Al Qaeda to Launch 'Cyber Jihad' November 11?
Al Qaeda has reportedly been distributing "special POINT-AND-CLICK AL QAEDA SOFTWARE" to operatives for a year that will be used en masse starting November 11 against eCommerce sites. The software probably automates a denial-of-service attack, by flooding sites with packets of data. Prediction: November 11 will come and go without any major damage. Either this story is unsubstantiated hype from a disreputable Israeli news site called Debkafile or, if true, won't be all that effective because Al Qaeda has failed at everything it has tried to do since September 11.
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Failed in everything since September 11 2001 ?
First, please mention the year, because many people start to forget it (yes, really).
I will not mention all al qaeda "success" since then (especially in middle east, but you probably don't care about that),
but you should stop telling us your international opinion if you forget the 191 death in 11 march 2004 in Madrid, 209 death in Mubai on 11 July 2006, 57 on november 2003 in Istanbul, 52 on July 7 2005 in London...
How can you say that al qaeda failed on everything they tried since september 11 2001 ?!!
Is it ignorance or stupidity ?
The Madrid bombers were inspired by Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, but were not actually part of the group. It's a fine point, given that Al Qaeda itself is by definition a loose network of groups and that the authorship of the attack is still controversial. But to the best of my knowledge, Madrid wasn't perpetrated by Al Qaeda itself.
9/11 was successful in the eyes of Al Qaeda because their objectives seemed to be to 1) provoke us into an over-reaction that would further divide Muslims from non-Muslims; 2) weaken us economically; and 3) make the U.S. less free. Thanks to our incompetent and reactionary government, they succeeded in spades.
However, attacks in India, Turkey and London completely failed to achieve the objectives of the attackers.
Mike Elgan
Thanks Mike, I agree with you on Islamo-Fascist with a sligh difference, see we are getting close for an agreementī
I think you should include also and top of the list, corrupt regimes who routinely sodomise and torture their political opponents, just type torture in Egypt or in Saudi in youtube to see how those considered moderate Arab states supported by the US are actually the breeding ground for terrorism. I personally see torture as the root of most terrorists. What you have heard about torture in Abu Graib and Gitmo is "kids play" compared to the mind boggling practices by those regimes supported by Bush. So please do your homework on that and see how Israel, Egypt, Saudi, Syria and Libya plus Tunisia and Jordan are helping to make the world the worst place in history.
I alaways think that there is nothing we can not sort it out over a beer- preferably Corona.
It's a question of degrees, I guess.
Regarding Saudi Arabia and Egypt, the former is a borderline fascist state and Egypt isn't fascist at all.
To earn the fascist label, it doesn't matter if you torture dissidents. Torture is simply what happens in the absence of democracy, due process and the rule of law.
Fascism requires the vilification and active destruction of "the other" -- Jews in the case of Nazi Germany, infidels in the case of Al Qaeda -- as a matter of state policy.
Fascism also requires an aim toward totalitarianism, which means that no area of citizen life is outside government interest and control (this is what fascism has in common with communism).
Saudi Arabia gets close to meeting these two criteria, but Egypt doesn't at all.
Egypt follows the old "dictator" model, where they do nasty things only to people who threaten the government. Beyond that, they're less concerned about what people do.
Despite all this, you can understand why the United States and others have alliances with Saudi Arabia and Egypt. If the House of Saud falls, Al Qaeda itself will take over -- no other organization in Saudi Arabia is in a position to do so. The idea of Al Qaeda controlling all that oil wealth, buying nuclear bombs and missiles and using trillions of dollars to arm terrorists worldwide is unthinkable.
And if the Egyptian government were to fall, its replacement would almost certainly be a religious government -- possibly the Sunni Arab version of the Iranian government.
Mike Elgan
No Alternative!- If the House of Saud falls, Al Qaeda itself will take over -- no other organization in Saudi Arabia is in a position to do so-
This is exactly the myth that the Saudi, Egyptian (Syrian ,Israeli and rest of the gang) regimes are creating, which is not true. There are secular silent majority groups in those countries, and whenever a person or a political party shows promise as a decent alternative, it would be destroyed and dealt with instantly to assure the survival of those corrupt regimes. In Egypt there is a huge poplar movement called (Kefaya) which means Enough is Enough, the Egyptian regime attacked their march with security forces stripping and raping woman and sodomising men, too bad CNN did not want to annoy Mubarak, the top of US allies, so no proper coverage was given to that. No coverage means there is nothing to report on that front. The Coptic minorities in Egypt are oppressed daily but the government is turning a blind eye to appease the Wahabi inspired radicals.
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