Hate sites for Palestinian children - for 3 1/2 years!

When CNN contacted me this morning about the reports of a "new" Palestinian kids online magazine, I sent them the information I have collected over the past few years as I have monitored this website and numerous other Arabic language websites.

The results of the interview were aired this evening on CNN during Wolf Blitzer's prime time show, The Situation Room.

The following is an excerpt from CNN's transcript of The Situation Room located here.

BLITZER: Today, there are some troubling reports of a Hamas-endorsed Web site directed at children that preaches hatred and encourages suicide bombings and terrorism.
CNN has launched its own investigation into the veracity of these reports.
Closely following the story for us is our Internet reporter, Abbi Tatton.
Abbi, what are we learning?
TATTON: Wolf, this is a site that has been getting a lot of attention today, so much so that it's currently down.
It looks like it has been hacked. But what we did earlier today is save up a few of these pages to show you the contents. What are we talking about here?
First of all, the site is clearly aimed at children. There are cartoons all over the place -- this image here, a small child on the back of a horse with a large sword. Also, there are many disturbing images on the site.
As to reports that this site is new, that is not the case. Counterterrorism analyst Laura Mansfield tells us she has been following the contents of this site since it was registered in 2002.
As to whether it's promoting martyrdom, we had senior editor Octavia Nasr here at CNN look around and translate the contents. She says the site talks about the struggle. There are pictures of kids throwing rocks. They're called heroes on the site.
In the context of the struggle, there is glorification of images of suicide bombers. Now, the Beirut-based Web master, Laura Mansfield tells us, does have ties to Hamas, rather than the site being from Hamas itself. We tried to get comment from that Web master and from Hamas, but we were unable -- Wolf.
BLITZER: Abbi, thanks very much. Thanks to our entire Internet team for bringing that to us.

A history of this website over the past four years is available at the Way Back Machine.

Arabic language children's websites are among the various pro-jihad websites we monitor and translate for subscribers of our Strategic Arabic Translations.