Looks like yet another jihobbyist has a man crush on Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi:
http://www.archive.org/details/MAQ4ed
I've been in the middle of a crazy, happy couple of weeks. I recently got engaged, and I've also been -finally -- learning Arabic. I'm swamped in homework right now, but I'm looking forward to more blog time soon as I catch up with wedding planning and vocabulary lists. In the meantime I'm offering a little lesson in Archive<dot>org.
It's a lesson in Swahili.
Online jihobbyists love to label their Arabic language documents as "Swahili" when they upload to Archive. I'm not ruling out that "Swahili" is the default language for Archive, but it's hard to believe that their database developers would be that sloppy.
And so a good way to find jihadi literature at Archive is to search "Swahili" in "Texts."
Initially, you'll get documents in Swahili, but if you sort your results by "Date Added" you will notice that "Swahili" looks a lot like Arabic on Archive<dot>org these days. Like this one -- http://www.archive.org/details/thawra_amricyah -- uploaded by "really_done@yahoo.com." Or this one -- http://www.archive.org/details/t3lik-almsri -- uploaded by one "zbir-ar@hotmail.com." Mr. "zbir-ar" [let's face it, it's probably a guy] also uploaded this interesting document, http://www.archive.org/details/mfhom-al-twhed.
Some fine individual using the name ID al_moqna3@hotmail.com or al_moqna321 today uploaded this to the world's favorite jihadi media hosting site.
Archive -dot-org, that is. Aaron has the scoop.
And then there's this weird AQ-goes-nukular video just uploaded at the world's only reliable tax-payer-funded host of jihadi media:
http://www.archive.org/details/Me3aad_Aldarbah_Alnawaweyah
Doing a quick search of the uploader ID, I found this jihadi video (I don't track this stuff as much as I used to).
http://www.archive.org/details/Alfwaaje3-Al3ajaeb
The little Archive preview reminded me of a some basement produced jihadi version of 3-2-1 Contact.
MINOR UPDATE: A few minor edits were done on this post Sat morning.
Where the global jihad meets Archive-dot-org you will find "jarchive.info."
http://www.jarchive.info/
When I first saw this site, I immediately assumed it was the product of some intel agency somewhere -- the production quality just seems too good for an average jihobbyist. But, I'm changing my mind. There is a residue of hope with this online analyst that at some point a jihobbyist will have the requisite web design and coding skills to construct a site as clean (and well organized) as this one. Each media link is hosted at Archive, YouTube, or a few other media hosting sites. It probably required a lot of coordination to manage sources across platforms.
And so I've decided to describe it as a labor of love for a bored, but rather talented Salafist-Jihadist, probably in Egypt, where we're told they don't have Salafist-Jihadists anymore.
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Aw jeez. I don't recall whether I posted this already, and right now I'm too lazy to check.
From: Where else?
Description:
إن هذا الكتاب محاولة لوضع معالم المدرسة النبوية العسكرية من خلال دراسة الغزوات والسرايا والبعوث دراسة تحليلية دقيقة مفصلة تستنبط الدروس والحكم والأحكام، وتقدم الشواهد القولية والعملية عليها، مع الاستدلال والتعزيز والتوضيح.
More at:
http://www.archive.org/details/mnamna
And the Google "translation":
This book attempt to establish the parameters of the Prophet's school through the study of military incursions and house and Mission accurate detailed analytical study and develop lessons and governance provisions, and provide anecdotal evidence and practical, with reasoning and reinforcement and clarification.
The title of the book: the Prophet's military school
Author: d. Mohammad Abdul Kader Obovas
Publisher: Dar Al-Furqan
Number Edition: First Edition 1413 e 1993
The number of volumes: 1
Pages: 310
File Size: 5.3 MB
Viewing this .gif (http://www.archive.org/details/ManhajSalaf) at Archive(dot)org there was only one question that came to mind:
Which one's Larry, which one Curly, and which Moe? Is that Shemp?
I'm back! The train was late getting in to DC, but the extra time gave me an opportunity to catch up on a bunch of blog posts I've been meaning to work on. This one, however, is not one of them. Rather, it was inspired by a series of posts I saw on my trip back. Will at Jihadica noted that the "second-tier" jihadi forums were down. I posted it on that here. Now Evan Kohlmann's noted in this Friday post on the Al-Fajr Media Center's announcement of the closure of three popular jihadi forums
It occurred to me that an online counter-insurgency strategy could include the idea "disrupting the curve." The curve here is a long tail. In library science there's a phenomenon called Bradford's Law,
..a pattern first described by Samuel C. Bradford in 1934 that estimates the exponentially diminishing returns of extending a search for references in science journals.
Anyone who is familiar with the Pareto principle or even just the shape of a powerlaw curve will understand Bradford's Law. It explains that 80% of the information within a discipline can be found in 20% of the sources.
Jihadis may like to fancy themselves different from their kuffar enemy, but in reality they behave identical to every one else when it comes to their information habits. There's a common misconception that online jihadi information is a vast, immeasurable, uncontrollable amount of internet data. This idea may make for poetic presentation statements (and excellent justifications for government program money), but it has little bearing in reality. Up until very recently, the vast majority of the OSINT jihadi material cycled through about ten or fifteen internet forums. An analyst monitoring those forums could have a handle on about 80% of the information flow within the jihadi online world.
Since the beginning of September the jihadi powerlaw curve that had essentially existed since 2004 has been systematically dismantled. By what or whom I don't know. I've worked in a wide range of subject areas since receiving my Master's degree in the mid-90s, and I've been using and managing information years prior to that. I've seen fadish subjects come and go in popularity, shrinking the amount of available new information, but I've never seen a subject's power law curve simply disappear.
This may be the opportunity of a lifetime to watch a subject area's power law curve - what I call a "subject space" -- reconstruct itself. Don't doubt this. It will happen. People are creatures of habit, and they will return to the same sources of information until it no longer exists. Much like backyard birds returning to an empty feeder, they will move on and find new sources.
Archive-dot-org may be one place that online jihadis will go to share information. It certainly wouldn't be new territory for them. I've been finding files like this for quite some time.
http://ia311213.us.archive.org/1/items/FilesOver100Mb_983/new_page_2.htm
I can't give you a definitive idea of what, if any, may be their function in the global online jihad. But I suspect that we may find even more of them as jihadis attempt to find ways to share information.
