The Ansar al-Mujahideen forums are totally compromised, and have been for about a year and a half.

First the server was hacked, the database deleted, and the front page replaced with a page that attempted to infect each visitor with a virus. The attack appeared to have been aimed at the server, and all the sites on the server were treated similarly - in other words the jihadi site was just on the wrong server at the wrong time. What the Russian mafia did with the data *they* collected is anyone's guess.

Then the admins, in the process of attempting to restore the site, left not one, but a half-dozen copies of the database in plain view where the site's front page was supposed to be.

The rest, as they say, is history.

Location of the core membership of the
Ansar al-Mujahideen forum (English section)

US location data obscured for reasons that should be obvious

Evan Kholmann has just written an exposé of the Ansar al-Mujahideen forum which features - among other things - extended quotes from "private messages" exchanged by the forum's administrators and leading activists. It will be published in the February 2010 edition of the CTC Sentinel.

Make your time.

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For those of you who are not aware of the origin of the 'all your base' meme: