I just found this fascinating analysis via Amir Butler's blog. Wow!!I and many other Muslims have long been suspicious of some of these pro-jihad websites that seem to bend over backwards to be "more radical than thou," like Khurasaan.com (now apparently down), Taliban-News.com, and Jihadunspun.net. These websites are characterized by their unusually open support for Usama Bin Ladin, their extremely snazzy, appealing graphics, and their technological sophistication. Visiting them, with their appeals that you "register" to participate in the site, leaves one with the vague feeling that one has stumbled upon an intelligence gathering operation. I first noticed this phenomenon a few years ago, when an extremely well-done website surfaced with all kinds of rousing jihad rhetoric and graphics and links, and a form urging people to "join the jihad!" and sign up with their names and contact info. That tactic is nothing new--Al Muhajiroun has been performing the same function in Britain for several years.
Yeah. They've got graphics. A dead give-away. And that "conference" they held on 9/11 at the Finsbury Park mosque in London was part of the sting. He forgot to mention ClearGuidance. An obvious CIA front. Shhhhh. He's got evidence and stuff.It turns out that indeed US intelligence is apparently supporting at least some of these websites, many of which (like Taliban-News.com) have turned up on PA-based ISP BurstNET. As one FBI agent says: "Often it is more beneficial for us to keep such sites up and running." Apparently the sites have been enjoying Omar Bakri Muhammad-like protection from the domestic intelligence services.
That's right. Our government is forcing ISPs to keep these terrorist sites running because they expect the terrorists will reveal their plans on one of them. That's 'cause we know terrorists are stupid and don't know that the FBI is "supporting" these websites, even though Ismail Royer is on to them. But later on, he sort of switches direction. Maybe the government isn't trying to catch terrorists. It's just trying to corrupt and entrap Muslim youth.Instead of actually authoring the sites, the feds may just be trying to ensure their continuity while naive, impressionable Muslims continue to express and read the unpopular views of other Muslims--an act which, in the post-9/11 world, is potentially criminal. However, there's no getting around the fact that there is something very, very...odd about JihadUnspun.net, for example. It looks like it was put together by several people with computer science and journalism degrees and an unlimited bank account.
Well, that clinches it. None of them terrorist fellas got computer science or journalism degrees, and they certainly don't got no unlimited bank account, neither. It's funny. I've been getting a lot of referrals lately from JihadUnspun. I guess I'm part of that sneaky government conspiracy. Oh,....sorry. Shhhhh.
