Item 1: News reports of the announcement of the death Osama bin Laden on a Jihadist website based on false information.

Item 2: Zarqawi reads aloud to the Mujahideen from The Washington Post.

Item 3: Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula resumes publication of “Sawt al-Jihad.”

Item 4: Detailed manual on the use of poisons, chemicals, and toxins by Al-Qaeda poisons’ expert and Zarqawi spiritual leader available on the Internet.

Item 5: Syrian Jihadist website indicates that the government is finally cracking down on terrorists traveling to Iraq through Syria.

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 for April 29, 2005