Snowball Jihad

I think this is the guy who is connected to the GIMF fellows from Austria. Video shows plot to hide bomb in snowball.
UpdateYeah, this dude is connected to these guys.

TORONTO and MONTREAL -When counterterrorism police first screened the video found in Said Namouh's house last September, it looked like an innocuous home movie of little relevance to their investigation.

A jerky camera films Mr. Namouh rolling a giant snowball, then cuts away to a set of animal tracks leading into the woods in Quebec's Mauricie region, northeast of Montreal. A 4x4 roars in the background.

But a different story emerged when the soundtrack was translated from Arabic. Mr. Namouh's monologue was about hiding explosives inside the snowball to blow up a passing vehicle, Quebec Court was told during a bail hearing that concluded on Friday.

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And it wasn't a snowman's face he was carving into the snowball but the letters "CVC," the initials of the Caliphate Voice Channel, a branch of one of al-Qaeda's most pervasive propaganda groups, the Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF logo pictured here).

RCMP Corporal Michael Hanigan testified that Mr. Namouh spent long hours at his computer in Trois-Rivieres, editing GIMF videos that threatened Western countries such as Germany and Austria and sought to inspire terrorists around the world.

"Oh, German government," says one video that Mr. Namouh is alleged to have helped produce. "This is our advice to you: Remove your soldiers from the Muslim lands.… Because otherwise you will one day regret it."

A new generation of terrorists has emerged in cyberspace. They are tech-savvy computer junkies scattered around the world who flood the Internet with terrorist indoctrination videos and how-to manuals. Many of them work under the banner of the GIMF, including several in Canada.

"They provide propaganda and recruitment for jihad, the Muslim holy war," Cpl. Hanigan testified. "They are in a way the spokesmen for al-Qaeda."

Since the 9/11 attacks, al-Qaeda has put almost as much effort into poisoning minds as plotting attacks. Its mantra: Muslims are obliged to rise up against their own governments and the West.

To propagate this deadly fusion of violence and religion, al-Qaeda and its followers have gone online, using the global reach and anonymity of the Web to fuel terrorism.

The GIMF is one of the most prominent of such groups. Members produce and disseminate everything from battlefield videos to instructional guides on suicide bombings.

"The target audiences are global, including diaspora communities -- Muslims in the Western countries," said Professor Gabriel Weimann, author of Terror on the Internet.

The Israeli professor said his database of 6,000 al-Qaeda-related Web sites includes "numerous" examples of postings in English, German, French and other Western languages, indicating the intended audience is in the West.

Counterterrorism analysts believe the so-called homegrown Islamist extremists who are emerging within Canada are becoming radicalized partly as a result of this Internet incitement.

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