Web site declares al-Qaeda's founding in UK: report

[maddezmom]

Source: Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's intelligence services are investigating an Islamist Web site that says it is establishing a branch of al Qaeda in Britain, BBC television reported on Tuesday.

According to the report, security experts fear a posting on the site, www.alekhlaas.net, declaring "the creation of the al Qaeda organization in Britain" may be genuine.

"You don't ignore this sort of thing," Pauline Neville-Jones, the former head of the British joint intelligence committee, told the program.

"It may not be a threat from an existing cell... but it does represent a move in the propaganda game and the propaganda game is not something we should ignore. This is after all a struggle over ideology."



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080116/wl_nm/britain_alqaeda_website_dc

[Star80]

1. Sorry, Looks Like Bunk

urls listed from the yahoo site link to a message board which links to bs sites that also link to bs sites...

Anyone can make a web page that says _anything_.

Can some techies look into these and see if we can get a /whois on any of the sites? IP lookup? DNS?

Thanks.

[dipsydoodle]

3. Here's the actual Reuters link

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2008-01-16T091634Z_01_L15352006_RTRUKOC_0_UK-BRITAIN-ALQAEDA-WEBSITE.xml

I found that quite easily cross linking from Yahoo.

[dipsydoodle]

2. That was from last night's BBC Newsnight

You can watch it here : http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_4670000/newsid_4679900/4679986.stm?bw=bb&mp=wm&news=1&bbcws=1

Please note : that exact link may possibly only work today as it could subsequently be changed to Newsnight for 16th January. Were that to happen you'd need to search for it here using this link and checking 15th January : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/default.stm

[conspirator]

4. Be afraid. Be very afraid.They should treat al-qaeda as any other criminal organization

why the publicity?