Clicking On Terrorism

Time ^ | Mar. 02, 2003 | ELAINE SHANNON AND MICHAEL WEISSKOPF

[JohnathanRGalt]

Clicking On Terrorism

Investigators take on the links between Islamic fundamentalists and the Internet

By ELAINE SHANNON AND MICHAEL WEISSKOPF

Sunday, Mar. 02, 2003

Investigators at IANA's Michigan headquarters

The arrest and indictment of a Saudi graduate student in Idaho last week may have been an important first step in busting up the burgeoning links between Islamic extremism and the World Wide Web. Sami Omar al-Hussayen, a Ph.D. candidate in computer security at the University of Idaho, was charged with violating conditions of his student visa by registering and maintaining a dozen militant websites promoting violence against U.S. interests. U.S. officials want to know more about al-Hussayen's work for the sponsor of most of these sites, the radical Islamic Assembly of North America (IANA), a Michigan-based group known as one of the most strident voices of Islam on the Web. IANA hosted the websites of two radical Saudi sheiks — Salman al-Awdah and Safar al-Hawali — both of whom are closely associated with Osama bin Laden and who provided religious justification for the Sept. 11 attacks, according to the SITE Institute, a Washington-based terrorist-research group that monitors the Internet. In the recent German trial of Mounir El Motassadeq, an accomplice of the hijackers, prosecutors revealed phone calls between him and both clerics.

Al-Hussayen's case also may provide fresh evidence that at least some of these anti-American websites are being supported by funds coming from Saudi Arabia. Al-Hussayen is accused of covertly receiving $300,000 from abroad and disbursing much of it to IANA. Law-enforcement sources tell TIME that about $100,000 of those funds came from radical Islamic interests in Saudi Arabia. A Saudi-embassy spokesman in Washington said no government money has gone to IANA.

From the Mar. 10, 2003 issue of TIME magazine
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[JohnathanRGalt]

Saudi in Idaho charged for terror ties

Student indicted with suspects in Iraq money-laundering scheme
February 26, 2003
 

By Art Moore
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

The FBI and the Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested a Saudi Arabian man studying computer security at the University of Idaho who is charged with channeling funds and helping set up a website for an Islamic group that urges violence against the United States.

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The Saudi citizen is charged with supporting the Michigan-based Islamic Assembly of North America, or IANA.

The IANA says its aim is to coordinate the efforts of many groups on the continent engaged in the propagation of Islam, or dawah. Websites operated by the group praise suicide bombings and promote the use of airplanes as terror weapons, the indictment said.

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The indictment cited an article posted on a website, www.alasr.ws, registered by Al-Hussayen:

"The second part is the rule that the Mujahid [warrior] must kill himself if he knows that this will lead to killing a great number of the enemies, and that he will not be able to kill them without killing himself first, or demolishing a center vital to the enemy or its military force, and so on. This is not possible except by involving the human element in the operation. In this new era, this can be accomplished with the modern means of bombing or bringing down an airplane on an important location that will cause the enemy great losses."

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A group they established called Help the Needy ( http://www.helptheneedy.net/ no longer active ) sought contributions, deposited the money in central New York banks and then sent it to Iraq through the Jordan Islamic Bank in Amman, the indictment charged.
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Domain Name: IANANET.ORG

Registrant, Administrative Contact:

Al-Murabit, Islam  (IA761)        IANA@IANANET.ORG
Islamic Assembly of North America (IANA) (IANANET-DOM)
IANA
3588 # 270 plymouth RD
Ann Arbor , MI 48105
734-5280006 (FAX) 734-5280066

Whois Information from "whois.arin.net" about 66.218.88.148

OrgName:    Yahoo!
Address:    701 First Avenue
City:       Sunnyvale, CA, 94089 

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This domain is down, but here's the registration data for it:

Domain Name: HELPTHENEEDY.NET

Administrative Contact:

  Help The Needy Endowment Inc.     AYMANKJ@HOTMAIL.COM
  4465, E. Genesee St. #137
  Dewitt, NY 13214 US
  734-623-9504 fax: 734-623-9504

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http://worldsite.ws/utilities/lookup.dhtml  doesn't give out much information about ALASR.WS, but it is located in Illinois:

Whois information for ALASR.WS:

Domain Name: alasr.ws
Registrant: Sami Omar
Domain created on 11-SEP-00
Domain last updated on 20-JUL-01

Whois Information from "whois.arin.net" about 209.204.220.136

OrgName:    OLM,LLC
Address:    1980 University Lane
City:       Lisle, IL  60532 US
AdminName:   Dns Administrator, Dns
AdminPhone:  +1-630-357-8538
AdminEmail:  dns@axxs.net

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[JohnathanRGalt]

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

[Mr. Mojo]

Al-Hussayen's case also may provide fresh evidence that at least some of these anti-American websites are being supported by funds coming from Saudi Arabia.

The tentacles of the Saudis extend to nearly every nook and cranny of American life.

[JohnathanRGalt]

I can speak from personal experience -- almost all the terrorist websites appear to be funded by the Saudis -- especially the Palestinian ones such as Islamic Jehad, Hamas. as well as the Chechen/Bosnian ones and even some of the Pakistani ones. Hezbullah's website appears to be funded by the Iranians.

Here's a list.

[JohnathanRGalt]

Here's a current discussion about the Saudi funding of world-wide terror

[JohnathanRGalt]

ping.

[Mr. Mojo]

Thanks for both the list and the link.

If the plans of the Bush Administration don't include the eventual and complete dismantling of the Saudi regime, the WOT is a complete sham. But for now, I'll give our President the benefit of the doubt. The Saudi domino may very well be the last to fall.