Friday, April 6, 2012

Who Is Shutting Down Al Qaeda Websites?

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Who Is Waging Cyberwar Against The Jihadi Networks? -- Time

"The enemies of Allah who boast of their freedoms have not spared any effort to eradicate our blessed media." After two weeks of silence, the jihadist forum Shamukh al Islam came back online yesterday with a gloat: an apparent cyberattack against Shamukh and four similar sites had failed to shut it down permanently. But terrorism analysts see the event in a different light. As they investigate the mystery of who caused the outage and why, most can't help but see in the blackout one more piece of evidence that al-Qaeda is in disarray.

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More News On Al Qaeda's Websites Being Attacked

Key al-Qaida Web forum back online -- UPI
Al-Qaida websites resume after blackout -- Times of India/AFP
Report: Al-Qaeda websites down for 12 days -- GMA News
Al Qaeda forum back online -- The Hill
Al-Qaeda websites go silent 'after cyber attack' -- The Telegraph
Cyber war on Al-Qaeda Websites -- Middle East Online
Did the US just start a cyber war with al-Qaeda? -- RT
Al Qaeda rocked by apparent cyberattack. But who did it? -- Christian Science Monitor

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