Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Enemy forums being taken down

The Sunni terrorist forums known as Ekhlaas, Firdaws, and Boraq all went dead around 9 September 2008. This development was definitely not voluntary on the part of whoever runs the forums. The kindred Faluja forum went dead a couple of days ago, and now the most exclusive "public" forum of them all, Hesbah, is in trouble.
http://passat.websitewelcome.com/suspended.page/?t=194723
That's what you get when you try to navigate within the Hesbah forum.

Update:
The main Hesbah page now gets:
http://passat.websitewelcome.com/suspended.page

Under one of their other URL's, Hesbah produces:
http://passat.websitewelcome.com/suspended.page/?t=191614

Also, majahden is dead.

Update:
Ansar al-Jihad AKA Ansar al-Mujahideen, involved with video production and distribution, has been kicked out by its hosting company. That one might return IMO.

Update 18 October:
Hesbah is back.
Commentary and conjecture from Washington Post Foreign Service.