October 10, 2007

WaTimes: Blogs Target Online Jihadis

The Jawa Report and other online communities make the front page of the Washington Times. Audrey Hudson writes:

Ordinary Americans are tracking down U.S. Web sites used by al Qaeda and jihadi sympathizers and then using the Internet to persuade the service providers to snuff out the sites....

Asked why he does it, "Mr. Shackleford" said, "Because my wife won't let me go shoot them."

"I'm just doing my part, but it's also very exciting," says "Mr. Shackleford" who claims to have destroyed 30 Web sites.

Information for contacting servers hosting this and other Web sites can be found at My Pet Jawa.

"These are terrorists and terrorist supporters who use the Web to recruit people. They propagandize, they coordinate, and they raise money. That is what the bad guys are doing, and there are other private citizens who counter that," "Mr. Shackleford" said.

Read the rest. Aaron from Internet Haganah is also in the article and he also tells the real reason that "Obelisk" was shut down.

By Rusty Shackleford, Ph.D. at 09:11 AM | |