http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/iis/ en-us Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:23:16 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2001479/posts Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama's name came up again at the Antoin "Tony" Rezko corruption trial and in a way that earlier filings in the case did not telegraph. Stuart Levine, the prosecution's star witness, said he and Obama were at a party Rezko threw at his Wilmette mansion on April 3, 2004, for Nadhmi Auchi, a controversial Iraqi-born billionaire who Rezko was trying to get to invest in a South Loop real-estate development. Auchi, now a citizen of the United Kingdom, has faced criminal charges in Europe. He also figured in the revocation of Rezko's bond early this year... Chicago Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2001479/posts#comment Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:23:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992880/posts Accused Saddam Agent Says He Met With Hillary at White House By IRA STOLL, STAFF REPORTER OF THE SUN | March 27, 2008 A Michigan man facing federal criminal charges of illegally working for Saddam Hussein's Iraqi Intelligence Service says he met with Hillary Clinton at the White House in May 1996. In a 1997 interview with this reporter, Muthanna Hanooti said that at the meeting, Mrs. Clinton was "very receptive" to his request for an easing of the American sanctions on Iraq that were in place at the time. He said Mrs. Clinton "passed a message to the State... The New York Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992880/posts#comment Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:11:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992105/posts WASHINGTON - Federal prosecutors say Saddam Hussein's intelligence agency secretly financed a trip to Iraq for three U.S. lawmakers during the run-up to the U.S.-led invasion. An indictment in Detroit accuses Muthanna Al-Hanooti of arranging for three members of Congress to travel to Iraq in October 2002 at the behest of Saddam's regime. Prosecutors say Iraqi intelligence officials paid for the trip through an intermediary. In exchange, Al-Hanooti allegedly received 2 million barrels of Iraqi oil. The lawmakers are not mentioned but the dates correspond to a trip by Democratic Reps. Jim McDermott of Washington, David Bonior of Michigan and... news.yahoo.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992105/posts#comment Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:07:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1867905/posts In a February report from Web site tracking and analysis firm Netcraft, the Apache Web server dipped below 60% market share for the first time since September 2002. Subsequent monthly reports indicated that the downward trend had continued unabated. Now, five months later, Netcraft's July Web Server Survey confirmed this decline: Apache again lost ground to Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS).In July, Microsoft added 2.4 million sites, bringing the total number of Windows Server sites above the 40 million mark, Netcraft found. Microsoft's market share also received a boost, increasing 1% since June to reach 32.8% overall. Apache saw an... SearchEnterpriseLinux http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1867905/posts#comment Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:00:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1692527/posts Cindy Sheehan, Tom Hayden, and the Hate America Left meet with pro-Ba'athist members of the Iraqi parliament to discuss “peace.” TO FIND PEOPLE WHO HATE AMERICA AS MUCH AS THEY DO, the Fifth Column Left had to go halfway around the world to meet with Iraqi political leaders who call terrorism “honorable national resistance” and say foreign jihadists “are guaranteed Paradise” – and at least one of whom has ties to militia leader Muqtada al-Sadr. By the end of the trip, the American leftists would echo these sentiments. Somehow most of the media – occupied with interminable coverage of Hurricane... FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1692527/posts#comment Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:14:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1727311/posts You've probably heard it said over and over: Saddam Hussein's regime was strictly secular ! That's not what the captured Iraqi Intelligence Service documants show ! But wait: There's more ! The Inside Straight http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1727311/posts#comment Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:57:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/689282/posts To read entire article click text: In a court hearing in San Diego, Kenneth Breen, an assistant United States attorney, said the adviser, Amr Ibrahim Elgindy, tried to sell $300,000 in stock on the afternoon of Sept. 10 and told his broker that the stock market would soon plunge. "Perhaps Mr. Elgindy had preknowledge of Sept. 11, and rather than report it he attempted to profit from it," Mr. Breen said. So, what did Mr. Elgindy, who was trying to sell $300k in stock, tell the financial world the day after 9-11?  Read it for yourself! Immediate release InsideTruth.com... Googled http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/689282/posts#comment Sat, 25 May 2002 03:59:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1548584/posts Watching the ball drop, twirling a noisemaker, kissing your sweetheart, and making a resolution that rarely comes to pass -- everyone looks forward to the memory of a new year. But one group will be ringing in the New Year a little differently…through a children’s jihad retreat, with a guest speaker who exalts terrorists and another who is linked to al-Qaeda. The majority of Islamic organizations within the United States have, at one time or another, been cited for their connections to terrorism, whether by support of terror groups or through actual terrorist activity carried out by its members. Two... FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1548584/posts#comment Thu, 29 Dec 2005 13:37:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1598689/posts SADDAM HUSSEIN'S REGIME PROVIDED FINANCIAL support to Abu Sayyaf, the al Qaeda-linked jihadist group founded by Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law in the Philippines in the late 1990s, according to documents captured in postwar Iraq. An eight-page fax dated June 6, 2001, and sent from the Iraqi ambassador in Manila to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Baghdad, provides an update on Abu Sayyaf kidnappings and indicates that the Iraqi regime was providing the group with money to purchase weapons. The Iraqi regime suspended its support--temporarily, it seems--after high-profile kidnappings, including of Americans, focused international attention on the terrorist group. The... Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1598689/posts#comment Sat, 18 Mar 2006 13:58:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1557516/posts E-mail Author Author Archive Send to a Friend Version January 13, 2006, 8:11 a.m. The Butcher with the Terror Ties The evidence mounts. Drip, drip, drip. Drop by drop, isolated news stories and emerging documents are eroding the popular myth that Saddam Hussein had no connections to Islamofascist terrorists. These revelations undermine war critics’ efforts to whitewash Baghdad’s ancien regime — such as when Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid declared: “There was [sic] no terrorists in Iraq.” Likewise, Sen. Carl Levin (D., Mich.) describes a “nonexistent relationship between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein.” Reid, Levin, and others who dismiss... NRO http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1557516/posts#comment Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:11:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1547418/posts BaghdadOn a cool December morning, Vice President Dick Cheney and U.S. ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad waited for their distinguished guests on the sidewalk outside of the ambassador's residence in the heart of the fortified Green Zone in downtown Baghdad. Moments passed, but no one came. As Khalilzad chattered in Cheney's ear, the vice president stood looking at the cloudless blue sky with his hands clasped behind his back, sporadically shuffling his right foot back and forth. They waited some more. An eager press corps-with cameras and microphones, pens and pads at the ready--waited to capture the handshake between Cheney... The Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1547418/posts#comment Tue, 27 Dec 2005 03:42:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1015671/posts By JAMES RISEN WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 — As American soldiers massed on the Iraqi border in March and diplomats argued about war, an influential adviser to the Pentagon received a secret message from a Lebanese-American businessman: Saddam Hussein wanted to make a deal. Iraqi officials, including the chief of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, had told the businessman that they wanted Washington to know that Iraq no longer had weapons of mass destruction, and they offered to allow American troops and experts to conduct an independent search. They also offered to hand over a man accused of being involved in the... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1015671/posts#comment Thu, 6 Nov 2003 02:21:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/901337/posts The man backed by many in the Bush administration to head Baghdad's postwar government said Sunday that documents uncovered over the weekend show that Saddam Hussein tried to recruit U.S. citizens to undermine the Bush adminsitration's war effort in Iraq. "We have captured a great many files of Saddam's services and there is astounding information about the extent of their networks and their efforts to recruit foreign nationals - including Americans - to work in the Mukabahrat [Iraqi intelligence service]," said Ahmed Chalabi, head of the Iraqi National Congress. "I think that this is something that must be pursued,"... Newsmax.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/901337/posts#comment Sun, 27 Apr 2003 19:03:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1202474/posts In the morning of March 11, 2004, Susan Lindauer woke to find five F.B.I. agents at her front door. After reading her her rights, the agents took Lindauer from her home in Takoma Park, Md., to the F.B.I. field office in Baltimore, where she was charged with having acted as an unregistered agent of Saddam Hussein's Iraqi government and otherwise having elevated the interests of a foreign country above her allegiance to the United States. ''The only visible sign of stress is that I'm chain-smoking,'' she said when I met with her recently. Forty-one and free on bail, she wore... New York Times Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1202474/posts#comment Sun, 29 Aug 2004 19:38:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1095744/posts Susan Lindauer, the former Democratic congressional aide charged with spying for Iraq, was arrested several months after meeting with an FBI agent who posed as a Libyan intelligence agent looking to recruit support for Iraqi groups attacking U.S. forces in the aftermath of the war. According to the indictment charging Lindauer with conspiracy to spy for Iraq, that meeting took place on June 23, 2003, in Baltimore, Maryland. The indictment charges that Lindauer and the agent "discussed the need for plans and foreign resources to support [resistance] groups operating within Iraq." The indictment says Lindauer met with the agent again... NRO http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1095744/posts#comment Thu, 11 Mar 2004 23:07:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1472411/posts AHMED HIKMAT SHAKIR IS A shadowy figure who provided logistical assistance to one, maybe two, of the 9/11 hijackers. Years before, he had received a phone call from the Jersey City, New Jersey, safehouse of the plotters who would soon, in February 1993, park a truck bomb in the basement of the World Trade Center. The safehouse was the apartment of Musab Yasin, brother of Abdul Rahman Yasin, who scorched his own leg while mixing the chemicals for the 1993 bomb.When Shakir was arrested shortly after the 9/11 attacks, his "pocket litter," in the parlance of the investigators, included contact... The Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1472411/posts#comment Sun, 28 Aug 2005 20:49:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1440001/posts "In August 1998, the detainee traveled to Pakistan with a member of Iraqi Intelligence for the purpose of blowing up the Pakistan, United States and British embassies with chemical mortars."  U.S. government "Summary of Evidence" for an Iraqi member of al Qaeda detained at Guantanamo Bay, CubaFOR MANY, the debate over the former Iraqi regime's ties to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network ended a year ago with the release of the 9/11 Commission report. Media outlets seized on a carefully worded summary that the commission had found no evidence "indicating that Iraq cooperated with al Qaeda in developing or... The Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1440001/posts#comment Sun, 10 Jul 2005 05:39:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1418853/posts Tired of playing second fiddle in Web hosting, Microsoft is revamping its server software in an attempt to snatch market share away from the popular Apache-Linux combination. When the software giant releases Longhorn Server in 2007, it will introduce a re-architected edition of its Internet Information Services Web server, said Bob Muglia, senior vice president in charge of Windows Server development. The changes will make IIS more modular, which will speed up performance for Web applications, he said. "We're componentizing IIS so you can load just the pieces of the Web server that you really need," Muglia said. "In the... CNet News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1418853/posts#comment Wed, 8 Jun 2005 15:12:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1397423/posts 1) Most security breaches are caused by not following basic security guidelines and best practices. We want to put IIS 6.0 to the test to see if it is highly secure when you implement it correctly. 2) Because it's a fun way to engage with you, our audience! 3) It's a chance to share knowledge and demonstrate how to protect your system against hack attempts. Coming in our July issue, we'll publish an article "How to Set Up a Hackproof IIS" featuring Roger Grimes' recap of the contest, and sharing the secrets of how he created an impenetrable IIS environment. http://www.hackiis6.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1397423/posts#comment Thu, 5 May 2005 19:52:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/898993/posts Nicole Martin shows a confidential handwritten memo found in the rubble of the looted Iraqi foreign ministry to the man who used to arrange the dictator's scheduleSaddam Hussein's former head of protocol said yesterday that the document found by The Daily Telegraph saying that George Galloway received substantial payments from the Iraqi regime was "100 per cent genuine". Haitham Rashid Wihaib, who fled to Britain with his family eight years ago after death threats, said he had no doubt that the handwritten confidential memorandum addressed to the dictator's office apparently detailing how the Labour MP benefited from Iraq's oil sales... The Daily Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/898993/posts#comment Wed, 23 Apr 2003 23:24:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/901418/posts I sweet-talked my way into dreaded intelligence HQ(Filed: 27/04/2003) Inigo Gilmore describes how he gained access to documents in the complex that most Iraqis under Saddam were desperate to avoid.The documents which provide the first proof of direct links between Osama bin Laden and the regime of Saddam Hussein were hidden deep inside a building which for decades was one of the most feared places in Iraq. During Saddam's time, few civilians dared even glance at the imposing headquarters of the Mukbaharat - the feared intelligence service - as they drove past in case they were hauled in and... telegraph UK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/901418/posts#comment Sun, 27 Apr 2003 23:24:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/906169/posts From leaky roofs to secret agents: how the files I found in Iraq's looted foreign ministry cast light on the paranoid world of Saddam Hussein How many Iraqi officials does it take to fix the leaky roof of a diplomat's house in London? How long does a skilled translator need to convert one of George Galloway's parliamentary speeches into Arabic? In almost 1, 000 pages of Arabic prose, each stamped with the Eagle crest of Iraq, the files found inside the foreign ministry in Baghdad cast a somewhat surreal light on the questions that turned the bureaucratic wheels of Saddam... The Daily Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/906169/posts#comment Tue, 6 May 2003 00:04:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1323394/posts WASHINGTON — An Iraqi-born American citizen pleaded guilty Tuesday to several charges as part of the federal investigation into the U.N. Oil-for-Food program, becoming the first person to be convicted in the growing scandal. Attorney General John Ashcroft announced the agreement with Samir Vincent, accused of being an unregistered Iraqi agent between the first and second Persian Gulf wars. [SNIP] The case is being handled by the U.S. Attorney's Office in New York. The criminal indictment and plea deal were filed in federal court in the Southern District of New York. [SNIP] The Justice Department said that from 1992 to... Fox News Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1323394/posts#comment Tue, 18 Jan 2005 23:17:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1163192/posts US CERT (the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team), is advising people to ditch Internet Explorer and use a different browser after the latest security vulnerability in the software was exposed. A statement on the CERT site said: "There are a number of significant vulnerabilities in technologies relating to the IE domain/zone security model, the DHTML object model, MIME type determination, and ActiveX. It is possible to reduce exposure to these vulnerabilities by using a different web browser, especially when browsing untrusted sites." CERT otherwise recommends users to set security settings to high and disable JavaScript Malicious code, dubbed variously as... The Register http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1163192/posts#comment Wed, 30 Jun 2004 19:05:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1160301/posts IIS 5 Web Server Compromisesadded June 24 US-CERT is aware of new activity affecting compromised web sites running Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) 5 and possibly end-user systems that visit these sites. Compromised sites are appending JavaScript to the bottom of web pages. When executed, this JavaScript attempts to access a file hosted on another server. This file may contain malicious code that can affect the end-user's system. US-CERT is investigating the origin of the IIS 5 compromises and the impact of the code that is downloaded to end-user systems.Web server administrators running IIS 5 should verify that there is... US-CERT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1160301/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jun 2004 20:53:54 GMT