Special Dispatch - Jihad & Terrorism Studies Project
December 6, 2005
No. 1039

Terrorist and Inciting Messages on Yahoo

Internet sites are one of the major platforms used by terrorist
organizations for indoctrination and incitement. One of the sites used by
Islamist terrorist organizations and activists is Yahoo
(http://geocities.yahoo.com/) which rents space for users to construct their
own websites.

This dispatch follows two reports released last year by MEMRI on "Islamist
Websites and Their Hosts"(1), which resulted in several websites hosted in
the U.S. being shut down.

Among the websites hosted by Yahoo is
http://www.geocities.com/esknas/index.html, which features, among other
things, the speeches of Al-Qaeda Leader in Iraq Abu Mus'ab Al-Zarqawi, and
videos showing executions of hostages.

The front page of the site starts with the following message: "Oh believers,
do not form an allegiance with the Jews and the Christians; they are allied
with each other. He who forms an allegiance with them is one of them, and
Allah will not guide the oppressors [Koran 5:51]. The jihad warriors mete
out the punishment of Allah, be he praised, to the American and Jewish
infidels, and to the murtaddun [apostates]."

The videos showing hostage executions are described as "[showing] the
slaughter, by jihad fighters, of infidel Christian and Jewish agents,
murtaddun, spies, traitors, corrupt [individuals], [members of] the murtadd
National Guard, enemies of Islam and of the Muslims and Shi'ite infidels."

The list of videos available on the site includes:

"Execution of Nick Berg
Slaughter of Jack Hansley
Execution of an American spy
Slaughter of [Eugene] Armstrong
Execution of Syousei Kouda
Slaughter of Paul Johnson
Slaughter of Kin Sun [II]
Slaughter of a murtadd
Slaughter of an American from the CIA
Slaughter of the Jew Daniel Pearl
Slaughter of a Nepali
Slaughter of Kenneth Bigley
Slaughter of a murtadd...
Slaughter of a murtadd engineer
Slaughter of 11 [members of] the National Guard..."

Another Islamist website hosted on Yahoo, which seems to be affiliated with
the aforementioned site, is http://www.geocities.com/mojahedoon35/ . This
site features speeches by Osama bin Laden and Abu Mus'ab Al-Zarqawi, as well
as a guide for building and operating weapons(2) and links to other Islamist
sites.(3)

The Islamist terrorist organizations also make use of Yahoo in other ways:
they disseminate their messages on Yahoo forums and form discussion groups
for purposes of indoctrination and incitement. An example is the group
called Modjahede http://groups.yahoo.com/group/modjahede/, which includes
links to Islamist sites, to videos distributed by terrorist organizations(4)
and to guides for building and operating conventional and nuclear
weapons.(5)

Endnotes:
(1) "Islamist Websites and Their Hosts Part I: Islamist Terror
Organizations," Special Report No. 31, July 16, 2004,
http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sr&ID=SR3104 .
"Islamist Websites and their Hosts Part II: Clerics," Special Report No. 35,
November 11, 2004,
http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sr&ID=SR3504 .
(2) http://www.geocities.com/mojahedoon35/as-index.html .
(3) http://www.geocities.com/esknas/arr-index.html .
(4) http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/modjahede/message/16
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/modjahede/message/31 .
(5) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/modjahede/message/19
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/modjahede/message/49
It should be mentioned that the guide for preparing nuclear weapons was
previously posted by another Yahoo group called Mojahedon, which was closed
down. For more information on this, see MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 1004, "On
Islamic Websites: A Guide for preparing Nuclear Weapons," October 12, 2005,
http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP100405 .

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