{Image: Usama bin Laden in September 2007 video release}
“Asad al-Jihad 2,” a prominent member of the jihadist internet community, gave a eulogy for former al-Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden in a message posted on the Shumukh al-Islam forum on May 2, 2011.
{The Facebook page, as of 4:40 pm on May 2, 2011}
A Facebook page titled “We Are All Usama Bin Laden” was created on the social networking site hours after American President Barack Obama's public announcement late on May 1, 2011, that Usama bin Laden had been killed by American forces in Pakistan.
{Image of US President Barack Obama’s head exploding, posted to the
Ansar al-Mujahideen jihadist forum with the words “Obama’s future insha’Allah [Allah willing”}
Following the May 1, 2011, news that American forces in Pakistan had killed al-Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden, members of English- and French-language jihadist forums reacted by sharing their personal sorrow for the death of bin Laden while congratulating him on his martyrdom.
SITE Intelligence Group recently documented the immensely popular and active “We Are All Usama Bin Laden” fan page on the Facebook social networking site created in response to the May 1, 2011 death of Usama bin Laden.
The Ansar al-Mujahideen English-language jihadist forum serves as an important online destination for English-speaking online jihadists in the West, hosting translations of jihadist communiqués and videos, and serving as a platform for forum members to collaborate and network among themselves.
On May 13, 2011, the Federal Bureau of Investigation filed an affidavit charging an American convert to Islam, Jesse Curtis Morton AKA Younus Abdullah Mohammed, with communicating threats to the creators of the “South Park” television show in a statement posted in April 2010 on the RevolutionMuslim website, a jihadist website that Morton co-founded in 2008.
Recognizing the importance of social networking websites to better broadcast its propaganda and interact with a larger audience, the Shabaab al-Mujahideen Movement joined Facebook and YouTube.
A jihadist group in Gaza calling itself "Taliban Palestine" has created for itself an internet presence via the popular social networking website Facebook, and has used this site to raise awareness about its establishment, its mission, and its propaganda.
Following the December 11, 2010, suicide bombing of Taymour Abdulwahhab al-Abdaly, an American jihadist named Emerson Begolly recorded a chant honoring al-Abdaly and uploaded it to jihadist forums.
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