Forget Al Gore. Here are some people doing something worthwhile with their time. Washington Times: Blogs Target Jihadis Online.
Ordinary Americans are tracking down U.S. Web sites used by al Qaeda and jihadi sympathizers and then using the Internet to persuade the service providers to snuff out the sites.
“I do this because it has to be done,” says one blogger who calls himself a “counter-cyberjihadist” for his campaigns to post on the Web the Internet service providers (ISPs) that host the pro-jihad sites.
A perfect storm of complaints forced several ISPs to shut down Web sites just days before al Qaeda released a tape of Osama bin Laden in August, says Aaron Weisburd, director of the Society for Internet Research and host of the Web site Haganah.us. He released a list of 19 pro-jihad Web sites, some of which were shut down in August…
Asked why he does it, “Mr. Shackleford” [Jawa Report] said, “Because my wife won’t let me go shoot them.”
“I’m just doing my part, but it’s also very exciting,” says “Mr. Shackleford” who claims to have destroyed 30 Web sites…
“These are terrorists and terrorist supporters who use the Web to recruit people. They propagandize, they coordinate, and they raise money. That is what the bad guys are doing, and there are other private citizens who counter that,” “Mr. Shackleford” said.
And in case you missed it, last week Rusty Shackleford’s Jawa Report shut down yet another thug’s website. This time it was the personal homepage of one of the founders of Ansar al Islam, Najmuddin Faraj Ahmad, helping make the world a little safer and giving the cartoonist an excuse to draw some Jawas.