Saturday, October 18, 2008

Al-Qaeda Web Forums Abruptly Taken Offline - washingtonpost.com

Hmm…

Four of the five main online forums that al-Qaeda's media wing uses to distribute statements by Osama bin Laden and other extremists have been disabled since mid-September, monitors of the Web sites say.

The disappearance of the forums on Sept. 10 -- and al-Qaeda's apparent inability to restore them or create alternate online venues, as it has before -- has curbed the organization's dissemination of the words and images of its fugitive leaders.

Al-Qaeda Web Forums Abruptly Taken Offline - washingtonpost.com

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