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| U.S. disrupts al-QaedaÂ’s online magazine - Wapo |
| 2013-06-12 |
| Appears al-Qaeda is not yet dead. U.S. disrupts al-QaedaÂ’s online magazine. U.S. intelligence operatives covertly sabotaged a prominent al-Qaeda online magazine last month in an apparent attempt to sow confusion among the groupÂ’s followers, according to officials. The operation succeeded, at least temporarily, in thwarting publication of the latest issue of Inspire, the English-language magazine distributed by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. When it appeared online, the text on the second page was garbled and the following 20 pages were blank. The sabotaged version was quickly removed from the online forum that hosted it, said independent analysts who track Islamist militant Web sites. Does disruption work? Perhaps we should ask Lois Lerner. The decision to disrupt the magazine last month was part of a debate within the Champ administration over the response to online publications that promote radicalization. The debate spiked after the April 15 Boston Marathon bombing. One of the suspects, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, told the FBI that he and his late brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, learned from the magazine how to make the pressure-cooker bombs used in the attack. He also told them they had been inspired by sermons and other material from the Internets, said officials briefed on the disclosures. In light of recent systems disclosure, the paragraph above should prompt a number of questions. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #2 The grauniad is still online. I just checked. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2013-06-12 19:16 |
| #1 photoshop in the red-wire/green-wire article? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2013-06-12 15:19 |