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An Arkansas government message board doesn’t usually top the list of likely terrorist targets, but that didn’t stop it from getting walloped this week by an attack that loaded its server with online videos of Osama bin Laden and other multimedia jihadist materials. Monday morning visitors to the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department’s File Transfer Protocol site saw the files, which were labeled in a foreign language. The FTP site is an anonymous message board the department operates for contractors. “This site has been valuable for eight years,” said department spokesman Randy Ort. “This is the first time something like...

Internet Haganah Ally Reaffirms SolidarityAnti-Terrorism Coalition States Support & Commitment to Fight Terrorismby John S. PappasWashington - 07/12/04In response to the beheading threat received by Internet Haganah (story), fellow Anti-Cyber Terrorism group Anti-Terrorism Coalition (ATC) has released a statement (statement) of support for Internet Haganah and has vowed to continue targeting terrorist websites.Benyamin B., Director of ATC Intelligence, released the following statement Sunday following a Johnny P News report on the beheading threat:"The terrorists have been losing more websites and eGroups lately, as the ATC, Internet Haganah, and other allied organizations are increasing their activities against cyber terrorism. I believe...

SEOUL, (AFP) - South Korea's top military intelligence chief says North Korea is operating an elite military unit specializing in hacking into South Korean computer networks. Song Young-Keun, commanding general of the counter-intelligence Defense Security Command, said at a conference here that North Korea was building up its "cyber-terror" capability on orders from its leader, Kim Jong-Il. "Following orders from Chairman Kim Jong-Il, North Korea has been operating a crack unit specializing in computer hacking and strengthening its cyber-terror ability," he said in a keynote speech. The conference was organized by the Korea Information Security Agency affiliated with the information...

The Anti-Terrorist Coalition (http://atcoalition.showsit.info) announced today the creation of the Database of Terrorist Websites and eGroups (http://atcterrorlist.showsit.info). The database lists 352 terrorist websites and eGroups deemed by the coalition to have ties to terrorism, or to promote terrorism. Benyamin B., head of Anti-Terrorism Coalition Intelligence, said that the websites and eGroups were found, investigated, and listed in this database by the ATC. The database lists nearly all terrorist Yahoo Groups, "we believe that we have found most terrorist Yahoo Groups and also lists many terrorist websites," Benyamin said, "The main purpose of this list is to expose terrorism on the...

<p>The country is in an uproar over former White House terrorism expert Richard Clarke's recent contentions, which will continue to be debated.</p> <p>Let me give some insight on my own very recent (February 2004) experience with Mr. Clarke, who teaches a class at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He teaches this class with Rand Beers, a former government official with National Security Council experience who now works on the Democratic presidential campaign.</p>

Muslim Web sites in spotlight as Qaeda scares spread  By Firouz Sedarat, Jan 28, 2004 DUBAI (Reuters) - Islamist Web sites are drawing a wide audience as possible harbingers of al Qaeda attacks but experts say they are erratic and unreliable sources of warnings that could save lives. Analysts say the sites, used by al Qaeda backers to spread their message, are unlikely sources of exact information on where or how Osama bin Laden's network might strike next -- though an experienced eye may spot the more probable comments. Mainly, the Arabic-language sites, usually bulletin boards where anyone can post...

<p>WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- The terrorists have been going "virtual" for a long time now. A new, but largely unnoticed, front in the war on terrorism is being played out on the Internet, where terrorist recruitment and planning is gaining momentum.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON — The Homeland Security Department's first simulation of a terrorist attack on computer, banking and utility systems exposed problems with the ways victimized industries communicated vital information during the crisis, the government's new cybersecurity chief said Monday. Experts inside government and the Institute for Security Technology Studies at Dartmouth College are still formally evaluating results of the so-called "Livewire" exercise, carried out over five days late in October. It simulated physical and computer attacks on banks, power companies and the oil and gas industry, among others.</p>

Bringing Down the Internet What if hackers were motivated not by loneliness or greed, but by malice? Some experts now think a global cybercrisis is inevitable By Jonathan Adams and Fred Guterl NEWSWEEK INTERNATIONAL If you wanted to write a science-fiction thriller about the day the Internet crashed,  .... <Excerpt^> THIS DRONE ARMY launches a silent and sustained attack on computers that are crucial for sending around the billions of packets of data that keep e-mail, the Web and other, more basic necessities of modern life humming. At first the attack seems to be an inconvenience—e-mail traffic grinds to a...

Law enforcement officials are probing a "significant" series of computer attacks launched in the last week, including one that took down some of the most popular web logs, or "blogs," on the Internet, an AT&T spokesman said yesterday. But the best-known of the affected sites, including Glenn Reynolds' "Instapundit" and the Long Island-based "Command Post," apparently weren't the intended victims of the so-called denial of service" attacks. But those sites were taken out when unknown hackers went after an obscure Web site belonging to a group called Internet Haganah, which tries to get service providers to boot terror-connected Web sites...

Freeper help is requested -- we need to respond point by point to this Muslim Taqija . The results of our research may appear in the Washington Times as a rebuttal when this letter is published: Complaint - The Washington Times 10 September 2003 September 24, 2003 www.1924.org Francis B. Coombs Jr. Managing Editor The Washington Times 3600 New York Avenue Washington, D.C. 20002, USA 23 September 2003 Re: Complaint – The Washington Times 10 September 2003 Dear Sir, This is a letter of complaint concerning an article published in the Washington Times on the 10th of September 2003. The...

Congrats to all Freepers who took time to write an email to the ISP hosting Al-Muhajiroun.com. One of the most important sites for Al-Qaeda in Europe was forced off the servers at Clara.net and has moved to Germany. Note that the hot-linked image in that posting is now gone. Al-Muhajiroun.com even posted this prominent 'disclaimer' on their website contesting our claim that their upcoming conference "commemorating the Magnificent 19" was in fact a "Celebration of the Murder of 3,000 people". From the Al-Muhajiroun.com website: THE 'MAGNIFICENT 19' CONFERENCE IS NOT A CELEBRATION ... The commemoration of 11th september is to...

Al-Qaeda sources announced that they are responsible for the recent power blackout in America. One more lie to add to a thousand tall tales spun by hidden terrorists. In fact, the recent power blackout actually demonstrated that the electric computer network operated correctly. The blackout began when a critical main line went down, leaving the rest of the network to carry the electrical load. The network noted that the load was too much to carry and began to shut itself down. The so-called "domino" effect began as each segment of the grid detected an overload and shut down, including 10...

Al Qaeda Beware: An American Housewife Is On Your TrailAugust 11, 2003 by Jeremy Reynalds To her neighbors, she is just plain old Mrs. Galt - a run-of-the-mill American soccer mom. But after her neighborhood quiets down, curtains are drawn for the night and her two children are tucked safely in bed, this suburban American mom assumes an entirely different personality as she plunges head on into the shadowy world of internet terrorism. Mrs. Galt's story was told recently in the Washington Times. As the Washington Times reported, Mrs.. Galt has accessed a number of obscure web sites used...

ASSIST News Service (ANS) - PO Box 2126, Garden Grove, CA 92842-2126 USA E-mail: assistcomm@cs.com, Web Site: www.assistnews.netMonday, July 21, 2003 BRITISH UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATOR MAY FLEE THE UNITED KINGDOM Claims Large Number of Death Threats from al Qa'ida Sympathizers By Jeremy ReynaldsSpecial Correspondent for ASSIST News Service ALBUQUERQUE,N.M. (ANS) -- A British undercover investigator who posed as the operator of a radical Islamic web site may leave the United Kingdom due to what he says is the large number of death threats he has received from al Qa'ida sympathizers. Glen Jenvey, 38, whose work was profiled recently in England?s...

Are Canadian Taxpayers subsidizing Islamist Global Jehad? The mentor of Osama bin Laden, Safar al-Hawali, has set up a new organization -- The "Global Campaign Against Aggression" -- we trace the ISP hosting his website to "Innovation Place", (shown at left) a high-tech incubator program funded by the taxpayers of Saskatchewan, and the Canadian government. We also trace at least one other jehadi website to Innovation Place. Although the website of the "Global Campaign Against Aggression" provides an innocuous English translation -- the Arabic side delivers a different message. Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center THE PROJECT FOR THE RESEARCH...

Iraq, its domain and the 'terrorist-funding' owner By Kieren McCarthy Posted: 09/04/2003 at 11:54 GMT The war against Iraq may be drawing to a close but the war over its Internet future is just beginning. As with the overthrow of the Afghanistan regime by US forces, it is widely thought that the removal of Saddam Hussein from power will see the Middle Eastern country catch up with the rest of the world in terms of Internet infrastructure and use. Currently, there is limited, expensive and state-controlled Internet use in Iraq, beamed via satellite since sanctions on the country have...

<p>Sites: Routed in Afghanistan, the terror network is increasingly relying on the Internet - and its anonymity - to promote its message.</p> <p>With the world focused on the war in Iraq, it is easy to forget about al-Qaida. But al-Qaida has not forgotten about the war.</p> <p>Even before the first U.S. missiles hit Baghdad, the terrorist network and its sympathizers were posting calls for vengeance on Web sites that have taken the anti-American jihad into cyberspace.</p>

War games becoming all too realWhile Hezbollah's young supporters pick off virtual Israelis in a bloody new video game, the simmering conflict in the Lebanon looks set to escalate as soon as Iraq is attacked, reports Alasdair Soussi in Beirut   THE slogan on the outside of the packaging says it all: 'Be a partner in the victory. Fight, resist and destroy your enemy in the game of force.' This is the latest technological development by Lebanon's Islamic resistance group, Hezbollah: a computer game that allows players to take the part of its fighters during military operations against Israeli soldiers...

March 11, 2003, 9:20 a.m. Terror ToolsSaudi-funded front in Michigan.By Rita Katz and Josh Devon he Saudi-funded, al Qaeda propaganda machine is in full effect behind the Islamic Assembly of North America (IANA), an ostensibly mainstream organization that had five of its members arrested and indicted at the end of February. Four of the men were running an IANA spin-off charity, Help the Needy, and funneling money illegally through it to Iraq. The fifth, Samih Al-Hussayen, a student at the University Idaho, was arrested for knowingly neglecting to list his affiliation with IANA on his visa application when he...