Alneda ( ar, النداء) (meaning "the call" in Arabic) is a former
al-Qaeda
Al-Qaeda (; , ) is an Islamic extremism, Islamic extremist organization composed of Salafist jihadists. Its members are mostly composed of Arab, Arabs, but also include other peoples. Al-Qaeda has mounted attacks on civilian and military ta ...
Wired (magazine)
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'', August 10, 2002
It was being hosted in
Malaysia
Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...
by the
internet service provider
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Malaysia Technology Development Corporation, and first appeared shortly after the
September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks
The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. That morning, nineteen terrorists hijacked four commerci ...
. It had encrypted information to direct members to more secure websites, featured news on Al Qaeda, published
Fatwa
A fatwā ( ; ar, فتوى; plural ''fatāwā'' ) is a legal ruling on a point of Islamic law (''sharia'') given by a qualified '' Faqih'' (Islamic jurist) in response to a question posed by a private individual, judge or government. A jurist ...
s and books, and had media, including
videos of Osama bin Laden
There were several video and audio recordings released by Osama bin Laden between 2001 and 2011.
Most of the tapes were released directly (by mail or messenger) to Arabic language satellite television networks, primarily al Jazeera.
Audio or ...
.
Many attempts were made to shut down in 2002 (mostly through
DoS attacks
In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is a cyber-attack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connec ...
Jon Messner
Jon is a shortened form of the common given name Jonathan, derived from "YHWH has given", and an alternate spelling of John, derived from "YHWH has pardoned".Pornographer says he hacked al Qaeda: 'I wanted to do something ... I know the Internet' '' CNN'', August 8, 2002 Messner used the Arabic translation service at ajeeb.com to read messages left on the site. For five days, people thought that it was still the real Al Qaeda site. After a post on an Islamic
message board
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at 4:30 a.m. on July 20 warned people not to go, the site was taken down in a
website defacement
Website defacement is an attack on a website that changes the visual appearance of a website or a web page. These are typically the work of defacers, who break into a web server and replace the hosted website with one of their own. Defacement i ...
. After this message Messner posted an image of the Great Seal of the United States with the words, "Hacked, Tracked, and Now Owned by the United States". It is now a link to ItsHappening.com, a website about current events.
The site briefly re-appeared on www.news4arab.org, but it was taken down again.
Alneda was run by the Saudi militant
Yusuf al Ayiri
Yusuf al-Ayeri ( ar, يوسف العييري) or Yusuf bin Salih bin Fahd al-Ayeri (1974 – 2003; known by a number of aliases, including '' al-Battar''—the Arabic name of one of the swords of Muhammad—conventionally rendered "Swift Sword" in ...
ABC News
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'', 15 July 2004
Captives in the "war on terror"
Several of the captives held in
extrajudicial detention
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in the United States
Guantanamo Bay detention camp
The Guantanamo Bay detention camp ( es, Centro de detención de la bahía de Guantánamo) is a United States military prison located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, also referred to as Guantánamo, GTMO, and Gitmo (), on the coast of Guant ...
s had their continued detention justified by having documents containing their names listed on Alneda's web-pages.