Muslim Extremist's Web Site Stirs Mixed Emotions in Charlotte, N.C.

[Brother_Mujahid]

Muslim Extremist's Web Site Stirs Mixed Emotions in Charlotte, N.C.

By Cristina Corbin

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In a quiet, upscale neighborhood in Charlotte, N.C., rows of custom-style homes and neatly landscaped lawns represent the American dream.

But one local resident has shattered that image, calling for the death of American troops in Iraq and supporting Al Qaeda through his Web site, which he reportedly runs from his parents' home.

Samir Khan is the man behind Revolution.Muslimpad.com — a radical Islamic site that praises Usama bin Laden and asks for Allah to “curse more American soldiers.”

The site posts videos of U.S. Humvees being blown up by roadside bombs in Iraq. It aims to inspire young Muslims to wage war against the West.

Terrorism experts say the Web site, written in English, is one of the premiere sites for Western audiences to get access to radical Islamist propaganda.

Khan, 22, declined requests for an interview, even when approached outside his home with cameras rolling. When asked if the messages on his site represent Islam, Khan would say only that “they represent Muslims.”

In an e-mail sent to FOX News, Khan lashed out at the "arrogance" of the media, saying it should focus instead on converting to Islam. "When you go down in to the earth six feet deep, nothing will matter except what Religion you died upon," he wrote.

Following a FOXNews.com report last month profiling his Web site, Khan railed against "the Kuffaar" — non-believers — who wrote the article and affirmed his belief that jihad is "an Islaamic obligation" rooted in Muslim texts.

Words like those stir mixed emotions in Charlotte, among the general public and among the 8,000 Muslims who live there.

Imam Khalil Akbar, a religious leader in Charlotte, condemned Khan’s site, saying its views do not reflect “mainstream Islamic thinking” and do not represent the Muslim community at large.

“I would reject categorically those kinds of encouragements to look up to people like bin Laden,” Akbar said.

Neighbors described Khan — who immigrated to the U.S. from Saudi Arabia when he was 7 years old — as “friendly” and “reserved.” They said he launched his Web site while taking classes at Central Piedmont Community College and selling Cutco knives.

Abdullah Mahmud, an acquaintance of Khan’s who attends the same mosque, the Islamic Center of Greater Charlotte, defended Khan's viewpoints, saying his anger stems from the United States' foreign policy and occupation of Iraq.

Mahmoud said the blood-drenched videos Khan shows of U.S. soldiers injured in combat “serve the purpose of making the reality of the Iraqi scene visible to people.”

“Those videos are not much different than videos involving American soldiers targeting Iraqi civilians,” he said. “You have to look at both sides here.”

One of Khan’s neighbors, Ron Williams, also defended Khan’s right to free speech.

“Our actions (in Iraq) were interpreted broadly in the Muslim world as an attack on Islam,” Williams said, “I defend his right to speak out.”

But Jarret Brachman, director of research at West Point's Center for Combatting Terrorism, said Khan’s call for violence takes his anti-American views one step further.

“To be unhappy with U.S. foreign policy is one thing, but to advocate violence by promoting Al Qaeda is another,” he said.

“This is the most sophisticated and aggressive Web site in English that really puts out bin Laden’s ideology and the message that’s promoted by Al Qaeda,” he added.

Brachman said Khan's site "raises the threshold for what it means to be a good, pro-Al Qaeda Web site" and is "the best in English."

A graphic prominently displayed on the site shows a picture of Abu Yahya al-Libi, a prominent Al Qaeda spokesman whom Brachman calls “Bin Laden 2.0.”

“He’s the guy poised to take over the movement after bin Laden fades away,” Brachman said. “The fact that Khan would display him like he does means he’s trying not only to show he’s an insider, but also to model himself after him.”

The exact dangers his site poses are difficult to assess, experts said.

“It doesn’t necessarily move someone to action immediately, but it primes the pump,” Brachman said. “It gets somebody motivated to think more about Al Qaeda and so over the long term this is a very threatening message that he’s promoting.”

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,363821,00.html

[alghayb]

North Carolina Web Site Said to Be 'Gateway Drug' To Terror

North Carolina Web Site Said to Be 'Gateway Drug' To Terror (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,356298,00.html)

Fox News, Friday, May 16, 2008

NEW YORK — When former Guantanamo inmate Abdullah Saleh al-Ajmi blew up an Iraqi police station — and himself — in April, a U.S.-based Web site was quick to post a reaction.

"This is what you call a success story," www.revolution.muslimpad (http://www.revolution.muslimpad.com) said of the homicide attack, which killed six. It described al-Ajmi as a hero, a "martyrdom bomber" who sacrificed "his life for the sake of Islam."

The site is believed to be the brainchild of a 22-year-old American Samir Khan of Charlotte, N.C.

When the blog, also called "The Ignored Puzzle Pieces of Knowledge (http://www.revolution.muslimpad.com)," listed its top "scholars of Islam" and people to "take knowledge from," it wasn't hard to notice that the list of 63 names contained mostly known terrorists — including Usama bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The site provides links to their works, all translated into English.

Revolution.Muslimpad's sleek, modern style includes collections of the latest videos of U.S. military Humvees exploding from roadside bombs in Iraq, as well as pro-jihad messages aimed at radicalizing readers.

But terror experts say it is unique because it is written in English for a Western audience and makes accessible radical Islamic content and context found mainly on Arabic-language sites.

"This Web site is one of the premiere English-language sites promoting terrorism," said cyberterrorism expert Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Jewish human rights group the Wiesenthal Center.

On Thursday Cooper presented a report on Capitol Hill on the dangers Internet sites like Revolution.Muslimpad pose to young, impressionable Muslims. His report, "Digital Terrorism and Hate 2.0," references the Web site four times as an example of how Islamic extremists recruit for Al Qaeda.

Part of the Revolution.Muslimpad's power comes from the context and interpretation of the radical messages, which experts say offer dangerous inspiration.

"This guy [Khan] is plugged into the hardcore ideology that Al Qaeda espouses," said Jarret Brachman, director of research at West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center.

Brachman — who oversees the center’s research on Al Qaeda and who has been monitoring the site for two years — compared it to a "gateway drug."

"The goal is to hook people, to get more people in this country to become radicalized and see the world through the lens of Al Qaeda," Brachman said.

Sites like Revolution.Muslimpad are common in other countries, but there are a few that target American Muslim audiences, and this is "among the best," he said.

Brachman and others believe Khan is the brains behind the site. According to The New York Times, which interviewed Khan in 2007, he launched his blog in 2005 under the name "Inshallahshaheed," or "a martyr soon if God wills," from his parents’ home in Charlotte, N.C.

Khan reportedly grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., after his parents immigrated to the U.S. from Saudi Arabia. The Times reported he comes from a middle-class family and moved toward an increasingly radical form of Islam while at college in North Carolina.

He launched his site while taking classes at a community college and during his off-hours as a knife salesman, it was reported.

Since then, the Web site has changed six times, according to Rick Eaton, senior researcher at the Wiesenthal Center. It first appeared on the U.S.-based host company WordPress and was later moved to other host companies before ending up at its current Muslimpad. The American operators of Muslimpad (http://www.revolution.muslimpad.com/) reportedly have since moved from Houston, Texas, to Amman, Jordan.

It's unclear if Khan operates his site alone; despite repeated attempts by FOXNews.com, he could not be reached for an interview.

In the "About Us" section, www.revolution.muslimpad (http://www.revolution.muslimpad.com/) describes the site as being run by a handful of "bloggers of inshallahshaheed," and says their mission is to "attempt to bring to our readers the reality on the ground in the lands of Jihad, and exposing the lies and deceptions of the disbelievers, hypocrites, and tyrannical Governments," including that of the U.S.

"Blogs offer a high level of anonymity," Eaton said, giving a blogger the ability to work incognito and to pull from multiple sources. Intelligence experts told FOXNews.com that Khan may be working with other radical Muslim bloggers based in the U.S., such as Yousef al-Khattab.

Khattab, an American citizen born with the name Joseph Cohen, runs a Web site (http://www.revolutionmuslim.com) from Queens, N.Y., that promotes terror.

Click here (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,347272,00.html) to read FOXNews.com's report on Yousef al-Khattab.

Khan "may not say ‘go kill an American,’ but by implication the entire ideology does demand violence," Brachman said. "And this guy is not just a consumer of this ideology, he’s a producer of it."

But Khan's messages, while incendiary, are not illegal.

"You have to protect the right to free speech," said Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., who learned of the blog in a congressional briefing in 2007, when Khan warned of a "special gift" to be given to Manhattan on the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

Wilson said the site is potentially dangerous but difficult to remove; Cooper said there is little anyone can do unless it crosses the line from "rhetoric to action."

Terrorism experts cannot confirm if any attempts have been made to bring down the site.

But Brachman warns that Khan and others like him will "always consider themselves observants of, not proponents of" violence as a way to protect themselves legally.

"They’ll say things like, ‘Hey, this is out there,’ and ‘I’m just drawing your attention to it,’ as a way to keep themselves one step removed," he said.

The size of www.revolution.muslimpad's (http://www.revolution.muslimpad.com/) viewership is not known, but terrorism analysts say that is of little importance in a post-Sept. 11 world.

Citing the 19 hijackers responsible for the attacks, Cooper said: "We live in a world where you don't need a mass movement to change history. You just need a few individuals to become dedicated to an idea or an ideal."






Web Site Sympathetic to Terrorists Blasts FOX News for Profile (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,356494,00.html)

Fox News, Sunday, May 18, 2008

An English-language Web site that unabashedly promotes the work of Islamic terrorists has responded to a FOXNews.com profile of the site by assailing "the Kuffaar behind FOX News." Kuffaar, roughly translated, means "unbelievers."

After quoting FOX News.com's Friday story and citing verses from the Koran, the www.revolution.muslimpad.com (http://www.revolution.muslimpad.com/) blog affirms the belief that jihad is "an Islaamic obligation" rooted in Muslim texts.

"So in reality, you are calling my Prophet, Muhammad — peace be upon him — a terrorist," the blog post continues. "But of course, you guys won’t say that directly because you fear the wrath of the Muslims."

The site also decries what it calls a double standard toward terrorists, comparing the attacks of Sept. 11 with the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima during World War II.

Click here to read FOXNews.com's report.

Revolution.Muslimpad.com, also called "The Ignored Puzzle Pieces of Knowledge," is believed to be the brainchild of a 22-year-old American Samir Khan of Charlotte, N.C.

The site's sleek modern style includes collections of the latest videos of U.S. military Humvees exploding from roadside bombs in Iraq, as well as pro-jihad messages aimed at radicalizing readers.

Its list of 63 top "scholars of Islam" and people to "take knowledge from" contained mostly known terrorists — including Usama bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The site provides links to their works, all translated into English.

Terror experts say it is unique because it is written in English for a Western audience.

[Brother_Mujahid]

The bloggers are still after Samir Khan:

http://www.therudenews.com/archives/819

[alghayb]

I had to laugh on June 17 when mypetjawa gloated over http://www.revolution.muslimpad.com going down. The site was back-up the nest day and all mypetjawa gave was a one line response, as if he had been slapped in the face.

June 12th, 2008 - Samir Khan Who? (http://www.therudenews.com/archives/819)

May 22nd, 2008 - Samir Khan Is Afraid… (http://www.therudenews.com/archives/748)

October 15, 2007 - Inshallashshaheed Outted: North Carolina Jihadi in the News (UPDATED) (http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/189768.php)

October 15, 2007 - An investigation compromised? (http://video1.washingtontimes.com/fishwrap/2007/10/an_investigation_compromised_1.html)

Keep up the good work Mr. Khan!

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[isha-h]

Sites like Revolution.Muslimpad are common in other countries, but there are a few that target American Muslim audiences, and this is "among the best," he said.

It certainly is among the best, keep up the great work all at revolution.muslimpad ;)

[Sakina]

I'm not a fan of him or his site, but I respect that he said it represent Muslims, instead of saying it represented Islam.

[Mustafa al-Muhaajir]

I'm not a fan of him or his site ...Oh yeah ?
Woulda never guessed that.

[Sakina]

Oh yeah ?
Woulda never guessed that.

Probably because I'm so in love with America I support what the US military is doing and I worship the ground Bush walks on, right?

I disagree with what the US does just as much as I disagree with what al qaeda does. and that has nothing to do with my nationality.

Some good points on this guys site, and I personally see nothing wrong with killing American soldiers when they're the occupying army, but in general I think he's much too extreme.

[Yousef al Khattab]

Maasha'Allah akhouna Samir in my eyes is from the best of the best insha'Allah. MAy Allah reward & protect him and may his website be an aid to incite the believers.

['Abd al-Kareem]

Sister Sakina it's best not to make jokes like that.


SubhanAllah it is quite amusing to see how enraged the kuffar are by brother Samir - whether or not we agree with his views.

On second thought, these internet bloggers are enraged about pretty much everything so scratch that.

[Abu Abdallah al-Bulghari]

I disagree with what the US does just as much as I disagree with what al qaeda does. and that has nothing to do with my nationality.

That "balanced" attitude befits a liberal member of A.N.S.W.E.R., but not a Muslim.

There is no balance. Even if you disregard the fact that on one side of comparison we have people sharing Shahadatain with us, that pray 5 times a day, like us and on the other side we have rejectors of Truth, the pure count of deeds from two sides cries of imbalance.

[alghayb]

This is Samir Khan's commentary on the FOX News articles on his blog and himself:

FOX News does a report on our blog: North Carolina Web Site Said to Be ‘Gateway Drug’ To Terror (http://revolution.muslimpad.com/2008/05/17/fox-news-does-a-report-on-our-blog-north-carolina-web-site-said-to-be-gateway-drug-to-terror/) May 17, 2008

The Kuffaar behind FOX News have done a short report on our blog. To read it, click here (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,356298,00.html).

Let’s look at some of the things they said.

NEW YORK — When former Guantanamo inmate Abdullah Saleh al-Ajmi blew up an Iraqi police station — and himself — in April, a U.S.-based Web site was quick to post a reaction.

“This is what you call a success story,” Revolution.Muslimpad said of the homicide attack, which killed six. It described al-Ajmi as a hero, a “martyrdom bomber” who sacrificed “his life for the sake of Islam.”

Yes, Allah says,

Verily, Allâh has purchased of the believers their lives and their properties; for the price that theirs shall be the Paradise. They fight In Allâh’s Cause, so they kill (others) and are killed. It is a Promise In Truth which is binding on Him In the Taurât (Torah) and the Injeel (Gospel) and the Qur’ân. And who is truer to his Covenant than Allâh? Then rejoice In the bargain which You have concluded. That is the Supreme success. (9:111)

They said,

When the blog, also called “The Ignored Puzzle Pieces of Knowledge,” listed its top “scholars of Islam” and people to “take knowledge from,” it wasn’t hard to notice that the list of 63 names contained mostly known terrorists — including Usama bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The site provides links to their works, all translated into English.

Why do you call them “terrorists”?

You call them terrorists because they believe Jihaad is an Islaamic obligation; and this is firmly rooted in the Qur’aan and Sunnah, our primary texts. Go through the Qur’aan and Sunnah and you will find a plethora of verses and sayings regarding Jihaad and the lofty position in Paradise for the one who performs it.

So in reality, you are calling my Prophet, Muhammad - peace be upon him - a terrorist. But of course, you guys won’t say that directly because you fear the wrath of the Muslims. So instead you will retort to calling the believers who practice the teachings of Islaam - and one of the teachings is Jihaad against the occupier - as terrorist because you are too cowardly to admit to the reality of who you are referring to.

And you call Usaamah bin Laadin a terrorist because of the September 11th attacks. His men destroyed the WTC and a part of the Pentagon and in the process, it had killed over 3,000 people. Therefore, you call him a terrorist.

But when America shamelessly bombed Hiroshima (and many, many other Countries) with a weapon that was much stronger than 4 airplanes combined, you don’t call her a terrorist nor live as a people who disassociate themselves from her.

We all know that Hiroshima killed more than 3,000 people.

Why the double standard?

Why is Usaamah a “terrorist” but the American Government isn’t? (http://www.geocities.com/alghayb2007/osama_bin_laden.htm)

Is it because white people are more valuable than dark skinned people?

The reason why you don’t call America a terrorist is because she did an act of “retaliation” against the nation of Japan. They did this because Japan attacked Pearl Harbor - a large military base full of military personnel - and it killed quite a lot. So as an act of retaliation, America bombed Hiroshima to nothing and it killed way more than those that were killed in the Pearl Harbor incident. Of course, many Americans probably couldn’t swallow this, but the vast majority were OK with it because they knew that “Japan deserved it” for their attack on Pearl Harbor, thus the act of retaliation was justifiable even though it killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people that had absolutely nothing to do with Pearl Harbor or the Japanese military; in fact many were women and children. But hey, it was justified after all, right??

Since then, very few have successfully “demonized” the image of America as an extreme terrorist government that shamelessly and cowardly killed thousands upon thousands of innocent people. Why? Well for the most part… “the act of retaliation was justified because the Japanese ambushed the Americans… and even though the Americans killed way to many innocent civilians in the atomic bombs, at least it sent a strong message to the Japanese government to halt their attacks.”

So it was also an act of deterrence. America could have dropped more nuclear bombs upon Japan, literally wiping out the Country, but perhaps this was only done twice (Nagasaki being the other) in order to give Japan a severe warning, even though countless amount of civilians were killed shamelessly.

Now, let’s look at September 11th. I’m not going to justify it nor am I going to promote it. I’m just going to apply logic and be fair and just because as a Muslim, we are obligated to be fair and just with everyone, including our enemies.

You say Usaamah bin Laadin is a terrorist because he killed 3,000 people on that day.

Why did Usaamah bin Laadin do it?

Was he bored? Did he want to create chaos for no reason? Was he just sick minded at the time and just wanted to see destruction?

This is what you want the American public to believe, but clearly, none of these aforementioned reasons were the case.

Usaamah bin Laadin did September 11th because it was an act of retaliation. You can probably sense where this is going.

Usaamah has said this on many occasions. Here, watch this short clip of him during the early invasion of Afghanistan:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=dls5JTD-uG0

Usaamah said,

“The Events of September 11 are but a reaction to the continuous injustice and oppression being practiced against our sons in Palestine and Iraq and in Somalia and in Southern Sudan and in other places like Kashmir and Assam.”

And yesterday, a new audio release from As-Sahab came out and in it, Usaamah bin Laadin said (according to BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7404264.stm)),

“The voice on the tape said the fight for the Palestinian cause was the most important factor driving al-Qaeda’s war with the West, and that it had fuelled the 11 September 2001 attacks on the US.”

And it is not hidden from anyone what the injustices he is referring to in regards to Palestine. It is clear-cut and it is a worldwide Muslim shared sentiment; we all hate what the Israeli’s are doing and we all want Israel out of Palestine for good. This is the majority sentiment and I can assure you that I’m not only speaking for myself or a minority.

So what does America have to do with Israel?

Put it this way: if America didn’t exist, Israel wouldn’t exist.

And put it this way: if the UK didn’t exist, there would have been no such thing as Israel.

Anyone who studies the history of the birth of the state of Israel will see that this is the reality. But very soon - and some are already indicating that it has started - Israel can survive on her own without any outside support. Currently, the American tax dollars are going to Israel in the billions. For what? To make weaponry. To do what? To kill innocent Muslims in Palestine, destroy their homes, strike fear in our women and rape them in the process, strike terror into the hearts of ordinary people, and randomly bomb with “precision bombs” against the Palestinian people, which of course, kills children. This happens on a day in and day out basis and many disbelievers within the West are waking up to this reality. Just watch the documentaries such as Occupation 101, Dispatches: The Killing Zone, Death in Gaza and many others.

The Government of America knows very well what Israel is doing. The injustices are not hidden from them, yet they continue in their immensely heavy support for this terrorist state. Obviously, the head of the snake here is America and this is why the retaliation was upon her.

So again, why is Usaamah a terrorist for doing an act of retaliation - for the crimes of America and her immense support for an extremist terrorist state that openly kills and oppresses Muslims - which killed about 3,000 people, and America is not a terrorist for doing an act of retaliation - for the Japanese ambush of Pearl Harbor - which killed well over 200,000 people and more are dying due to the radiation of the atomic bombs?

Why the double standard?

And you know what? I haven’t even started on what the Americans did directly in the ‘Iraaq bombing campaign (of course, during Saddam’s time) with their use of the depleted uranium and how it killed over one million ‘Iraaqi people, mostly children! Just watch this.

So either you be fair by stop calling Usaamah bin Laadin a terrorist or you start calling the American Government a terrorist.

They said,

“This guy [Khan] is plugged into the hardcore ideology that Al Qaeda (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,356298,00.html#) espouses,” said Jarret Brachman, director of research at West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center.

I preach what the Qur’aan and Sunnah preaches; and if you think that my preaching espouses the teachings of al-Qaa’idah, then that is your problem.

“The goal is to hook people, to get more people in this country to become radicalized and see the world through the lens of Al Qaeda,” Brachman said.

It is to get my readers to view the world through the lens of Qur’aan and Sunnah. Even if such a group were not to exist, I would be preaching the same things.

Khan reportedly grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., after his parents immigrated to the U.S. from Saudi Arabia. The Times reported he comes from a middle-class family and moved toward an increasingly radical form of Islam while at college in North Carolina (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,356298,00.html#).

I’ve only been to Brooklyn once in my life. And that was when we just happened to pass through it.

He launched his site while taking classes at a community college and during his off-hours as a knife salesman, it was reported.

What does this have to do with my blog? Are you trying to suggest that selling kitchenware items and “free time” is what “radicalized” me? Honestly, what is the point of even mentioning such things?

Intelligence experts told FOXNews.com that Khan may be working with other radical Muslim bloggers based in the U.S., such as Yousef al-Khattab.

Not once have I met Brother Yousef al-Khattab in person nor have I talked to him (whether it be over the phone, E-mail etc.). That just goes to show you how “intelligent” your “experts” are.

[alghayb]

Blogs target jihadis online

Blogs target jihadis online (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2007/oct/10/blogs-target-jihadis-online/)

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Ordinary Americans are tracking down U.S. Web sites used by al Qaeda and jihadi sympathizers and then using the Internet to persuade the service providers to snuff out the sites.

"I do this because it has to be done," says one blogger who calls himself a "counter-cyberjihadist" for his campaigns to post on the Web the Internet service providers (ISPs) that host the pro-jihad sites.

A perfect storm of complaints forced several ISPs to shut down Web sites just days before al Qaeda released a tape of Osama bin Laden in August, says Aaron Weisburd, director of the Society for Internet Research and host of the Web site Haganah.us. He released a list of 19 pro-jihad Web sites, some of which were shut down in August.

The tactic was so effective that al Qaeda later said it was forced to disseminate the video directly to the networks, Mr. Weisburd said.

Mr. Weisburd's group and other Internet users say they are regular citizens who want to help in the war on terror by acting in cyberspace against Islamist jihadis.

The cybersleuths focus most of their attention on bloggers who use servers in the U.S. to post recruitment propaganda and show violent videos of American servicemembers being killed. Once located, they encourage people to contact the service providers to shut down the Web sites.

However, Mr. Weisburd cautions that only sites that contain a low level of intelligence should be targeted. Otherwise, federal law-enforcement officials may lose actual evidence when a server company shuts a site down.

"Shutting down Web sites is a tactic, and done wisely in support of a particular objective, it can be a good thing," Mr. Weisburd said.

"Done blindly as an end in itself it only serves to breed a resistant pest, much like the overapplication of insecticide will do," Mr. Weisburd said.

Mr. Weisburd said in a recent report to U.S. intelligence agencies and private companies that the August surge "severely degraded" a stable network of nearly two dozen Web sites and that jihadi efforts to rebuild have had only limited success.

Adding to the complaints bringing down the Web sites, one jihadi Webmaster was arrested and another killed while fighting alongside Islamists in northern Lebanon.

The blogger who goes by the name "Rusty Shackleford" at the Jawa Report, mypetjawa.mu.nu, is currently focused on bringing down a blog called "Inshallah Shaheed" (http://inshallahshaheed.muslimpad.com) that features pictures of the downing of an Apache helicopter and several beheadings.

It's not the first time that this site was driven underground by "Mr. Shackleford" and replaced by a screen shot of a blue AK-47 rifle — the symbol used by some bloggers to indicate "pwning" or owning a site.

"I just keep chasing them," "Mr. Shackleford" said.

Inshallahshaheed responded to the latest shutdown with a post that said: "They can attack us 100 times if they want."

"In the end, they will see us coming from many different positions to continue the media Jihad of speaking the truth. So let them bite their nails in frustration. We say to them: Perish in your rage, O filthy disbelievers!" said Inshallahshaheed, whose name means "a martyr, God willing."

Asked why he does it, "Mr. Shackleford" said, "Because my wife won't let me go shoot them."

"I'm just doing my part, but it's also very exciting," says "Mr. Shackleford" who claims to have destroyed 30 Web sites.

Information for contacting servers hosting this and other Web sites can be found at My Pet Jawa.

"These are terrorists and terrorist supporters who use the Web to recruit people. They propagandize, they coordinate, and they raise money. That is what the bad guys are doing, and there are other private citizens who counter that," "Mr. Shackleford" said.

Bloggers also say they coordinate with the FBI and pass on information about sites that contain high degrees of intelligence.

Paul Bresson, FBI spokesman, said they encourage the public to come forward with anything criminal or suspicious they encounter on the Internet.

"We don't want to give away specific information here, but the virtual world is the same as the physical world. There are some bad neighborhoods in the virtual world just as in the physical world," Mr. Bresson said.

[ummafnaan]

May Allah continue to protect the likes of brother Samir Khan and humiliate the faces of ANYONE who speaks against the mujaahideen.

AAAAAAAMEEEEEN

[Abu Maysara]

May Allah continue to protect the likes of brother Samir Khan and humiliate the faces of ANYONE who speaks against the mujaahideen.

AAAAAAAMEEEEEN

Allahumma Ameeen

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