[Clips] Finger points to British intelligence as al-Qaeda websites are wiped out
Tyler Durden
camera_lumina at hotmail.com
Mon Aug 1 07:54:26 PDT 2005
Gee, that's great. A global organization that has taken the task of
worldwide censorship into its sweaty little hands.
Did the google cache'd versions of these sites dissappear too?
Tor networks, anyone?
-TD
>From: "R.A. Hettinga" <rah at shipwright.com>
>To: cryptography at metzdowd.com, cypherpunks at jfet.org
>Subject: [Clips] Finger points to British intelligence as al-Qaeda
>websites are wiped out
>Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 23:02:53 -0400
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> Subject: [Clips] Finger points to British intelligence as al-Qaeda
>websites
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> <http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-523-1715166-523,00.html>
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> The Times of London
>
> July 31, 2005
>
> Finger points to British intelligence as al-Qaeda websites are wiped out
> 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.
>
> Government-sponsored monitoring systems, such as Echelon, can track vast
> amounts of data but have so far proved of minimal benefit in preventing,
>or
> even warning, of attacks. And such systems are vulnerable to
>manipulation:
> low-ranking volunteers in terrorist organisations can create background
> chatter that ties up resources and maintains a threshold of anxiety.
>There
> are many tricks of the trade that give terrorists secure digital
> communication and leave no trace on the host computer.
>
> Ironically, the most readily available sources of accurate online
> information on bomb-making are the websites of the radical American
> militia. "I have not seen any Al-Qaeda manuals that look like genuine
> terrorist training," claims Clarke.
>
> However, the sobering message of many security experts is that the
> terrorists are unlikely ever to lose a war waged with technology.
>
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> experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
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>The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/>
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