Revolution Muslim

N.J. man who ran radical Islamic website admits Internet threats against Jewish groups | AP/NJ.com: "A New Jersey man who co-founded a radical Islamic website has pleaded guilty to using the Internet to make threats against Jewish groups.

"Yousef Mohamid al-Khattab, 45, of Atlantic City started the now-defunct Revolution Muslim website in 2007 with partner Jesse Curtis Morton."

You'll find some previous posts on Revolution Muslim elsewhere on this blog.

Zachary Chesser - report from Senate

Washington Times, Report: Internet radicalizes U.S. Muslims quickly 27 Feb 2012, "Zachary Chesser, a 22-year-old Virginia man now serving 25 years for terrorism crimes, took less than two years to transform “from an average American kid to a hardened supporter of terrorist organizations,” according to a study of his case by staff from the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee."

RevolutionMuslim.com

ArtsBeat: Man Pleads Guilty to Making Online Threats Against South Park Creators, 9 Feb 2012 "Jesse Curtis Morton went by the name Younus Abdullah Mohammad when he and another man, Zachary A. Chesser, wrote on a radical Muslim Web site that an episode of “South Park” had insulted the Prophet Muhammad."

Zachary Chesser convicted

Toronto Sun, 'South Park' jihadist gets 25 years, 25 Feb 2011: "Zachary Chesser had written in multiple Internet posts over a four-month period last year that the South Park creators should 'wind up like Theo Van Gogh,' who was murdered by a radical Muslim because he objected to the Dutch filmmaker's negative portrayal of Islamic society.

"But Stone and Parker were only a piece of the case against Chesser, who also tried on two occasions to join al-Shabab, a terrorist group in Somalia, and encouraged like-minded people on the Internet to leave suspicious packages in public places in the U.S. so that if and when real bombs were planted they'd go unnoticed."

Zachary Adam Chesser

New article: Christopher Anzalon, Perspectives on Terrorism - Zachary Chesser: an American, Grassroots Jihadist Strategist on Raising the Next Generation of Al-Qaeda Supporters: "Zachary Chesser, the 20-year-old Virginia man best known for issuing thinly-veiled threats to the creators of the Comedy Central TV show South Park earlier this year, was a prolific writer and self-styled grassroots jihadist strategist. He was a regular poster on several major jihadistInternet forums, including Al-Qimmah al-Islamiyyah (Islamic Summit), a Somali-English-Arabic forum dedicated to covering the activities of the Somali jihadistgroup Al-Shabab. It is this group that Chesser was accused by US authorities of attempting to join. He signed his online writings with his nom de guerre Abu Talhah al-Amrikee, which combines the name of a prominent historical companion of the Prophet Muhammad with the geographical marker “American.”"

Useful overview.

Zachary Chesser update

washingtonpost.com, Internet helped Muslim convert from Northern Virginia embrace extremism at warp speed, 2 Nov 2010 "For months, the radical young Muslim convert had been waging war online, championing violent jihad from his computer in Northern Virginia."

Zachary Adam Chesser

Spencer Ackerman, Wired, South Park-Hatin’ Internet Jihadi to Plead Guilty, 20 Oct 2010 "Matt Parker and Trey Stone can exhale now. Zachary Adam Chesser, the 20-year old who threatened the two South Park creators online for depicting the prophet Muhammad in a bear costume, will plead guilty to supporting terrorism this afternoon in a Virginia court."

aQ strategy

Jarret Brachman, Foreign Policy, Watching the Watchers, Nov 2010 issue

"Whatever his actual traffic, Chesser had become the newest incarnation of a dangerous online phenomenon al Qaeda has inspired over the last several years -- one that is helping the group transcend its image as a brutal terrorist organization and attract a much broader spectrum of followers, particularly in the West. In full view of us, al Qaeda is cultivating a nimble, sophisticated global network of Internet activists, amateur pundits, and general well-wishers working to bring al Qaeda to the masses."

Also see Jarret Brachman, Foreign Policy, The Internet Jihad: Zach Chesser's how-to guide.

Jarret Brachman, Foreign Policy, Al Qaeda Wants to Be Friends

Some of the comments on this article are interesting too, especially in relation to levels of traffic to sites/pages discussed: volume of traffic isn't necessarily everything ...

"My Pen Pal, the Jihadist"

My Pen Pal, the Jihadist - Jarret Brachman | Foreign Policy "Zachary Adam Chesser, better known by his Internet sobriquet of "Abu Talhah al-Amrikee," is the 20-year-old Virginia man who was indicted this month for supporting a Somalia-based al Qaeda affiliate, al-Shabab. Most Americans learned of him in April 2010, when Chesser's media stunt wishing death upon the creators of the South Park cartoon thrust him into the national spotlight. I came to know him in a different, more personal way and believe that as frightening as the "American Jihadi" headlines surrounding him have been, the portrait that has emerged of Chesser in recent months is still a caricature that unfortunately obscures the very reason "Abu Talhah" was so dangerous."

This interesting piece featured on Jarret Brachman's personal blog a few weeks ago.