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.
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