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Al-Qaeda claims fatal shooting of US marine in Kuwait
Outlook India ^ | Oct. 18, 2002 | AFP

Posted on 10/21/2002 5:18:30 PM PDT by JohnathanRGalt

http://www.outlookindia.com/pti_news.asp?id=91672
Al-Qaeda claims fatal shooting of US marine in Kuwait
DUBAI, OCT 18 (AFP)

A shooting attack in Kuwait which killed a US marine and wounded another was purportedly claimed by al-Qaeda today.

The statement, published by an Islamist website, also claimed the US has covered up "huge losses" during the October 8 attack during marine training on Failaka island, 20 kilometres east of Kuwait City.

"We hail this courageous and successful operation ... that caused huge losses to the Americans," said the Arabic-language statement signed by the "political office" of the terror group carried by the www.jehad.net website.

The statement, whose authenticity could not be immediately verified, goes on to accuse the United States of "covering up the huge losses of marines, and saying the bloody operation killed one and wounded another." The statement claims that "to cover up the degree of their losses, the Americans did not allow Kuwaiti police to investigate the incident." It claims the US forces "prevented, for four hours leading Kuwaiti officials and the interior and defence ministries to land on Falaika island, to have enough time to evacuate the bodies by helicopter to US aircraft carriers in the Gulf." The two shooters- later identified as Anas Ahmad Ibrahim al-Kandari, 21, and Jassem Hamad Mubarak al-Hajeri, 26- were gunned down by U S troops.

Kuwait has branded the incident a "terrorist attack" and has arrested 15 suspects it is accusing of forming an "organization" which had planned to strike at five other US and foreign targets.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; dv2com; islamicviolence; jehadnet; jihadinamerica; kuwait; talibanlist
jehad.net -- is now recognized as the voice of Al-Qaeda and is just one of several Islamist sites hosted at DV2.COM in Atlanta. Jehad.net is the publisher of the essay "On the Importance of Jihad as a Means of Destroying the Infidel Countries": The Annihilation of the Infidels is a Divine Decree. You can read a professional translation of this essay here.

Another Islamist web site broadcasting from Atlanta is offering  instructions on kidnapping Americans, another site reveals plans to start poisoning the American food supplies and people in restaurants, and yet another site posting instructions  for bombmaking, explosives, and murdering people.

Whois Information from "whois.arin.net" about http://www.jehad.net/
       IP address=216.180.224.51

OrgName: Net Depot, Inc.
OrgID:   DEPO
Address: 55 Marietta St NW
         Suite 1720 Atlanta GA 30303

AdminName:   Hinkle, Jeff
AdminPhone:  +1-404-230-9150
AdminEmail:  jhinkle@dv2.com

TechName:   DV2 Engineering
TechEmail:  engineering@dv2.net

AbuseHandle: DV2AB-ARIN
AbuseName:   DV2 Abuse
AbusePhone:  +1-404-230-9150
AbuseEmail:  abuse@dv2.net

1 posted on 10/21/2002 5:18:31 PM PDT by JohnathanRGalt
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To: *JIHAD IN AMERICA; Apple Pan Dowdy; Heartlander2; dennisw; tutstar; tomahawk; crazykatz; Cindy; ...

Jehadi website ping: (let me know if you want on or off)

2 posted on 10/21/2002 5:20:19 PM PDT by JohnathanRGalt
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To: JohnathanRGalt
Bump
3 posted on 10/21/2002 7:12:03 PM PDT by facedown
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To: JohnathanRGalt
Has al-Neda reappeared again, perchance? I know Azzam has.

I'm still trying to figure out why these al-Qaeda don't host most of their websites on the same server to prevent these type of shut downs. Or, given the group's assets, couldn't they simply bribe their service providers to keep them in operation?
4 posted on 10/21/2002 7:17:57 PM PDT by Angelus Errare
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To: Angelus Errare
Has al-Neda reappeared again, perchance?

Here's al-Neda's latest news release (Oct. 16, 2002): http://216.180.224.51/jehad-news/article.php?ID=352 and a report on it in French:  Un communiqué d'Al-Quaïda sur l'attentat contre le Limburg : "Un message pour la France et les alliés de Washington

We see something at http://www.simplicithi.net/1/images/indexx/
IP 66.154.89.26 == but this could just be an old copy of the original hi-jacking that occured early October.
OrgName:    CP Cyber Wurx
NetName:    CONEPUPPY-COM
TechName:   Schwarz, Christopher
TechPhone:  +1-314-843-4698
TechEmail:  chris@cyberwurx.com
Probably nothing to worry about (unless we start seeing fresh content in Arabic). Jeremy Reynalds did a story on the CyberWurx links to porn and Chris Schwarz got huffy and had a lawyer send Jeremy nastygrams. Jeremy responded -- 'Show me what parts of the story are untrue and I will retract them'.  So far, CyberWurx has not pointed out which parts of the story are untrue.

I know Azzam has.

The Azzam domain now resolves to Everyone's Internet -- IP: 216.40.201.216 -- home also of  many neo-nazi sites (stormfront.org is the biggest) and terrorist sites. This ISP in Houston has even more terrorist sites than DV2.COM-- We've noticed that when we get a terrorist site shut down somewhere it pops back up at Everyone's Internet. If it goes down at EV1 it pops back up at DV2. Down at DV2, up at EV1. -- Al-Qaeda is playing musical ISPs.

Late breaking news Clearguidance.com is resurfacing -- see if you can guess where.


I'm still trying to figure out why these al-Qaeda don't host most of their websites on the same server to prevent these type of shut downs.

Redundancy of servers helps keep the lines of communication open -- very important if you are fighting a war.

We do know that Hamas has controlling interest (of at least one) ISP in Texas.  We'd like to know what kind of business connections exist to the other ISPs which host terror.

American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us.
Steven Emerson, page 103

The FBI believes that Hamas has even gone so far as to set up a for-profit American corporation. On September 5, 2001, agents from the Joint Terrorism Task Force operating out of Dallas, Texas, executed a search warrent against InfoCom Corporation, and Internet service provider in Richardson Texas, for its ties to Hamas. Though the affadavit requesting approval for the search of InfoCom's offices remains classified, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) notified InfoCom that two of its bank accounts, totaling $70,000, had been frozen due to a lump-sum investment of $250,000 provided to InfoCom in 1993 by Nadia Elashi Marzook, the wife of Musa abu Marzook (the "Head of the Political Bureau of Hamas" -- he directly provided the funds and ordered the killing of hundreds of Israelis). As a by-product of the search instituted against InfoCom, the Bureau of Export Administration had suspended InfoCom's export privileges based on suspicions that InfoCom had violated U.S. Export control laws by making shipments to Libya and Iran, two states listed as state sponsors of terrorism. Furthermore, subpoenas were served on two of InfoCom's clients, the Islamic Association of Palestine and the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development. Ghassan Dahduli, a former empolyee of InfoCom and an officer in the American Middle Eastern League for Palestine (AMELP) - a 501(c)(3) charity with direct links to the Islamic Association for Palestine - was taken into custody by federal authorites on September 22, 2001, after refusing to answer questions. Dahduli has aslo been implicated as an associate of one of the individuals who was convicted for a role in the August 1998 attacks on the United States embassies in Africa


Or, given the group's assets, couldn't they simply bribe their service providers to keep them in operation?

Bingo! -- could explain why several ISPs fight long and hard to keep sites up which are bent on murdering Americans even after they've been presented with absolute proof and exact translations of what appears in Arabic on their sites -- the management of the ISP could be 'on the take'.
6 posted on 10/22/2002 1:37:21 PM PDT by JohnathanRGalt
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To: JohnathanRGalt
"We do know that Hamas has controlling interest (of at least one) ISP in Texas. We'd like to know what kind of business connections exist to the other ISPs which host terror."

You may want to see if there are any connections between al-Qaeda websites and those of Hamas or Hezbollah. While al-Qaeda apparently has a working relationship with Hezbollah, they have sharply criticized Hamas in the Arab press as being "too moderate" in their adoption of a national Islamic front rather than a global one, it may be interesting to see whether or not this apparent terrorist feud extends beyond the Egyptian and Palestinian newspapers.

"Bingo! -- could explain why several ISPs fight long and hard to keep sites up which are bent on murdering Americans even after they've been presented with absolute proof and exact translations of what appears in Arabic on their sites -- the management of the ISP could be 'on the take'."

I have a hunch that this may in fact be the case. Remember, Azzam.com was only initially shut down after the news about the company that was hosting it was linked to the mainstream press. Perhaps some of the ISP managers feared that a deeper probe could uncover that there was more going on between Azzam and the ISP than mere webhosting ...

You may also want to take a look at Kavkaz Center, the official website of the Chechen jihad, to see if any other al-Qaeda websites are hosted on their server.

7 posted on 10/22/2002 7:14:50 PM PDT by Angelus Errare
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To: Angelus Errare
You may want to see if there are any connections between al-Qaeda websites and those of Hamas or Hezbollah. While al-Qaeda apparently has a working relationship with Hezbollah, they have sharply criticized Hamas in the Arab press as being "too moderate" in their adoption of a national Islamic front rather than a global one, it may be interesting to see whether or not this apparent terrorist feud extends beyond the Egyptian and Palestinian newspapers.

Yes. There are. In the Haganah database we can see numerous instances where Al-Qaeda websites are served up to the world by the same ISPs serving Hamas, Hezbollah and other terrorist orgs. This is in direct violation of numerous U.S. laws.

I have a hunch that this may in fact be the case. Remember, Azzam.com was only initially shut down after the news about the company that was hosting it was linked to the mainstream press. Perhaps some of the ISP managers feared that a deeper probe could uncover that there was more going on between Azzam and the ISP than mere webhosting ... </i.

The Azzam.com domain is now being served up from Everyone's Internet in Houston -- along with Qassam, military wing of Hamas. EV1.NET also hosts neo-nazi websites such as Stormfront and the Texas American Knights of the Klu Klux Klan.

The actual Azzam source is at http://www.waaqiah.com at Vibus Limited, Belfast North Ireland. More research into both these ISPs is clearly needed.

8 posted on 10/23/2002 11:24:03 AM PDT by JohnathanRGalt
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