Oops! A Breach in Security for Al-Qaida Online Reveals New Zarqawi Website

Several weeks ago, credible representatives of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's Al-Qaida faction in Iraq announced that they would soon be opening their own Al-Qaida website on the Internet, featuring propaganda materials, communiques, video clips, and audio recordings.  Finally, late last week, a critical security error made by an Al-Qaida cyber-facilitator known as "Terrorist 007" allowed public web users to briefly view the rough draft of Zarqawi's new homepage on the Internet.  It is clear from browsing the "beta" website inadvertently broadcast by Terrorist 007 that Zarqawi's cyber-operatives are intensely active at the moment, working--among other things--on the production of future issues of their nascent online magazine, Tharwat al-Sanam ("The Camel's Hump").  Additionally, there is a renewed focus on providing reliable download links for jihad video clips, including versions specifically encoded for use on European and Middle Eastern web-equipped cellular telephones.  Americans will be comforted to learn that the website--along with Zarqawi's entire current video archive of beheadings and suicide bombings--is being hosted from a server in downtown Atlanta, Georgia.  Al-Qaida representatives have not offered any comment on when the final version of Zarqawi's homepage will be open to public visitors.  Much of the material mistakenly published by Terrorist 007 has since been removed, and web surfers are now greeted with the message "Nothing to see... Move along..."

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