Alneda.com Resurfaces AGAIN on Yet Another Hacked Site

BushCountry.org ^ | 10/06/02 | Jeremy Reynalds

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Alneda.com Resurfaces AGAIN on Yet Another Hacked Site
By Jeremy Reynalds (bio)

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For the second time in as many weeks, terrorists have hijacked a web site hosted by www.flohost.com.

Company president 17-year-old Travis Rowland is sick and tired of it. "Why me? This is outrageous," he said in an interview Saturday afternoon.

This time the site hijacked is http://www.simplicithi.net. It's also run by a youngster; Johnny Nguyen, and has been serving as an outlet for some of the youngster's creativity. But now it's an unwitting and unwilling home to a high profile terrorist site formerly known as alneda.com. The site was originally believed by U.S. officials to have been used by al-Qaeda to deliver messages possibly connected with further attacks but the name "alneda.com," was subsequently hijacked by a Maryland pornographer.

The newest location for the alneda.com site is buried deep within an obscure portion of Nguyen's small site at http://www.simplicithi.net/1/images/indexx/ The flohost.com hosted site that was hijacked last week and used to host the alneda.com site was likewise buried in an obscure "images" directory. That address was http://eisecure.com/images/smilie/index.php.

Attempts to reach Nguyen by press time were unsuccessful.

Rowland told me that since the beginning of the month the simplicithi.net site has seen a huge number of visitors and has had a large amount of material downloaded–the majority of it from the alneda.com portion of the site.

According to statistics that Rowland provided me, Saudi Arabians have topped the list for visitors to the site, with over 46 thousand hits comprising more than 25 percent of the total. Other visitors to the site have come from Canada, Denmark and the United Kingdom.

Although the original alneda.com site was pulled when the United States government requested its removal, it has continued to reappear under a variety of names and numerical internet addresses. That suggests to me that the individuals behind the site are very concerned about maintaining the site's presence on the web and are prepared to take whatever measures necessary to do so.

Cyberterrorism expert Ben Venzke told USA Today a few months ago that the original alneda.com site was "one of the only sites, if not the only site, for statements by al-qaeda and the Taliban."

The site's most recent incarnation is being regularly updated and among the usual anti-American, anti-President Bush rhetoric, contains an extensive diatribe titled "The developments of our war with the American enemy on the internet."

A portion of the report, which I have paraphrased, reads:

"We want to let you know that American Jewish organizations have joined the war against ours and other jihad sites ... But our battle against the Jewish crusaders on the internet is just part of the continuous battles that has going on between them and us. Our jihad against them and others will continue on the front lines as God continues to help us. But we want to emphasize that the Jews having entered the Internet battle field has not changed the technical scale of things ...

"And each time one of our sites gets closed down it's a hit against your so-called freedom of speech. Our site helps expose the lies of your freedom of speech and your political freedom. America is really a crusading imperialist dictatorship which treats each issue on a case by case basis in a manner that suits her. Such a technique negates America's (so-called) freedom and principles."

Note that because this site is in Arabic, this article makes use of a poor but nonetheless still relatively helpful automated Arabic-English translation tool available on line at http://tarjim.ajeeb.com/ajeeb/default.asp? I have tried to give you what I believe is the gist of the message from the muddled English text that this service sometimes gives.

Rowland said his message for the hackers and their hate-filled site is the same as before: they don't need to do stuff like this. "There are ways to get your point across other than being a terrorist."

Jeremy Reynalds is a freelance writer and the founder and director of Joy Junction, New Mexico's largest emergency homeless shelter. He has a master's degree in communication from the University of New Mexico and is pursuing his PhD in intercultural education at Biola University in Los Angeles. He is married with five children and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His work can be viewed here and weekly at www.americasvoices.org. He may be contacted by e-mail at reynalds@joyjunction.org

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The NEW Alneda.com, Doing Business as http://www.simplicithi.net/1/images/indexx

By Jeremy Reynalds  

With the internet being so young, who would have thought that we would be dealing so soon with internet terrorism? Sadly we are and it shows no signs of going away. As I pointed out in a recent article on this site, two web sites have been hacked by a terrorist group in as many weeks.

This time the site hijacked is http://www.simplicithi.net (as of this posting, the website has been shut down) serving as an unwitting and unwilling home to a high profile terrorist site formerly known as alneda.com. The site was originally believed by U.S. officials to have been used by al-Qaeda to deliver messages possibly connected with further attacks but the name "alneda.com," was subsequently hijacked by a Maryland pornographer.

Now while the folk behind this and other sites mean business, so do I. I'm not just willing to let these evildoers take advantage of us any more, and am willing to do whatever it takes legally to make sure that American internet service providers who know they are hosting these sites and refuse to take them down face public exposure and wrath. To my mind, American ISP's who host anti-American terror sites in the name of free speech are nothing more than traitors.

With that in mind, here are a variety of information tables giving you a wide range of information about visitors to the new alneda site. Not surprisingly, you'll see that Saudi Arabians comprise quite a large percentage of the visitors to this site.
 

Top 30 of 47 Total Countries
#	Hits		Files		KBytes		Country
1	76086	41.66%	32345	36.25%	645667	32.09%	Unresolved/Unknown
2	46268	25.33%	18255	20.46%	585441	29.09%	Saudi Arabia
3	23369	12.80%	15935	17.86%	337781	16.79%	Network
4	16827	9.21%	11030	12.36%	252237	12.53%	US Commercial
5	3627	1.99%	1740	1.95%	24516	1.22%	Canada
6	3467	1.90%	2998	3.36%	68144	3.39%	Denmark
7	1689	0.92%	798	0.89%	10616	0.53%	Australia
8	1320	0.72%	762	0.85%	11164	0.55%	United Kingdom
9	1303	0.71%	570	0.64%	10464	0.52%	US Educational
10	1222	0.67%	705	0.79%	8366	0.42%	Netherlands
11	962	0.53%	427	0.48%	5329	0.26%	Belgium
12	826	0.45%	404	0.45%	5384	0.27%	Egypt
13	807	0.44%	426	0.48%	5977	0.30%	Germany
14	577	0.32%	410	0.46%	4914	0.24%	Spain
15	524	0.29%	356	0.40%	3790	0.19%	France
16	405	0.22%	300	0.34%	3527	0.18%	Italy
17	304	0.17%	142	0.16%	2277	0.11%	Japan
18	301	0.16%	135	0.15%	2031	0.10%	New Zealand (Aotearoa)
19	292	0.16%	222	0.25%	1455	0.07%	Israel
20	259	0.14%	223	0.25%	2564	0.13%	Switzerland
21	246	0.13%	204	0.23%	5576	0.28%	United Arab Emirates
22	185	0.10%	133	0.15%	1505	0.07%	Sweden
23	184	0.10%	49	0.05%	672	0.03%	Colombia
24	181	0.10%	140	0.16%	1779	0.09%	Norway
25	172	0.09%	86	0.10%	1422	0.07%	Jordan
26	161	0.09%	76	0.09%	873	0.04%	Austria
27	111	0.06%	78	0.09%	882	0.04%	Malaysia
28	102	0.06%	35	0.04%	619	0.03%	Ukraine
29	100	0.05%	45	0.05%	995	0.05%	Lebanon
30	84	0.05%	74	0.08%	772	0.04%	Ireland

[Mixer]

Thanks for the ping. Thanks also for the reply in the other thread.

I wish I knew more about attacking these sites or I would hijack a few of them myself.

Thanks for keeping us posted so we can keep an eye on the enemy.

[JohnathanRGalt]

I wish I knew more about attacking these sites or I would hijack a few of them myself.

The 'hijacking' was done by back-ordering the domain name at: http://www.snapnames.com/ ($69/year) and then the terrorists stupidly let their name expire .

However, hacking doesn't work -- at least not for very long. Much better and more productive is to contact the ISPs directly and explain to them that they are hosting a terrorist website. Check out the downward pointing blue AK-47s (successful terrorist/Islamist website takedowns) at Haganah

[Cindy]

Good job Mr. Galt. I appreciate your hard work.

[Mitchell]

Do you know how long a time period the log file summary is for? It doesn't show a lot of traffic. (This assumes the log file summary is genuine; such information is not normally publicly accessible.)

One interesting question is how the jehadi URL's (or IP addresses) are publicized to followers around the world, since the web sites don't stay put for very long. Can one find a master page that links to (or simply states) the current such URL or IP address? Or is the master information distributed via Usenet? It is presumably broadcast in some way like I'm suggesting, rather than via traceable e-mail or the like.

[Mixer]

I will have a look at that....thanks.