The residue of the now banned British-based radical Islamist groups, Al Muhajiroun, the Saved Sect and Al Ghurabaa currently use the website Islambase to congregate when Omar Bakri's cyber mosque on Paltalk is closed. The site is full of "fake jihadi" chatter and members' whimsical sighing about their brothers (and some sisters) who are now locked up in jail.

The site was part of a December 2007 investigation by a team of Russian hackers, who entered several extremist Islamist sites around the world. Using their manipulated version of eBlaster they recorded the key strokes of certain users of these extremist sites for up to several days. Those users who clicked on the Russians' links and entered the websites at certain times fell into their clever traps.

I've only just had a look at the Russians' results which they've posted on a Russian hacker forum, which is used by Russian Government officials and other international agencies - an informal hacker spy network, which keeps the hackers out of jail and increasingly annoys the hell out of the extreme Islamists. The results are unprocessed but amidst the raw data you can make out - in long trails of keyboard impressions - exactly what the investigated sites' members get up to using their computers.

Since my translation skills are not what they should be, I'll refer here purely to the British site Islambase and focus in on some of the most interesting results gleaned by the Russian hackers. There's no harm in printing them here as Islambase is made up of pseudonyms playing with English law, the Russian hackers' evidence is available to all who sign onto their free forum and because my lawyer told me so!

Apart from some visibly interesting communications between members, which can't be printed here because they could be used in court (the British authorities monitor Islambase and have an eye on certain individuals), what the Russians' work does is show what the extremists get up to in their spare time (when they're not posting hatred and terror glorification on Islambase). Some of the activities are hardly what you'd expect of individuals supposed to be religious; let alone aspirants to Taliban Islamist Puritanism.

The woman, who goes by the name of Umm Sulayman and is accountable on the Islambase site for a post entitled Ramadan message from Belmarsh (a British jail currently housing many Islamist extremist prisoners) spent hours on her computer just a few days before Christmas doing some shopping at the supermarket Sainsburys online (a penchant for American Coca Cola and chips, I see) and reading that kafir bastion, the BBC news website, for more than half an hour. It was where she went after catching up with the news that is most interesting: first to a celebrity site where she caught up on a story about Britney Spears and then - clearly on a buying spree - she popped into the online lingerie store Agent Provocateur, where, after leafing through the "adventures" section, she then put in her credit card details for 1 pair of Love briefs before deciding that £48.00 + Package and posting was perhaps too much for a pair of invisible knickers.

Abu Jihad - recently responsible for a gloating post on Islambase about the five British hostages in Iraq, which he summed up with the beautifully scribed "When Jihad beckons no Fatwa is soughts Fatwa on the Day of Jihad is blood"- likewise spent an age online a couple of nights before Christmas.

Popping in and out of Islambase, he too sought regular refuge in the BBC news website, as well as on Youtube where he watched the footballer Thierry Henry score a goal against Brazil (didn't the Taliban shoot people for playing football?) before watching Salma Hayek on Letterman in an interview where she discusses her breasts. It's at one thirty in the morning when the real Abu Jihad appears and turns to the website Pandora'ssecrets.com where he logs in (clearly a regular site user) and spends forty five minutes flitting between sex stories; not male stories but female ones. There's no movement at all for a long while, then the escape button is hit and the computer is turned off at half two, before switching on again in the morning to check the BBC headlines again.

But it's Islambase's Hamza who shows himself to be the least likely pure Islamist. He is the most regular poster on Islambase and when he's not glorifying terror or insulting Jews, Hindus, Kafir and everyone else on the face of the planet, he's posting Global News stories, designed not to pierce the Islambase bubble - nice stories about how well Al Qaeda is actually doing (really...promise!) and how corrupt the West is (his favourite posts are about paedophiles and men having sex with bicycles).

Hamza requires a psychiatrist but none advertise themselves on Islambase. Luton-based Hamza uses a network computer and a private one - he's caught on both. What he gets up to on the private one is most fascinating:

In one keyboard impression trail, Hamza shows himself up as a genuine sicko; visiting the site Strangeland.com, he goes to a section entitled Death Flix and watches a video called "Leftovers from suicide bomb", then a video called "Iraqi execution: WARNING GRAPHIC" before tucking into some "Franz Reichelt Jumps Off the Eiffel Tower with his Coat Parachute and Dies". He then switches to Strangeland's porn section where he watches several short clips including: "Wifey in the shower", "Trapeze titties on Titty Tuesday", "Pedifile's Punishment" and "Santa's Jugs".

After seventeen minutes on Strangeland, he goes for something even more hardcore on a site called Puretna. Clicking on "TNAFlix full length streaming porn movies for free!!!" he then clicks on "Long Videos" and starts browsing by category. I won't print here the results of the category search he undertakes but - according to the Russians - the categories he searches through include "Gay/Bi-Male", "SheMale/Trans" and "Home Made". One stream is particularly indicative of Hamza's online desires:

itsashemaleorgyscene2>Esc<>Shemaleclubkellyohanapi@@ing>Esc<<<>>

<>Transexualgangbanger10scene2>Esc>>Esc

Not my cup of tea - but then I'm not a perverse fake jihadi Islamist living in Luton off fraudulent benefits and sleeping - oh so - alone at night.

Hamza last week put a post on Islambase asking if anyone had any free anti virus software they could give him. No wonder - visiting all those sites! His computer must be riddled.

There are organisations like Internet Haganah who want to zap sites like Islambase off the face of the earth. I say give Bakri's muppets the rope they need - they'll just use it to put themselves permanently out of business, as well as generating endless stories and entertainment for the hordes of journalists and hackers using fake id's on their fake jihadi sites.

Worth thinking about Hamza and his issues the next time you read a post by him in Islambase's Kafir news section discussing the West's perverted values. Makes you wonder what's really going on in his sick head. Sisters and brothers beware! Keep clear of Luton - this man's better dealt with as a moniker on a forum than face to face.

I wonder who's next for the Russians? Yvonne Ridley at Stockhausensex.com or perhaps Abu Hamza at finsburyhookers? We shall just have to wait and see.

Guy Baldwin is a techie and terror tracker, based in the Bahamas. He previously worked for the British FCO.

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