Friday, January 05, 2007
'E-Jihad' campaign launched
Terrorism
Continuing the trend within the jihadist Internet community of launching attacks on websites as a form of “electronic jihad”, or “e-jihad,” a message was recently circulated among jihadist forums in which a member suggests launching the “Electronic Attack of al-Fallujah”. Desiring to hit the websites of economic interest to the United States, Britain, Israel, and Arab countries and companies led by those who “pretend to be Muslims,” the member advices others to download hacking tools from an electronic jihad website and begin by striking the Egyptian website of Procter & Gamble, www.pg.com.eg . He also requests lists of similar companies, but for those compiling the lists to be “dead sure” of accuracy, for they do not want to hurt someone by mistake. As of Thursday, January 4, 2007, the Egyptian website of Procter & Gamble is down.
