Al-Qaeda Hacker Caught

anaesthetica writes "The Washington Post is carrying a story on a young man suspected to be the al-Qaeda hacker 'Irhabi 007'. From the article: 'Celebrated for his computer expertise, Irhabi 007 had propelled the jihadists into a 21st-century offensive through his ability to covertly and securely disseminate manuals of weaponry, videos of insurgent feats such as beheadings and other inflammatory material... The Internet has presented investigators with an extraordinary challenge. But our future security is going to depend increasingly on identifying and catching the shadowy figures who exist primarily in the elusive online world.'"

Comments

Don't tell Bush...

[netguardianii]

...or he just might plan an invasion of online forums!

Re:hold on hold on hold on

[scum-e-bag]

Goebbels never killed anyone directly, but he was still a Nazi.

You can play semantics if you want, the rest of us will live in the real world.

...and by that logic, we should kill nearly every German who was alive during WWII as they were nazis too.

You can continue to live in your fantasy world, i'll remain in the real world. :P

Re:Hacker? How about script kiddie?

[sgt_doom]

Even more to the point, there are still too many people out there who believe in this al-Qaida fiction/nonsense!!!

Didn't that group first appear in Batman comics around 1990? Just like that Avian Flu (which, BTW, What's-his-face Rumsfeld is supposed to have a multi-million dollar stake in the sole company manufacturing the supposed vaccine) which first appeared in Ian Fleming's (007) "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (that's the book, dudes & dudettes) as one of SPECTRE's weapons.

These fictions, just like WMDs in Iraq, are very convenient fictions for the Bushies to continue to steal from the US Treasury......