Monitors: Jihadist threats to Navy increasing

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The guided missile destroyer USS Cole is shown after a suspected terrorist bomb exploded during a refueling operation in the port of Aden, Yemen, in 2000.


Monitors: Jihadist threats to Navy increasing
By Philip Ewing - Staff writer
Posted : Thursday Jan 7, 2010 6:25:31 EST

Jihadist threats online against U.S. warships in the Middle East have spiked since just before the New Year, according to a monitoring group in Washington, including some of the most ambitious calls yet for terror attacks specifically on the Navy and sailors.

One Dec. 30 post, translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute, calls for readers to assemble and submit information about American ships and their crews in chilling detail:

“Information on every U.S. naval unit — and only U.S. (units)! — should be quietly gathered (as follows: ) (The vessel’s) name, the missions it is assigned; its current location …; the advantages of this naval unit; the number of U.S. troops on board, including if possible their ranks, and what state they are from, their family situation, and where their family members (wife and children) live; what kind of weapons they carry; the (vessel’s) destination …; the missions it has carried out; the way to monitor it around the clock; if its location is changed, define its movements and its route; monitor every Web site used by the personnel on these ships, and attempt to discover what is in these contacts.”

The writer, whose handle is “Ubada bin Al-Samit” and who posted on a Web forum called Al-Falluja, assured readers every item would be useful:

“My Muslim brothers, do not underestimate the importance of any piece of information, as simple as it may seem; the mujahideen, the lions of monotheism, may be able to use it in ways that have not occurred to you.”


Rest of article at: http://www.navytimes.com/news/2010/01/navy_online_threats_010610w/