The Jawa Report
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| Created by | "Dr. Rusty Shackleford" (alias) |
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| Website | mypetjawa |
The Jawa Report (also, MyPetJawa) is a blog and forum about terrorism committed by Islamists.
The Boston Globe describes it as a "popular" website "that monitors terrorism investigations."The Guardian describes the blog as right wing.The New York Times reports that its volunteers "research Web sites they believe are tied to Al-Qaeda or other militant groups, and pressure Internet service providers to stop hosting the sites."
It began in 2004, in response to the killing by Islamists of hostage American journalist Nick Berg, by a blogger who goes by the alias of Dr. Rusty Shackleford, a reference to the fake name used by King of the Hill character Dale Gribble. Shackelford said: "When I saw the Nick Berg beheading, ... it drove me to start blogging about the plight of hostages held in Iraq." Shackleford was an untenured professor when he began the blog. He maintains his anonymity because of death threats he has received.
Contractor Roy Hallums, who was kidnapped in Iraq on November 1, 2004, held for 311 days, and freed on September 7, 2005, recounted in Buried Alive: The True Story of Kidnapping, Captivity, and a Dramatic Rescue that the Jawa Report was where his wife Susan first saw his name mentioned in public. It had been kept under wraps until then by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The Jawa Report had learned his identity from a Filipino government report.
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