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Terrorism Focus The Jamestown Foundation TerrorismFocus Volume V u Issue 33 u September 18, 2008 TERRORISM FOCUS Volume V g Issue 33 g September 18, 2008 IN THIS ISSUE: * BRIEFS.......................................................................................................1 * Watching the Watchers: A Jihadi View of Terrorism Analysis Websites.......3 * Critical Counterterrorism Messages from the Turkish Generals.................5 * Transatlantic Airline Bombing Case Collapses in the United Kingdom.......6 * Iraqi Military Operation in Diyala Province Risks Renewal of Kurdish-Arab Conflict...................................................................................................8 AUSTRALIAN CONVICTED OF COMPILING TERRORISM MANUAL UNDER For comments or questions about our ANTI-TERRORISM LEGISLATION publications, please send an email to [email protected], or contact us at: 1111 16th St., NW, Suite #320 Washington, DC 20036 T: (202) 483-8888 On September 10 Sydney resident and former Qantas Air baggage handler F: (202) 483-8337 Belal Sadallah Khazaal became the second individual to be convicted http://www.jamestown.org under Australia’s Terrorism Act, introduced in 2003. The conviction by the New South Wales Supreme Court on a charge of “knowingly making The Terrorism Focus is a fortnightly a document connected with assistance in a terrorist act” came as a complement to Jamestown’s Terrorism result of Khazaal’s publication of a 110 page Arabic-language terrorism Monitor, providing detailed and manual, Provisions on the Rules of Jihad - Short Judicial Rulings and timely analysis of developments for Organizational Instructions for Fighters and Mujahidin Against Infidels. policymakers and analysts, informing them of the latest trends in the War on Khazaal published the work in 2003 under the name Abu Mohamed Terror. Attawheedy and posted it to the almaqdese.com website. No verdict was reached on a second charge of urging others to commit a terrorist act. Unauthorized reproduction or redistribution of this or any Jamestown publication is strictly prohibited by law. The police investigation began with a series of interviews by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) in April 2004, followed by a search of Khazaal’s home in May Copyright ©2008 and his arrest in June 2004. An AFP case officer testified that Khazaal attempted to take the publication down from the almaqdese.com website following the search of his house (News.com.au, August 25). To subscribe to Terrorism Focus, visit http://www.jamestown.org or email [email protected] 1 TerrorismFocus Volume V u Issue 33 u September 18, 2008 Defense claims that the book was simply a collation of of material downloaded from the internet. The material articles dealing with terrorism were damaged by the was described as being mostly “of a general nature on explicit lists of individuals and countries targeted for Islamic jurisprudence: on marriage, fasting, prayers, assassination or terrorist attacks. The latter list included divorce” (The Australian, August 27). Khazaal’s home country of Australia. While the first half of the book focused on religious rulings concerning jihad, the second half described methods of assassination, Khazaal is facing a possible 15 years in prison on the kidnapping, sniping, setting booby-traps, poisoning, conviction and may be retried on the second charge. ambushing vehicles and shooting down planes (The Australian, September 11). Among several bizarre methods of assassination cited was a suggestion that “cake-throwing” could be made fatal by using adhesives INDIAN MUJAHIDEEN EXPLOIT INTERNET SECURITY instead of sweets, thus blinding and asphyxiating the WEAKNESSES IN BOMBING ATTACKS victim. Another method called for sealing an abducted victim in a strong plastic bag, which would leave no marks on the body and could leave the impression it was A lengthy email statement claiming responsibility for the suicide (Melbourne Herald Sun, August 15). The defense September 13 bombings in New Delhi that killed over argued that the methods described were only “very, very 30 people and wounded over 100 more was issued only general” (Sydney Morning Herald, August 21). minutes before the attack began. Khazaal’s attorney, George Thomas, suggested Khazaal The 13-page Indian Mujahiden (IM) email (which included was not responsible for the content of the book as he video and graphics) was sent to various TV stations from had plagiarized all of it from other sources with the [email protected] (al-Arbi = “The Arab”), the same exception of three paragraphs. Prosecutors argued that address used in the IM statement that accompanied the Khazaal had given the content his personal endorsement July 26 Ahmedabad bombings (see Terrorism Focus, by publishing it under his own name (Sydney Morning August 5). IM is believed to be a front for the radical Herald, September 11; The Australian, September 11). Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). The defense also suggested Khazaal was acting in a professional capacity as a journalist, producing an expired membership card for the New South Wales branch of the The IM message informs the Indian government that Australian Journalists Association (News.com.au, August the movement will “make you face the disastrous 25). Another witness testified that Khazaal was the consequences of the injustice and oppression inflicted author of two Arabic-language books and involved in the upon the Muslims all over the country… We will continue publication of a Sydney magazine called Nida’ul Islam to punish you even before your earlier wounds have (The Call of Islam) (Melbourne Herald Sun, August 26). healed.” The bombings are intended to “prove to you the ability and potential of [the] Indian Mujahideen to assault any city of India at any time.” The Delhi bombings A number of groups claiming to represent Australia’s are described as “a tribute to all our brethren martyrs 280,000 Muslims have attacked the conviction and the in Kashmir.” The authors included a challenge to Indian Terrorism Act. A spokesman for the Forum on Australia’s police: “Do whatever you want and stop us if you can” Islamic Relations suggested: “These terror laws have (Times of India, September 14; The Hindu, September specifically made every Muslim a potential target for 14). arrest by police” (Reuters, September 11). Within hours of the New Delhi attack Indian investigators A member of the Muslim Community Reference Group (a arrived at the originating point of the email, the offices of contact group created by the Australian government to Kamran Power Control Pvt Ltd, located in the Chembur improve relations with the Muslim community) was asked suburb of Mumbai, where they began searching through to spend two days examining Khazaal’s library of 3,000 the company’s computers for evidence (Times of India, books, 2,600 audiotapes, 600 videos and 40,000 pages September 14; The Hindu, September 14). The 25-year- 2 TerrorismFocus Volume V u Issue 33 u September 18, 2008 old firm manufactures electronic control panels for Watching the Watchers: A Jihadi View of industrial use. It was eventually determined that the Terrorism Analysis Websites email’s author had hacked into the company’s wireless network. Once in a while jihadi internet forums draw their members’ attention to Western tracking of such websites by posting The Mumbai firm’s wireless network was unsecured, messages analyzing terrorism monitoring agencies, often making it a simple task for IM to hack into it. The Indian with comments on some of the better-known terrorism government has been slow to develop cyber-crime analysts. A recent posting entitled “Know your enemy from legislation and internet security provisions and software monitoring and analysis websites” probes and categorizes are widely ignored. A New Delhi-based internet security some of these agencies (al-ekhlaas, September 5). firm estimates that “Ninety-nine percent of people [in India] don’t know how to secure their wireless connection, even big companies” (Economic Times [India], September 14). In this posting, a jihadi forum member, nicknamed Zamjari, lists some terrorism monitoring agencies in the West and describes their analytical methods. “I offer this humble effort to jihadi brothers and Islamic jihadi intelligence This is the third time IM has hacked into a computer’s men as a simple collection effort on the activities of wireless internet connection to make a claim of enemy intelligence websites in these crucial times. Dogs responsibility in a terrorist attack. The IM leadership and spies scattered in the Islamic forums should know is believed to include several IT experts, including its that the mujahideen’s intelligence is tracking them leader, former software engineer Abdul Subhan Qureshi, before and after they collect any information on us,” says and a computer graphics designer from Gujarat named Zamjari, who divides the monitoring websites into three Qayamuddin. An email claim of responsibility for the categories: July 26 blasts in Ahmedabad was traced to the Mumbai computer of an American national who was cleared of any role in the case after it was determined his WiFi connection had been hacked. The last three IM email 1) Translation Websites: messages have all come from Mumbai, thought to be Abdul These websites provide translations of jihadi media, Subhan’s base (Times of India, September 14). Besides including audio, video and periodicals. These websites the Mumbai-based Subhan, a number
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