"Finger points to British intelligence as al-Qaeda websites are wiped out" from TimesOnline:
Over the past fortnight Israeli intelligence agents have noticed something distinctly odd happening on the internet. One by one, Al-Qaeda’s affiliated websites have vanished until only a handful remain, write Uzi Mahnaimi and Alex Pell.Someone has cut the line of communication between the spiritual leaders of international terrorism and their supporters. Since 9/11 the websites have been the main links to disseminate propaganda and information.
The Israelis detect the hand of British intelligence, determined to torpedo the websites after the London attacks of July 7.
The web has become the new battleground of terrorism, permitting a freedom of communication denied to such organisations as the IRA a couple of decades ago.
One global jihad site terminated recently was an inflammatory Pakistani site, www.mojihedun.com, in which a section entitled How to Strike a European City gave full technical instructions. Tens of similar sites, some offering detailed information on how to build and use biological weapons, have also been shut down. However, Islamic sites believed to be “moderate”, remain.
One belongs to the London-based Syrian cleric Abu Basir al-Tartusi, whose www.abubaseer.bizland.com remained operative after he condemned the London bombings.
However, the scales remain weighted in favour of global jihad, the first virtual terror organisation. For all the vaunted spying advances such as tracking mobile phones and isolating key phrases in telephone conversations, experts believe current technologies actually play into the hands of those who would harm us.
“Modern technology puts most of the advantages in the hands of the terrorists. That is the bottom line,” says Professor Michael Clarke, of King’s College London, who is director of the International Policy Institute...
In light of the poll, British government officials should offer to pay passage to whatever Muslim country those who are disaffected wish to return to (call the Muslim bluff). There should be no expressions of sorrow, no expressions of "what, oh what, can we do to make you stay?" Nothing of the sort.
Just a clipped from someone far below Blair that "On Behalf of Her Majesty's Government" -- or however the official rigmarole would go -- "we would like to announce a new program to make it easier" -- no, let's use officialese straight through -- "to facilitate" -- now continue as before -- "the resettlement of those who do not feel at home here, who find that our ways, our laws and customs, are not to their liking, and who believe that this is not a question of temporary maladjustment, but a permanent condition based on deeply-held beliefs to return to their country of origin, the country from which their parents or grandparents may have come, and where they are far more likely to find the kind of attitudes, customs, and laws that conform to their sense of what is right and what is just and what ought to be."
Something like that will do.
We are waiting for The Speech. Give it, somebody in or perhaps even out of government, while The Guardian poll is still news.
No chance. Zero. Nada. Instead there will be hand-wringing aplenty in Whitehall, followed by a raft of new "community initiatives", where Brits can learn all about the great pluralist tradition of Islam, and Muslims can hone their taqqiyah chops. (And they definitely need practise in that area, as anyone who saw Zaki Badawi on the BBC the other night will realise.)
British Intelligence? I am skeptical. For over a week before this article their police and some politicians were complaining about these sites,asking for power legislation to shut them down. Yet they have been "disappearing" for weeks, according to the article.
AQ saw and read about the police response and so went to ground.
Since when do you need legislation to take Al Qaeda websites down? The US takes these sites down from time to time as do some freelance anti-terrorist hackers.It's not like your going to prison for destroying someones website.US intelligence generally does not take AQ websites down preferring to monitor the sites as well as those who visit them. Good for the Brits if they've taken these websites out.
Jihad and the internet (pdf version)
http://www.adl.org/Learn/internet/jihad_online.pdf
I hope and pray someone in America will stand brave and give The Speech, something memorable, like the Gettysburg Address.
Yes, something like that will do fine indeed.
This site is back up, but a few things have changed. Check out the cool videos! It is worth the click, http://www.mojihedun.com
Great victory for freedom