Here’s a good article about jihad web sites, and the work being done by Aaron at Internet Haganah to shut them down: Activists Crusade Against E-Jihad.

Haganah’s dogged persistence has made it the bane of Islamist websites, discussion forums and chat rooms. In forums on Islamist sites, posters urge Muslim hackers to attack the Haganah web site.

”Anything that can be done to attack a site has been done to attack us,” said Weisburd. ”Not that it’s done much good. At this point, efforts to organise e-jihad against us simply become another avenue for gathering information on the jihadists themselves.”

Weisburd is currently pursuing al-fateh.net, a website that seeks to educate Arab children on the history and merits of self-sacrifice. Run by Hamas, the site uses cartoons and bedtime stories to stress the glory of death while fighting in the Intifada.

”The children of stones are the heroes of today and tomorrow,” reads one caption.

The site moves often as ISPs learn the meaning of its Arabic content and drop it from their servers. It recently joined the growing number of jihad sites that have taken refuge on servers in Russia, where ISP administrators are less likely to drop a paying client.

The official Al-Qaeda site, alneda.com, made similar moves until a U.S. vigilante hacker hijacked its domain name. Anyone accessing the site is now greeted by the message ”Hacked, tracked and NOW owned by the U.S.A.”

Al-Qaeda’s training videos are still available at maktab-al-jihad.com. The slick looking site is linked to Sheikh Abu Hamza Al-Masri of the Finsbury Park mosque in London, who U.S. officials accuse of recruiting for Al-Qaeda. The radical cleric’s fiery sermons feature prominently on the site.

Activists are also targeting another Abu Hamza site, Supporters of Shareeah (SOS).

”We are constantly under attack from irrational organisations like Haganah,” SOS spokesman Ahmed Al-Muraabit said in a statement to IPS. ”We have faced site closure many times (and) even our right to use a mailing list has come at a big price.”

SOS recently closed its discussion forums due to constant harassment by ”Zionists who attempted to tarnish our image by making us seem as bloodthirsty people who want to go on a rampage attacking the innocent inhabitants of UK and other European countries which don’t have much to do with the war against Islam.”