OUR TERRORISM INITIATIVE

TERRORISM INITIATIVE

WHO WE ARE, WHAT WE ARE DOING

My associates and I have been engaged in

counter and competitive intelligence initiatives

for many years now, directly and peripherally.

Until recently the majority of our work has been

performed predominantly in the private sector

arena, for a select client base. ( Powerpoint available, services )

We've recently decided to make a shift and provide

a glimpse of some of our available services and

capabilities, to the mainstream general public.

Actually, the "toolbar" is part of this public initiative.

Under the news radar, out of sight of the world

media, is considerable part of militant Islam's

fight for power. Its taking the form of a magazine

and graphics INFORMATION war on the internet, which

we are loosing.

At stake is a phenomenon with major implications

for the future security of the United States and

risk to its Western allies -- the steady, stealthy

secret indoctrination and education of an entire

new generation of Muslim youth in a radicalized,

aggressive, militant vision of radical Islam. These people

(Muslims) are deceived by a bastardazation of their religion and the

false Mujahideen. The radicalizing propaganda on

the web is expanding by the day, improving in

sophistication, quality and quanity. This false Islam ideology

remains largely unopposed.

We are pushing a counter-ideology, and bringing a

response to the new battle arena, the internet.

Using the Koran we are countering al Qa'ida's lies, exposing

the false spin they use on Islam..

We provide this information to our toolbar users.

An "armchair mujahid" becomes converted via the

internet propaganda, from a sympathizer with the general aims

of the jihad to a motivated foot-soldier, jihadist,

sucide bomber. We expose this propaganda with quotes from the Koran.

Michael Chertoff, head of US Homeland Security,

warned that people don't need to travel to a

country with "-stan" in its name to become

radicalized and commit acts of violence. Instead,

they can now turn to the Internet. "They can train

themselves over the Internet. They never have to

necessarily go to the training camp or speak with

anybody else and that diffusion of a combination of

hatred and technical skills in things like

bomb-making is a dangerous combination."

Those are the kind of terrorists that we may not be

able to detect with spies and satellites.

How the terrorists are using the Internet is the

key to defeating them. They LIE to Moslems.

* Psychological Warfare:

"The Internet—an uncensored medium that carries stories, pictures,

threats, or messages regardless of their validity

or potential impact—is peculiarly well suited to

allowing even a small group to amplify its message

and exaggerate the groups importance and the threat it

poses."

* Publicity and Propaganda:

"Until the advent of the Internet, terrorists' hopes of winning

publicity for their causes and activities depended

on attracting the attention of television, radio,

or the print media. These traditional media have

"selection thresholds" (multistage processes of

editorial selection) that terrorists often cannot

reach. No such thresholds, of course, exist on the

terrorists' own websites, and forums and chat rooms."

They have "News sites" with false stories and dis-information.

We teach our toolbar users how to spot dis-information.

These are designed to incite readers with lies, and false 'News' stories.

* Data Mining:

"Like many other Internet users,

terrorists have access not only to maps and

diagrams of potential targets but also to imaging

data on those same facilities and networks that may

reveal counterterrorist activities at a target

site. One captured al Qaeda computer contained

engineering and structural features of a dam, which

had been downloaded from the Internet and which

would enable al Qaeda engineers and planners to

simulate catastrophic failures."

* Fundraising:

"The Sunni extremist group Hizb al-Tahrir uses an integrated web of Internet sites,

stretching from Europe to Africa, which asks

supporters to assist the effort by giving money and

encouraging others to donate to the cause of jihad.

Banking information, including the numbers of

accounts into which donations can be deposited, is

provided on a site based in Germany. The fighters

in the Russian breakaway republic of Chechnya have

likewise used the Internet to publicize the numbers

of bank accounts to which sympathizers can

contribute. (One of these Chechen bank accounts is

located in Sacramento, California.) Some

websites contains a a page on which visitors can

make credit card donations."

* Recruitment and Mobilization:

"The SITE Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based terrorism

research group that monitors al Qaeda's Internet

communications, has provided chilling details of a

high-tech recruitment drive launched in 2003 to

recruit fighters to travel to Iraq and attack U.S.

and coalition forces there. Potential recruits are

bombarded with false untrue religious decrees and anti-American

propaganda, provided with training manuals on how

to be a terrorist, and—as they are led through a

maze of secret chat rooms—given specific

instructions on how to make the journey to Iraq."

Currently they produce several terrorist magazines some weekly, and

post them on the web to 20 or 40 different public servers.

* Networking:

"Many terrorist groups, among them Hamas and al Qaeda, have undergone a

transformation from strictly hierarchical

organizations with designated leaders to

affiliations of semi-independent cells that have no

single commanding hierarchy. Through the use of the

Internet, these loosely interconnected groups are

able to maintain contact with one another—and with

members of other terrorist groups." And recruit new members.

* Sharing Information:

"Another manual, The Mujahadeen Poisons Handbook, written by Abdel-Aziz

in 1996 and 'published' on the official Hamas

website, details in twenty-three pages how to

prepare various homemade poisons, poisonous gases,

and other deadly materials for use in terrorist

attacks. A much larger manual, nicknamed 'The

Encyclopedia of Jihad' and prepared by al Qaeda,

runs to thousands of pages; distributed through the

Internet, it offers detailed instructions on how to

establish an underground organization and execute

attacks."

* Planning and Coordination:

"Hamas activists in the Middle East, for example, use chat rooms to

plan operations and operatives exchange e-mail to

coordinate actions across Gaza, the West Bank,

Lebanon, and Israel. Instructions in the form of

maps, photographs, directions, and technical

details of how to use explosives are often

disguised by means of steganography, which involves

hiding messages inside graphic files."

Virtual Jihad :

The Internet as the ideal terrorism recruiting tool

If you read Arabic and want a degree in jihad,

click on www.al-farouq.com/vb/. If you're

lucky--the site disappears and reappears--you will

see a post that belongs to the Global Islamic Media

Front (GIMF). It announces the "Al Qaeda University

of Jihad Studies." According to Ahmad al-Wathiq

Billah, the GIMF.

"Deputy General Emir," students "pass through

faculties devoted to the cause of the caliphate

with morale boosting religious posts and attack videos." and the site

offers specialization in "electronic, media,

spiritual and financial jihad."

The Internet has long been essential for terrorism,

but what has surprised us is the growth of

such Islamist (radical Islam) and jihadist sites.

Their continuing rise suggests that recruitment for

a "holy war" against the West could proceed

unabated, despite capture of key leaders.

According to Gabriel Weimann, a professor of

communications at the University of Haifa in

Israel, the number of all terrorist Web

sites--those advocating or inciting terrorism or

political violence--has grown from a dozen in 1997

to almost 4,700 today, a nearly 400-fold increase.

(By comparison, the total number of Web sites has

risen about 50- to 100-fold.)

The war in Iraq provides motivation for

radicals, Islamofacisits, and the Internet appears to be

facilitating them, even if legitimate governments

shun them. "We are talking about groups that are

opposed and persecuted all over the Arab and Muslim

world, so the Internet becomes the only alternative

to spread their messages," says Reu­ven Paz,

director of PRISM (Project for the Research of

Islamist Movements), a watchdog group in Herzliya,

Israel. The spread "is like an attempt to create a

virtual Islamic nation", and training camp.

Scott Atran, a research director at the Jean Nicod

Institute of the CNRS in Paris, studies the group

dynamics of terrorists. He notes that the attackers

of Madrid, London and Bali were autonomous groups,

like "swarms that aggregate to strike and then

vanish." The open, anarchic structure of the

Internet supports this "chaotic dynamics" modus

operandi as a way for militants to recruit new

members and look for goals or inspiration. "Without

the Internet, the extreme fragmentation and

decentralization of the jihadi movement into a

still functioning global network just would not be

possible," Atran argues. "I think we can expect

more independent attacks by autonomous groups

because of the Internet."

Here he is wrong, it is not "because" of the Internet but with or using the Internet.

Atran, who has interviewed several radical

jihadists, says that the Internet has spread a

homogenized, flat false notion of Islam, one that has

little to do with Islamic tradition. The militants

express a message of martyrdom for the sake of

global jihad as life's noblest cause. "I was very

surprised to find, from the suburbs of Paris to the

jungles of Indonesia, that people gave to me

basically the same stuff, in the same words," Atran

says. A Globalization of this false Islam facisistism.

But the chat rooms and forums can serve as a method for

spreading life-affirming Islamic ideas as it does for terrorist ones.

Convincing jihadists of alternative values, tridational Islamic values would be

a long process, he admits. Posting in forums works.

Even talking to them in forums BEFORE they become

Jihadist can delay or stop the radicalization. Currently we are loosing the Internet media war,

they are getting their ideas out there and NO ONE

is presenting a traditional Islamic Ideas.

WELL YOU CAN HELP...

By using the Terrorist toolbar to post the truth.

We provide text and videos and a list of Islamic forums.

What does the IAterror toolbar let me do?
Fight terrorism or just stay informed with Intel "NOT ON TV".
Terrorist are spreading their HATE and lies on the WWW. You can post the truth in the same forums they use, counter their lies with the truth.
We provide state of the art security and guide lines.
Including RULES TO HELP KEEP YOU SAFE.
Even an encrypted IM so you can counter-terrorist surf with a buddy (recommended) and keep in touch.
Join our "cyber corps", for tips and help. We give you Tools for evidence collection and reporting links.
OR JUST KEEP INFORMED WITH THE BEST INTEL ON THE NET. AND REMARKABLE SOURCES, live and Real time.


*Stop the terrorist from winning the Internet media war, Post.

TOOLBAR Includes FREE: Arabic Keyboard, 1000

terrorist sites, "Al Qaeda" manual, steganography

tools, translation Arabic to English, and a list of

forums they use, Encrypted email and IM. Music Juke

box, all FREE, to help in your Anti-terrorist surfing.



Free EASY VPN, Proxy tester, Intel updates,

Investigative TOOLS, SECURITY systems, Trackers, tracers, bots.

Terrorism SOURCES and a group to work with if you want.

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INDEPENDENT REVIEW.
http://sunbeltblog.blogspot .com/2006/10/terrorism-toolbar .html

ACTUAL TERRORISM TOOLBAR USE:

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/185045.php

Combat Terrorism Toolbar:
http://cigars.bravepages.com/head/iaterror.htm

Gerald
Internet Anthropologist