http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/264067/20111208/twitter-terrorists-al-qaeda-shabab.htm
“The Rise of Twitter Terrorists and What It Means for Global Security”
by Daniel Tovrov
(December 8, 2011)
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http://forum.internet-haganah.com/showthread.php?486
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“DEA Raids Car Dealership with Alleged Ties to Terrorist Group Hezbollah”
Fox News ^ | 12/18/11 | Fox News
Posted on December 18, 2011 7:59:04 PM PST by Nachum
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement exposed on Sunday a video which shows the former head of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s military wing, Khalil al-Wazir (who was known as “Abu Jihad”), plotting to kill Ariel Sharon who then served as a Cabinet minister, Channel 2 News reported.
http://www.investigativeproject.org/3367/new-jihadi-media-groups
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“New Jihadi Media Groups”
by IPT News • Jan 5, 2012 at 6:22 pm
SNIPPET: “The past month saw the launch of several new Arabic jihadi media groups, including an organization focused exclusively on Tunisia. The growth in Arabic jihadi media contrasts with a decline in English-language propaganda, following last year’s drone strike on English-language al-Qaida propagandists Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan.
Among the newly formed and newly announced groups are the Ibn Taymiyya Center for Media, the al-Ibada Foundation for Media Production, and the al-Qayrawan Media Foundation. While the first two are relatively new and will focus more generally on jihadi issues relevant across terrorist organizations, al-Qayrawan is actually eight months old focuses on local affairs relevant to Tunisian jihadists.”
http://www.kurzweilai.net/social-networks-surveillance-and-terrorism
“Social networks, surveillance, and terrorism”
January 10, 2012 by Amara D. Angelica
SNIPPET: “The following correspondence, for example, was easily found on the open, non-coded forum belonging to Hamas’s military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades: “I have a kilogram of acetone. I want to know how to make an explosive with it to blow up a military jeep.” A forum member promptly responded with descriptive instructions on how to turn the explosive liquid into a destructive tool.”
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“‘Friend’ request from Al-Qaeda”
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www.defense.gov//News/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=66840
Prosecutor: Extremist Magazine Prompted Order on Detainee Mail
By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service
FORT MEADE, Md., Jan. 18, 2012 – A prosecutor in the trial of the alleged mastermind behind the USS Cole bombing divulged today the root of a new order that allows officials to monitor prisoners’ legal mail at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba: a copy of an extremist magazine found at the detention facility.
Navy Cmdr. Andrea Lockhart, a member of the prosecution team in the case of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, told the court a copy of Inspire magazine “got in” to the facility, although she did not specify exactly where. The English-language magazine is published by the al-Qaida of the Arabian Peninsula organization, and it includes articles designed to inspire extremists and teach them how to carry out violent acts.
Discovery of the magazine – considered contraband – sparked Navy Rear Adm. David B. Woods, commander of Joint Task Force Guantanamo, to institute a new policy last month that allows government officials to monitor prisoner’s legal mail.
Lockhart told the court today the discovery of Inspire magazine demonstrated that previous rules that covered incoming mail at the detention center weren’t sufficient.
During testimony yesterday, Woods told Navy Lt. Cmdr. Stephen C. Reyes of the defense team the new policy allows members of a privilege review team to conduct a “plain-view review” of written communications not marked as protected attorney-client information. This review, Woods testified, is designed to ensure this correspondence does not include physical or information contraband, such as maps of the detention facility.
Woods told the court yesterday the new policy balances his responsibilities to facilitate attorney-client communication while also ensuring security, safety, force protection and good order at the facility. However, the new order has become a major sticking point in Nashiri’s pretrial hearing, even though both the defense and prosecution teams acknowledge his mail has never been searched under the new policy.
The issue has dominated discussion during both days of the pretrial hearing that began yesterday to address 10 motions filed by the defense and prosecution teams.
Nashiri’s defense team continued its argument today that the new policy compromises the attorney-client privilege because it allows a special review team to examine detainees’ legal correspondence. The prosecution proposed that the review team operate as an independent body, “walled off” from the prosecution, and that defense attorneys be able to observe any reviews of their client’s legal documents.
The defense conceded that prison officials need to be able to inspect for contraband, but insisted that this should not extend to reading legal mail.
After extensive discussion over the past two days by both teams, Army Col. James Pohl, the judge, deferred a decision on the issue today. He did, however, offer the defense assurance that a new order will come, probably within “a couple of weeks.”
Pohl gave the defense team seven days to come up with a complete order it believes meets its requirements. He also directed the prosecution to come up with a clear definition of what “plain view” means, and said the team will have seven days to comment on the defense’s proposed order.
Considering another motion, Pohl responded to a defense concern that classified information used by the defense – and summarized with the goal of creating an unclassified document that also omits sensitive material such as sources and collection methods – risks leaving out key information the defense team needs.
Richard Kammen, the lead civilian defense counsel, argued that Pohl’s determinations otherwise will be made in a vacuum without consideration for the defense.
Pohl ruled that the defense has until a hearing to be scheduled in April to tell him exactly what kind of material it needs to build its case. That way, he will be able to take that information into consideration when comparing the prosecution’s summary to the source material.
The judge will then share any changes he makes to the summary with the prosecution team before approving it. At that point, the document becomes final, not able to be reconsidered except in the event of an appeal, officials explained.
During a post-hearing news conference, Kammen accused the prosecution of trying to get Pohl to make a quick, irrevocable decision that will impact the defense’s case, but with no meaningful input from the defense. He commended Pohl for delaying action until April, although indicating that it’s still too little time for the defense team to adequately review the mountains of information involved and request needed resources.
“Three months in the context of the demands of this case is a blink of an eye,” he said.
Kammen again condemned the military commission process, saying it was designed “solely to provide the façade of justice, but not real justice.” He said it is “completely outside the pale of what American justice has stood for for 200 years.”
Army Brig. Gen. Mark Martins, chief prosecutor for the Office of Military Commissions, underscored the importance of protecting classified information as well as sensitive information when it is in the public interest during this and other trials.
He emphasized that military commissions – like all criminal trials in the U.S. federal system of criminal justice – must subscribe to rules that balance the accused’s right to a fair trial and the need to protect national security and other public interests.
Although Nashiri was in the courtroom during today’s proceedings, all the activity revolved around the prosecution and defense teams.
Nashiri, 47, is charged with “perfidy,” or treachery; murder in violation of the law of war; attempted murder in violation of the law of war; terrorism; conspiracy; intentionally causing serious bodily injury; attacking civilians; attacking civilian objects; and hazarding a vessel.
The charges arise out of an attempted attack on the USS The Sullivans in January 2000 and an attack on the USS Cole in October 2000, during which 17 U.S. sailors were killed and 37 more wounded. Nashiri also is accused of involvement in an attack on the MV Limburg, a French civilian oil tanker, in October 2002, in which one crew member was killed and about 90,000 barrels of oil spilled into the Gulf of Aden. If convicted, Nashiri could be sentenced to death.
Nashiri did not enter a plea during his arraignment at Guantanamo Bay in November.
The Guantanamo Bay proceedings are being broadcast via closed circuit television to three sites in the United States. Two of those sites are at Fort Meade, in a theater and training-room facility. Another, at Norfolk Naval Base, Va., is reserved for families of USS Cole victims as well as crew members aboard the vessel during the attack.
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“JIHAD, CRIME, AND THE INTERNET
Content Analysis of Jihadist Forum Discussions”
Edna Erez, LL.B., PhD., University of Illinois at Chicago
Gabriel Weimann, Ph.D., University of Haifa
A. Aaron Weisburd, M.A., University of Illinois at Chicago
(October 31, 2011)
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http://www.investigativeproject.org/3389/kuwaiti-cleric-calls-for-hacker-jihad
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Kuwaiti Cleric Calls for Hacker Jihad
by IPT News • Jan 19, 2012 at 5:00 pm
Senior Kuwaiti Imam Tareq Mohammed al-Suwaidan called for a cyber jihad against Israel, in a Twitter post that reached over 240,000 followers, reports Ynetnews.com. The move followed several tit-for-tat attacks between Arab and Israeli hackers, mostly targeting Israeli citizens, financial institutions, and government websites.
“There is a need to united hacker efforts, within the framework of cyber Jihad against the Zionist enemy,” al-Suwaidan wrote on Twitter. He also called the attacks an “efficient jihad which will reap great rewards, Inshallah [Allah willing].”
Abdulrahman al-Kharraz, a senior member of a Kuwaiti committee against the Gaza blockade, also called for attacks on Israel. “The Saudi hacker’s electronic jihad reminds me of Yahya Ayyash,” he said, recalling a Hamas bomb maker who terrorized the Jewish state in the early 1990s.
The latest online battle between Israeli and Arab hackers took off on Jan. 3, although previous attacks including a 2008 shutdown of the Bank of Israel’s website. A Saudi hacker calling himself OxOmer exposed the credit card details of as many as 20,000 Israelis, and claimed to have revealed around 400,000 card numbers. An Israeli hacker posted the credit numbers of 200 Saudis in response, although he did not include their full information.
In the past several days, the Saudi hacker and a Palestinian team calling itself “Nightmare” took down the websites of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, First International Bank of Israel, Israeli airline El Al, and two other major Israeli businesses. Israeli activists brought down the Saudi stock and UAE exchanges in response. The attacks on Israel had minimal effect, despite the potential for most devastating attacks, and the Israeli Defense Ministry is planning to establish a special cyber warfare administration as further deterrence.
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Jihadism in 2012: A Persistent, Low-Level Threat
STRATFOR.com - Analysis ^ | January 16, 2012, 1334 GMT | n/a
Posted on January 23, 2012 2:13:04 PM PST by Cindy
SNIPPET: “While these various elements of the jihadist network are distinct, the Internet brings them together, especially at the grassroots level. Videos, websites and online magazines indoctrinate aspiring militants in the jihadist ideology and provide a forum for like-minded individuals and groups.”
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