Alneda ( ar, النداء) (meaning "the call" in Arabic) is a former
al-Qaeda
Al-Qaeda (; , ) is an Islamic extremism, Islamic extremist organization composed of Salafist jihadists. Its members are mostly composed of Arab, Arabs, but also include other peoples. Al-Qaeda has mounted attacks on civilian and military ta ...
Fatwa
A fatwā ( ; ar, فتوى; plural ''fatāwā'' ) is a legal ruling on a point of Islamic law (''sharia'') given by a qualified '' Faqih'' (Islamic jurist) in response to a question posed by a private individual, judge or government. A jurist i ...
s and books, and had media, including videos of Osama bin Laden.
Many attempts were made to shut down in 2002 (mostly through
DoS attacks
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), until one
American
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* American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America"
** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America
** American ancestry, pe ...
porn-site owner named
Jon Messner
Jon is a shortened form of the common given name Jonathan, derived from "YHWH has given", and an alternate spelling of John, derived from "YHWH has pardoned".Pornographer says he hacked al Qaeda: 'I wanted to do something ... I know the Internet' '' CNN'', August 8, 2002 Messner used the Arabic translation service at ajeeb.com to read messages left on the site. For five days, people thought that it was still the real Al Qaeda site. After a post on an
Islam
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ic message board at 4:30 a.m. on July 20 warned people not to go, the site was taken down in a
website defacement
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. After this message Messner posted an image of the Great Seal of the United States with the words, "Hacked, Tracked, and Now Owned by the United States". It is now a link to ItsHappening.com, a website about current events.
The site briefly re-appeared on www.news4arab.org, but it was taken down again.
Alneda was run by the Saudi militant
Yusuf al Ayiri
Yusuf al-Ayeri ( ar, يوسف العييري) or Yusuf bin Salih bin Fahd al-Ayeri (1974 – 2003; known by a number of aliases, including '' al-Battar''—the Arabic name of one of the swords of Muhammad—conventionally rendered "Swift Sword" in ...
extrajudicial detention
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in the United States
Guantanamo Bay detention camp
The Guantanamo Bay detention camp ( es, Centro de detención de la bahía de Guantánamo) is a United States military prison located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, also referred to as Guantánamo, GTMO, and Gitmo (), on the coast of Guant ...
s had their continued detention justified by having documents containing their names listed on Alneda's web-pages.