Global Islamic Media Front
Global Islamic Media Front is allegedly an organisation that relays news from the point of view of Al Qaeda under the title Voice of the Caliphate. [1] At best this service does not live up to the reports about it.
The first reference to it appears in a Washington Post article from August 7, 2005 [2] where Rebecca Givner-Forbes from the Terrorism Research Center makes a reference to it. Other propagators of the story are two Israeli connected websites the Search for International Terrorist Entities and the Middle East Media Research Institute. French terrorologist Jean-Pierre Filiu claims the organization has been around since 2003. Many references to it come from a Zionist weblog, The Jawa Report. [3]
In 2007 various media outlets in the UK received messages of a new terrorist initiative: an alleged organization by the name of the Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF) had just launched a new online channel, the Voice of the Caliphate According to Idrees Ahmad
- The message was forwarded by someone at the BBC to my PhD supervisor and media analyst, David Miller, who decided to have a look. The website seemed to have been put together in a hurry, and had nothing except a screen shot of a purported broadcast. It had a link to a video, except when he tried to download, it said the site had exceeded its 16 downloads limit.'[4]
Contents
Organizations and People Who Have Made Reference to GIMF
- iDefense | Globalsecurity.org[5] | Terrorism Research Center | Search for International Terrorist Entities | Middle East Media Research Institute | Jean-Pierre Filiu | Guido Steinberg - terrorism analyst at the Berlin Foundation of Science and Politics
External Resources
The Fanonite (blog), 'Cyber Jihad: The Phantom Menace', 13 July 2007
Films
The web archive has links to a series of films made by the Global Islamic Media Front.[6]
Notes
- ↑ see, for example, Steve Coll and Susan B. Glasser, 'Terrorists Turn to the Web as Base of Operations', Washington Post, 7 August 2005; Shaun Waterman, 'Cyber-jihadis use of encryption', UPI, 30 January 2007; Steve Stalinsky (of MEMRI), 'Qaeda's Successful Recruiting Efforts', The New York Sun, 19 January 2007
- ↑ Steve Coll and Susan B. Glasser, 'Terrorists Turn to the Web as Base of Operations', Washington Post, 7 August 2005
- ↑ Via Lexis Nexis
- ↑ The Fanonite (blog), 'Cyber Jihad: The Phantom Menace', 13 July 2007
- ↑ GlobalSecurity.org Global Islamic Media Front, accessed 18 March 2009
- ↑ Global Islamic Media Front, Internet Archive Search Results, Web Archive, Accessed 06-May-2010
