Muwahideen.info: Ghulam Ali’s Web of Jihadist Propaganda

A random Google search led me to the site: sitedossier.com which culls certain types of data from websites and domain scraping. The site originally did not impress me until I began to look at the external links from it as well as the links from other sites that pointed to the muwahideen.info site. What I found was that this was not just one site, but a myriad of sites hosted on different domains all over the globe.

Here are a few of them:

al-muwahideends4a.com
haque.110mb.com
tawhed.zxq.net
muwahideen.t35.com
muwahideen.info
forgottenobligation.wordpress.com
urduansaar.wordpress.com
muwahideen.tk

All of these sites are mirrors and all of them have links to the usual video, ebooks, etc that comprise jihadist propaganda. You have the greatest hits so to speak even up to Anwar al-Awlaki‘s posts on how Jihad is as American as apple pie now (yeah he really said that)

Through the usual means, I began to track all the sites, make the connections between them and try to get a bead on who the owner/operator might be. It wasn’t until I located the actual .info site that I was able to get a decent lock on an owners name. All of the other sites lacked an owner name, but, the .info I think was the first and he used his real name when he set it up. The name of the person is Ali Ghulam… Or perhaps it is Ghulam Ali, I am not sure of the convention there.

At any rate, by using the data from that site’s whois call, I was able to get more of his personal data through a Google search of the email address given in the WHOIS (alipk3@hotmail.com)

But wait, there’s more! Ghulam Ali has been a busy boy online. He even has a consulting service that outsources code creation and other types of services to anyone in need.. All from Pakistan… His company softsolutions.com.pk isn’t the only one too. He has a slew of companies and sites out there as you can see below:

muwahideen.info = [ 66.49.217.87 ]

(Asked whois.afilias.info:43 about muwahideen.info)

Domain ID: D28488944-LRMS

Domain Name: MUWAHIDEEN.INFO

Created On: 09-May-2009 11: 01: 20 UTC

Last Updated On: 24-Apr-2010 11: 29: 49 UTC

Expiration Date: 09-May-2011 11: 01: 20 UTC

Sponsoring Registrar: DomainPeople  Inc. (R128-LRMS)

Status: CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED

Registrant ID: DPRP-9715313

Registrant Name: Ghulam Ali

Registrant Organization: Ghulam Ali

Registrant Street1: 620 AlHafeez Shopping Mall

Registrant Street2:

Registrant Street3:

Registrant City: Lahore

Registrant State/Province: PUNJAB

Registrant Postal Code: 54600

Registrant Country: PK

Registrant Phone: 92.5774670

Registrant Phone Ext.:

Registrant FAX:

Registrant FAX Ext.:

Registrant Email: info@softsolutions.com.pk

Soft Solutions Pakistan

620 Al Hafeez Shopping Mall

Main Boulevard Gulberg

Lahore Pakistan

Tel: (+92 42) 5774669-70

Fax: (+92 42) 5774670

Email: info@softsolutions.com.pk

Web: http://www.softsolutions.com.pk

Here’s what we know about epipak.com:

“Ghulam Ali” owns about 67 other domains View these domains >

is a contact on the whois record of 79 domains

1 registrar has maintained records for this domain since 2006-05-19

This domain has changed name servers 7 times over 4 years.

Hosted on 6 IP addresses over 4 years.

View 85 ownership records archived since 2007-11-04 .

Wiki article on Epipak.com

251 other web sites are hosted on this server.

Registrant:

Ghulam Ali  +92.3334229253

Soft Solutions

LG 65, Landmark Plaza, Jail Road

Lahore,Punjab,PK 54000

Domain Name:epipak.com

Record last updated at 2010-05-18 03:23:39

Record created on 2006/5/19

Record expired on 2011/5/19

Domain servers in listed order:

ns11.winshosting.com          ns12.winshosting.com

Administrator:

Ghulam Ali  +92.3334229253

Soft Solutions

LG 65, Landmark Plaza, Jail Road

Lahore,Punjab,PK 54000

Technical Contactor:

Ghulam Ali  +92.3334229253

Soft Solutions

LG 65, Landmark Plaza, Jail Road

Lahore,Punjab,PK 54000

Billing Contactor:

Ghulam Ali  +92.3334229253

Soft Solutions

LG 65, Landmark Plaza, Jail Road

Lahore,Punjab,PK 54000

Registration Service Provider:

name: Wins Hosting

tel: +92.3008885522

fax: +92.4235774670

web:http://www.winshosting.com

Domain Name: ilmkidunya.com

Registrar: Name.com LLC

Expiration Date: 2010-12-26 21:56:30

Creation Date: 2003-12-26 21:56:30

Name Servers:

my.privatedns.com

your.privatedns.com

REGISTRANT CONTACT INFO

Soft Solutions

Ghulam Ali

LG 65 Landmark Plaza

Lahore

Lahore

Punjab

000000

PK

Phone: +92.92425715060

Email Address: alipk3@hotmail.com

ADMINISTRATIVE CONTACT INFO

Soft Solutions

Ghulam Ali

LG 65 Landmark Plaza

Lahore

Lahore

Punjab

000000

PK

Phone: +92.92425715060

Email Address: alipk3@hotmail.com

TECHNICAL CONTACT INFO

Soft Solutions

Ghulam Ali

LG 65 Landmark Plaza

Lahore

Lahore

Punjab

000000

PK

Phone: +92.92425715060

Email Address: alipk3@hotmail.com

BILLING CONTACT INFO

Soft Solutions

Ghulam Ali

LG 65 Landmark Plaza

Lahore

Lahore

Punjab

000000

PK

Phone: +92.92425715060

Email Address: alipk3@hotmail.com

Cash Payments

You may send your cash payments to our office or ask us to collect payment if you are based in Lahore. Our office address is as under

WinsHosting

620-Al Hafeez Shopping Mall

Main Boulevard Gulberg III

Lahore Pakistan

Ph: (+92 42) 5774669-70

Checks

Please write your checks in favor of ‘Soft Solutions’ and send to our given address

WinsHosting

620-Al Hafeez Shopping Mall

Main Boulevard Gulberg III

Lahore Pakistan

Ph: (+92 42) 5774669-70

Online Payments through Credit Card

You can make payments via credit card through our website.

Please click here to make a payment.

Payment via Western Union

Money Transfer From anywhere in the World

Name: Ghulam Ali

S/o : Mukhtar Ahmad

NIC #: 35102-4257761-9

Online Bank Transfers

Please pay in one of the following online banks in Pakistan

Bank Al Habib Limited

A/c Title: WINS HOSTING

A/c # 5501-0081-001055-01-2

Islamic Banking Gulberg Branch Lahore

Bank Alfalah Limited

A/c Title: Ghulam Ali

A/c # 0028-01035357

Bank Alfalah Limited Gulberg Branch Lahore

Branch Code: 0028

Swift Code: ALFHPKKAGBL

Habib Metropolitan Bank Limited

A/c Title: Soft Solutions

A/c # 20311-148093

Habib Metropolitan Bank Limited

Main Branch Egerton Road Lahore

Oh yes, he has been a busy boy indeed. So, exactly when he turned to posting up Jihadist websites I am not too sure. However, he has quite a few of them including some new additions like a Facebook page.

Hey Zuckerberg, how about some security on that shit huh? Yeah, well, evidently Jihad has gone all “Facebook” now. I am going to have to go through that site and collect the “friends” to see just who is tuning in there. Note though, that they have the Al-Faloja site links there as well as other Urdu sites so this is a recent addition.

Along with this Facebook site our boy has set up two wordpress sites:

forgottenobligation.wordpress.com
urduansaar.wordpress.com

Each of these sites have even more current content and commentary in English and Urdu on Jihads precepts and sing its praises from the likes of GIMF and a jihadist youth movement group Al-Shebaab.

I am still doing the final work on collating all the data on these sites but I certainly hope that Facebook and WordPress both take the time to read their emails and lock the sites out as well as get the feds involved.

Meanwhile, Mr Ghlam Ali I think your about to get some interesting internet traffic coming your way. And anyone who might be using his services to outsource their coding or whatever else should maybe not work with him any more… Or at the very least do some research….

CoB