December 1995. Fateh was put in the Bosnia-Hercegovina Registration of Births in 1999 under the number 10-782 and that the number of his Bosnia-Hercegovina passport was 084779, issued to him on 24 April 1999.
The terrorist was registered at 14 Hasana Kikica street in Sarajevo, but that he has never lived at this address. There are also terrorists of the Palestinian origin in Bosnia-Hercegovina such as Abu Jajalah Nasez and Alkhgasan Savarahat Mahabuhagag (as received), as well as less-known terrorists from Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Saudi A
[…]
2. Abu el Ma’ali (Abdelkader Mokhtari), a senior representative of Al-Qaida, was based in Bosnia until recently. Just a few years ago, a US official called him a junior Osama Bin Laden. He had to leave Sarajevo after several embassies complained to the Bosnian authorities. Incidentally, he was issued an apartment by none other than Bakir Izetbegovic, son of Alija, who ran the Sarajevo Canton Construction Bureau [government agency supervising all construction and development – tr.] The mjuhaedin emir and his family were transported out of Bosnia on a helicopter and with honors, while the public was told that he had disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
3. Abu Abdel Aziz “Barbarossa,” a prominent holy warrior from Saudi Arabia, in 1994. In it, Abdel Aziz glorified jihad and praised the Pittsburgh magazine for its interest in holy war. “I ask Allah to make you and I successful,” he said. “I ask Him to help the workers and those who support this newsletter to perform their religious duty of da’wah (Islamic propagation) and to publicize mujahideen news and jihad.”
He asked Assirat readers in that interview, and in a 1995 update, to donate money for holy war. In the interview, Abdel Aziz lauded Dr. Abdullah Azzam, the ideological founder of al-Qaida. He described how the “joy of jihad overwhelmed our hearts” when the Soviets were pushed out of Afghanistan. “Indeed jihad will continue till the day of judgment,” he said. “We have to make jihad to make His word supreme, not for a nationalist cause, a tribal cause, a group feeling or any other cause,” Abdel Aziz declared . Barbarossa had been arrested multiple times in Saudi Arabia; in 1996, he was detained as the primary suspect in the attack on the Dhahran barracks, when 19 U.S. servicemen were killed.
4. Karim Said Atmani, the alleged associate and former roommate of Ahmed Ressam – indicted last week for illegally carrying explosives into the United States – had a Bosnian passport. By fervently embracing the Muslim cause in Bosnia the United States helped to create an international Islamic terrorist network. The Canadians claim that Ressam and Atmani had been stealing laptops in Montreal and sending the proceeds to Islamic terrorist groups. The French claim that Ressam and Atmani have links to Fateh Kamel – an Algerian who had fought the Soviets in Afghanistan and who may have been involved in a number of armed robberies in France in 1996. Kamel was arrested in Jordan earlier this year and extradited to France. He was sentenced to 5 years’ imprisonment in Norway, for assaulting a police officer. Under the alias Abu Hisam, he fought in the “El mujahid” unit, changing his name later to Said Hodzic and marrying a Bosnian Muslim. With the help of Fateh Kemal, a terrorist as well, he emigrated to Canada. However, he was soon deported back to Bosnia, which extradited him to France in 2001, along with Zoheir Choulah, on an Interpol warrant.
5. Bassam A. Kanj, a Lebanese native, and Raed M. Hijazi, a Palestinian, were tied to separate militant and terrorist plots last year. Both plots were allegedly financed by bin Laden. Kanj, 35, who had lived in the Boston area for 15 years, was killed in northern Lebanon in January 2000 during an attack against the Lebanese Army. Hijazi, a Boston resident for about two years, was jailed in Jordan and is awaiting trial on charges that he planned to blow up a hotel filled with Americans and Israelis on New Year’s Day 2000 . Hijasi is one of the leaders of the extremist terrorist movement in Lebanon, Haraqat Taqfir wal Hegira. As a member of “El Mujahid” unit in Bosnia, he was known as Abu Aysha. His fellow member of “El Mujahid,” Khalid Mohammed Muslam al Jehani – a veteran of wars in Bosnia, Chechnya and Afghanistan – commanded the bomb attack on tourists in Riyadh, which killed 34 people and injured many more.
6. Saleh Al-Oufi, the Al-Qaeda leader in Saudi Arabia, was killed in a shoot-out with police and security forces in Madinah earlier this year. In a coordinated strike, security forces raided premises in both Riyadh and Madinah after locating armed terrorist suspects. In Riyadh, four terrorists died and one was arrested. In Madinah, two died — including Al Oufi — and one was injured . Qufi, considered by intelligence services as the “most dangerous officer of Al-Qaeda,” had the privilege of meeting Osama bin Laden shortly after 9/11 and “celebrate” the success of the attack. They were joined by another terrorist, Khaled al-Harbi. Al-Harbi, a professor of Islamic studies from Mecca, was paralyzed by a bullet in 1992, when he was known as Abu Suleyman; he was wounded at Crni Vrh, near Teslic, in Bosnia, fighting the Bosnian Serbs, and has been in a wheelchair ever since.
“A confidant of Osama bin Laden, seen on a videotape with the Qaeda chief as he talked about the Sept. 11 terror attacks, has surrendered to Saudi diplomats in Iran and been flown to Saudi Arabia. Khaled al-Harbi, a potentially valuable asset in the war on terror because of his close relationship to bin Laden, was shown on Saudi television Tuesday being pushed in a wheelchair through the Riyadh airport.
Harbi is the most important figure to surface under a Saudi amnesty promising to spare the lives of militants who turn themselves in. He told the television, “I called the embassy and we were very well received.”
Harbi, also known as Abu Suleiman al-Makki, is considered a sounding board for bin Laden rather than an operational planner for his terror network, a U.S. counterterrorism official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity”. The announcement did not give more details, but Al-Harbi, a native of the holy city of Mecca, is known to have fought in Afghanistan alongside Al-Qaeda chief Bin Laden in the early 1980s, during the Soviet invasion.
Al-Harbi, who was wounded while fighting in Bosnia, taught courses in Islam at the Grand Mosque in Makkah but dropped out of sight after the Sept 11, 2001 attacks in the United States.
He is believed to have fled to Afghanistan at the time, and appeared alongside Bin Laden in a videotape aired by Qatar-based Al-Jazeera news channel in December 2001, during which he claimed that Muslim scholars “bless” the extremists’ actions. [source unknown]
7. Salaheddin Benyaaich (Abu Mughem), Moroccan, member of “El Mujahid” and former associate of Abu Dahdah , suspected of the Casablanca attack. In 1996, went from Bosnia to Italy, where he contacted the Milan center and Abu Dahdah.
8.Abu Asim Al-Makki (a.k.a. Muhammad Hamdi Al-Ahdal, Muhammad al-Hamati), is figuring prominently in the investigations of multiple terrorist attacks attributed to Al-Qaeda, including both the suicide-bombing of the USS Cole and the copycat terror attack on the French supertanker Limburg.
Abu Asim aided in the formation of a Al-Qaeda battalion in central Bosnia-Herzegovina. In the fall of 1992, he helped lead a group of 43 primarily Saudi mujahedeen in initial combat operations against Bosnian Serb troops .
9. Ramzi Bin al-Shaibah told Budiman that he wanted to take part in the Jihad, or holy war, in Bosnia. Bin al-Shaibah is the 20th hijacker who was supposed to be aboard the plane that crashed into a Pennsylvania field.
10. Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar (American Airlines Flight 77 that crashed into the Pentagon) were not like the other hijackers. The two Saudis militant backgrounds is more comprehensive than the others, despite their young ages. In the mid-1990s both apparently were in the Bosnia conflict, and then fought in Chechnya at various times between 1996 and 1998. This was confirmed by the Director of Central Intelligence George J. Tenet during the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearings.
11. The “shoe-bomber”, Richard C. Reid and Jamaat ul-Fuqra
U.S. officials believed Reid to be a follower of Sheikh Mubarak Ali Shah Gilalni, a leader of an obscure Muslim militant group named Jamaat ul-Fuqra (“The Impoverished”). Described by the State Department’s 1995 report on terrorism as dedicated “to purifying Islam through violence,” ul-Fuqra recruited devotees from as far away as the Netherlands and had sent Jihadis into battle in Kashmir, Chechnya, Bosnia, and Israel.
Sheikh, himself, visited Bosnia at least once, when he joined a “Caravan of Mercy,” taking “relief supplies” to Bosnia.
12. Sheikh Abu Hamza al-Masri is one of the most distinctive radical Islamic figures in Britain:
“Bin Laden is a good guy. Everyone likes him in the Muslim world, there is nothing wrong with the man and his beliefs.”
“Many people will be happy, jumping up and down [after September 11]. America is a crazy superpower and what was done was done in self-defense.”
In Afghanistan, he sustained the injuries to his hand and eye - apparently clearing landmines for the Mujahideen - that make him such a distinct figure.
He has also claimed to have worked in the Muslim community in Bosnia .
13. An Egyptian Islamist using the nom de guerre Salim al-Kurshani—a veteran of the Mujahedeen units who married a Bosnian and now legally lives in B-H. Al-Kurshani introduces himself as the commander of a Jihadist organization called the Islamic Group—Military Branch in Bosnia. However, he issued the warning in the name of a new group called the Bosnian Islamic Jihad. The all-Islamic versions of both names are also used by Ayman al-Zawahiri.
Al-Kurshani stressed the centrality of martyrdom to his forces and stressed his strikes would be most effective because I-FOR had no defense against such operations. “I have a message for NATO forces in Bosnia,” he warned: “We shall send suicide bombers to punish the United States and I-FOR for their occupation of an Islamic land.”
In his statement, al-Kurshani clarified his own, and his organization’s, affiliation with the Egyptian Islamist terrorist elite, particularly the forward headquarters in Sofia, Bulgaria, under the command of Ayman al-Zawahiri. Indeed, the Islamist terrorist forces under al-Zawahiri’s command were activated throughout the Balkans in early April 1996. Back in early 1996, confident in his ability to maintain secure and solid lines of communications to the Islamist terrorist forces in B-H, al-Zawahiri ordered the deployment of key experts capable of planning, overseeing and leading major spectacular terrorist strikes against such objectives as US/I-FOR facilities. The arrival of 40 Egyptian expert terrorists was the first major forward deployment for this purpose .
14. Talaat Fouad Kassem, known as Abu Talal, was a leader of the Egyptian Jamaa. He lived in Denmark. He was also a frequent visitor to the Viale Jenner mosque in Milan, where he would preach fiery sermons. In September 1996, he disappeared while visiting Croatia. An eyewitness now says that he was “picked up” by American intelligence agents, transferred to a ship in the Adriatic and then shipped to Egypt. His family and defenders are now claiming that Abu Talal has been assassinated .
15. The last known address of Abu Hanim Abdul Gafar and Sabri Ghilar is a house in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was there that they were held in October 2002 by Malaysian and American agents. Their capture was the outcome of a painstaking investigation by Milan-based carabinieri from the ROS special operations squad. The three men, contacts for an active cell in Italy, were under investigation as Al Qaeda members with a dark past. Abu Hani fought in Bosnia and Chechnya, then took part in the murder of Massud, the head of the anti-Taleban alliance who was killed on September 9, 2001. Gafar is under investigation for the attack on the USS Cole. It would have been interesting to question them, but instead they became another “extraordinary rendition”, their destination Egypt. The Italian authorities requested American collaboration in vain. All appeals went unanswered.
16. Anas al-Shami (a.k.a. Omar Yousef) is a well known Salafist Islamic cleric from Jordan who was born in the late 1960s. Abu Anas is a student and admirer of like-minded militant clerics in the Middle East, particularly Shaykh Salman al-Awdah, Dr. Safar al-Hawali, and Shaykh Issam Barqawi (a.k.a. Abu Mohammed al-Maqdisi).
• In his youth, Abu Anas traveled to Saudi Arabia with his family and lived there “for a while” until his family moved again and finally settled in Kuwait. After the 1991 Arabian Gulf War, Abu Anas departed Kuwait and returned to Jordan, taking a position as the in-house cleric at the local Marad Mosque. During his time working at the mosque in Jordan, he became very active in Islamic missionary efforts and drew many young male followers.
• In the mid-1990s, Abu Anas traveled to Bosnia-Herzegovina in southeastern Europe, ostensibly to act as a religious missionary there and help spread the Islamic faith. In 1996, a recently declassified U.S. government report—attributed by the Wall Street Journal to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)—alleged that “nearly one third of the Islamic [missionary organizations] in the Balkans have facilitated the activities of Islamic groups that engage in terrorism, including the Egyptian Al-Gama‘at Al-Islamiyya, Palestinian Hamas, and Lebanese Hizballah.”
• After working in Bosnia, Abu Anas al-Shami returned to his Jordanian homeland to help found a major outreach center of the fundamentalist group Jamaat al-Sunnah wal-Kitab (“Society of the Sunnah and the Book”). The radicalism of the Society caused growing tensions with the Jordanian government, which ultimately led to the forced closure of the Islamist outreach center in northern Markah run by Abu Anas.
• Friends and associates of Abu Anas al-Shami claim that he initially straddled the boundary between comparatively moderate Islamic reformers and more radical fundamentalist leaders. These same sources blamed internal struggles for
ideological control of the Islamist trend, recent Al-Qaida terror attacks in Saudi Arabia, and “American crimes” in Iraq for polarizing Abu Anas into joining Abu
Musab al-Zarqawi.
• In 2003, Abu Anas al-Shami suddenly told his friends and followers that he planned on leaving his home in Jordan again, this time to “do work” in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Shortly after departing Jordan, Abu Anas instead resurfaced inside neighboring Iraq where he was appointed to a position on the elite Shura (“Advisory”) Council of the Al-Tawheed wal-Jihad Movement, led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
• In the spring of 2004, combat diaries purportedly written by Abu Anas al-Shami began to appear on the Internet, describing Zarqawi’s involvement in the struggle with U.S.-led military forces for control of the Iraqi city of Fallujah. Abu Anas narrated the secret history behind the dramatic April battle in the heart of the Sunni triangle:
“…at the orders of the leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the military Shura council met in the city to review the situation and study the options at hand—the result was painful and difficult. We found out that after a year, the jihad was still not rising from the land… We [Al-Qaida] have been hiding in the daytime and sneak about like grouses… And the safehouses have been raided and the heroes have been chased. This was a dark thought, and everyone felt like a complete failure. And thus it was required to come up with a quick solution and a change of the operational plan, so we decided to make Fallujah a safe refuge and an impregnable armor of the Muslims—and a forbidden [and] destructive land to the Americans. Then they will not be able to enter it except with great fear and they do not depart from it except frightened and chased as they carry their injured and their dead… ”
17. Tal’at Fu’ad Qasim
Bosnia was an open field for the arrest of many Jihad and Islamic Group [IG] members when they tried to turn Bosnia into another Afghanistan at heart of Europe and to move the phenomenon of Arab Afghans to it. The most prominent leader arrested there was Tal’at Fu’ad Qasim, the former official spokesman of the IG, which is banned in Egypt. He was arrested in Croatia as he was crossing into Bosnia in August 1995. According to IG sources, he was extradited to Egypt but the latter’s security authorities categorically denied this .
18. Sabri Ibrahim al-‘Attar. His trip with the Islamic groups and organizations started 13 years ago, specifically in 1986 when he used to go to the ‘Ibad-al-Rahman Mosque in one of al-Jizah’s suburbs. He became acquainted with Khalid al-Tahir who undertook the task of educating him in shari’ah. He studied a booklet called The Islamic Action Charter, regarded as the IG’s organizational constitution. Al-‘Attar then grew a beard, wore the Afghan dress, and became an active IG member. He was called Abu-al-Miqdad for his hard-line views and constant involvement in all the IG activities and even the plans it was preparing. He went from Afghanistan, where conditions were not agreeable anymore, to the Balkan at the end of 1996. He arrived in Bosnia with the help of a Palestinian fundamentalist, a forged passport, and $5,000. He stayed for more than a year in Bosnia until he left, or tried to leave, for Albania but fell into the hands of
the European and US intelligence services before he could so.

-THE ROUTE TO BOSNIA-
Al-‘Attar’s sensational trip continued. He said in his confessions: The first time I thought about going to Bosnia was around the middle of 1994. But when brother Abu-Hazim learned about this he talked to me on the telephone. He opposed the idea and asked me to think deeply before making my decision. But I was very enthusiastic and wanted to travel. A person called Abu-‘Ubaydah al-Yamani proposed that I travel overland to Yemen. I went to Sanaa with a person called Hassan. Arrangements were made there
with Abu-‘Ubaydah al-Yamani for my travel to Bosnia. But Abu-Hazim spoke to me on the telephone and proposed the idea of traveling to Sudan. I agreed after he convinced me. The brothers in Sanaa helped me go to Khartoum where an Egyptian brother was waiting for us. He took us to a farm south of Khartoum which I later learned belonged to the IG and had a five-bedroom house. I met many members there who used aliases, like Jamal ‘Abd-al-Tawwab, ‘Abd-al-Majid, Mahfuz, Tal’at, Sakhr, Samih, Abu-Hunayfah, Sami, Rabih, Majdi, Yasin, ‘Abbud, Safwat, and many others.
Continuing his confessions, al-‘Attar said: On this farm, I learned how to use electric circuits in explosives and to operate the remote control. After being well prepared for jihad, it became our duty to carry out instructions without argument. We only had to listen and obey and carry out what our leaders wanted us to do. The first instructions came in March 1995 when the brothers proposed that I take charge of training the newcomers for jihad in preparation for carrying out actions to destabilize the regime in Egypt by dealing successive blows to the security organs and attacking tourists. This group included Muzfir, Hassan, ‘Abd-al-Tawwab, Jamal, and ‘Abd-al-Majid. They all used aliases and not their real names, which we were not permitted to use at all.
He added: As Abu-Hazim gave me full responsibility for leading the mujahidin group that was to be sent to Cairo, I decided that I should personally pick the sites and the installations that each member or the group would attack, each according to his resources and abilities. The order came to send the group after completion of the training and religious preparations. That was in April 1995. Riding a Toyota pick-up, the group traveled for two days across the desert trails led by a car driven by a Sudanese guide whom no one was allowed to talk to. The group arrived at a certain area and there the guide asked them to walk a short distance, after which they would find themselves in the Idfu railway station. They carried forged identity cards. Al-‘Attar confessed here:
The group leader was carrying a forged identity card in the name of Samir Muhammad Sulayman and a card on which was written the Maritime Construction Company. The orders they were given by the ‘amir [leader] in Sudan instructed them to separate as soon as they arrived in Egypt. I was the only one allowed to contact Abu-Hazim, Mustafa Hamzah, and the ‘amir of this group. I blessed the brothers, prayed for them, and gave their ‘amir the telephone number of my cousin in al-Matariyah. I and brother Abu-Hazim contacted this cousin before the group arrived to tell him that the brothers were coming and might need his help. He expressed his readiness not only to help but to take part too. Then my cousin and the ‘amir set the dates for meeting the members. I had given each one of them a sum of money and kept for myself $2,000 so as to get married. When they learned about my marriage, some of them asked me for large sums of money
so as to get married too. I gave some of them and promised the others that my cousin would look for good wives for them in Egypt .
19.Arar Mohammed Nedjib, Alzirac, pripadnik odreda “El Mudzahid” iz BiH. Poginuo je 2001.godine kao pripadnik Talibana u Avganistanu. U istoj akciji americke snage zarobile su naturalizovanog gradjana BiH i teroristu Tariq Mohmodd Ahmed al-Sawah.koji je kao “humanitarac” World Islamic Reliefa dosao u BiH da bi tri godine od 1993-95 proveo u jedinici “El Mudzahid”. 2000 odlazi iz BiH u Avganistan.
20. Abdulaziz al-Muqrin [Abdulaziz Issa Abdul-Mohsin al-Moqrin] took over the Saudi operation after the previous leader was killed in a shootout with police in March 2004. Abd-al-Aziz al-Muqrin, defendant number one in the recently announced list of the 26 most wanted persons. Believed to be in his mid-30s, his nom de guerre is “Abu-Hajar.” He trained with the Al-Qa’ida organization in Afghanistan during the period 1990-1994. Al-Muqrin transferred from Afghanistan to Algeria to fight on the side the Islamic Liberation Front (FIS) in the mid-1990s. He smuggled weapons from Spain to Algeria via Morocco. He then went to Bosnia-Herzegovina, working initially as a member of a training staff in a military camp. He was arrested and imprisoned in Somalia until he was deported to Saudi Arabia where he was imprisoned in 1999. A Saudi religious court sentenced him to four years in prison. He learned the Koran by heart, which prompted the Interior Ministry to commute his prison sentence by half. He was released from prison in 2001, and left for Yemen and arrived in Afghanistan. According to his own account, he took part in the last of the fighting against US forces when they invaded in 2001. Then he returned to Saudi Arabia. An adviser to Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to London called al-Muqrin the “toughest” in a series of perhaps a half-dozen leaders who had headed the Saudi network. Abdulaziz al-Muqrin was editor of al-Battar magazine, the al-Qaida training publication. The al-Battar sword—the “sword of the prophets—was taken by the prophet Muhammad as booty from the Banu Qaynaqa. The magazine’s name commemorates “Al-Battar” , the alias of Sheikh Yousef Al-Ayyiri. This former an Al-Qa’ida leader in Saudi Arabia was Osama bin Laden’s personal bodyguard. He was killed in 2003 in a clash with Saudi security forces.
On a warrant from Italian authorities, the Sarajevo police arrested the mujahedeen/terrorist Khalil Yarray, born 1969, in Tunisia. His nom-de-guerre was Abu Omar. Khalil was one of the GIA leaders in Europe. The Bologna police have a file on him under the name Ben Narwan Abdel Aziz. Italian authorities have arrested numerous terrorists who turned out to be former mujahedeen, such as Samir Lanini, Kamr ad Din Kirbani (former pilot and “humanitarian” in “Al Kifaf”), the Senegalese imam Mamouri Falla, and the Pakistani nationals Pezulu Gulamu and Husein Tasadak.
Christopher Kaye, member of “El Mujahid” known as Abu Walid, was killed by the Belgian police when he attempted to car-bomb the meeting of G-8 in Lille.
Mehrez Amdouni, born 1969 in Tunisia and a high-ranking Al-Qaeda officer, was arrested at the Istanbul airport. His nom-de-guerre in “El Mujahid” was Abu Tale [sp?]. In addition to a Bosnian passport, he also had Italian (as Fusco Fabio) and Spanish documents (Hassan Mohammadi), and was en route to Dagestan, Russia.
Kenan Bjedic, mujahedin instructor, and three foreign mujahedin were arrested at the Istanbul airport in 2000, on their way from Bosnia to Chechnya.
Spain has arrested Edin Barakat Yarkas, a.k.a. Abu Dahdah, and Esad Sami Ben Khemaisu. Yarkas had in his possession a map of the Zenica terrorist training camp.
The interrogation of Ahmed Ressam, terrorist and Bosnia mujahedeen detained in the US, revealed important details about the Al-Qaeda network. As a result, American authorities have demanded that Bosnia locate and detain a group of terrorists, mujahedin who received Bosnian citizenship. They were members of the notorious GIA, connected to Al-Qaeda. The following individuals were apprehended in Bosnia and transferred to Guantanamo Bay:
Bensayah Belkacem, Mustafa al Kadir, Sabir Lahmar, Muhammed Nekle – a.k.a. Zerefdin, Lahdar Bumedijen and Hajj Bodella.
Belkacem, a.k.a. Abu Mejd, was a liaison officer to Abu Zubaydah, a high-ranking Al-Qaeda officer in charge of planning and executing terrorist attacks worldwide.
Boumedian had been a mujahedeen and terrorist in Bosnia between 1993 and 1995, which secured him a citizenship and passport. Since 1995, he has been a member of the terrorist organization “Red Crescent,” based in the UAE.
Two naturalized Egyptians, Al Sherif Hassan Mahmoud Saad and Arman Ahmed al Husseini (a.k.a. Eslam Durmo), one of the major ideologues of Islamic fundamentalists in “El Mujahid,” were extradited to Egypt in 2001 on a special flight, at the request of the Egyptian authorities who wanted them for terrorism.

[jose ramirez]

Question,
Does Al Qaeda claim responsibility for the plane that crashed into the pentagon ( flt 77)?
Do you believe in the conspiracy theory that has circulated concerning this flight, where some allege that a misile-not a plane- struck the pentagon?

[jose ramirez]

Question,
Does Al Qaeda claim responsibility for the plane that crashed into the pentagon ( flt 77)?
Do you believe in the conspiracy theory that has circulated concerning this flight, where some allege that a misile-not a plane- struck the pentagon?

[John smith your american patriot]

Hello Jose ramirez this is John smith your american patriot

That conspiracy theory about a missile stricking a plane is fucked up and just a load of bullshit to keep America intrested. And avoid the real picture. IT IS JUST A STUPID CONSPIRISY like that Roswell alien that crash landed. It's build wouldn't of surported it's large head. Also why did you ask that question twice?

[Fanatical Muslim]

Hello America been sniffing those mushrooms again?

Sorry let me start again in your language. What up me hommie gee seen any blacks we can run over in the street. God your'e racist America I am fully behind John Smith you could learn a lot from him.

Hey America who do you reckon would win between you and China. I reckon China

Goodnight I have to give George Bush a nightmare.

[Darko Trifunovic]

Al Qaeda Media Committee Attacks on Darko Trifunovic

http://www.terrorfinance.org

SOME COUNTER TERRORISM EXPERTS FEAR AL QAEDA ATTACKS THEM WITH THE INFLUENCE OF AL QAEDA MEDIA COMMITTEE - THE CASE OF DR DARKO TRIFUNOVIC

World wide counter terrorist experts have indicated that they believe in the danger of web attacks on them. Now Al Qaeda and Radical Islamists are targetting not only our objects and soldiers, but also our intellectuals.

Al-Qaeda Media Committee Details, Center of Gravity: Pakistan Area of Operation, Afghanistan, United Kingdom, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo

In the early 1990s, this committee produced a publication called "Nashrat al Akhbar" -- the Newscast, in the Hyatabad neighborhood of Peshawar, Pakistan. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the former Bosnian and Afghanistan war veteran with a Bosnian passport, took over leadership of this committee during the planning of the Sept. 11 attacks, starting around 1999.

It become clear that al-Qaeda's committee now target our intellectuals, experts, professors etc...recently there has been an ongoing Internet War against Dr Darko Trifunovic, from the Faculty of Security Studies, University of Belgrade, who discovered existence of "White Al Qaeda" in Bosnia and Herzegovina

(Sources: 1Jamal al-Fadl testimony, United States vs. Osama bin Laden et al, trial transcript, Day 2, Feb. 6, 2001. 2: The 9-11 Commission Report. July 22, 2004. Chapter 5.1.)

The Media Committee coordinates with the owners of pro-fundamentalist media and activists inside major media outlets to spread Islamic fundamentalist propaganda. The basic function of this Committee is to justify the activities of Islamic fundamentalists. The main weapon is to claim that Muslims are always and everywhere the exclusive victims of violence. Of course, the truth is completely different, because the Islamic fundamentalists initiate violence for the purpose of establishing the pan-Islamic Ummah, a theocracy that excludes the existence of other religions. For example, in Kosovo-Metohia Islamic extremists among the Kosovo Albanians, with Al-Qaeda’s help, have managed to create a perception that the Albanian majority was endangered by the Serb minority. Thanks to the work of the Media Committee, the secession and terrorism of Islamic fundamentalists among the Kosovo Albanians were presented as a “struggle for freedom.” One of the main objectives of the Islamic fundamentalists’ global network is to create a perception in the world public opinion that Muslims are always the victims, in order to justify conflict and conquest. Victim status is thus claimed for Kosovo Albanians, their co-religionists in Kashmir, Palestine, Russia (Chechnya), Sudan, Tanzania, Bosnia, Macedonia, Malaysia, East Timor, etc.

What the Media Committee of Al Qaeda from Bosnia wants to hide:

Links between 9/11 and the Al-Qaeda network in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Officials of the Muslim-Croat Federation in B-H never released any information to the US investigators or lawyers representing the families of 9/11 victims, because such information would cast a new light on the entire B-H conflict. They would have made it obvious that the war was a jihad, a religious war waged against Bosnia’s Christians by the Islamic extremists.

The Interpol office in Wiesbaden, Germany sent a request to the Bosnian authorities on 18 September 2001 to verify the identity of a certain Mr. Atta, who according to their information used to reside in the hamlet of Bakotić, 8 km outside Maglaj, in 1999. Attached to the request was the photo of Mohamed Atta, and a note to verify it through a certain Mehmed Hasanić, a resident of Bakotić. This means Mohamed Atta was trained in B-H; it is known that he left B-H for Hamburg, from where he proceeded to the United States and his ultimate mission – to destroy the Twin Towers.

[Darko Trifunovic]

More and more terrorist are using Internet as battle ground.

Jihad Online: Islamic Terrorists and the Internet
Introduction

The trend by Islamic extremists to utilize the Internet, particularly via websites, as a way to communicate, coordinate and to raise funds, continues a year after 9/11. The practice of Islamic extremist groups to turn the openness and instantaneous nature of communications on the Internet to their advantage is shown by the number, variety and depth of the sites dedicated to assisting these groups in their cause. While some of the websites have folded or been taken down, new ones, such as stopamerica.org (whose administrator has been indicted as a possible Al-Qaeda agent) have blossomed, carrying similar messages of hate and destruction. The existing sites maintained by Islamic extremists have continued to act as central nodes of disseminating propaganda, messaging among members and fundraising.

The Internet allows groups that are spread across the globe to quickly and efficiently get messages out to adherents; and the use of cryptography and other privacy tools allows groups to do so covertly. Because access to the Internet is so fast, cheap and flexible, the complexity of deciphering and tracking covert operations is compounded by the ease with which sites become known and shared; and can then be folded and restarted under different names using different addresses. The techniques and diverse means to keep messages and information hidden online are a practice that these groups will continue to improve upon and refine in the future. Because a troubling web site is gone, doesn't mean that Jihad has been abandoned. On the contrary, constant monitoring is required to track and trace the war that's been declared on the non-Islamic world in both the electronic and real world.

The report: Jihad Online: Islamic Terrorists and the Internet provides detailed information on this topic.
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