November 12, 2009

Predictable: Hasan Chatting it Up With American Jihadis

So, who will we find out Hasan has been hanging out with online?

Behind door number one we have the friends of North Carolina's favorite son Samir Khan, over at his personal website or the Ansar al-Jihad forum. Samir's being the most popular domestic terror support blog and his forum the most active for jihadi fifth columnists in the US.

Behind door number two we have Joseph "Youssef al-Khattab" Cohen and his buddies at the Islamic Thinkers Society of New York. Khattab being quite the social networker who recently admitted to being online friends with several indicted and convicted jihadis.

Behind door number three we have all my old buddies who were so displeased with the way I ran things once upon a time that they started their own "Anti-Imperialist Forum". That kind of pan-Muslim-nationalism-as-jihadism seems plausible as a place for Hasan to hang out in cyber space.

And behind door number four we have Anwar al-Awlaki's site (soon back online!), which isn't a "forum" per se, but did have an active commenting section filled with self-identified Americans.

The caveat here, of course, is that all four of these websites are interconnected and there is a revolving door of membership between them.

WaTimes:

Maj. Hasan made some of the contacts while visiting known jihadist chat rooms on the Internet, according to one of The Times' sources, a senior FBI official. He said that several people with whom Maj. Hasan was in contact had been the focus of investigations by the FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force.

The other source, a military intelligence official, said those in contact with Maj. Hasan are located both in the U.S. and overseas. The official said they are "broadly known and characterized as Islamic extremists if not necessarily al Qaeda." ...

These ties are in addition to Maj. Hasan's already-reported links to radical Imam Anwar al-Awlaki, who called Maj. Hasan a "hero" on a blog post about last week's Fort Hood shooting, which left 13 dead and 29 wounded.

Very very interesting. Any one have a guess as to Hasan's chat room handle?

Thanks to Hot Air's headline thingy.


By Rusty at November 12, 2009 12:01 PM | | l digg this