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by Sheikh Hammoud Al-Uqlaa Ash-Shuaybi (Arabian Peninsula) In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Bestower of Mercy Q: To proceed, Sheikh Hammoud ibn 'Abdullaah Ash-Shuaybi, there have been a lot of talks on what happened in America some supporting and blessing others opposing and condemning it. What is the correct stand in these two opinions according to your view? We similarly hope you will go into details in the issue because of the ambiguities in it. A: Praise is due to Allah Lord of the Worlds, may the Salaat and Salaam be with the unlettered Prophet, his family,...

RECORDS of Osama Bin Laden’s calls from his satellite phone reveal Britain was at the heart of the terrorist’s planning for his worldwide campaign of murder and destruction. Bin Laden and his most senior lieutenants made more than 260 calls from their base in Afghanistan to 27 numbers in Britain. They included suspected terrorist agents, sympathisers and companies. Some were prearranged calls to contacts using public pay phones. The records, obtained by The Sunday Times, show that the terrorist leader made more calls to Britain than any other country in the two years that he used the phone. He stopped...

Enemy propaganda. The Talaban is back online with a news feed from Azzam. Mujahideen Success As US Commandos Are Killed12 August 2002: 309 days have passed since America launched its latest Crusade against Islam and its people. A number of Muslim prisoners were captured in this Crusade and taken to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba where they are being held in cages subject to Malaria, heatstroke and other tropical diseases. One of these prisoners is Khalid bin Muhammad bin Ali Al-Zahrani (Abu Al-Jarrah) from Al-Kharj, Arabian Peninsula. His mother cries and prays to Allah for her son every night. Azzam: The...

Hosting terror American ISPs lease space to Web sites of several listed terrorist organizations; At least one group is soliciting funds; Online civil rights foundation says companies are in tough situation By Matthew Baise SunSpot StaffOriginally published August 12, 2002 From a refurbished broom factory in the west end of Canton, an Internet Service Provider serves up one of the most prominent Web sites of Hezbollah, a group designated by the State Department as a terrorist organization . The site boasts of how the group "...used one of its own special types of resistance against the Zionist enemy that is...

<p>The "War on Terror" may be raging, but one facet of terrorism is thriving -- and even expanding -- in the United States: the Web site.</p> <p>Web servers owned by American companies host the sites of numerous terrorist organizations. For the most part, these companies are unwitting in their complicity. But terrorist groups continually exploit these servers to spread propaganda and plan attacks, either on message boards or through steganography, the process of embedding hidden objects in seemingly benign media files.</p>

Burst.net Officials Stating U.S. Government is Requiring Them to Host Terrorist WebsiteBy Jeremy Reynalds (bio) Other Articles by Jeremy Reynalds Back to News / Home PageAn exclusive investigation into a Scranton Pennsylvania based internet service provider found that some of the company's business activities resemble more of the adventures found in a Tom Clancy or John Grisham thriller than that of a regular ISP. Company officials for burst.net are claiming that the ISP is being required by the government to continue hosting terrorist web sites containing materials that are directly opposed to the company's philosophy. The site currently being...

More than 10 US soldiers have been killed a new Mujahideen operation at a remote air base south of Kandahar. The attack was carried out on Monday morning and although US troops conducted extensive search operations in Kandahar, no clues regarding the attackers or their whereabouts have been found. Sources say that the airport that was attacked is located in a desert region south of Kandahar and was built there by money from Arab sheikhs due to its remoteness. The Americans made it a permanent base because they believed it to be well protected and out of the reach of...

Mouse clicking your way to martyrdom. Are you an Islamicist with a computer and some spare time? Do you want to contribute to the jihad against the Crusaders but can’t quite make the commitment to fly into buildings or strap on a bomb? Do you “solemnly swear to use your talents only to destroy the Jews with God as your witness?” Then you are just the kind of person being sought to join the “Arab Electronic Jihad Team” (AEJT), a recently announced terrorist initiative preparing to bring the Web to its knees. The AEJT seeks to bring down all Web...

In December 1992, I was a staff reporter for CNN, covering what I consider one of the worst stories imaginable – a press conference for pool reporters. In this case, the conference was given by Lawrence Walsh, the former special prosecutor for the Iran-contra affair, who was issuing a statement in reaction to then-President George Bush's pardon of former Secretary of State Casper Weinberger. It was the kind of situation where more than a dozen reporters ask the same question over and over, then go back and write the same story. In short, I was bored. In Oklahoma City, I...

Fifteen thousand feet high in Kashmir and armed with a Kalashnikov–that was not how friends thought Jibreel al-Amreekee would end up. All of 19, the restless kid from Atlanta had grown up in a wealthy family attending Ebenezer Baptist Church, the home pulpit of Martin Luther King Jr. A soft-spoken youth with long dreadlocks, al-Amreekee had a passion for sky diving and reading books on the world's religions. One religion that drew his interest was Islam, and while he was at North Carolina Central University, that interest grew into a calling. By 1997, he had converted and was spending his...

Is the American government requiring American companies to host terrorist web sites? By Jeremy Reynaldsweb posted May 13, 2002With the situation in the Middle East close to boiling, two American Internet Service Providers are claiming that the government is requiring them to continue hosting web sites promoting terrorist groups and activities. Let me explain. Last week I reported a story concerning the possible hosting by a Houston-based Internet Service Provider of a Hamas terrorist web site that's asking for donations to buy guns and ammunition. After calling the company for comment, I also e-mailed CEO Robert Marsh and asked him...

It took a week for them to get it back up after we had shut down http://www.Azzam.com at it's former host at Burst.net in Pennsylvania. This shows how important this site is for the world-wide jehad effort. Update rate is very slow. The URL has to bounce from Houston TX, to New York, then to the basement of the Elektrindo Building in Jakarta, Indonesia.  The president of Indonesia just said that Indonesia is "No place for radical Islam" .Azzam.com has been the topic of dicussion several times at FreeRepublic .Here's some advice from Azzam.com to British members of Al-Qaeda telling...

Web site with area ties stirs terrorism concernThe site, reportedly hosted by a Scranton company, is believed to be connected to al-Qaida, USA Today says.By JERRY LYNOTT jlynott@leader.net The state Homeland Security agency will ask the FBI to investigate whether a Web site reportedly put on the Internet by a Scranton computer company promotes terrorism, said an agency spokesman. Spokesman Mike Lukens said Pennsylvania Homeland Security Director Earl Freilino would alert the FBI about the site - www.azzam.com - and its reported host company, BurstNET Technologies Inc. The azzam site was referred to in a July 10 USA Today...

Azzam.com: This website removed for "Terms of Service" (TOS) Violations Nationwide attention was focused on Azzam.com in the past week. -- front page of USA Today , an article in the prestigious "New Scientist" about Azzam using images posted at it's website for secret communications (stegograms), plus there were many articles in conservative web sites such as this one: American ISP: We're Not Telling You Why We Host Terrorist Web Site ... then a reporter from KnightRidder came knocking ... From: To: Subject: Date: Jeremy Reynalds Johnathan Galt Fw: Re: Congratulations, you saw the light... You took azzam.com down Fri,...

Hunt for hidden web messages goes on 18:13 12 July 02 NewScientist.com news service Computer enthusiasts have been searching for messages hidden in web site images following new claims that the al-Qaeda terrorist network is using this technique - steganography - to communicate. However, one expert in the field warns the images that have been flagged up as suspicious after initial examination are almost certain to be cleared after full analysis. Peter Honeyman, at the University of Michigan, told New Scientist: "You get a lot of these. We call them false positives." On 10 July, USA Today reported that US...

American ISP: We're Not Telling You Why We Host Terrorist Web SiteBy Jeremy Reynalds (bio) Other Articles by Jeremy Reynalds Back to News / Home PageThankfully, we're beginning to see some media attention paid to the issue of terrorist web sites, some of which experts believe have been used by terrorists to plan attacks against America. But is the issue really that important? I believe it is and so does Reuven Paz, director of the Project for the Research of Radical Islam in Haifa, and senior research scholar at the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism, http://www.ict.org.il. Paz wrote in...

Crawling in and out of the swinging door of consciousness, the Muslim Ummah finds herself torn. Nearly ten months ago, the World was witness to a momentous attack against the greatest Empire of modern times. On September 11, 2001, a little past nine in the morning, time stood still. In a brief moment, the United States of America suffered the pain the people of Iraq and Palestine endure on a daily basis. The people stood beside the rubble, covered in dust and for a moment realised the fragility of their apparent Superpower status. In one of the most sophisticated, well-planned...

Stegograms found on azzam.com Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 23:21:04 -0400To: politech@politechbot.comSubject: FC: Reply to Politech challenge: Stegograms found on azzam.comFrom: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> Keep in mind that these claims of bin-Laden-stego are closer to unsourced speculations than verifiable fact. Perhaps an enterprising prankster has been posting attack-at-dawn plans in stego form, for instance. And when some politicos have used 9-11 as an excuse to talk about encryption restrictions, it makes sense to be appropriately skeptical, though not entirely dismissive. Some of this looks like old news. I wrote about a similar claim in Feb 2001, as a followup to...

<p>ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — One Web site urges Muslims to travel to Pakistan to "slaughter American soldiers." Another solicits donations to buy dynamite to "blow up Israeli Jews." A third shows new videotape of Osama bin Laden and promises film clips of American casualties in Afghanistan. As the United States and its allies hunt them in caves, mountains and jungles, al-Qaeda, Hamas and dozens of other militant Muslim groups are increasingly turning to the Internet to carry on their jihad, or holy war, against the West, U.S. law enforcement officials and experts say. It has become one of al-Qaeda's primary means of communication, they say. The groups use their Web sites to plan attacks, recruit members and solicit donations with little or no chance of being apprehended by the FBI or other law enforcement agencies, officials say.</p>

U.S. Hosted Islamic Website Coaches Muslims How To Pass Through Customs Just a few weeks ago, Bush Country posted an article from one of our writers, Jeremy Reynalds in which Jeremy noted there were numerous U.S. based ISP's hosting terrorist websites.  These sites were not only providing information to terrorist, but were actually asking for donations and provided a Bank Account number in Palestine to transfer the money to.    Just the other day I went to one of the sites Jeremy identified and noticed that they were still up and running!  Not only that, but they were providing, among...