Contents
• "...and everybody wanted to get in the newspaper story about it..."*
• Allahu Akbar!
• Jihadi blog of the day: caravanofmartyrs.wordpress.com
• A review of the sites of Palestinian Islamic Jihad
• "He goes on the Internet a lot," she said.
• Shiite loon of the day award: islamicrevolutionservice.wordpress.com
• ignoredknowledge.wordpress.com & inshallahshaheed.wordpress.com
Recommended
• Radicalization in the West: The Homegrown Threat
By Mitchell D. Silber and Arvin Bhatt, Senior Intelligence Analysts, NYPD Intelligence Division
"...and everybody wanted to get in the newspaper story about it..."*
We've been busy doing the work and not talking about it. You'll have to forgive the lack of activity on this site over the past month. During that time most of the media coverage of the issue of terrorist use of the Internet has been less than insightful
We recommend highly this analysis of the "analysis" that followed the release of the latest bin Laden & Co. videos:
UPI, “experts” analyze al Qaeda’s media arm
* from "Alice's Restaurant" by Arlo Guthrie
Allahu Akbar!
We actually have a reconstituted "Top Ten" list of Salafi/Jihadi Arabic-language forums.
We won't be publishing it here, however.
Sign up for the Haganah mailing list using your work email address and you will be automagically added to the restricted access SoFIR list. A SoFIR report regarding the current state of jihadi sites along with a review of the effects of the recent round of site takedowns will be forthcoming, Insha'allah.*
* the IBM rule applies in this instance:
Insha'allah: Allah willing, it will be done
Bukra: if not now, then soon, i.e. mañana or b'boker
Maalesh: and if not? Sorry about that...
Jihadi blog of the day: caravanofmartyrs.wordpress.com
Site motto:
“… I bring a People Who Desire Death as Ardently as You Desire Life!”
A review of the sites of Palestinian Islamic Jihad
In Hebrew and in English, from the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center.
"He goes on the Internet a lot," she said.
The money quote:
The Grand Mère woman said Mr. Namouh used to be devout and pray. But more recently, he was no longer showing public signs of religious practice, she said."He goes on the Internet a lot," she said.
Too bad about those GIMF guys getting arrested, now isn't it... Someone care to explain to us how there is some sort of wall between "Internet Jihad" and "Jihad"? Because we don't see any such wall.
The rest of the story:
Bomb suspect's Quebec journey:
September 15, 2007 - GRAND MÈRE, QUE. and MONTREAL -- A Moroccan-born man arrested in Quebec in connection with a bomb plot had tried several times to immigrate to Canada but wasn't successful until he married a Canadian woman nearly 18 years older than him, an ex-girlfriend says.Saïd Namouh, 34, was detained this week on a conspiracy charge. The prosecution alleges that he plotted to detonate a car bomb in Austria, in concert with a pair of alleged al-Qaeda sympathizers in Vienna.
Mr. Namouh grew up in the coastal city of Kenitra in northern Morocco. He came to Quebec after marrying a waitress from Maskinongé, Que., who was visiting his country. She then sponsored his immigration application.
This came after Mr. Namouh had an Internet relationship with another small-town Quebec woman who tried in vain to get him a visa to Canada, said the woman, a resident of Grand Mère. Both Maskinongé and Grand Mère are in the Mauricie area, midway between Montreal and Quebec City.
For the past five years, Mr. Namouh has been in the Quebec hinterland, taking un-Muslim jobs such as washing trucks that transport pigs.
His life had gone through turmoil in recent months. He divorced the Maskinongé waitress, Carole Lessard, moved to nearby Trois-Rivières, but then couldn't renew his lease. He became jobless. He was charged with breaking into the home of the Grand Mère woman, with whom he has had an on-again-off-again relationship.
His family in Morocco wasn't informed of those upheavals, however.
"He said he found joy there," one brother said by phone from Morocco. "It's not fair," he said of Mr. Namouh's arrest.
He confirmed that Mr. Namouh has a child in Morocco but wouldn't comment further.
The Grand Mère woman said Mr. Namouh used to be devout and pray. But more recently, he was no longer showing public signs of religious practice, she said.
"He goes on the Internet a lot," she said. Austrian authorities say Mr. Namouh had online communications with three Viennese Muslims who were arrested this week.
Shiite loon of the day award: islamicrevolutionservice.wordpress.com
He says the nuclear bomb recipe is a "joke", but you will find much on the site that is rather less funny:
Atombombe step one: get 50KG of plutonium
ignoredknowledge.wordpress.com & inshallahshaheed.wordpress.com
Down.
Couldn't have happened to a nicer fellow...
