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Extremists hack Yemeni website to serve their tapes

By Abdullah al-Qubati in Sana’a

Sana’a, 20 Nov., Pirates hacked Mostakela network website on last Friday, taking its domain and smashing al-mostakela paper site through plagiarism identity of the website owner and contacting with the hosting company.

Unknown hackers defined themselves as “Gaza Hackers” claimed responsibility on piracy via a release covered the Mostakela homepage. It was enclosed with an audio-tape previously attributed to Osama Bin Laden. The so-called hackers also posted a statement on a website titled by the same name Gaza Hacker Team that included a confession with hacking Mostakela, which was described as “atheistic” and “enemy of Islam”. The statement also threatened to convert the website domain to “Islamist Forum for defeating its owner and enemies of Islam”. A video-tape links documented the Mostakela before and after the attack was posted on the Gaza Hacker website.

The content of these posts and tapes manifested that those alleged hackers belonged to extremist Islamist groups.

Ahmed S. Hashed, who is the owner of Mostakela website regarded the incident as a “robbery crime of ownership and an assault on rights and freedoms of speech and publishing”.

Mostakela network launched in 2006. It is a social network includes online site of al-mostakela newspaper issues, classified forums for intellectual, political, ideological and religious dialogues and discussions and electronic library of about 34,000 title of books and video-audio files.

According to mostakela editors, the archive of its forums included 134,000 topics and hundreds thousands posts. More than 33,000 member around the world registered in the website since 2006.

“Mostakela website is a free intellectual website opened to inter-faith, cultures and ideologies dialogue,” Hashed said. “Since 2006, it was hacked several times by extremists, who usually defined their identities as Islamists and the recent piracy attack was at the beginning of last Ramadan,” he added.

Hashed pointed out “this hacking came, as my other news website Yemenat has been banned by Yemeni government for more than 2 years ago.”

Another communication supposedly from the Houthi rebels exposes an al Qaeda in Yemen training manual sent to terrorists in Gaza about how to build a small plane for a terror attack. This story line is among the most bizarre coming out of Yemen, and that’s saying a lot, but there are specifics and it does highlight a new tactic that may be deployed. Several of the AQIY Sada al Malahim magazine issues spoke about defending Gaza. But while Wahishi and al Reimi and al Qaeda in Yemen do pose a threat, there are several other al Qaeda groupings and individuals operating in Yemen, associated with external cells, that are not media hounds like AQIY and operate under the radar. Its also true that the Houthi rebels ideology is diametrically opposed to al Qaeda, and Jewish people lived in Sa’ada alongside the Zaidis for centuries without incident. Wahabbi extremists were responsible for the recent targeting of Yemen’s Jews and the murder of the Rabbi.

Haaretz: Yemen Al-Qaida training Gaza groups to attack Israel

Documents sent to Haaretz by Shi’ite separatists in Yemen that opposes Al-Qaida points to regular, direct contact between Al-Qaida and Gaza Strip supporters.

The Yemen-based arm of Al-Qaida recently sent members of the organization in the Gaza Strip a training manual with instructions for building a light aircraft and using it against Israeli targets near the border with the Strip. The plane is powered by a car engine and can be used to launch explosives into Israel.

Documents sent to Haaretz by a group of Shi’ite separatists in Yemen that opposes Al-Qaida points to regular, direct contact between the Al-Qaida organization in that country and supporters in the Gaza Strip. Some of the latter are active in Al-Tawhid wa al-Jihad, which has carried out terror attacks against resorts in Sinai.

The Shi’ite rebels who passed the latest communication, and several previous ones, to Haaretz, are demanding Yemeni government recognition of their civil rights. They are keen to distinguish themselves from Al-Qaida. (Read on …)

This is such a bizarre story, not readily believable. The Houthi rebels intercepted communications from al Qaeda in Yemen to an anti-Hamas Salafi group in Gaza and they sent it to Haaretz. Al Qaeda in Yemen is planning to send Somalis from Yemen to Gaza for attacks and also to attack Jews in Yemen and launch a rocket from Saudi Arabia on a nuclear reactor in Israel. The Houthis, in sending the letters, are trying to demonstrate the difference between their ideology and al Qaeda’s in a bid to elicit US support for their cause, which they say is an end to discrimination by the Yemeni government.

Haaretz

The Yemen-based arm of Al-Qaida is examining the possibility of infiltrating terrorists into Israel disguised as Somali refugees crossing the border from Egypt or even as new immigrants from Ethiopia.

Shi’ite rebels yesterday sent another letter to Haaretz, the latest of several, in which they quote from a letter sent by Al-Qaida to members of a Salafist group in the Gaza Strip that is opposed to Hamas. (Read on …)

Money, weapons? Why is he there? A major source of weapons in Gaza is of course Yemen. The 2006 (2007?) al Quds conference in Sana’a was like a meet and greet of a variety of “resistance movements” from around the globe and raised several million for Hamas. Check the Palestinians category for more.

Hamas praises Yemen supportive stances for Palestine issue
SANA’A, Dec. 08 (Saba) – Head of the Political Office of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) Khalid Misha’al affirmed on Tuesday concern of Hamas to continuously consult the Yemeni leadership, represented by President Ali Abdullah Saleh, with regards to a number of Palestinian and Arab issues. (Read on …)

Yemen is a strong suporter of Hamas and the resistance. Yahya Saleh is the head of the charitable organization that collects funds.

SANA’A, June 20 (Saba) – Deputy Chairman of Hamas Political Bureau Moussa Abu Marzouk arrived in Sana’a on Saturday in a few-day visit to Yemen.

Upon his arrival, Abu Marzouk said that he would brief President Ali Abdullah Saleh on the last developments in the Palestinian-Palestinian dialogue and in the Palestinian cause.

“We are keen on acquainting President Saleh with all developments in the Palestinian arena, as we know his certain interest in the Palestinian cause”, Abu Marzouk said.

Meetings scheduled

al Sahwa: Up Wednesday evening to the capital Sanaa Moussa Abu Marzouk, deputy head of the political bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas. ومن المقرر أن يلتقي خلال زيارته بصنعاء عدد من مسئولي الدولة وقيادات الأحزاب السياسية اليمنية، حيث سيطلعهم على طبيعة الأوضاع في الداخل الفلسطيني والكثير من القضايا العالقة. It is scheduled to meet during his visit to Sanaa number of state officials and leaders of political parties of Yemen, which is telling on the nature of the situation in the Palestinian territories and a lot of outstanding issues. يأتي هذا في حين كشفت حركة حماس عن تضمين خطاب رئيس المكتب السياسي للحركة خالد مشعل الذي سيلقيه مساء اليوم استراتيجية الحركة، وموقفها من كافة القضايا السياسية في ضوء المتغيرات الدولية والإقليمية والمحلية. نص الخبر This is revealed when the Hamas movement to include a letter from the chairman of the Political Bureau of the movement, Khaled Meshaal, who delivered this evening, the strategy of movement and position of all political issues in the light of international developments, regional and local levels

Convicted in the US last November and sentenced this week:

A U.S. judge on Wednesday handed down 65-year prison sentences to two founders of a U.S. Islamic charity convicted of illegally supporting Palestinian group Hamas, in a major U.S.-based terrorism financing case…Abu Baker, whose brother Jamal Issa is the head of Hamas operations in Yemen, was Holy Land’s chief executive officer and the first to be sentenced

After accusing Hezbollah of supporting the Houthis, Saleh makes nice. Also the Wafa Idris “library of maryterdom” opened in Ibb.

SABA
SANA’A, April 21 (Saba) – President Ali Abdullah Saleh received here on Tuesday a letter from Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah.

The letter handed over by Dean of Arab prisoners in Israeli jails Samir Qintar dealt with a number of issues and current developments in the region as well as topics of Arab nation’s concern. (Read on …)

No surprise there but this is an odd little story.

Ynet Report: Hizbullah deceived its activists in Egypt:

Sources involved in investigation against members of Shiite group arrested in Egypt tell Arab newspaper terror cell’s leaders misled activists into believing they would be working for Fatah’s military wing

The leaders of the Hizbullah cell seized in Egypt recruited activists by misleading them into believing that they would be working for the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades – Fatah’s military wing, the London-based Arabic-language al-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper reported Monday, quoting sources involved in the Cairo investigation.

The sources told the paper that the leaders of the Hizbullah organization in Egypt told the activists they were being recruited by the Palestinian group in order to ease their mobilization.

According to the sources, the organization members also used a worker at the Palestinian Liberation Organization’s embassy in Yemen. (Read on …)