Islamic terrorists are using the popular Internet gateway Yahoo.com for indoctrination and incitement, according to a monitor of Middle East media.
One of the most popular sites is http://geocities.yahoo.com/, which rents space for users to construct their own websites, the Middle East Media Research Institute reported.
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Among the terrorist websites hosted by Yahoo is http://www.geocities.com/esknas/index.html, which includes the speeches of al-Qaida's leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and videos showing executions of hostages.
The site's front page begins with the following message:
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"Oh believers, do not form an allegiance with the Jews and the Christians; they are allied with each other. He who forms an allegiance with them is one of them, and Allah will not guide the oppressors (Koran 5:51). The jihad warriors mete out the punishment of Allah, be he praised, to the American and Jewish infidels, and to the murtaddun (apostates)."
The videos of hostage executions are described as "[showing] the slaughter, by jihad fighters, of infidel Christian and Jewish agents, murtaddun, spies, traitors, corrupt [individuals], [members of] the murtadd National Guard, enemies of Islam and of the Muslims and Shi'ite infidels."
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The list of videos available on the site includes:
- "Execution of Nick Berg
- Slaughter of Jack Hansley
- Execution of an American spy
- Slaughter of [Eugene] Armstrong
- Execution of Syousei Kouda
- Slaughter of Paul Johnson
- Slaughter of Kin Sun
- Slaughter of a murtadd
- Slaughter of an American from the CIA
- Slaughter of the Jew Daniel Pearl
- Slaughter of a Nepali
- Slaughter of Kenneth Bigley
- Slaughter of a murtadd...
- Slaughter of a murtadd engineer
- Slaughter of 11 [members of] the National Guard..."
The terrorist organizations also disseminate their messages on Yahoo forums and form discussion groups.
One discussion group, called Modjahede, includes links to Islamist sites and to videos distributed by terrorist organizations.
It also has guides for building and operating conventional and nuclear weapons.
WND reported in February that 22 out of 25 primary websites for the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah are hosted by U.S. companies.
Internet Haganah, an organization that works to uncover and shut down websites affiliated with the global jihad, said it had been tracking and monitoring 25 major Hezbollah sites and found that, aside from two established in Iran and one in the UK, the rest of the Hezbollah sites were hosted by American companies. Israeli security sources confirmed the organization's findings.
One year ago, official Hamas websites being hosted in the U.S. were shut down following inquiries by WND for an article about the terror group's online activities in Western countries.
Hamas had been using the Internet – through service companies in the U.S., Eastern Europe and East Asia – to maintain communication with its own networks, talk to other terror organizations and spread anti-Israel and anti-American terrorist propaganda to large audiences, intelligence sources said.
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