Al Qaeda Internet

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  Find Ways to End Terror Activities on Internet, White House Tells Tech Companies

  Stating that terrorist outfits like al Qaeda and ISIS are using the internet and social media to radicalise people, the White House has urged technology companies to come out with ways to end what it described as "terrorist safe havens in cyber space".

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  'Internet, Social Media Firms Should Brief UN on Tackling Extremists'

  UN experts said such a briefing could help the 15-committee members on whether UN sanctions should be expanded.

• Yasin Bhatkal motivated recruits through Osama videos, reveals chargesheet

  Indian Mujahideen (IM) co-founder Yasin Bhatkal was inspired by Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden and showed his videos to young men to motivate them to sacrifice their lives in the name of 'jihad', according to the chargesheet filed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA).

• Kenya mall siege: Twitter pulls accounts as group boasts of Nairobi attack

  As gunshots and explosions rocked Nairobi's Westgate mall, those behind the horrifying attack used Twitter to provide something of a running commentary of events.

• Terrorists turn to online chat rooms to evade US intelligence

  Al Qaeda fighters have been using secretive chat rooms and encrypted Internet message boards for planning and coordinating attacks, including the threatened if vague plot that US officials say closed 19 diplomatic posts across Africa and the Middle East for more than a week.

• Al Qaeda pledges to free Guantanamo inmates

  Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri slammed US treatment of hunger striking inmates at Guantanamo Bay and said the group would spare no effort to free them, according to an audio recording posted on the Internet on Wednesday.

• As Pakistan votes, the military watches sternly from its barracks

  When a rock-band song mocking Pakistan's army was mysteriously blocked on Internet sites recently, no one was surprised. But, as political parties jousted their way to this Saturday's elections, it was a small reminder of where power really lies.

• Al Qaeda claims wave of Iraq attacks that killed 52

  Al Qaeda's Iraqi affiliate said it was behind a wave of attacks that killed 52 people and wounded more than 220, in a statement posted on jihadist Internet forums on Wednesday.

• Syrian rebel films himself shooting 10 prisoners

  New footage posted on the Internet appears to have been filmed by a Syrian rebel who points the camera along the barrel of his gun as he shoots 10 unarmed prisoners.

• Al Qaeda's No. 2 in Yemen says in audio he's alive

  An audio recording purported to be of Al Qaeda's No. 2 in Yemen has surfaced on the Internet with the militant figure denying government reports that he was killed in a US drone strike last month.

• Al Qaeda advertises for suicide bombers on the Web

  Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has begun posting Internet advertisements offering training for suicide bombers to target the US, Israel and France. The adverts have been posted on several jihadist Web forums, including Al-Fidaa, Shmoukh al-Islam and Honein.

• Norway mass murderer studied Al Qaeda attacks before rampage

  Norwegian far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik took to the Internet to learn how to carry out a bombing-and-shooting rampage, studying attacks by al-Qaida, Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.

• Al Qaeda sites go silent in possible cyber attack

  Al-Qaeda's main Internet sites have gone silent for more than a week in an unprecedented outage for the extremist network's online forums, analysts said Tuesday. The outage hit a number of online forums including two "flagship" sites, al-Fida and Shamukh al-Islam, which serve as a channel for Al-Qaeda forums, providing a stamp of approval for any a...

• US investigates possible internet threat to New York City

  US law enforcement and counter terrorism officials are trying to figure out the significance of recent occurrences on websites believed to have close links to Al Qaeda, including a graphic some fear could be an attack threat directed at New York City.

• Al Qaeda leader calls for Arab Spring-style revolt in Pakistan

  Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has called on Pakistanis to revolt against their government and military in a video posted on the Internet on Friday, US monitors said. In a 10-minute speech uploaded to jihadist forums, Mr Zawahiri argued that the Pakistani authorities only represented US interests, according to a statement from SITE Intelligence G...