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Al-Qaeda Web Sites Go Offline

thefickler writes "Four out of the five Al-Qaeda online forums have disappeared. The terrorist group used these forums to relay messages to its supporters. The four that have gone missing seem to have taken a hit back on September 10, the day before the annual video marking the 9/11 attacks was due to be disseminated. No one knows who is responsible for the sites' disappearance."

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  1. good. by swschrad · · Score: 3, Funny

    but you know it means they're doing something else now.

    I suspect it's how Sarah Palin jokes are strung together that is the new medium. they're ubiquitous and cannot be stopped by any force known to mankind.

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  2. Obviously by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    The sites were no longer needed -- they decided that Facebook was finally good enough for their purposes. Here's A BIG BEAR HUGG!! RAWRRR!

  3. Re:fp by BrentH · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think I speak for all of us when I say: Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.

  4. Take down notice by symes · · Score: 4, Funny

    ZZ Top issued a take down notive under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act...

  5. Hrm... by colonslashslash · · Score: 5, Funny

    US military Cyber Warfare project starts up again, and suddenly Osama's MySpace gets ruined. Coincidence?

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  6. Not offline, just moved by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Isn't it obvious? Al Qaeda have simply moved all their secret servers to IPv6.

    (Meant as a joke, but probably not that bad for security through obscurity considering the current IPv6 adoption rates...)

  7. Re:That's cos they use child porn now. Ya rly. by writermike · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, really. Apparently.

    In one of the most transparently stupid "LOOK! TERRORISTS!" stories to date, The Times has "exclusively" published a report claiming terrorists are hiding their secret terrorist messages inside child pornography.

    OH MY GOD! Those long nights where I stared intently, deeply into into the Goatse image. I knew there was something else there. IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW!

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  8. This one's still up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    http://www.barackobama.com

  9. Re:Yeah... so what? by Macrat · · Score: 5, Funny

    The government budget to run these sites has been transferred to bailing out the banks.

  10. Re:That's cos they use child porn now. Ya rly. by EastCoastSurfer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why not just hide their message in slashdot troll posts? Not like anyone reads them anyways...unless you know what you're looking for...

  11. Re:From the article... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 3, Funny

    As you say, nobody ever found anything useful on whitehouse.gov; but many a curious child found all sorts of information on whitehouse.com. Obviously, Mr. Kohlmann is an al-Qaeda plant, informing the other operatives that the real website is just a TLD away from the one that got shut down.

  12. Re:Athiest, Atypical by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Whoosh! That is to say, my post (a rather feeble joke) referred to the fact that the OP misspelled "atheist" -- consistently, whereas you misspelled it only twice.

    Congratulations on getting "symmetric" right.

  13. Re:That's cos they use child porn now. Ya rly. by Fumus · · Score: 5, Funny

    This would also be incredibly disheartening to the investigators, whereas they used to just have to send the messages to decoders and translators, now that message is in a despicable photo or video that someone will have to watch, tell me that isn't going to leave a few scars.

    So the terrorists should use the goatse guy for hiding their messages. He seems spacious enough.

  14. Oh my Gawd... by gchesney0001 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Some much for net-neutrality.

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  15. Re:That's cos they use child porn now. Ya rly. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    This is the most farcical episode in human history, Al-Qaeda was the name of a CIA database. I read that recent Jacqi Smith "severe end of severe" comment as an admission we're going to see another false flag op. How many Reichstag fires do we need before even the "raw stupid" catch on?

  16. Re:That's cos they use child porn now. Ya rly. by wellingj · · Score: 2, Funny

    I new there was something evil about LOLcats.

  17. Re:That's cos they use child porn now. Ya rly. by wellingj · · Score: 5, Funny

    HTML FAIL!

  18. You know what this means, don't you? by RepelHistory · · Score: 2, Funny

    It means we're winning.

  19. Re:That's cos they use child porn now. Ya rly. by eln · · Score: 4, Funny

    So the terrorists should use the goatse guy for hiding their messages. He seems spacious enough.

    As an added bonus, their fellow terrorists will lose the will to live after staring at the goatse guy long enough to decode the message, making them perfect recruits for suicide bombings.

  20. Re:The trouble begins... by Locke2005 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Very bad, very bad when drums stop."
    "Why? What happens then?"
    "Bass solo!"

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  21. Re:Yeah... so what? by ma1wrbu5tr · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, the "terrorists" are done cleaning up after manipulating the market and making billions of whatever currency they use, so there's no need for those sites anymore. They have a new geocities URL. And will be conducting business as usual. Just like WAMUJPMorganChase.

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  22. Re:So what are the URLs? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    You were marked troll for your foul language. Try harder next time bitch.

  23. Re:That's cos they use child porn now. Ya rly. by fm6 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Shut up, Abdul.

  24. Re:That's cos they use child porn now. Ya rly. by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 3, Funny

    No way. Everyone knows the terrorists are really hiding their secret messages in music and movies on BitTorrent sites and in easter eggs contained in cracked software. And the source code for the Linux kernel is also one big long top secret terrorist messages. And if you listen carefully to what Steve Jobs has to say, every third word is accented in a funny way so as to convey a hidden terrorist message.

  25. Re:fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's just cuntpaste.

  26. Re:That's cos they use child porn now. Ya rly. by AttillaTheNun · · Score: 2, Funny
    The goatse guy needs to step forward and identify himself.

    Seriously, if I were him, I wouldn't want to be associated with terrorists. I'd want to clear my name of such despicable behavior.