Against the backdrop of the events in Gaza, one of the surfers in the Al-Faloja forum, who identifies himself as an Iraqi writer, published a call to surfers on 29 December 2008, to gather information on Israeli and American embassies worldwide, including their telephone numbers and locations, particularly in Arab countries, Central Asia and Europe .

Many Islamic sites with forums, which identify with the Global Jihad, reported on 28 December 2008 that Awad Al-Qarni, a senior Saudi Arabian Islamic cleric, published a fatwa calling for attacks on Israeli interests worldwide “in response to the slaughtering which the Occupation is perpetrating in the Gaza Strip”.

On November 3, 2008, a member of the Al-Qaeda affiliated “Al-Hesbah” online forum, named Ansar, posted a message written in Arabic and French by Mu‘iz Al-Din Al-Qayrawani, a fighter in Afghanistan. In the message, Ansar requested that visitors to the forum distribute Al-Qayrawani's message and send a copy of it to the Swiss press.

The “Sada Al-Malahem” magazine (the Echo of Battles), published once every two months in behalf of the “Qaidat Al-Jihad Organization in the South of the Arabian Peninsula”, published in its November 2008 issue (issue no. 6) a great deal of information about the terrorist attack on the U.S. embassy in Yemen, carried out on September 17th 2008.

Recently the Jihadi dialogue has reverted to dealing with the Netherlands’ detestable attitude towards Muslims and Islam, this time in face of the development in the trial of the Hofstad group members and in face of the intention to air another anti-Islamic movie.

In the course of October 2008, the Al-Faloja online forum, identified with Al-Qaeda, published a report by an online surfer calling himself Hamazacom about the blocking of 143 Al-Qaeda blogs in northern Africa by the Maktoob website. The online surfer quotes the website manager, who said that the diversion of the Organization’s blogs will continue with the purpose of blocking them.

On November 24, a forum member named “Gadocost” posted a message on the “Al-Boraq” Jihadi forum warning that the countdown had begun and that only 17 days remained until “Allah will sentence the infidels and the separatists from Islam to hell.” He even asks in an obscure manner if “the holiday gift is coming soon??!!” From his post, it appears that a terrorist attack is planned for around December 11, 2008.

Despite the closure of several leading online forums associated with al-Qaeda, other Jihadi forums have devoted wide coverage to the terrorist attack in Mumbai. For the time being, forum members rely primarily on foreign media reports, quoting a great deal from the articles and posting photographs from the scene of the attacks. It is likely that in the next several days, various online forums will post more in-depth analyses of the attacks.

On November 12, 2008, the “Hanein” online forum published a post by an internet user named Abu Salem warning against the publication of new caricature drawings in Denmark. Abu Salem quoted an Arabic article published on a Danish news website on November 11, which discussed a new book about to be published in Denmark of caricature drawings of the Prophet Muhammad. In response to these new caricatures, the Danish Imam, Abdul Wahid Pedersen, described the drawings as part of a “storm” facing Danish Muslims over the past several years, in which a war of words and letters has transformed into one of caricatures.