WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- The Global Islamic Media Front -- GIMF -- announced the imminent release of new computer software called "Mujahideen Secret."
MEMRI -- The Middle East Media Research Institute - reports that according to the advertisement for the software, it is "the first Islamic computer program for secure exchange [of information] on the Internet," and it provides users with "the five best encryption algorithms, and with symmetrical encryption keys (256 bit), asymmetrical encryption keys (2048 bit) and data compression [tools]."
An announcement by the Global Islamic Media Front, an al-Qaida mouthpiece, was recently disseminated across several jihadist forums in which the group presents the "jihadi information and the Western peoples." The message, written by Ahmad al-Hatheq Bi Allah, argues that the Internet serves as the best alternative to broadcast television for Muslims to execute a "kind of jihad" involving preaching and information disbursement. As the Western media allegedly obfuscates "facts," the author believes that it is incumbent upon Muslims to join Western Internet forums, to show the truth convincingly through visual or voice arguments, especially as it concerns Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, and Chechnya.
With successful debate, the author claims the American people will place pressure upon the U.S. government, "the guardian or terrorism and its marketing," to reverse its foreign policy, else the people are culpable for attacks brought upon them, as Ayman al-Zawahiri exclaimed.
