Posted on 10/18/2004 1:05:54 AM PDT by JohnathanRGalt
Terror: Hostage Ken Bigley blindfolded in Iraq
The Mail on Sunday began investigating the site, hostinganime, after it showed images of Mr Bigley being held in a cage, shortly before he was decapitated by the Al Qaeda cell known as Tahid wal Jihad.
The site posted links to footage in which the terrorists were seen hacking off the heads of four other hostages, including the two Americans, Eugene Armstrong and Jack Hensley, kidnapped with Mr Bigley.
We traced hostinganime to the computer servers of Everyone's Internet, a Houston-based firm that boasts it is the "world's largest dedicated hosting company", providing space to one million websites. The company's chief financial officer, Roy Alvin Marsh III, 45, is a flamboyant Texan whose influential friends include President Bush's Secretary of the Navy, Gordon England, Sharon Bush, the President's former sister-in-law, and her daughter, fashion model Lauren Bush. The firm's chief executive is his 44-yearold brother, Robert Marsh.
According to independent internet experts, the firm's clients include hostinganime. "I did an electronic trace and discovered that it is being hosted by Everyone's Internet," says Jeremy Reynalds, a British-born campaigner against internet hate peddlers.
Similar conclusions were reached by Web Sheriff, an internet policing company based in London. Investigators say the site has been used as a propaganda, recruitment and fund-raising tool by several Middle-Eastern terror networks.
American law allows websites to be registered under phony names at post office boxes. Thus hostinganime uses a Los Angeles address that is a mail drop. It is registered through NameCheap, a company owned by Richard Kirkendall, a 29-year-old Texan. He could not be located by The Mail on Sunday.
We also were unable to obtain a comment from Everyone's Internet.
However, an internet expert who advises the US Government on terrorism said the site will enable them eventually to find the terrorists.
US Customs deputy special agent for Houston, Robert Rutt, said last night: "There's going to be no comment on this whatsoever."
Rancid enough to knock a buzzard off a sh*t wagon.
That is what is sounds like to me.
of interest ping?
No wonder they lost their empire.
HOUSTON PING
Ping
Stay safe !
Always safe.
Thanks.
There is no limit as to how low the liberals will go.
They're so low they need umbrellas so the ants won't pee on them.
They get more despicable by the minute... the left are truly scary people.
And in further news, it was discovered that the blinfold on Bigley is a Canon towel. Canon towels is an American company based in Texas. Coincidence??? I think NOT!!!!!!!
Webhosting is an anonymous, automated business as is the purchasing of Internet names. There is no complicity here except the morons chose one webhosting company instead of another.
"However, an internet expert who advises the US Government on terrorism said the site will enable them eventually to find the terrorists."
My opinion: The expert is right.
The Daily Mail a leftist newspaper? Er... I don't think so. It's one of Britain's most staunchly conservative papers and has been for decades. Try doing a little fact-checking first.
So, bottom line, they want to add their bloody voices to the pressure of Congresscritters in America to remove all privacy on the Internet for Americans?
So now this is internet hate peddling? It's perfectly okay for every news outlet to air over and over the images from Abu Ghraib, the images of civilian casualties in Iraq and Gaza, ... but it's not okay for websites to show what the terrorists are doing to civilians?
I'm one of those Americans who thinks everyone should see these videos - even if it is only one of them. So they know WHO and WHAT our enemy is. Evil.
Webhosting is an anonymous, automated business as is the purchasing of Internet names. There is no complicity here except the morons chose one webhosting company instead of another.No, it stopped being an automated business when many people, myself included, informed the abuse@ev1.net that they were hosting and facilitating terrorists deliver their murderous threats and extortions. EV1 has been hosting Islamist terrorists for years -- it currently refuses to apply it's own EV1 Acceptable Use Policy:
Threats: Use of the EV1® service to transmit any material (by e-mail, uploading, posting or otherwise) that threatens or encourages bodily harm or destruction of property.
Harassment: Use of the EV1® service to transmit any material (by e-mail, uploading, posting or otherwise) that harasses another.
Yes. It is an automated business. I have many domains on several servers and I've never talked to a human.
And I've talked to several ISPs abuse desks. Once informed that the ISP is hosting criminal activity -- be it SPAM, child porn, or murderous extortion -- the ISP needs to take the sites down.
That's much different than saying the process is manual, right?
'Scuse me but... HUH? "ties?"
Yep, silly ain't it.
It's as though people don't really care that al-Qaeda is ensconced securely and comfortably at an ISP in Houston Texas -- openly carrying out propaganda, recruitment, fundraising, planning, murder, and extortion. But if they can prove that the ISP owner is personal friend of a few of Bush's 3rd or 4th removed family members -- then it becomes important.
Up until now, only conservatives have been complaining. Jeremy Reynalds, a writer on BushCountry.org has been in the forefront of criticizing ISPs such as EV1.NET who continue to host Islamist terror sites. Here's a discussion from July of this year on the same subject.
I think I know who the expert is. It's a reasonable assumption that it is Rita Katz or a member of the S.I.T.E. Institute (the Search for International Terrorist Entities, website: http://www.siteinstitute.org/ ) They keep tabs on terrorist groups though the internet.
This is their methodology: "Through continuous and intensive examination of extremist websites, public records, and international media reports, as well as through undercover work on both sides of the Atlantic, the SITE Institute swiftly locates links among terrorist entities and their supporters. Once a potential terrorist entity is identified, either through SITE's ongoing internal research or via a client's specific query, SITE conducts a comprehensive investigation on the target and entities affiliated to it, scouring corporate records, tax forms, credit reports, videotapes, internet newsgroup postings, and owned websites, among other resources, for indicators of illicit activity. Such research has often yielded important leads that have been, and are continuously being, forwarded to pertinent law enforcement or government agencies, and/or information that has been used for government investigations, raids, and prosecutions, in the U.S and abroad."
There are a few other groups that come to mind, by SITE is my bet.
Thank you for your opinion.
I don't know who the expert is as noted in the article.
Yes, I think it's important too. If Americans were actually allowed to view the murder videos they would get angry (which would not serve the liberal media's agenda).
However, you need to understand that these sites are being put up by al-Qaeda. You are watching the videos made and uploaded to EV1.NET by the same people who did the actual murders.
If you want to watch the snuff porn second hand, there's always orgrish.com -- First hand it's posted to the Islamist websites. The second part of a terrorist act is to actually deliver the message to the civilian population. The second part of the terrorist act is as important as the first. ISPs such as EV1.NET are facilitating the second part of the terrorist act.
There are a few other groups that come to mind, by SITE is my bet.
I don't think so. Rita Katz and Josh Devon of the Site Institute have called for the sites to be shut down many times:
Ms. Katz said she was not discouraged by the criticism of the prosecutions. "When you call for the death of people and then it results in actions - that is beyond the First Amendment," she said. "You are organizing a crime."
From a Virtual Shadow, Messages of Terror:
Rita Katz, director of the SITE Institute, a nonprofit group in the District that monitors terrorist sites for the federal government, said she believed that without the Internet, Zarqawi's group would not be as revered as it is today. "Zarqawi has progressed tremendously over the past two years," she said, "and I think that the Internet contributes very much to his reputation." A Tool of Radicals
President Bush has urged Americans to remain vigilant, keeping themselves aware of their surroundings and reporting suspicious activities. This vigilance must extend into cyberspace. Millions of Americans scour the internet every day, viewing more Web sites than the government ever could. We should routinely report, to police or the FBI, Web sites that support terrorism.
To pull off their attacks on Sept. 11, the hijackers utilized American planes, American bank accounts, American flight schools and American credit cards. Terrorists continue to use American servers. By allowing these sites to remain active, we permit terrorists to communicate and to disseminate their propaganda. The sites must be shut down.Rita Katz is the Director of the SITE Institute, based in Washington, D.C. Josh Devon is a senior terrorism analyst.
President Bush has urged Americans to remain vigilant, keeping themselves aware of their surroundings and reporting suspicious activities. This vigilance must extend into cyberspace. Millions of Americans scour the internet every day, viewing more Web sites than the government ever could. We should routinely report, to police or the FBI, Web sites that support terrorism.
To pull off their attacks on Sept. 11, the hijackers utilized American planes, American bank accounts, American flight schools and American credit cards. Terrorists continue to use American servers. By allowing these sites to remain active, we permit terrorists to communicate and to disseminate their propaganda. The sites must be shut down.Rita Katz is the Director of the SITE Institute, based in Washington, D.C. Josh Devon is a senior terrorism analyst.
Certainly not the opinion of some experts such as Katz and Devon."However, an internet expert who advises the US Government on terrorism said the site will enable them eventually to find the terrorists."
My opinion: The expert is right.
Certainly not the opinion of some experts such as Katz and Devon."However, an internet expert who advises the US Government on terrorism said the site will enable them eventually to find the terrorists."
My opinion: The expert is right.
My mistake. I misread the original article. I was under the impression that the websites were located by an expert and then passed to the government.
I thought Ms. Katz was a reasonable person to guess at location their websites, as she has links to website of groups like Al Qaida, HAMAS and others.
Yes, Ms. Katz does. She is a very reasonable person. I have learned to trust what she and the Site Institute says.
I have only the highest admiration of the work of the Site Institute!
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