Global Islamic Media Front - Revision history

Steven Harkins: /* Films */

2010-05-07T01:36:35Z

Films

Steven Harkins at 01:36, 7 May 2010

2010-05-07T01:36:07Z

David at 10:23, 13 December 2009

2009-12-13T10:23:00Z

Steven Harkins: typo

2009-12-12T23:47:29Z

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Steven Harkins at 23:46, 12 December 2009

2009-12-12T23:46:44Z

David at 07:47, 24 July 2009

2009-07-24T07:47:38Z

Tom Mills at 06:38, 24 July 2009

2009-07-24T06:38:32Z

Claire Robinson: New page: '''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. see, for example, Steve C...

2009-05-01T16:13:26Z

New page: '''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. <ref>see, for example, Steve C...

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'''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]]. <ref>see, for example, Steve Coll and Susan B. Glasser, '[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/05/AR2005080501138.html 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</ref> 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 <ref>Steve Coll and Susan B. Glasser, '[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/05/AR2005080501138.html Terrorists Turn to the Web as Base of Operations]', ''Washington Post'', 7 August 2005</ref> 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, except there are no references to it anywhere prior to 2005. The bulk of present references to it come from a Zionist weblog, The Jawa Report. <ref> Via Lexis Nexis</ref>

In 2007 various media outlets in 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 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.'<ref>The Fanonite (blog), '[http://fanonite.org/2007/07/13/cyber-jihad-the-phantom-menace Cyber Jihad: The Phantom Menace]', 13 July 2007</ref>

==Organizations and People Who Have Made Reference to GIMF==
*[[iDefense]] | [[Globalsecurity.org]]<ref>GlobalSecurity.org [http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/profiles/global_islamic_media_front.htm Global Islamic Media Front], accessed 18 March 2009</ref> | [[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), '[http://fanonite.org/2007/07/13/cyber-jihad-the-phantom-menace Cyber Jihad: The Phantom Menace]', 13 July 2007

==Notes==
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[[Category:Middle East Watch]][[Category:Terrorism Spin]]

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 ==Films==
-The web archive has links to a series of films made by the Global Islamic Media Front<ref>Global Islamic Media Front, [http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Global%20Islamic%20Media%20Front%22&page=1 Internet Archive Search Results], ''Web Archive'', Accessed 06-May-2010</ref>
+The web archive has links to a series of films made by the Global Islamic Media Front.<ref>Global Islamic Media Front, [http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Global%20Islamic%20Media%20Front%22&page=1 Internet Archive Search Results], ''Web Archive'', Accessed 06-May-2010</ref>
 ==Notes==
 <references/>
 [[Category:Middle East Watch]][[Category:Terrorism Spin]]

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 '''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]]. <ref>see, for example, Steve Coll and Susan B. Glasser, '[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/05/AR2005080501138.html 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</ref> 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 <ref>Steve Coll and Susan B. Glasser, '[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/05/AR2005080501138.html Terrorists Turn to the Web as Base of Operations]', ''Washington Post'', 7 August 2005</ref> 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, except there are no references to it anywhere prior to 2005. The bulk of references to it come from a Zionist weblog, [[The Jawa Report]]. <ref> Via Lexis Nexis</ref>
+The first reference to it appears in a ''Washington Post'' article from August 7, 2005 <ref>Steve Coll and Susan B. Glasser, '[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/05/AR2005080501138.html Terrorists Turn to the Web as Base of Operations]', ''Washington Post'', 7 August 2005</ref> 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]]. <ref> Via Lexis Nexis</ref>
 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

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 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 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.'<ref>The Fanonite (blog), '[http://fanonite.org/2007/07/13/cyber-jihad-the-phantom-menace Cyber Jihad: The Phantom Menace]', 13 July 2007</ref>
+: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.'<ref>The Fanonite (blog), '[http://fanonite.org/2007/07/13/cyber-jihad-the-phantom-menace Cyber Jihad: The Phantom Menace]', 13 July 2007</ref>
 ==Organizations and People Who Have Made Reference to GIMF==

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 The first reference to it appears in a ''Washington Post'' article from August 7, 2005 <ref>Steve Coll and Susan B. Glasser, '[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/05/AR2005080501138.html Terrorists Turn to the Web as Base of Operations]', ''Washington Post'', 7 August 2005</ref> 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, except there are no references to it anywhere prior to 2005. The bulk of references to it come from a Zionist weblog, [[The Jawa Report]]. <ref> Via Lexis Nexis</ref>
-In 2007 various media outlets in 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
+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 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.'<ref>The Fanonite (blog), '[http://fanonite.org/2007/07/13/cyber-jihad-the-phantom-menace Cyber Jihad: The Phantom Menace]', 13 July 2007</ref>