Dear Bin Laden, All Your Websites Are Belong To Us, page 1
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Topic started on 8-10-2008 @ 11:25 PM by makeitso
Dear OBL,

We know your followers have a multitude of websites they use to keep in contact, pass on intel, recruit, etc. We also know you like to use these sites to release your videos and spread your propaganda.

However, few people are aware that on September 11 you were put on notice. From now on all your websites are belong to us. *See Below*

Dateline - September 9th, 2008

Anonymous posting on terrorist website announces the pending release of a new Osama Bin Laden video, to discuss the anniversary of 9-11. Release date set for September 11, 2008.

Dateline - September 11, 2008

Shortly after 8 AM more than 30 of the highest level, longest standing, most notorious international terror sites mysteriously begin to "go offline".

Dateline - October 08, 2008

In 30 days more than 1000 terrorist websites have been "disappeared" from the net. Although historically the sites sometimes come and go, this quantity of high level sites going offline is unprecedented.

Effects -

The new OBL video release was delayed more than a week. There was very little media coverage once the video did manage to get released. It never really made it to the mainstream web.

The members of the sites were confused at the sudden loss.

The lack of video release appeared to frustrate them quite a bit.

As each day passes a type of funnel effect is created where more and more terror supporters, (and trackers), are forced to visit a steadily declining number of available websites.

Notes -

Nobody is discussing it, (except members of the sites asking whats happening).

Limited news coverage.

No claims of responsibility.

It has been suggested that a couple of blogging groups, or the U.S. Military is doing it.

Question -

Who's doing it?
Why now?


reply posted on 9-10-2008 @ 12:17 AM by makeitso
Originally posted by 12.21.12
May we get some linkage up in this....

...shiznit?



I didn't put any links because I doubt it would be within the TOS to link most of the several hundred sites that I er, uh, happen accross. In addition, there is no one news source running all the info I posted.

However, there are some public sites that noticed the announcement, and a couple that noticed the big sites beginning to go down.

This is one of Casey Brittons public forums. Casey is well known in the field.
Replica of video announcement

This is Dr. Rusty Shackelfords forum. His group is one of those accused of responsibility.
AQ releases video 8 days late

This is a public group of non-proffesional trackers. The last post references the information.
31 sites down

This is Geralds blog. He does a lot of tracking. Note the comments section.
1000 terror sites down

There is a great deal more, but this should give you the indication that I'm not pulling this out of thin air.

Perhaps some will say that these are not reputible souces. I don't have to take their word for it, because I have my own list and am watching the sites as they go down. Its quite interesting.

Just passing on info...



No, not "the" anonymous.




[edit on 10/9/08 by makeitso]



reply posted on 9-10-2008 @ 12:27 AM by Rotoplooker
reply to post by makeitso


Nice job sir! This sort of thing definitely deserves attention. This is a fascinating aspect of the "war on terrorism" that I had not considered. These are guerrilla tactics. This is a type of vigilanteism that is many times more effective than any kind of military operation on the ground. This situation reminds me of the power of "Anonymous". The war on terrorism is a paradox and a farce. It is a war that is not winnable. Counter intelligence is the key.


reply posted on 9-10-2008 @ 12:37 AM by makeitso
Originally posted by Rotoplooker
reply to post by makeitso


Nice job sir!

This is a type of vigilanteism that is many times more effective than any kind of military operation on the ground. This situation reminds me of the power of "Anonymous". Counter intelligence is the key.


Thank you.

Thats the funny thing though.
At first I assumed it was the gov, but you would thing they would be standing up patting themselves on the back and making big news announcements. Expecially during an election period.

If it was vigilante's, how did they manage to corrupt so many databases, infiltrate "by invitation only" top level sites, and how are they able to permanantly "take down" so many so quickly?

I considered that the terrorists are taking them down in preparation for an upcoming op, but that doesn't seem likely since they screwed up OBL's video release, and none of their top tier members seem to know whats going on.

Strange days indeed.
Perhaps I'm overlooking something.
Its a big "whodunit", and nobody's talking.

[edit on 10/9/08 by makeitso]


reply posted on 11-10-2008 @ 12:14 AM by makeitso
Sites continue to go dark. Confusion reigns.

Aaron provides a good analogy and some insight.

Ship after ship in the harbor has been scuttled, and the surviving rats are gathered aboard the few vessels that remain afloat.

The explanations provided heretofore regarding the disappearance of one site after the other are either mostly, or entirely, without foundation in fact. That goes for the mainstream media reports of hacking, the intelligence leaks of a covert operation to shut down sites, and the lame excuses offered up in official communiqués by the likes of al-Fajr (the latter evidently being too embarrassed to let the truth be known).

Despite not knowing what actually happened, the jihadis are starting to discuss countermeasures.



reply posted on 11-10-2008 @ 05:46 PM by makeitso
Fact or Farce?

Al-Fajr Center Announces Shuttering of Three Top Jihad Web Forums PDF

the official online logistical network responsible for disseminating messages from various Al-Qaida military factions—announcing the sudden closure of three of the top Internet discussion forums currently used by Al-Qaida: Al-Ekhlaas, Al-Firdaws, and Al-Boraq. According to the Al-Fajr Center, the chat forums were shuttered “for technical reasons”



reply posted on 12-10-2008 @ 07:09 AM by makeitso
Add this to the mix I guess.

Al Arabiya hunts for hackers in US courts

A tit-for-tat cyber war that began in September has disabled more than 1,000 websites, belonging to both sects, as Shiite and Sunni hackers infiltrated primarily religious websites to post sectarian messages.



reply posted on 18-10-2008 @ 11:47 AM by makeitso
"The media" have finally begun to notice.

Washington Post - Al-Qaeda Web Forums Abruptly Taken Offline


Saturday, October 18, 2008

Four of the five main online forums that al-Qaeda's media wing uses to distribute statements by Osama bin Laden and other extremists have been disabled since mid-September, monitors of the Web sites say.

There had been this aura of invincibility" about al-Qaeda's media operations, said Gregory D. Johnsen, a U.S.-based expert on violent Sunni groups in Yemen. "Now this has really been taken away from them."

In early September, the al-Fajr forums were drumming up anticipation of al-Qaeda's annual video marking the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. "Await Sept. 11!" one message declared.

Instead, on Sept. 10, the forums vanished.




[edit on 10/18/08 by makeitso]
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