Posted on 11/05/2005 5:08:05 PM PST by Pokey78
AN Al-Qaeda website containing detailed instructions in Arabic on how to make nuclear, dirty and biological bombs has attracted more than 57,000 hits and hundreds of readers inquiries. Terrorism experts are warning that the site could be boosting the organisations appeal to would-be assassins in Britain and abroad. The manual, posted on October 6 on a forum titled Al-Firdaws, or Paradise, contains 80 pages of instructions and pictures of kitchen bomb-making techniques. It is divided into nine lessons under the overall heading The Nuclear Bomb of Jihad and the Way to Enrich Uranium, and is dedicated as a gift to the commander of the jihad fighters, Sheikh Osama Bin Laden, for the purpose of jihad for the sake of Allah.
As well as describing how to make a nuclear bomb from enriched uranium impossible for the layman the manual explains how to make simple bombs that can blow up anything from electrical generators to petrol stations.
The site encourages its readers to look for materials such as radium, which it says is an effective alternative to uranium and available on the market. It is unclear who the author is or where he is based: he describes himself simply as Layth al-Islam, or the Lion of Islam, belonging to a group called the Black Flags.
Fight them so that Allah will punish them at your hands and will put them to shame and will give you victory over them, he writes, quoting the Koran. Perhaps nuclear weapons represent a technology of the 1940s. However, the Crusaders, the allies of the Satan, Allahs curse be upon them, insist on depriving the jihad fighters of the right to have these weapons.
The sites appeal is evident from the enthusiasm of its correspondents. One of the most recent, Mariyam al-Jihadiyya, writes: God bless you for this precious topic . . . fight them, through your hands God tortures them . . . and heal the hearts of the faithful people. Beneath she includes a couple of pictures for her hero. I love you, Osama, she writes.
Other users complain that not all the sites links are activated, and several urge caution. Dont talk about things you dont understand, writes one. For enthusiasts there are links to a mailing service that provides regular updates on bomb-making techniques.
Nuclear physicists were alarmed by the site. Normally you just get generic principles, but this appears to be more like a proper instruction manual, said John Hassard, reader in physics at Imperial College, London. The thing about this website that is striking is that it is very particular. A lot of effort has been put into it.
He said that while it was highly unlikely that amateur bomb-builders could get hold of fissile material, smuggling networks with access to nuclear materials from the break-up of the Soviet Union could use the information.
It is a very real threat and one which we cant afford to ignore, he said. I would say this is public enemy No 1.
Experts on Al-Qaeda said the organisation appeared to be moving from a phase where it preached a fatwa permitting the use of weapons of mass destruction issued two years ago to one where it encourages its followers to produce both dirty bombs and smaller devices similar to those used in the London Tube attacks.
Al-Qaeda strives to move directly from the stage of obtaining the WMD to the stage of using it, said Matti Steinberg, an Israeli expert on the organisation. He said efforts by Al-Qaeda, whose members are Sunni Muslims, to produce a nuclear weapon also reflected its fear that Shiite Iran was on the brink of producing a bomb. Bin Laden wanted to balance the efforts by Iran to obtain the first Shiite bomb by building the first Sunni one.
While assessing the websites influence on young British Muslims is difficult, terror experts believe it is an important potential recruiting tool.
Jeevan Deol, a terrorism analyst at the London School of Oriental and African Studies, said that while Al-Qaeda could not match western military capabilities and intelligence, its use of cyberwarfare helped redress the balance.
They are using the web in a focused way for propaganda and recruiting, said Deol. Some jihadi kid in Leeds clicks on it and thinks, Wow, 50,000 hits we dont see Osama on telly any longer but were big, were bad and extremely engaged in all these things.
Additional reporting: Widiane Moussa and Flora Bagenal
They leave them up so they can bust curios citizens. It makes the fuzz look good.
I had a look at that website, but the only impression that I got is that modern-day muslim extremists know more about 1400+ year old nonsense from some false prophet's book than about nuclear weapons.
Thanks for the info.
I hope some of that tracking software belongs to the CIA and they track the terrorists visiting the site ( and can tell the difference between real terrorists and curious, interested people)
Interesting location of the actual web server for these "jihadists" ...
OrgName: Hosting-Network GmbH
OrgID: HOSTI-3
Address: 247 Mitch Lane
City: Hopkinsville
StateProv: KY
PostalCode: 42240
Country: US
Looks like ixWebhosting, a commercial webhosting company. They should be held liable for this.
Join Al Qaeda and die for nothing.
One can easily look at the blue prints for the U.S. Mark-III nuclear weapon (FatMan) as it is entire declassified except for the nuclear trigger. Much of the Mark-I bomb (Littleboy) design is also declassified. The truth is a nuclear bomb using HEU is a very simple design and would not be difficult to build. The challenge would be getting enough HEU, forming it into the necessary shapes, and then getting the high explosive shaped charged to detonate properly.
The sad issue is even if they are somewhat off on the charge and the shape, they device would still go "atomic" although the yield would be less......depending on the size, quality and amount of fissionable material a Hiroshima size yield could be expected.
Hi Soltice.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mojahedon/
FYI...That was one of the links, but now the yahoo group is:
"Group not found."
Hacking is a crime.
I understand your sentiment, though.
It seems there are a lot more work accidents lately
in the news. Careless terrorists, I guess.
OPINION: The jihadis like to mirror their sites, cut and paste to other sites, etc.
As is building bombs to kill people...
Yep.
It hasn't been removed from memri.org.
The links found on the front web site of memri.org
are temporary urls.
OFF TOPIC...
http://www.internet-haganah.us/harchives/005257.html
05 November 2005
"Speaking of the next generation of jihadi terrorists..."
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ON THE NET...
http://www.mujahedon.net
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