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Jihadunspun.net is an Internet site, that portrays itself as a private organization reporting on a perceived world Jihad.

The owner and publisher of Jihad Unspun is Khadija Abdul Qahaar (a.k.a. Bev Kennedy), who converted to Islam after 9/11. In a e-Mail with twf.org , she says:

many jihad related sites use pen names and this is a corporate decision I have instituted. The protection of my staff is far more important to me than an on the record statement.

Bev Kennedy is a pen name not my professional name.

CIA front allegations

Informationclearinghouse.info has included an article alleging Jihadunspun.net to be a CIA front , originally posted in Libertyforum.org .

The article cites a chicagotribune.com article, where it is said that Rita Katz, director of the SITE Institute, believes:

...the U.S. government may be using the Internet jihad to spy. They speculate that Jihad Unspun, an English-language site that appears to promote terror, may be a CIA creation, designed to find out who visits or orders videos glorifying bin Laden.

The article continues offering various arguments for the theis of Jihadunspun.net being a CIA front, for example banning users that discussed how the CIA backed Saddam or how the site can afford such expensive bandwidth, since other Jihad sites work on a "shoe string budget".

Closed

As of 2005-11-17, the site have closed for a week and askes volunteers to donate money:

Brothers and sisters, the current state of our Ummah is just not good enough. We are all faced with the fear, the struggle and often the scorn of being Muslim in these times, but we have to get over it or we will not accomplish anything. We have to work together and we have nothing to fear or be ashamed of. On the contrary, we serve the one god Allah! How will we rebuild the Caliphate if we can not work together?

Google News cooperation

A article in Honestreporting.com stated:

HonestReporting is concerned with Google News' acceptance of one particular site ― Jihad Unspun ― as Mideast 'news', despite the site's record of blatantly distorting established facts, glorifying terror, and publishing highly defamatory anti-Semitic material. Jihad Unspun's articles appear prominently on searches for Israel-related topics on Google News.

...While the site is duly protected by the First Amendment (we found no overt calls to murder), the material Jihad Unspun publishes does not meet a reasonable definition of 'news', but is rather anti-Israel and anti-American propaganda that masquerades as news. Google News recognizes this loophole in its system ― in March of last year Google News responded to an email campaign protesting the inclusion of the radical Indymedia site (where the term 'Zionazis' was prevalent), and removed Indymedia from their service.

With the highly influential Google News still a work-in-progress (it remains in experimental 'beta' mode), HonestReporting encourages subscribers to write to Google News at news-feedback@google.com, encouraging the removal of Jihad Unspun from their list of legitimate news sites. Though the goal of providing a spectrum of news sources is laudable, hateful propaganda has no place on Google News.

E-Mail with twf.org

In a E-Mail with twf.org the following is asked:

I'm not trying to be argumentative, and would like to support worthy efforts. But knowing a little of how our CIA operates, we try to ascertain if we are being fed disinformation.

It's also strange that a Google search on <"Bev Kennedy" Canada publish> yielded this article which says pretty much what you say, BUT there is nothing prior to Sep 11, 2001 which is rather strange for someone "well known among business magazine publishing circles".

She answered:

...Bev Kennedy is a pen name not my professional name.

Your mail makes me curious of what your intentions really are. If my reply did not satisfy you then I am afraid you will have to wait until I go on public record in the near future and make your evaluation then.

Site Stats

Site Stats from alexa.com from 2005-11-17:

• Avg. Review: N/A
• Traffic Rank for witness-pioneer.org: 2 157 347 (down 2 153 584)
• Speed: Slow (69% of sites are faster), Avg Load Time: 2.5 Seconds
• Other sites that link to this site: 81
• Online Since: 30-Nov-2001

See also

• Islamic Internet sites
• Abdullah Yusuf Azzam

External links

• http://www.jihadunspun.net/home.php
• http://www.twf.org/News/Y2003/0821-CIA.html

• Websites