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02 March 2006
The Decline and Fall of Irhabi007: Episode Three, The Internet (pg. 4)

01 September 2004


finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/ilamislaminews/message/23

By now Irhabi007's star was shining brightly. He teamed up with the Global Islamic Media Center to facilitate the distribution of the Sout al-Jihad publication of al-Qaida's Saudi franchise. This was about the time that the Global Islamic Media Center became the now-familiar Global Islamic Media Front (above). He also began working on websites for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's Tawhid wal Jihad organization (below).

03 November 2004


tawhidjihad.q6.net
Produced by Irhabi007
Announced on al-Ansar by Abu Maysara (official spokesman of al-Qaida in Iraq)

At some point Irhabi007 began working with the Tibyan Publications outfit. Their specialty is assisting al-Qaida recruitment by translating jihadist writings and subtitling jihadi videos:

21 March 2005


http://66.98.148.77/%7Emuhammad/


http://66.98.148.77/%7Emuhammad/wahareed/wahared.htm

As time passed Irhabi007 began to experiment with increasingly complex solutions to relatively simple problems. For example, he released a Windows program, a sort of mini-browser that used Internet Explorer but hid that and the source of the files it would load from the reader. He then hard coded the browser to load files from the following domain:

001101011010101011010100011101010011110011110111011101110.com

That's right, fifty-eight-zeros-and-ones-dot-com. Not only that, but the domain was bought using a stolen credit card, and in any event the mini-browser failed to keep secret the location of Irhabi007's "secret" stash of files, and you know what that means...

In fact, during the summer of 2005 Irhabi007 & Co. registered a number of domain names using stolen credit cards. These domains were used to host content for al-Qaida's "Jihad Media Battalion" among others.

18 September 2005

So finally, in October of 2005, Irhabi007's luck ran out. He's in Belmarsh Prison right now, and is likely to remain in jail, either in the UK or the USA, for a very long time to come. His fate is not the result of some secret Crusader/Jew conspiracy to oppress Muslims. Rather it is a natural consequence of his choice to wage jihad.

If you don't want to suffer the same fate as Irhabi007, don't be an irhabi. It's really that simple.

We'll give 007 the last word:

Episode One, The Name | Episode Two, The Bust
Episode Three, The Internet: Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4

Posted on 02 March 2006 @ 13:35

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