Item 1: Conflicting Reports on the Status of Abu Musaab al-Zarqawi

Item 2: Al-Qaeda Core Member Saif al-Adl Publishes Zarqawi’s Jihad Biography

Item 3: Death by PowerPoint?

Item 4: Jihadist Training Material Distributors Using US Government Materials to Encourage English-Speaking Jihadists

Item 5: Radical Sheikh Abu Busira al-Tartousi Directs a Warning to US Embassy in London

Item 6: Zarqawi’s Network Posts Pictures of Dead US Soldier, Asks That Family be Notified

Item 7: Items Available: The Mujahideen Explosives Handbook and the Mujahideen Poisons Handbook

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 May 27, 2005