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Date: 2001-12-12 08:17:21

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               Fears of secretive codes on jihad website
                              New York
                             Herald Sun
                               11dec01

 AN enigmatic Islamic website devoted to jihad, or holy war, has
elicited concern among US officials.
They fear the site is embedded with secret codes and instructions of
use to militants including affiliates of Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda
network, Newsweek has reported.
Azzam.com, an entity operated by an unknown group of individuals under
the auspices of Azzam Publications, is named for Abdullah Azzam, a
Palestinian militant killed in a 1989 bomb attack in Pakistan.
It has no bricks and mortar address, but operates a post office box in
London, and bills itself as "an independent media organisation
providing authentic news and information about jihad and the Foreign
Mujahideen everywhere".
In an open letter to US President George W. Bush and throughout the
website, Azzam Publications is virulently anti-American and
anti-Western, openly recruiting martyrs for a global jihad and
disputing Muslim involvement in the September 11 attacks on the US.
A recent posting, dated December 9, is datelined from the southern
Afghan city of Kandahar and is a message to Muslim youth from top
terror suspect Osama bin Laden.
The message underscores reported US suspicion that supporters of the
Saudi-born multimillionaire, whom Washington blames for the attacks on
New York and the Pentagon, are behind the Internet site.
A farewell message from Azzam Publications dated November 20, still on
the website, exhorts "Muslims all over the World (to) render as much
financial, physical, medical, media and moral support to the Taliban
as they can".
Newsweek reported that European hackers who broke into its
German-based subscriber list found an e-mail address for Said Bahaji,
a fugitive identified as a member of the September 11 hijacking cell
based in Hamburg, northern Germany.
The magazine has reported in its issue out tomorrow, the belief of
British and US intelligence sources that some of Azzam.com's jihad
photos and graphics contain messages embedded with a technology known
as steganography – so sophisticated it is difficult for intelligence
agencies to decode.

Agence France-Presse

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