Item 1: Identity Theft and Jihad

Item 2: Hamas’ new propaganda wing: Al-Aqsa television

Item 3: Jihadist Groups in Iraq Announce Council to Improve Coordination

Item 4: The Islamic Army in Iraq Culls Open Source Western Media for Indications of Progress

Item 5: Algerian al-Qaeda Branch Comes Out with Latest Edition of Internet Magazine

Item 6: Jihadist Websites Urge Boycott of Danish Goods in the Middle East in Response to Political Cartoons

Item 7: Video Available: “The Jihad Academy”

The Terror Web Watch collects intelligence through active monitoring of Jihadist and other threat group web sites, forums, and other communication environments. Terrorists and their supporters call it Jihad electroni, the electronic Jihad. For them, exploiting the Internet is considered a vital part of raising money, spreading their ideology, building up support, and inspiring others to become terrorists. To a lesser extent, the Internet is also used for training, by circulating training manuals and videos, for discussing targets, and for planning and organizing operations.

Given how important the Internet is to terrorists and to the greater radical Islamist movement that supports them, monitoring the activities of terrorists and suspected terrorists in cyberspace should be nearly as paramount as monitoring their activities on the ground.

Terror Web Watch for January 27, 2006