Surprisingly, who was in charge when terrorist attacks occurred had little effect on the outcomes—either way, the right gained. The study found that left-wing incumbents tended to lose support after attacks while hawkish right-wing incumbents saw their margins of victory increase.

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — The main Web sites that normally carry messages from the al-Qaida terror group remain inoperable more than a month after they went down just ahead of the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

The Associated Press first reported in September that the Web forums that typically carry messages and videos from Al-Qaida and its allied groupings had ceased functioning around Sept. 10, just as the group said it was set to release a new video message.

In the past week, a new Web site called "the Electronic jihad" also has resurfaced to counter renewed attacks on Islam online, according to its founders.

Cairo, 16 Oct. (AKI) -

Attacking American and Israeli websites by hacking and sabotage is allowed under Islamic law and is a form of 'Jihad' or holy war, top Muslim scholars have decreed.

The religious edict (fatwa) issued by a committee from the highest authority in Sunni Islam, Egypt's Al-Azhar University in Cairo, was published on the website of the Islamist Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood movement on Thursday.

"This is considered a type of lawful Jihad that helps Islam by paralysing the information systems used by our enemies for their evil aims," said the fatwa.

So its one year later.

Its happening again. Someone is attacking AQ sites and killing them.
And it means another delayed 911 anniversary release from OBL.

A U.S.-based group monitoring militant Web sites said Friday that jihadist forums have been experiencing technical problems A U.S.-based group monitoring militant Web sites said Friday that jihadist forums have been experiencing technical problems

On the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, the major jihadist web forums appear to be the target of a coordinated attack. The two most important websites have been taken down: Al-Falluja is not working at all, and on Shumukh Al-Islam all links just lead to a statement from the forum saying that "the enemies of Allah" are trying to "silence the voice of truth." Al-Shura is also offline.

The Ansar Al-Mujahideen forum was down temporarily, but has managed to return and lash out at the "worshippers of Satan" supposedly behind the coordinated attack. The other forums appear to be operating as usual.

If an Al-Qaeda 9/11 release exists, its distribution has been blocked (for now at least).

In a remarkable story, the Washington Post reported today that Saudi intelligence and the CIA operated a honeypot jihadi forum for years until it was shut down by the US military in 2008. The news here is obviously not that intelligence services run jihadi forums, but that US agencies wage cyberwarfare on each other.

By early 2008, top U.S. military officials had become convinced that extremists planning attacks on American forces in Iraq were making use of a Web site set up by the Saudi government and the CIA to uncover terrorist plots in the kingdom.

"We knew we were going to be forced to shut this thing down," recalled one former civilian official, describing tense internal discussions in which military commanders argued that the site was putting Americans at risk. "CIA resented that," the former official said.

Elite U.S. military computer specialists, over the objections of the CIA, mounted a cyberattack that dismantled the online forum. Although some Saudi officials had been informed in advance about the Pentagon's plan, several key princes were "absolutely furious" at the loss of an intelligence-gathering tool, according to another former U.S. official.

Jihadi websites are in for a bruising, if the past is any precedent.

For the past two years, Islamic extremists’ online forums have been subjected to a series of attacks around the 9/11 anniversary — just as the jihadists worked to score a propaganda win. Major sites have been shut down, some permanently.

More proof they are really not serious about the war on terror IMO.