Al-Hesbah

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A controversial jihadist message board, Al-Hesbah has drawn claims of being a false flag operation, employed by anti-Jihadist sources.

In March 2006, the site was accused by rival Jihadist forum of aiding in the arrest of the well-known cyber-persona of Irhabi 007, a representative of Al-Qaeda in Iraq. This led to the site administrators shutting down the site on March 26, stating that they had discovered the identities of two members of the site who were actual security officers, Muhammad al-Zuhayri and Muhammad Tamallat^[1]

In April 2006, the website was accused of aiding the arrests of 40 mujahideen in Saudia Arabia, drawing claims that it was either "heavily monitored", or working in actual connection with, Saudi security forces.^[2]

On August 28 2006, the site again caught attention when it released a communique entitled How to Kill a Crusader in the Arabian Peninsula^[3]

On October 14, the New York Post released an article citing that Al-Hesbah, one of the "five major Islamist Web sites in the world", had denounced the design of an Apple Store on Fifth Avenue that they believed made a mockery out of the Islamic Kaaba.