Contents
• Terrorist use of the Internet for training purposes
• Irhabi007 & Co. to remain on holiday in Belmarsh for an extended period of time
• Top German Prosecutor Backs Online Terror Surveillance

OSINT
• Lebanon Indicts 31 Over Al-Qaida-Linked Plots [22 Dec 2007]
• Belgium Arrests 14 in Terror Probe [22 Dec 2007]

Off-Topic
• Award for most creative use of a Hamas guy while in the middle of a gunfight
• Sherlock Holmes used to work for the CIA
• KoolAid. Very, very strong KoolAid.
• American Intelligence
• National Intelligence Estimate is...

New at sofir.org
• Reading Their Lips: The Credibility of Jihadi Web Sites as ‘Soft Power’ in the War of the Minds
• ISLAM IN AFRICA NEWSLETTER, Volume 2 (2007), Number 4 (December 2007)
• Radical Islam in the Caribbean Basin: A Local Problem or a Global Threat?

Contents
• LOLcats cn haz Internets Haganah
• "Web sites ready for al Qaeda 'morons'"
• A little jihadi-style strategic thinking...
• Jihadis notice Michael Savage
• More analysis of the Rand Institute's "plan divide and conquer the Muslims"
• Dr. Atef's guide to poison gasses [redacted]
• Ramsey Clark offers reassurance regarding the condition of the Blind Sheik
• 'Lyrical Terrorist' found guilty

OSINT
• Terrorism and crime in the news recently... [11 Nov 2007]
• Only the most willful form of blindness... [11 Nov 2007]
• NYPD radicalization report applied in court [11 Nov 2007]

Off-Topic
• Shhh! Don't let the State Department hear about this...

Contents
• al-Qaida control freaks pitch a fit
• Spain arrests 6 suspected Islamists [active on the Internet]

OSINT
• US may equip Muslim Brotherhood with 2 early warning aircraft [25 Oct 2007]
• When the cat's away... [25 Oct 2007]
• Well, at least we will know how the aircraft operate... [25 Oct 2007]

Off-Topic
• Think 'anticipatory self-defense'
• The Coming U.S.-Russian Train Wreck - Is Israel Caught in the Middle?
• A rare moment of honesty...

Contents
• Media buzz and commentary
• Kind of hard to take jihadi PSYOP seriously...
• Keystroke logging software installed via your favorite YouTube jihadi video?
• The similarity between jihadis and certain types of serial killers is hard to miss...
• Osama on the couch
• al-Hesbah adds a few new domain names

Photo courtesy of the US Department of Defence

Contents
• Oussama Kassir reflux
• "Cyber Jihadist" Trial Opens New Front in Anti-Terror Fight

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

Contents
• YouTube jihadi of the day: baitalmaqdes
• Shaker al-Absi: really most sincerely dead
• GIMF puts a brave face on a not-so-great situation
• It must be true...
• A little late for prayers, don't you think?
• "How to join al-Qaida"
• Al-Muhajir al-Islami: also most completely dead
• GIMF: "A brief summary of the situation in Waziristan"
• Irony is...
• New location of the "World News Network"

Contents
• We're glad he's dead too...
• Omar al-Baghadi: "Greets to the Martyr"
• Online OPSEC for the Muj
• Turkish jihad site of the day
• The first Islamic school established in Japan (and there was much rejoicing)
• Greetings from the Mujahedeen Minstral
• al-Hesbah: we'll be right back...
• Iranian detonator instructions making the rounds
• The reward of spying against the disbelievers in Jihaad
• A jihadi's wet dream...
• YouTube jihadi of the day
• Thanks Ray, keep up the good work!

OSINT
• Britain ready to back down on asylum for its interpreters in Iraq [25 Aug 2007]
• Jihad in a nutshell [25 Aug 2007]
• Sudan: 16 students detained in terror cell bust [25 Aug 2007]
• Lebanon arrests 2 Palestinian suspects in bombing targeting UN mission [25 Aug 2007]
• A message from the anti-Islamist resistance movement in Europe [25 Aug 2007]

Arnold: Obviously not courting the Islamist vote

Q: Have you ever kissed a pig?
A: Yeah, but they were all good pigs...

Contents
• Suddenly everything old is new again...
• al-Hesbah domain review
• islamic-f: closed until further notice
• PIJ outreach efforts continue
• Hizb ut Tahrir site of the day: www.caliphate2007.com
• Jihadi forum counter-measures
• Indonesian?
• Jihadi blog of the day: irhabeat
• Jihadi video, Philipines style
• TACC and DDNP instructions reappear
• Sudanese authorities find large quantities of explosives in Khartoum suburb

Arabic Source
• AGITPROP - The US war againt Islam in the Philipines
• AGITPROP - The leader of Tawhed wal Jihad in al Sham threatens Lebanon

Contents
• Well, someone certainly has been struck blind, deaf and dumb...
• jihadalkaida.yoo7.com: a feeble attempt to start a new forum
• The ever-popular cell phone detonator
• Oh Allah, see how the mighty have fallen!

Elsewhere
• Take it from this old KGB hand: The left is abetting America's enemies with its intemperate attacks on President Bush, BY ION MIHAI PACEPA, opinionjournal.com, Tuesday, August 7, 2007
• "The Army of the Nation" - Another Al-Qaeda Affiliate in the Gaza Strip by Lt. Col. (res.) Jonathan Dahoah-Halevi, jcpa.org, 7 August 2007