ISIS-Linked Bahrunnaim Changed Website Name after Blocked

Liputan6.com, Jakarta - The alleged mastermind behind the attacks in Sarinah, Thamrin Jakarta Bahrun Naim previously created a website called bahrunnaim.co.The website was immediately blocked by the Indonesian Ministry of Communication and Information Technology in trying to prevent him from being able to recruit people through it and spread dangerous information about how to make TATP bomb and handmade gun akin to berretta or a glock type of handgun.

It has been reported that the website resurfaces but with a different name. This pattern is not uncommon to terrorist organizations and other contingents of organized crimes as they seek the simplest and fastest method to persuade people, recruit them and gain better influence through social media.

But it is also necessitated for them to continually change their website’s name to avoid being located by the intelligence agency. But their IP address can be easily traced again if they are using the same content they have used previously.

The website became active in August 2013 and the newest one last update detected to be on 18 January 2016. His followers went up from 43 to 88. It has also been deleted by the ministry.

His website encourages others to support terrorist undertakings through extensive analysis on enemy’s (authorities) strength and weaknesses especially the intelligence agency, theoretically expressed strategies to counter-attack them which were included in the web’s sub-segments avoiding intel’s ‘buffling’ (interference) and constructing chain of command system, methods to be exploited in carrying out terror attacks also included in sub-segments such as how to make TATP bomb and lessons to be learned from Paris terror execution and many other blogs where he shared about Hijrah and misleading religious practices.