Al Qaeda Online

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  Over 100,000 Britons Petition To Ban Donald Trump From UK

  More than 100,000 Britons have signed an online petition to ban US Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump from the country following his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States.

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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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  Al Qaeda in North Africa Denies US Strike Killed Ex-Chief Mokhtar Belmokhtar

  Al Qaeda in North Africa has denied reports its former leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar was killed in a US air strike last week in Libya, in a statement posted online overnight.

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  US Labels Al Jazeera Bureau Chief as Al Qaeda Member

  The US government has labelled Al Jazeera's bureau chief in Pakistan's capital as a member of Al Qaeda and put him on a watch list of suspected terrorists, an online magazine reported.

• Al Qaeda Denies Decline, Acknowledges 'Mistakes' By Its Branches

  Al Qaeda dismissed as "lies" a US assessment that it is in decline, but a defiant online message issued by the network on Sunday made no mention of the ultra-hardline Islamic State group widely seen as its rival for the leadership of global jihad.

• Syria crisis: West struggles to cope with online recruitment for jihad

  "I am French," explains the young man in the YouTube video carrying a Kalashnikov and wearing a kufiya cotton headdress as he sits in front of a waving black-and-white flag of Al Qaeda.

• 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.

• Boston Marathon blasts suspect downloaded bomb instructions from Al Qaeda magazine, say prosecutors

  Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev downloaded bomb-making instructions from an Al Qaeda magazine, gathered online material on Islamic jihad and martyrdom and later scrawled anti-American messages inside the boat where he lay wounded.

• US offers $5M for arrest of tweeting US jihadi

  Will the allure of a $5 million reward be the downfall of a tweeting, rapping American jihadi who once fought alongside the Somali militant group al-Shabab but now denounces their methods and motivations in online feuds?

• Osama spent wealth on jihad, feeding guests: Al Qaeda

  Osama bin Laden spent all his personal wealth on jihad, considering meat and electricity as luxuries so he could save his money to help fund terror attacks. Osama's deputy and successor Ayman al-Zawahiri posted his recollections of the former Al Qaeda chief which was posted online late on Saturday.

• Words to avoid online to stop US agencies from spying on you

  "Cloud", "team" and "Mexico" - these are some of the words used by government spies to scour social networking sites and online media for evidence of threats to the US, it has emerged.

• 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...

• Iraq Al Qaeda says US withdrew to save money

  The US pulled its troops out of Iraq because its economy is collapsing and it needed to save money, an Al Qaeda front group said in a message posted on its website on Wednesday, its first online comment since the US completed its pullout last month after nine years of war.

• Sydney Opera House photo on Al Qaeda website

  Police have cautioned Australians to be vigilant after an Al Qaeda-linked online magazine published a picture of Sydney's iconic Opera House. They have expressed concern about the influence on the local Islamic community of the magazine's extremist literature.

• Hackers 'disrupt' Qaeda's online networking

  Computer hackers have disrupted Al Qaeda's ability to communicate via internet by interrupting the flow of videos and messages of the outfit, an anti-terror expert said.The attack was reportedly carried out by unknown hackers in the past few days."Al Qaeda's online communications have been temporarily crippled, and it does not have a single trusted...