DEBKA reports cyber jihad beginning 11-11-07

"In a special Internet announcement in Arabic, picked up by (sic) DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources, Osama bin Laden’s followers announced Monday, Oct. 29, the launching of Electronic Jihad. On Sunday, Nov. 11, al Qaeda’s electronic experts will start attacking Western, Jewish, Israeli, Muslim apostate and Shiite Web sites. On Day One, they will test their skills against 15 targeted sites expand the operation from day to day thereafter until hundreds of thousands of Islamist hackers are in action against untold numbers of anti-Muslim sites."
http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=4723

Related is the following article:
Islamist Website Instructs Mujahideen in Using Popular U.S. Web Forums to Foster Anti-War Sentiment among Americans:
http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP150807
"Raiding American Forums is Among the Most Important Means of Obtaining Victory in the Fierce Media War… and of Influencing the Views of the Weak-Minded American"
"Indicate You Are an American"
"Invent Stories About American Soldiers You Have [Allegedly] Personally Known"
"You should enter into debate or respond only if it is extremely necessary... Your concern should [only] be introducing topics which... will cause [them to feel] frustration and anger towards their government..., which will... render them hostile to Bush... and his Republican Party and make them feel they must vote to bring the troops back from Iraq as soon as possible."
"Do not... discuss issues pertaining to Arabs or Muslims at all, whether negatively or positively... because this could be a trap for you... In addition, do not ask people to circulate the material [you have posted] in other forums... as these types of requests will expose you..."


Somewhat related is the following dispatch from the Global Islamic Media Front instructing Islamists to Infiltrate Popular Non-Islamic Forums to Spread Pro-Islamic State Propaganda:
http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP162107

Here is also an article from February on the state of cyber-terror (at that point in time), written by the Middle East Media Research Institute:
http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA32907

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