EXPOSED !! Jihad Unspun Website is CIA's Creation for Misinformation
This professionally managed website with eyecatching design and graphics and daily news features, video store and reporters emerged on the net sometime after Sept. 11th 2001.
What really struck me as odd was all the professional glitz of the website as well as its deliberate attempt to look Arabic (Notice the Koranic translations with curved font!)
From what I know of pro-jihad websites, they operate on a shoestring budget, provided they happen to find volunteers and donors who are willing to risk being deported and detained. They get kicked off from ISP to ISP and use cheap frontpage templates.
Now getting back to Jihadunspun (JUS), the Related links tab first displayed the address of some muslim name in British Columbia Canada.
Next, take a closer look at the website.....This is a very sophisticated operation and I am sure that even some of its own muslim reporters have no clue what is going on. But again, as the graphic on its homepage portrays Bush on one side and Binladen on the other.
The war of civilisations is on : Binladen after grandly bringing down the towers now seeks to further his Jihad on the West.Secondly, unlike other genuine Jihad sites, there is not even a whisper of conspiracy regarding Sept 11th on this site.
1. The goyim must continue hunting "Al Qaeda"
2 The muslims should resume the "jihad" on the West inaugurated by Binladen.
OR IN OTHER WORDS, NWO/ JEWISH CABBAL/ ILLUMINATI /SATAN/ CIA AGENDA!
There is also another purpose. Suppose Bush is having a real unpopular moment. Jihadunspun could furnish another lab doctored video/audio recording of Binladen urging war on Americans.
Here is what I found in a Chicago Tribune article
Quote:
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Some Web watchers, including Katz, believe the U.S. government may be using the Internet jihad to spy.
A lengthy notice on Jihad Unspun denies the allegations, saying the site is "a labor of love for Allah."
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Labour of love for Allah?
Another tidbit.....
Here is some interesting stuff I found in the contact information under domain name lookup.
Jihad Unspun
Bruce Kennedy, #300 - 1497 Marine Drive
West Vancouver, BC V7T1B8 Canada
+1 604 913 2241, Fax: +1 604 913 2240
bkennedy@jihadunspun.net
Interesting.....who is Bruce Kennedy?
The website is hosted by two servers, one is a rather unheard of server in NWO backyard Canada
209.139.224.132
GT Group Telecom Services Corp. -Pacific
20 Bay Street, Suite 700
Toronto ON
M5J-2N8
Canada
+1-416-848-2000
hostmaster@gt.ca
Apart from jihadunspun.com, These creatures even have $$$ to keep jihadunspun.net registered in their name on another Canadian server .
24.83.123.12
Shaw Communications Inc.
Suite 800
630 - 3rd Ave. SW
CalgaryAB
T2P-4L4
Canada
ipadmin@sjrb.ca
+1-403-750-7428
Now do you suppose these Canadian Companies would be interested in hosting pro-Al Qaeda websites?
In addition, both servers are hosted through YOURGALAXY.COM which seems to be some newfangled business AGAIN in British Columbia Canadafor providing streaming video support for JUS Binladen videos!
E-Tech Computers Inc.
#3080 - 8888 Odlin Cres.
Richmond, British Columbia V6X 3Z8
Canada
jason@gigasales.com
Boy thats a lot of $$$.....if JUS is a genuine Jihad Site, then the Saudis must be pouring in money like sand.
Now here's what happened lately.....
In order to counter the damage done by Azzam.com, JUS published some damage control, which can be best described as the work of some other "Bruce Kennedy" whose experience with Islamic Arabs is Lawrence of Arabia movies and Tintin comics.
AND I INVITE ALL OF YOU TO TAKE A GOOD READ AND JUDGE FOR YOURSELF WHETHER "BRUCE KENNEDY" WILL PLAY A GOOD ARABIAN FEMME ONLINE OR SHOULD BE REPOSTED BACK TO THE CIA RADIO STATION IN ALASKA
The following article appeared on Jihad Unspun "Answering Azzam"
ANSWERING AZZAM.COM
As I sit at the computer tonight to write this, President George W. Bush is busy traveling around the world adding ally after ally to his unjust war against Islam. On the other hand, we, the Muslim Ummah, can’t seem to organize even enough to support each other, let alone organize to fight the enemy. It is a sharp contrast indeed.
From the time I reverted to Islam I have had to come to grips with the sorry state of the Muslim nation. Had I known this in advance, it may have made a difference. I am sure many considering Islam are turned off by the behaviour of Muslims who are supposed to be the most pious of peoples.
The Muslim Ummah needs as many voices as possible, working together in a coordinated effort to lift up the reality of the situation and to strengthen our ranks. These days, this is dangerous business, with attacks from authorities, Jewish vigilante groups and others, who all target sites that simply tell the other side of the story. On top of that, there are the death threats, damage to our privacy, our businesses etc., which is “business as usual” when it comes to publishing information in the West that is contrary to the Bush regime and that is pro-Truth. This we expect and
It is He who keeps us strong in our commitment.
Jihad Unspun has had a clear mandate from the beginning, to keep Muslims and non-Muslims primarily in the West informed of the events of this current conflict and to counter the false success of the American-led Coalition that the daily facts tell us is in perception only! The first casualty of war is truth and peace will never be achieved by ignoring the “great divide” and pretending it doesn’t exist.
JUS has become a major voice for the other side of the war on “terrorism”. As most of our readers know, I started JUS as a Christian after 911 because I came to know that the Muslims were being wrongfully treated and I had the skills, the resources and the conviction to do it. Shortly thereafter, I reverted to Islam and I am required on a daily basis to make sacrifices for this Ummah. One year later, I still sleep in shifts to make sure the news gets out every day and yet it is not even close to being enough that I can do for my Allah.
JUS today is no longer just my effort but rather the effort of a group of individuals who span the globe and who have come together under a common goal. JUS staff members are located in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. We are journalists, writers, graphic artists, IT professionals, translators, and scholars who are for the most part Muslims, with a few exceptions.
Our marketing strategy is unique. We are trying to reach Muslims and non-Muslims primarily in the West in a professional and serious way. We publish both mainstream and uncensored news on the basis that given both sides, viewers will then begin to see that what they are learning from mainstream news is not all there is to the story. Our own material is clearly marked and we do not use the word “terrorist” as, until now, there has been no internationally accepted definition of a “terrorist” however we are not at liberty to edit third party articles. This word is commonly used even in Muslim material and therefore we look for the overall value of a given piece, not in criticism of every word its author has chosen to use.
JUS is a labor of love for Allah, with over 25 active volunteers working in various positions along with a small paid staff. We intend to build it into a large scale publishing house with global reach through our streaming channel, stores and the original productions we have begun to create, if Allah wills.
In recent weeks, JUS has once again come under attack by Azzam Publications and their affiliate Maktabah Al Ansaar - our very brothers in Islam. Although some may consider it flattering that they have acknowledged us as such a formidable competitor, they are fully aware that the information they are disseminating is false and we believe this damages the Ummah. More important is the fact that it shocks us to see to what degree they have ignored the saying of Allah, Exalted and Elevated, in Surah Al-Hujuraat:
To date, we have chosen to ignore their efforts to discredit us as Allah, Exalted and Elevated, tells us about the characteristics of the true Muslims in Surah Al-Furqaan (The Criterion)
Furthermore this does nothing other than help the enemy however we now feel it is our duty to disclose the truth of the matter in an attempt and with the hope of laying the matter to rest and unifying the overall effort for the good of the Ummah we all serve.
Contrary to Azzam’s latest statement, we have experienced a difficult relationship with both Azzam and Maktabah Al Ansaar from the beginning. We came to them in the spirit of cooperation as the new kid on the block and were met instantly with resentment. Our first encounter was indeed an adverse one and over a news item that we published which they confused as an attack on them. We were horrified, as that is not what the item intended or said (we use American English!). To show our good intentions, we published a full retraction – something that is never done in publishing as this tends too weaken the confidence of readers, but nevertheless we put their needs above ours to make sure they were exonerated and we also ran free ads for them as an added gesture. We did not receive even a thank you on this one and this was just the beginning.
We then purchased the exclusive web rights to Osama bin Laden’s Unseen tape from Maktabah Al Ansaar for a large sum of money Why? So that no news network would get to play the REAL Binladen video? asks alphaville81 as a special promotion to launch our JUSPLUS streaming channel with. No sooner was our credit card charged but they were actively on message boards discrediting our exclusive!! This experience is only useful now as they have inferred publicly that we are the CIA. Well, considering they know our real names, our locations and our credit card numbers which they have profited by using, we would like a refund. If they are convinced we are the CIA, they surely wouldn’t want to use our money!!
We still continued in the spirit of cooperation. We approached Maktabah Al Ansaar to joint venture with us on our streaming channel (at no cost to them) and initially they indicated some interest in this initiative. We spent an entire week preparing a proposal they never even bothered to respond to however it didn’t end there. We were then contacted by an employee of Maktabah Al Ansaar telling us that the “boss” had lost his complimentary password to JP and he wanted to have another look at it on the basis of evaluating our proposal. As it was the weekend and tech staff was off, we gave this employee an administrator’s password to the system. A few hours later, the employee contacted us to say and I quote “I lied, I was just bored at work and wanted to watch movies”. Bandwidth costs money, particularly streaming, and needless to say we had to bring a tech in on the weekend to change the passwords on our system. We have never heard another word from Maktabah Al Ansaar on this proposal and frankly I was appalled at the readiness of their staff member to state his less than pious intentions.
Shortly after that, we noticed that Azzam’s Qoqaz URL had been forwarded to Jihad Unspun. Their site had been shut down and now their mirror site was directed to us!! We had offered to help them at one point however no one even contacted us over this and considering they had been shut down by MI5, we would have like to have been at least given a choice to decide whether we wanted to take this on. Shortly thereafter, the Qoqaz URL was also down but not until after we had spent a day writing code to break this forward! In this latest attack by Azzam they claim we have used their “great” image to profile ourselves however this action raises the question whether the reverse was in fact the case.
It gets worse. Azzam was then sending us news by email. Our site is about the war on “terrorism” and therefore news must meet the criteria. There are lots of good dawa sites out there and we are focused on Jihad. We continued to publish their news items that we felt were appropriate for our portal, but once again, we came under the wrath of Azzam, who expected us to publish all of their news regardless of whether it met our mandate or not!!
We stopped carrying Azzam's news for two reasons – first it was inconsistent and so we never knew if the site would be available or if we would receive their news daily or when the next complaint would come. That’s when we secured volunteers to start translating from Pakistan and Urdu dailies. Secondly, we soon discovered that the information in Daily Islam, Ausaf etc was almost identical to that of Azzam’s and because these are established sources that publish also in hard copy, we chose to go this way so that we can be assured that daily we can deliver this kind of news. Legally, if the item is translated, the author of the translation can take credit for it so assuming that Azzam is translating from these sources, they have the right to issue this as their own accreditation however we believe that viewers should know where an article is sourced from so we creditthe original source and show ourselves only as the translators.
I was then contacted by Maktabah Al Ansaar and informed that they had an opportunity to purchase the last will of Al-Hawsni tape however the cost was more than they could afford independently and we were asked to partner with them on this project. I was told that each of us (Maktabah and JUS) would be required to put in 3000 pounds which in Canadian dollars is more than $6,000 or almost a year’s college education. I asked if they could give me 24 hours to take this to our Advisory board, which they agreed to. Thank goodness I now have knowledgeable brothers who know about these matters, as when I discussed this matter with my brothers, the advised me that they had already secured the tape from Saudi Arabia and in fact this type of material doesn’t cost anywhere near that kind of money. I went back to Maktabah Al Ansaar within the allotted time frame, declining their offer and also offering to share our tape with them at no cost. Much to my surprise, they advised me that they had already gone ahead and purchased this tape with the help of other brothers! We wonder to this day what would have happened had we agreed to this large fee considering others had already been involved. That was the last we heard from Maktabah Al Ansaar and to date we have only ever purchased only one video from them.
The alleged Osama bin Laden statement recently published on Azzam's site we do not believe is Osama bin Laden’s. We ignored this piece until we realized that many viewers were sending it in thinking it was authentic. Many things in this alleged address didn’t add up for us but we eventually published it with an Editor’s note, sharing our concerns. We have translated hundreds of pages of OBL and have some expertise in this area. We believe that it is our job to share what information we have so that our viewers have all of the facts. Today, we still do not believe this is authentic OBL for the following reasons:
It has never appeared on Arab sources that are known for disseminating OBL material - not on Al Jazeera, not on Alneda, Jehad.net or any of the known places for this information. Bin Laden always issues statements through Arab sources, which Azzam is not.
It was unsigned and undated and until recently, no accreditation whatsoever appeared about the source of this alleged address when it first appeared on Azzam’s site. Azzam now attributes this piece to Yosi Fouda however one thing is for sure, Fouda has ties to Al Jazeera and if this were a legitimate piece, AJ would have run it. Alternately, if it was real – it would be everywhere!!
The content of this piece is not typical Bin Laden and it is a stretch to think that he would address the American media. He cares not what the American press thinks, which on any given day says a variety of things about him. He cares about Allah and the Ummah. Further, the alleged statement came only a few days following his last major statement, which was the first in a long while and it defies logic that he would risk issuing another address within such a short time frame.
Even the opening statement of this address negates his previous positions which to date have been absolutely consistent.
This is strictly our opinion but one that is founded on the same basis that we determine the authenticity of any other piece that we publish. If we have concerns about its authenticity, we flag it with an Editor’s note and we leave the decision to our viewers, who have their own intelligence with which to make a decision.
Azzam’s latest slight against JUS comes over the alleged casualty shot that is currently published on their site and raises the possibility that our brothers do not know how to verify a valid photograph when they see one. We did not pick this picture up as it is obviously computer-generated, which even the untrained eye can see. We have not addressed this is a major way on the site to avoid embarrassing our brothers but we publish it now here so that in future, everyone will have the knowledge to determine whether a photograph is authentic or not.
We would all love to have an abundance of visual proof of what we know is the truth about American casualties, which is near impossible considering the current state of lock down in Afghanistan. The alleged casualty has two big problems – there are two different resolutions in one picture which only results in computer-generated art and it lacks perspective (the soldier is laid over the rocks without the proper perspective that would occur in real life). Below you will find the alleged casualty, along with what we believe may be the original shot (from CNN) and another shot we have created using the same source photo and a different background. You be the judge.
We do not believe that publishing this kind of information helps the Muslims cause. We must put out valid material if we are to be taken seriously.
As a revert, I come willingly to Islam – I am not a Muslim in name but in faith. I have been blessed with some very knowledgeable brothers who assist me daily to understand Islam’s practical application. I have tried in every possible way to support the efforts of Azzam and Maktabah Al Ansaar however I do not serve either – I serve Allah and Allah expects me to publish at the best level possible, even when it is unpopular.
The timing of this latest attack is curious indeed – it came only a day after we launched our Video Store. Our tapes come from direct sources in Saudi Arabia and we will continue to purchase from these sources unless Maktabah Al Ansaar becomes competitive in their pricing.
So there you have it. We are not the CIA and both Azzam and Maktabah Al Ansaar are fully aware of that fact. We do not buy our tapes from them and we do not publish computer-generated casualty shots. We use the best of our intelligence in evaluating news, footage and photos. We are not infallible and can certainly err in our judgment however that does not negate the fact that we do our very best to serve this Ummah.
Many people wonder why our site hasn’t been down – indeed it has, it is just that we planned for this from the beginning. We have been forced to changed locations three times to date however we are technically knowledgeable and therefore we have only experienced one small down in moving so far. We experience identically the same problems as the others and we expect more of this not less.
The CIA accusation doesn’t cut water either. Surely the CIA puts out disinformation but logic defies this accusation for several reasons. Firstly, what would they achieve? A list of email addresses and IP addresses of faceless Muslims and non-Muslims with no other information? JUS get approximately 500,000 hits a day and the cost of producing JUS, let alone trying to develop some kind of tangible leads based on IPs and emails, would make this price prohibitive. Secondly, the CIA may be involved in disinformation but never would they put out Casualty Reports and send them to the media as JUS has done – this is the Bush administration's worse nightmare. The CIA are budget and resource restricted – they wouldn’t play around at this level for some possible low level gain nor would they break the cardinal casualty rule.
Furthermore, Azzam has said in their latest attack that any article contradicting their news is an attack on them which according to them is the first reason that led them to believe “JUS is CIA”!! They make this statement with respect to an article we published that contradicted mainstream reports that Ramzi Bin Al Shaiba was arrested in a raid in Karachi. Not only is this absolutely arrogant, which is clearly unIslamic according to the Ahadeeth by the Prophet (saws) that states
Really...Thanks for reminding me, brother in faith writes alphaville81Our sources were based on reports from Jehad Online, which our article clearly attributed. Azzam acknowledges that Jehad Online was our source of information so it would be logical that just as we published material that contradicted the “infallible” Azzam’s news item (remember the Prophet’s saying: “Every son of Adam is fallible”), Jehad Online also would taste their wrath. Yet in their statement, Azzam praises Jehad Online (albeit after reminding viewers that both Jehad Online and Alneda came online after 911 inferring that they are not as seasoned as Azzam). So the question remains whether this has anything to do with the fact that Alneda and Jehad Online publishes in Arabic and therefore not considered to be real competitors?
From the time I have began publishing JUS, there has been no less than three times that I have seen Azzam discredit other media outlets and countless times they continue to publish the fact that they are the only authentic news. Well frankly that is just untrue – there are several sources of authentic, uncensored news such as Daily Islam, Ausaf, Dawn, Kavkaz, Jehad.net, Jehad Online, Alneda and many others, including JUS.
Many Muslims make sacrifices to work on this portal every day and this latest attack is an attack on their efforts. That disturbs me. We have been nothing other than supportive from the beginning and it is unfortunate that our success is so resented. As a seasoned publisher, there is an old saying which is that “there is nothing better than controversy on a slow news day”. What that means is that controversy creates interest and this attack did not hurt hits on JUS but rather fueled them as people are interested to find out for themselves. We expect this had the same effect for Azzam’s site however we don’t think the expense of the Ummah is the right way to go about creating an audience. The only thing this mud slinging hurts is the Ummah and the Jewish vigilante groups had a heyday with this latest attack by Azzam, as I am sure the authorities did too, as they perceive success in getting the Muslims fighting amongst themselves.
We do not serve Azzam or Maktabah Al Ansaar – we serve Allah and Allah alone. With or without these brothers, JUS will continue to expand our efforts and fight the righteous Jihad as long as Allah wills it and we have breath in our bodies.
When one demonizes others, they see themselves as righteous and the abstract “enemy” as evil. This is naive, self-righteous, and unIslamic. When one does this, they have been drawn into simplistic dualism. It is on the basis that we appeal to our brothers to bury their hatchet for the greater good of the Ummah. This behaviour is childish and does not reflect well on them and only takes time away from the important work we both have to do. We make this appeal publicly with full knowledge that our brothers know exactly who were are and the sincerity of our intentions and we leave the outcome to Allah, as He wills it.
On a final note, prior to releasing this statement, we have contacted Azzam and Maktabah Al Ansaar urging them to retract their statement for the good of the Ummah. We have had no reply.
I swear by Allah that these are the facts and I ask Allah to encourage our brothers to do the right thing, unifying the efforts of the Ummah. Further, we ask all of our brothers and sisters to forgive us for our shortcomings and our prayer is All praise be to Allah.
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