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Inside The Ring: Al Qaeda Websites Hacked
WASHINGTON TIMES.com - Inside The Ring ^ | Wednesday, May 15, 2013 | Bill Gertz

Posted on 05/17/2013 2:03:30 AM PDT by Cindy

SNIPPET: "U.S. officials familiar with intelligence reports said the websites of Ansar al-Mujahidin, Shumukh al-Islam and Al Fida — all accredited as official outlets of the terrorist group once led by Osama bin Laden — were knocked off the Internet by cyberattacks in early May.

Two of the sites — Ansar al-Mujahidin (as-ansar.com) and Shumukh al-Islam (shamikh1.info) — came back up Monday and Tuesday. The site Al Fida remains down."

SNIPPET: "The disruptions are prompting many jihadists to shift from Web forums to Twitter for communications and propaganda messaging."

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alfida; ansaralmujahidin; asansar; asansardotcom; globaljihad; gwot; hacker; hackers; internet; jihad; jihadcommunications; jihadforums; jihadmedia; jihadpropaganda; jihadwebsites; shamikh1; shamikh1dotinfo; shumukh; shumukhalislam; socialmedia; socialnetworking; socialnetworks; twitter

1 posted on 05/17/2013 2:03:31 AM PDT by Cindy
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Off Thread Topic, but interesting...

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Forum.Internet-Haganah.COM ^ | May 15, 2013 | n/a
Posted on May 16, 2013 2:59:37 AM PDT by Cindy


2 posted on 05/17/2013 2:10:24 AM PDT by Cindy
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Some nice MoHamHead spoofs would have been better than just taking them offline.


3 posted on 05/17/2013 3:27:54 AM PDT by soycd
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Jihadists using 21 st century technology to move us back to the 8 th century....

Only Islam is that retrograde....


4 posted on 05/17/2013 3:39:33 AM PDT by Popman (Godlessness is always the first step to the concentration camp.)
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