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SNIPPET: "I had an interesting demonstration this evening from a hacker who goes by the handle “The Jester” or in so-called l33t speak, th3j35t3r which is his Twitter ID. Since January 1, The Jester has been systematically wreaking havoc with several websites he associates with Al Quiada and Jihadists via a Denial of Service attack delivered over the web through an anonimizer service. The Jester has been documenting his attacks against www.alemarah.info, www.radicalislam.org, islamicpoint.net, www.almaghrib.org, www.as-ansar.com, www.islamicnetwork.com, www.islamicawakening.com, www.ansarnet.info, since the beginning of 2010." SNIPPET: "So my message to The Jester (I know you are reading this since I sent...

Daniel Joseph Maldonado, a former Houston resident who convereted to Islam and admitted training with terrorists, was sentenced today to 10 years in prison and given a $1,000 fine. Maldonado, 28, pleaded guilty in April to training with al-Qaida in East Africa. He is the first American charged with joining the terrorist organization in Somalia. The charge carried a maximum prison sentence of 10 years and a fine up to $250,000. He admitted his association with terrorists in exchange for no further prosecution by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Houston. Maldonado came to the attention of federal investigators in late...

The car bomb on Saturday night that ravaged the Sari Club on Bali's Kuta Beach, killing nearly 200 people at the last count, has brought international notoriety to Jemaah Islamiah, a regional terrorist group many suspect was behind the attack. John Howard, the Australian prime minister, on Tuesday demanded that Jemaah Islamiah be listed as a terrorist organisation by the United Nations, a move that the US and the Philippines said they would support. Jemaah Islamiah has often described as the south-east Asian ally of al-Qaeda. But as suspicions focus on the group, it remains unclear what role al-Qaeda might...