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Description:  A very exclusive forum for Al Qaida operatives and supporters. This site enjoys a stellar reputation in a particularly dismal corner of the universe.

Aliases:

al-hesbah.org
alhesbah.com
freealhesbah.org
al-hesbah.net
al-hesbah.com
alhesbah.info
alhesbahmemo.info
alhesbahmemo.org

Description:  Reports from the Internet Haganah site: Identity theft in the service of the global jihad (April 2, 2005 01:43 PM), Did they or didn't they? [A note regarding communications among Zarqawi's people] (March 2, 2005 11:52 AM), Ekhlaas: one billion muslims called on to attack 'Al Hagana' (February 28, 2005 02:15 PM), American gays and lesbians targeted for identity theft by Islamists? (February 23, 2005 12:16 PM), Project accountability (March 6, 2004 08:22 AM).

Description:  Forum of al-Qaida in Saudi Arabia, also making some effort to represent the AQ faction of the Egyptian Gemaa Islamiyyah.

Description:  Typical forum of the type. Operated from Gaza.

Stats as of 25 September 2005

Threads: 6,568
Posts: 22,116
Members : 3,971
Active members : 874

Description:  Palestinian jihadist site formerly known as alommh.net and alommh.org. There is a relationship between this jihadi site and the Iran-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

Description:  Best known for it's involvement in attacks against the rival al-Hesbah forum. Oh, and there is that small matter of the death threat they posted against Aaron Weisburd, the founder of Internet Haganah and director of SoFIR.

Stats as of 25 Sept. 2006

Threads: 18,474
Posts: 77,640
Members: 9,328
Active members: 2,162

Description:  A forum of the Muslim Brotherhood, and thus its inclusion in this list is open to question. However, at the level of the rank and file, there is overlap, or cross-pollination, between this forum of the Brotherhood and those forums that represent the Salafyist/Jihadist perspective. This situation is analogous to that of Hamas (the Gaza branch of the Brotherhood) and its affinity with al-Qaida and the global jihad. On 'paper' they are two distinct strains of radical Islam. On the ground the dividing lines - if they exist at all, are blurred.

Description:  Egyptian (Sinai) forum of the global jihad.

Description:  Turkish-language forum which identifies most closely with the Chechen jihad.

Description:  French-language jihadist forum which seems to think that we are supposed to sympathize with the plight of imprisoned terrorists.

Description:  English-language forum with a Londonistani accent. The LGF posts re: ummah.com:

Ummah.com Campaign to Whine About "Islamophobic" Sites, Too Much Hate is Bad for Your Mental Health, Ummah.com: The Bin Laden Fan Club, Ummah.com Interested in Security Leak, Death Threats at UK Islamic Forum, Ummah.com Internet Radio Show, RoP Debates Best Method of Genocide, Death Threats at Ummah.com, The Ummah Reviews the Latest Murder Video, Another Batch of RoP Snuff Films, "May Allah Destroy Her", RoP Glorifies Mass Murder, Dozens of Evil Jihad Videos, A Jihad Campfire Tale, Islamic Snuff Movies, An Islamic Call for Genocide, Muslims Celebrate US Deaths, Mujahideen Sniper Movies, The Ummah is Seething, Religion of Peace Mourns Death Cult Leader.

Description:  English-language forum serving as home for refugees from the clearguidance and reviving islam forums. Forum is operated by sasjamal and co. from clearguidance.

Description:  German-based womens' forum.

Description:  The "Islamic Future" forum, first recommended to us early in 2005 by Irhabi007. Note the English-language forum at http://www.islamic-f.net/vbe/.

Description:  Forum of the at-Tibyan publications group which in turn specializes in translating and/or subtitling major ideological and propaganda works of al-Qaida and the global jihad. This forum is reported to have been used by members of the Toronto 17, and is likely to be the forum that brought them together with Irhabi007 since the latter is known to have been associated with at-Tibyan. Domain is registered in the name of an identity theft victim.

Description:  A Turkish-language jihadist forum created by Alptekin Gungor, founder of the Ansar al-Islam site cihad.net and its successor, the mucadele.com forum.

Description:  Forum formerly known as abualbokhary.net The site also serves to store and distribute a large collection of files.

Description:  Palestinian forum of the global jihadist. Site is based in Gaza and so has a certain sympathy with/for Hamas.

Description:  Salafyist forum. Source of the "Rakan bin Williams" article distributed by the GIMF, and analyzed here: Rakan ben Williams: The Next Generation of Jihadi Terrorists in Europe

Description:  Arab Islamist physics site with an entire section dedicated to nuclear physics and the development of an "Islamic" nuclear weapon.

Description:  The "paradise" forum.

Description:  A leading French-language forum of the global jihad, operated by the the Islamic Center of Belgium.

Description:  Jihadi hacker forum with strong ties to online criminal activity.

Description:  Jordanian jihadi forum which brought itself to our attention by helping to organize attacks against our site.

Description:  Official site of Mohammed Al-Massari's Tajdeed/Committee for the Defense of Legitimate Rights organization based in London.

Alias: tajdeed.org