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"Cyberspace Conquering" Unit Inundate Thousands of Inboxes with Bin Laden Messages

By CBS Investigates

May 14, 2008 / 2:18 PM EDT / CBS News

("The Cyberspace Conquering")

A cyberspace-jihadi propaganda unit called "The Cyberspace Conquering" unit bombarded the inboxes of random users around the Arab world with thousands of emails containing links to download an old audio message by al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden. The message, entitled "May our Mothers be Bereaved of Us If We Fail to Help Our Prophet (pbuh)," had been distributed on the Internet on March 19th.