of Arabic Salafyist/Jihadist forums.
123 Name: muslm.net
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Description: The Salafi forum Ana al-Muslim
("I am Muslm") is the oldest Salafi forum,
having opened in 1996. Generally consider
a Salafi forum, but not necessarily Jihadist,
yet included on this page for good reason.
Name: alfirdaws.org
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Description: The "paradise" forum,
this site was first reported publicly by
us in January of 2005. The was at least
originally, and may still be, linked to a
gentleman in Greece, possibly of Azeri
ethnicity. He appeared on the radar in
October of 2004, at which point he was
very active on the old al-Ansar forum.
Name: alhanein.com
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Description: Egyptian forum of the
global jihad. There is circumstantial
evidence to link this site's members
to jihadist activity in Gaza, and perhaps
also to Hamas. (formerly hanein.org).
456 Name: tajdeed.org.uk
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Description: Official site of Mohammed
Al-Massari's Tajdeed/Committee for the
Defense of Legitimate Rights organization
based in London.
Alias: tajdeed.org
Name: al-boraq.com
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Description: Best known for it's
involvement in attacks against the
rival al-Hesbah forum. Oh, and there
is that small matter of
the death threat they posted against
Aaron Weisburd, the founder of
Internet Haganah and director of SoFIR.
Name: alhesbah.org
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Description: A very exclusive forum
for Al Qaida operatives and supporters.
Curious how the site continues to function
uninterrupted while other forums and the
people who operate them face various hardships...
789 Name: www.alnusra.net
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Description: Typical forum of the type,
operated from Gaza and from time to time
the home of rather detailed discussions
particularly related to weapons development.
After a period of down-time while moving
from one server to another the site
Name: ikhwan.net
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Description: A forum of the Muslim
Brotherhood, and thus its inclusion in
this list is open to question. However,
at the level of the rank and file, there
is overlap, or cross-pollination, between
this forum of the Brotherhood and
those forums that represent the
Salafyist/Jihadist perspective. This
situation is analogous to that of Hamas
(the Gaza branch of the Brotherhood)
and its affinity with al-Qaida and the
global jihad. On 'paper' they are two
distinct strains of radical Islam. On the
ground the dividing lines - if they exist
at all, are blurred.
Name: ekhlaas.org
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Description: The al-Ekhlaas forum
is interesting because it spans the
generations of jihadi forums, dating
as it does to the glory days of the
al-Ansar forum and linked as it was
for a time with Irhabi007. Nowadays
this forum tends to travel in the
company of the less well known al-Boraq site.
101112 Name: al-faloja.com
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Description: AKA alshaf3y.com,
this site was added to our list as the
result of link analysis and what one
might euphemistically describe as
'field observations'.
Name: farouqomar.net
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Description: This site was added to
our list as the result of link analysis and
what one might euphemistically describe
as 'field observations'.
Name: al-ommh.net
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Description: Palestinian jihadist site
formerly known as alommh.net and
alommh.org. The site's principle
administrator is believed to reside
in southern Lebanon
.Description: This site was added to our
list as the result of link analysis and
what one might euphemistically describe
as 'field observations'.
http://internet-haganah.org/hmedia/...afy_forums.html
Originally published at https://warintel.blogspot.com/2007/04/top-12-jahids-forums.html on April 29, 2007.