[Angelus Errare]

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?

[JohnathanRGalt]

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'.