CONTESTING TERRORIST USE OF THE INTERNET

UNCLAS AMMAN 008725 SIPDIS SIPDIS E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PTER KISL KPAO OIIP JO SUBJECT: CONTESTING TERRORIST USE OF THE INTERNET REF: STATE 193515 ¶1. (U) Reftel asked for post's estimate of the most popular websites for Jordanians. According to the Alexa Internet service provider the top ten websites visited by Jordanians are: Yahoo (yahoo.com),Google (google.jo),Microsoft Network (msn.com),Google (google.com),Maktoob.com Inc (maktoob.com)(a large Arabic online e-mail service with bilingual Arabic and English services),Windows Live (live.com),Kooora (Koora.com) (an Arabic soccer site with news and analysis),Al-Jazeera (aljazeera.net),Hi5.com (hi5.com) (youth-oriented chat),and Al-Rai (alrai.com) (an official Jordanian newspaper). A list of the top 100 websites frequented by Jordanians can be found at http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top sites?cc=JO. ¶2. (U) The Alexa website computes Internet traffic rankings by analyzing web usage of a large sample of millions of Alexa toolbar users. HALE