Item 1: New video by Ayman al-Zawahiri lambastes elections, occupation of Afghanistan, reaffirms responsibility for the London bombings.
Item 2: Abu Musaab al-Zarqawi backs down from “total war” against Iraqi Shia; Muqtada al-Sadr rejects his peace offering
Item 3: Jihadists create their own Internet news broadcast channel
Item 4: The Nets Bad Neighborhoods
Item 5: Bagel shop opening in Riyadh raises ire
Item 6: Video Available: Training at the Salah Addin Al-Ayubbi camp
The Terror Web Watch collects intelligence through active monitoring of Jihadist and other threat group web sites, forums, and other communication environments. Terrorists and their supporters call it Jihad electroni, the electronic Jihad. For them, exploiting the Internet is considered a vital part of raising money, spreading their ideology, building up support, and inspiring others to become terrorists. To a lesser extent, the Internet is also used for training, by circulating training manuals and videos, for discussing targets, and for planning and organizing operations.
Given how important the Internet is to terrorists and to the greater radical Islamist movement that supports them, monitoring the activities of terrorists and suspected terrorists in cyberspace should be nearly as paramount as monitoring their activities on the ground.
