07 February 2007
'Favorites' of the Madrid bombers
Infamous jihadi 'Irhabi007' celebrating the Madrid bombings
with pictures of the dead and dying
On 11 April 2006 a Spanish court handed down a 1,471 page indictment that was the culmination of two years of investigations into the Madrid bombings of 11 March 2004 which killed 191 people and wounded 1,755.
Pages 403 - 513 of the indictment detail the information uncovered as a result of forensic examinations of computers, hard disk drives and USB thumb drives. The devices were, for the most part, seized from the home of deceased Madrid bomber Jamal Ahmidan at Villalobos No. 51 in Madrid. Ahmidan is generally considered to have been the leader of the group that carried out the attack. It is rare that data as detailed as that contained in this indictment is made public. As time allows we hope to report on what it tells us about the online activities of jihadist terrorists.
The below is a list of web sites found to have been visited by Ahmidan or accomplices. The list is not inclusive, but merely represents those sites in the indictment the names of which the author recognized based on close to five years of routine monitoring of jihadist activity online. Quite a few of these sites were likely to have been "under surveillance" during the time when Ahmidan and/or his associates accessed them. Had their IP addresses been reported to Spanish authorities at the time these sites were accessed, and had the authorities in Spain then followed up on such reports, it is entirely reasonable to expect that the Madrid bombing of 11 March 2004 could have been prevented. The author's experience suggests that at any given time there are really not very many jihadis in Spain who are active on sites such as these, and so the Spanish quite likely had the resources necessary to follow-up on such leads. It is a safe bet that they never got the chance to do so, and that speaks to the utter failure of passive monitoring of jihadist web sites as a method of combatting the terrorism that jihadists engage in.
Posted on 07 February 2007 @ 09:15
Infamous jihadi 'Irhabi007' celebrating the Madrid bombings
with pictures of the dead and dying
On 11 April 2006 a Spanish court handed down a 1,471 page indictment that was the culmination of two years of investigations into the Madrid bombings of 11 March 2004 which killed 191 people and wounded 1,755.
Pages 403 - 513 of the indictment detail the information uncovered as a result of forensic examinations of computers, hard disk drives and USB thumb drives. The devices were, for the most part, seized from the home of deceased Madrid bomber Jamal Ahmidan at Villalobos No. 51 in Madrid. Ahmidan is generally considered to have been the leader of the group that carried out the attack. It is rare that data as detailed as that contained in this indictment is made public. As time allows we hope to report on what it tells us about the online activities of jihadist terrorists.
The below is a list of web sites found to have been visited by Ahmidan or accomplices. The list is not inclusive, but merely represents those sites in the indictment the names of which the author recognized based on close to five years of routine monitoring of jihadist activity online. Quite a few of these sites were likely to have been "under surveillance" during the time when Ahmidan and/or his associates accessed them. Had their IP addresses been reported to Spanish authorities at the time these sites were accessed, and had the authorities in Spain then followed up on such reports, it is entirely reasonable to expect that the Madrid bombing of 11 March 2004 could have been prevented. The author's experience suggests that at any given time there are really not very many jihadis in Spain who are active on sites such as these, and so the Spanish quite likely had the resources necessary to follow-up on such leads. It is a safe bet that they never got the chance to do so, and that speaks to the utter failure of passive monitoring of jihadist web sites as a method of combatting the terrorism that jihadists engage in.
Data format is [site] | [pg. of indictment]. Many of these sites are no longer in operation:
| www.1osamabinladen.5u.com | pg. 403 |
| www.saaid.net | pg. 404 |
| www.d3wa.net | pg. 404 |
| www.alfegh.com | pg. 404 |
| www.alasra.org | pg. 404 |
| www.liveislam.com | pg. 404 |
| www.albawaba.com | pg. 405 |
| www.arabvoice.com | pg. 405 |
| www.alkhilafah.info | pg. 406 |
| www.islaam.com | pg. 406 |
| www.islammemo.cc | pg. 407 |
| www.realitiesnews.com | pg. 407 |
| yahoo groups globalislamicmedia & abobanan | pg. 407 & pg. 458 |
| www.islamonline.net | pg. 421 |
| www.almokhtsar.com | pg. 421 |
| www.iraqihell.250x.com | pg. 422 |
| www.alm2sda.com | pg. 422 |
| www.pages4free.biz | pg. 422 |
| www.islammessage.com | pg. 422 |
| www.ansaarnews.com | pg. 422 |
| www.al-ansar.net | pg. 422 |
| www.marsad.net | pg. 422 |
| www.ezzedeen.net | pg. 422 |
| www.ayobi.com | pg. 422 |
| www.qoqaz.com | pg. 422 |
| www.alemarh.com | pg. 422 |
| www.jihadonline.org | pg. 423 |
| www.almuqatila.cc | pg. 423 |
| www.salafiah.com | pg. 423 |
| www.albaserah.net | pg. 423 |
| www.almoslim.net | pg. 423 |
| www.islamicnoor.com | pg. 423 |
| kids.al-islam.com | pg. 423 |
| www.attawhid.com | pg. 424 |
| www.al-ansar.biz | pg. 424 |
| www.alansar.info | pg. 424 |
| www.albargothy.net | pg. 424 |
| www.emanway.com | pg. 424 |
| www.rightword.net | pg. 424 |
| www.obm.clara.net | pg. 424 |
| www.myislah.org | pg. 424 |
| www.alfida.jeeran.com | pg. 424 |
| khayma.com/hedaya/ | pg. 425 |
| www.ummah.com | pg. 424 |
| www.islamicnews.net | pg. 429 |
| tawhed.ws AKA almaqdese.com & alsunnah.info | pg. 465 & pg. 481 |
| www.sos4all.com | pg. 473 |
| www.abubaseer.com | pg. 484 |
| www.jehad.net | pg. 500 |
Posted on 07 February 2007 @ 09:15