Like last year, this year’s 9/11 anniversary is the occasion of a major cyberbattle over jihadi forums. At least three of the top jihadi discussion forums – Faloja, Shouraa, Shumukh – have been down for the past couple of days, and I bet my left arm they have been hacked for the occasion. Other big [...]
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Annual Jihadi Cyberbattle Sees Return of Ikhlas
Posted: 11th September 2009 by Thomas Hegghammer in Better Know a Forum, technology4
Falluja Analytics
Posted: 11th May 2009 by Scott Sanford in Better Know a Forum, Iraq, Jihadi media, Recruitment, technology[Editor's note: I am pleased to introduce another new contributor, Scott Sanford, who is a graduate student at George Washington University specialising in jihadism in the levant. Scott has guest blogged for Jihadica in the past, but now he is joining us on a more regular basis.] “What is the Secret of the Falluja [...]
The History of the Jihadi Forums
Posted: 4th March 2009 by Anne Stenersen in Better Know a Forum, Jihadi mediaOne of the most intriguing questions about the jihadi internet is how it came into being. The early history of jihadi websites remains very poorly understood. Most of us started studying them too late, and we are too busy keeping track of present developments to examine the past. My curiosity was therefore piqued by a [...]
Prêt à porter terrorism
Posted: 2nd March 2009 by Thomas Hegghammer in Better Know a Forum, Egypt, Operational Material, Saudi Arabia, tactics, YemenAs most Jihadica readers probably know, the jihadi internet is used for many things, but not for operational planning. I have yet to come across online discussions or instructions for concrete operations by professional militants. However, once in a while you see amateurs proposing specific operations – “prêt a porter plots” – for others to [...]
Better Know a Forum: Sign-in Page
Posted: 18th May 2008 by Will McCants in Better Know a ForumTags: Better Know a Forum, Ekhlaas, Password
I have received several requests for an introduction to the world of Jihadi discussion forums, so I’ve decided to kick off a series on the subject. Today’s entry is the first page you will see when visiting a password-protected forum–the sign-in page. Rather than walk you through each component, I’ve jpeg’d the sign-in page of [...]