Blogger Tim Ireland has uncovered some more associates of the ‘Cheerleaders,’ a group of Internet vigilantes who claim to stalk and victimize Islamist Muslims online, but who (as is usually the case with vigilantes) have targeted a wide range of random innocent people, including several bloggers on this site, and especially Ireland himself, who was threatened with a comment about a “machete to your throat.”

The importance of discovering these new associates of ‘the Cheerleaders’ is in determining if they are involved in the bullying, threats of violence and cyber-stalking antics themselves, especially when reporting this behavior to the police, and in using the public forum of the Internet to shame these individuals and businesses by attaching their reprehensible actions to their names. Newly identified associates include:

• Jon Chappell aka ‘Johnny Yeah’ of Kooba Radio, which Richard Bartholomew describes as “an obscure Internet radio station.”

• Alex Malloy aka ‘The Boy Malloy’ who cofounded Kooba Radio with Chappell.

• Angela Collins, another cofounder of Kooba Radio.

• Kooba Radio.

• Redwire Design, a web design company.

The link amongst these is that Chappell was cced on some of the threats sent to Ireland. An account at Twitter and on Youtube that are associated with Chappell and Kooba radio were also used in the campaign of harassment against Ireland.

The website of Kooba radio is hosted by a company called Redwire Design, and it just so happens that the person who answers the phones at Redwire is Alex Malloy, Chappell’s partner. Ireland called Malloy and queried him about his involvement. Malloy’s response was “Take the hint and f*** off.”

I think it is safe to infer from that response that Malloy is aware of the threats of violence and the cyber-stalking (‘take a hint’) and he did not deny involvement or express disapproval of the illegal behavior. Here’s a pic of Malloy taken from the Redwire site:

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