Al-Qaida network is unsafe

While the organization itself is a danger for most countries, it does not have trusted channel to spread its propaganda and media. Evan Kohlman of Flashpoint Partners yesterday said that the terror group’s latest forum, Shumukh, has been offline since at least three days ago.

There are still many other jihadi forums online but Al-Qaida does not trust them. Some of these jihadi forums also has been mysteriously knocked offline, including the Ansar al-Mujahideen Network, a forum in Arabic. Some mirrors still available for Al-Qaida’s material like aljahad.com/vb.

However, Al-Qaida will need an entirely new route to have a direct relation with any new forum, or the broken forum Shumukh has to be totally restructured, said Mr. Kohlmann. He also suggested that the group must also have the backup copies of the knocked down forum.

Last year, Al-Qaida’s forum Al-Faloja was down but the group immediately replaced the forum with the currently broken Shumukh. Kohlman assured that the group will form another forum once they have found the safer channel. He also listed several suspect, from the Jester to government-sponsored in the U.S. and U.K.

The Jester did not confirm to hack Shumukh.