• The Finland Campaign
• Online security guide
• He calls himself "a prospective suicide bomber"
• "Installment three: True stories of the Jordanian Intelligence"
• "How do I remove fingerprints from a gun?"
• Majahden forum: still a center of anti-Coptic Christian agitation
• Mobile insecurity
• From the twitter feed of webradius...
• Taking tea with your comrades in an orchard? How sweet.
• Operation Cupcake
• Top Arabic Jihadi forums, 05 June 2011

UPDATE: For the benefit of readers newly arrived on this site from Finland. The guy who goes by the name Abu Suleiman al-Nasser and has been calling for attacks in Finland is likely just an idiot with anger-management issues. That said, any idiot can try and make a bomb or get his hands on a gun, and what happens next is not so funny. His obsession with Finland suggests he has some connection to the place — there's something odd and a little irrational about it, as though it is personal. With a little international cooperation, it should be possible to locate him and find out what he's about, who he associates with, what his capabilities (if any) are. Best case: he's a child left to use the Internet unsupervised. Worst case: he manages to kill someone.

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A jihadi redhot at the Shmukh forum is continuing his one-man campaign of wishing for a terrorist attack in Finland.

URL: http://www.shamikh1.info/vb/showthread.php?t=112782

He claims a bomb was found and defused in Finland, and prays that next time the bomb goes off.

He includes a pic from Finnish media purporting to show Finnish police doing something related to the suspect device.

HT: Evan Kohlmann

I found a password-protected guide to online security and good behavior that seems worth sharing. You'll find a copy here:

http://sfir-arabicsource.blogspot.com/2011/06/blog-post.html

Archive

Source: http://www.as-ansar.com/vb/showthread.php?t=40704

He references the thread where the latest as-Sahab video is released (http://as-ansar.com/vb/showthread.php?t=40686), after citing Hadith to the effect that you should wage jihad and not fear death(?).

User ID 23130

Or something like that...

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Source: http://www.as-ansar.com/vb/printthread.php?t=40593

An interesting inquiry.

Remember this the next time there's a pogrom or another church gets bombed.

A couple of forums have a detailed guide to how mobile phones are monitored. The description is very detailed, such that I'd suspect the author of working for a mobile phone service provider. I can't speak to its accuracy.

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Source: http://www.aljahad.info/vb/showthread.php?p=18716

#impressive He flew from Dulles to Lehigh Valley airport in PA, with a black duffel bag and 12 identities, none his. http://goo.gl/Pz5oF

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#jamestown #russian_jihad "Arrests in Astrakhan Point to the Spread of Islamic Insurgency in Russia" http://goo.gl/z0zML cross-ref. w/AMRF

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"Palestinian Jihadists Inside Hamas" http://goo.gl/pTm6D

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"Iraq Arrests Al-Qaeda-Linked Network; Leader Headed Human Rights Organization" http://goo.gl/LYgLD

1/3 ...the group members, dressed in military uniform, intercepted a wedding procession. They led the group to a house...

2/3 ...and proceeded to rape the bride in front of the groom and then cut her breasts off and let her bleed to death.

3/3 All males, boys and grown-ups, were then killed and their bodies dumped into the Tigris River.

and on that note, I refer the reader back to this: http://bbc.in/ltpbnz

1/3 The men then crossed the street and screams began to emanate from the house of his mother's best friend.

2/3 "Later lots of men came outside...holding up something that looked like a slab of meat in their hands."

3/3 "...it was a woman's breast they were carrying - they cut her breast off and tortured her before they killed her..."

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Somali shaheed ID'd as "Asadullaahi Axmed Al-Imriiki", age 25, formerly of Minnesota. En: http://goo.gl/5E3cE So: http://goo.gl/Ut0RA

Not smart, however.

British intelligence (presumably GCHQ) is being credited with last year's interception of the first edition of Inspire magazine, and the replacement of 63 pages with deliberately munged pages of a PDF of cupcake recipes from The Ellen DeGeneres Show. That the cupcake recipe PDF was used to corrupt Inspire magazine is not news and is a demonstrable fact.

File name ellenbca.pdf revealed in page 3/page 4 transition

It was nice work indeed, particularly given what was likely a very short time period in which to act.

The better question, and the one none of the mainstream media seem interested in asking, is why claim credit a year on? Particularly since there was no follow-up effort to disrupt subsequent editions (a total of five have now been released, and they are already turning up in terrorism investigations).

Old news, really

The story is also told of how US DoD wanted to launch an attack, but CIA claimed rights to it, and then demurred. All this makes a good story. Not sure I believe most of it, but then who am I, really?

• "Ahmadinejad versus Khamenei: IRGC Wins, Civilians Lose"
• Zionist news briefs
• Analyzing forums for fun and profit*
• Readership of thetruthn.com forum
• In honor of Memorial Day...
• Shmukh forum readership, May 2011
• "SOMALIA: Internet lifeline cut in Mogadishu"
• OFAC Iran sanctions: moving up the food chain
• Iran: Internet penetration data and regime efforts to block websites

And now, a dissolute song for a hot holiday Monday...

Yes, that *is* Leonard Nimoy

A report by Ali Alfoneh, at American Enterprise Institute.

Key points:

• President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad risks impeachment following his failed attempt to wrest control over the Intelligence Ministry from Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
• The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) supported Khamenei to reinstate the intelligence minister and restrict Ahmadinejad's power.
• Whether Ahmadinejad is impeached or not, the latest conflict among the civilian leaders has made the IRGC the most important arbiter of power in the Islamic Republic.

via dailyalert.org

• Experts Analyze Opening of Gaza-Egypt Crossing
• Canada Blocks Mention of 1967 Line by G8 Summit
• Israel's Unemployment Rate Drops to Six Percent

See J.M. Berger's examination of Ansar al-Mujahideen English forum and al-Hanein Arabic forum, in relation to three issues: Arab Spring, Anwar al-Awlaki, and the killing of Osama bin Laden.

In short, I like it.

A few thoughts, in no particular order:

• Ansar al-Mujahideen Arabic forum might have been a better choice for this exercise given the more nationalistic, rather than global jihadist, orientation of so many Hanein forum activists. Then again, maybe global jihad activists are more parochial in their interests than they might want to admit.
• Ansar al-Mujahideen English forum has almost no readers in the Middle East, with the exception of the occasional European jihadi who has come to "study Arabic" but still can't read the language. That combined with the fact that al-Qaida has been sidelined by events likely explains the lack of interest in Arab Spring among the non-Arabic speakers.
• Shame, shame on you, J.M.Berger, for minimizing the importance of Anwar al-Awlaki while the poor man is hiding from drones operated by vengeful former-Washington D.C. prostitutes ;-)

* He's got a book out. They say it's very good. Check it out.

I recently noted this new forum.

The following countries are home to 100% of the forum's very small readership. File under 'baseline data'. I presume from this that the site is not yet blocked by the Saudi police.

...I've littered the aljazeeratalk forum with many thousands of American flags, with the able assistance of a number of hotlinking jihadis. My favorite is this:

For comic relief, see this thread:

http://aljazeeratalk.net/forum/showthread.php?t=348279

OMFG! Get it off! GET IT OFF!!1!

The following table presents the readership in percent by country location, based on analysis of of a couple of hundred IP addresses. To the extent possible proxy servers have been identified and removed. Proxy use remains low. 'Palestines' means West Bank and Gaza, combined. During the collection period the forum was password-protected, and for most of the period the site was accessed by its IP address (rather than domain name).

Anyone think it's coincidence that al-Shabaab is so deeply entrenched in this part of the city?

NAIROBI, 27 May 2011 (IRIN)

Telecommunications companies based in Somalia’s largest open-air market have been hit by stray shells in the latest round of fighting, leading to internet failure in the past four days.

"Our internet service has been down since 24 May," a senior official of an internet service provider, who requested anonymity, told IRIN on 26 May.

The official said many people's livelihoods depend on internet use; "for many businesses and journalists, the internet is their lifeline".

He said his company was trying to revive the service. "We depend on the telecoms companies and when they get hit we are also hit."

A local radio journalist told IRIN he was unable to send his reports to his station based outside the country. "It is very frustrating."

The three major telecommunications companies, Nationlink, Hormood and Olympic, have their most important equipment at Bakara market, which has been a flashpoint in the fighting between insurgents and government troops backed by African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) peacekeepers in the past two weeks.

"When we were setting up, in the 1990s, Bakara market was the safest place but now it is the most dangerous," another official of a telecommunications company said.

The official told IRIN the headquarters of Hormood - the largest telecommunications firm in the country - in Bakara had been repeatedly hit by shells, killing and injuring staff and destroying equipment.

"It is not easy for us to move the equipment we have here, so we are caught in the middle of a war zone," the official said.

In the past eight days, government and AMISOM troops have intensified an offensive to dislodge Al-Shabab insurgents who control Bakara market and parts of the city.

The United States Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Asset Control, has issued an update regarding Iran sanctions.

First, the President of the United States has signed an executive order implimenting sanctions set forth in the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996.

The following entities have been added to OFAC's SDN list:

ASSOCIATED SHIPBROKING (a.k.a. ASSOCIATED SHIPBROKING S.A.M.; a.k.a. "SAM"), Gildo Pastor Center - Block C 4.20, 7 rue du Gabian, Fontvieille MC 98000, Monaco; Website http://www.associated-shipbroking.mc [ISA]

ROYAL OYSTER GROUP, ROG Corporate Office, Royal Oyster General Trading LLC, P.O. Box 34299, Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Website http://www.oystersgroup.com [ISA]

SPEEDY SHIP FZC (a.k.a. SEPAHAN OIL COMPANY; a.k.a. "SPD"), Room 206, 2nd Floor, Building W5B, Dubai Airport Free Zone, P.O. Box 54916, Dubai, United Arab Emirates [ISA]

The following changes have been made to OFAC's SDN list:

PETROCHEMICAL COMMERCIAL COMPANY INTERNATIONAL LIMITED (a.k.a. PETROCHEMICAL COMMERCIAL COMPANY INTERNATIONAL LTD; a.k.a. PETROCHEMICAL TRADING COMPANY LIMITED; a.k.a. "PCCI"), P.O. Box 261539, Jebel Ali, Dubai, United Arab Emirates; 41, 1st Floor, International House, The Parade, St. Helier JE2 3QQ, Jersey; Ave. 54, Yimpash Business Center, No. 506, 507, Ashkhabad 744036, Turkmenistan; No. 21 End of 9th St, Gandi Ave, Tehran, Iran; 21, Africa Boulevard, Tehran, Iran; Registration ID 77283 (Jersey); all offices worldwide [IRAN]

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|PETROCHEMICAL COMMERCIAL COMPANY INTERNATIONAL| (|a.k.a. PETROCHEMICAL COMMERCIAL COMPANY INTERNATIONAL LIMITED; a.k.a. PETROCHEMICAL COMMERCIAL COMPANY INTERNATIONAL LTD; a.k.a. PETROCHEMICAL TRADING COMPANY LIMITED; a.k.a. "PCCI"|), P.O. Box 261539, Jebel Ali, Dubai, United Arab Emirates; 41, 1st Floor, International House, The Parade, St. Helier JE2 3QQ, Jersey; Ave. 54, Yimpash Business Center, No. 506, 507, Ashkhabad 744036, Turkmenistan; No. 21 End of 9th St, Gandi Ave, Tehran, Iran; 21, Africa Boulevard, Tehran, Iran; Registration ID 77283 (Jersey); all offices worldwide |[IRAN] [ISA]|

And finally, the Secretary of State has sanctioned the following entities for alleged involvement in Iran's energy sector:

Ofer Brothers Group, Ramat Aviv Tower, 40 Einstein St., P.O.B #11, Tel Aviv, 69102 Israel; MATAM Haifa, 9, Andre Saharov St., P.O.B #5090, Haifa, 31905 Israel, Website http://www.oferg.com/Contactus/tabid/48/Default.aspx

Tanker Pacific Ship Management (a.k.a Tanker Pacific), Headquarters (Singapore), Tanker Pacific Management (Singapore) Pte Ltd, 1 Temasek Avenue, #38-01,Millenia Tower, Singapore 039192, Website http://www.tanker.com.sg/contact.html

The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center's latest Spotlight on Iran report includes a detailed review of these two issues as they have been discussed lately in the Iranian media. You should of course read the report at their website, but for your convenience the relevant section is copied below...

It's plantin' season, y'all. I'll be in the garden, mostly - that or on Twitter.

• "Kill hundreds of thousands of Americans and Europeans"
• Northrop Grumman's Firebird project gets attention
• Grudging acknowledgement of OBL's porn stash
• BBC adds fuel to the Islamist fire...
• "Who remembers the Haganah?"
• thetruthn.com: jihadi media distribution forum
• Majahden reopens
• NY v Ferhani & Mamdouh, the complaint
• Something about Moroccans, Germany, and al-Qaida
• Joey Brice: cut & paste jihadi
• The Declaration of Independence of at-Tahadi forum

Chief of Staff Trains with Soldiers at Paratrooper Exercise

An impressive rant and explicit call for terrorist attacks in the United States and Europe, penned by one "Muhannad Alobini al-Khorosani" [sic?] was posted to a password-protected section of the Ansar al-Mujahideen Arabic forum on 14 May 2011.

http://www.as-ansar.com/vb/showthread.php?t=39280

Included are pointers regarding various kinds of explosives, and repeated mention of gays, lesbians, and AIDS (as part of a laundry list of grievances and alleged sins of the West). The list of targets includes explicit mention of university meeting rooms used by Jewish student organizations.

On a password-protected section of the al-Jahad forum, NG's entry into the field currently dominated by Predators and Reapers got the attention of the jihadi boyz. See:

http://www.aljahad.info/vb/showpost.php?p=16723