 [WashTimes] Three of al Qaeda's major websites for recruiting Ansar al-Mujahidin, Shumukh al-Islam and Al Fida -- all accredited as official outlets of the terrorist group once led by the late Osama bin Laden
... who was laid out deader than a mackerel, right next to the mackerel...
-- 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.
Pro Forma Warning: visiting those links may bring you unwanted attention.
If you insist on satisfying your curiosity, please take the appropriate precautions, whatever those might be. |
Counterterrorism Internet monitors told Inside the Ring that a posting on Facebook
| Golly, Facebook'll let just anybody join, it seems. |
by a member of a hacker group Qassam HackeRs, which supports the Paleostinian terrorist group Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, claimed credit for the cyberattacks.
In an online posting that could not be verified, one of the Hamas hackers claimed that service to Ansar al-Mujahidin would continue to be disrupted until al Qaeda stops labeling members of Hamas' military wing, the Izz-al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, "infidels."
| The poor darlings are skinless people in a sandpaper world. |
All three websites are closely monitored by U.S. intelligence agencies and are considered key sources of information about the group.
The disruptions are prompting many jihadists to shift from Web forums to Twitter for communications and propaganda messaging.
Speculation that the cyberattacks were part of an intergroup rivalry is based on a dispute among gunnies over the announcement in April that al Qaeda in Iraq had merged with the pro-al Qaeda Syrian rebel group Al Nusrah Front.
| No doubt soon to be cleverly renamed Al Qaeda in Iraq and Syria, in imitation of the nearly defunct Ba'ath party. |
The merger prompted accusations that the Iraqi group had been infiltrated by hostile intelligence services.
| Oh? How amusing. One does most certainly hope so. |
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