Thursday, June 21, 2007

A List of Terrorists' Blogs

Following previous posts "Full List of Hezbollah's Internet Sites", and "Hezbollah's DNS Service Providers from 1998 to 2006", here's a list of terrorist/jihadists related blogs hosted at Wordpress.com, spreading propaganda, violent videos, and yes, glorifying terrorism. The raw content is fascinating, and the main idea behind this multilingual propaganda translations are to wage a "battle of ideas".

The list and associated analyses :


Keywords density :
you 531
allah 493
their 381
they 312
them 306
which 278
we 269
his 266
not 253
have 251


Keywords density :
die 389
der 374
von 215
ist 187
sie 175
den 163
zu 161
das 143
dass 136
es 129


Keywords density:
he 33
his 25
we 25
they 23
allah 23
news 23
shaykh 17
people 16
wa 16
fighting 14


Keywords density:
he 186
his 147
not 124
allah 122
him 106
they 104
them 82
one 73
you 69
their 66

The following are no longer updated :

Here are some more worth going through or crawling :

As always these are just the tip of the iceberg, but yet another clear indication of the digitalization of jihad.
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MANPADS and Terrorism

Can terrorist entities easily obtain shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles and how are they achieving it? How is sensitive military technology leaking into the hands of those supposedly not in a position to take down modern aircraft? Did the overall shift of discussion aiming to shred more light into the guerilla type of asymmetric dominance terrorists have, excluded the real discussion of how MANPADS and night vision equipped fighters take lifes on a daily basis in the very sense of conventional warfare?

FAS analyst Matt Schroeder tries to answer these questions in a recently released publication entitled "Global efforts to control MANPADS" :

"Preventing the acquisition and use of man-portable air defence systems (MANPADS) by terrorists and rebel groups has been a matter of concern since the early 1970s. However, despite the persistence of the threat MANPADS pose to aviation, it was the 2002 al-Qaeda attack on an Israeli civilian aircraft flying out of Mombassa, Kenya, that focused world attention on the issue. This introductory section continues by providing some basic information on the development and main types of MANPADS and their capabilities. Section II of this appendix gives an overview of the main threats posed by the weapon. Section III reviews efforts to control the weapon prior to the Mombassa attack, and section IV examines contemporary counter-MANPADS efforts. Section V presents some concluding observations and recommendations for further action."

Export controls, stockpile destruction, physical security and stockpile management practices, buy-back programmes, and active defence measures: airports and airliners are among the key topics discussed. Here's a related post on the topic "Video Shows Somali Insurgent with Sophisticated SA-18 Missile" as well.

Images courtesy of a MANPADS related article in the second issue of the Technical Mujahid E-zine.
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