Azzam has "A Friend in Pennsylvania"

Free Republic Exclusive ^ | June 26, 2002 | Johnathan Galt

[JohnathanRGalt]

Azzam has "A Friend in Pennsylvania"

Al-Qaeda moved their web server, Azzam.com from Malaysia back to Pennsylvania (at BurstNET) on May 28th. The update rate was just too slow -- besides they are very well protected by someone inside the US Government. In other words, Azzam has "Friend in Pennsylvania".

Readers of the Free Republic news forum are well aware of Azzam.com. In September 2001, an appeal was made to:

Help stop the Taliban from collecting money on the web The FBI was then informed of the sites existence and nothing was done.

Two days ago (June 24,2002) we read about a: U.S. Hosted Islamic Website Coaching Muslims How To Pass Through Customs (You don't need to guess which website the article refered to.)

Enter Stage Right's intrepid reporter, Jeremy Reynalds, contacted BurstNET about the Al-Qaeda site last month and got this answer from a system administrator in charge of the site:

"BurstNET DOES NOT voluntarily host the azzam.com web site. It has either been removed from our equipment [It hasn't] or has been left untouched by gov't official request. It was formerly hosted here, was under government investigation, and was/will be removed as soon as the govt allowed us to do such. It would have been removed the instant we found out about it, had we not been instructed by the 'powers that be' to leave it untouched ... We are a Jewish owned corporation, do you really think we want to host such crap?"

There are two possibilities --

1) The Govt' has a vast bureaucracy of native Arabic speakers trained in political espionage and is monitoring these sites heavily. The army of agents reason-for-existance is to spend uncounted hours surfing the vast Islamist web looking for secret Al-Qaeda communications so they can get the jump on them before the next 9-11. The thought of having one less site to monitor really bothers a bureaucrat seeking job security.

2) The only other possibility I can think of is treason from inside the FBI/CIA -- there was a 'joke' going around FBI local offices that the reason their investigation into terrorist groups were quashed by higher-ups in Washington was that someone on the inside was really working for bin Laden.

Although Mayor Giuliani rejected the Saudi 'gift' of 10 million dollars, perhaps some U.S. Civil Servant trying to make it inside the beltway on a GS-16 salary wasn't so honest and honorable.

The possibility is not so far-fetched. It's happened before. Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen come to mind.

Here is the new "Afghan News" link, with today's (June 26, 2002) Al-Qaeda news straight from Pennsylvania:

http://66.197.135.110/~azzam/afghan/home.php

I found this choice quote on their site (use the 'month view' to read last month's archives):

[Azzam News, May 28 2002] ".... Furthermore, we would like to inform our visitors that we have decided to temporarily switch back to our old site in order to continue to provide news at a fast download speed, .... We would also like to request our visitors to continue to supplicate to Allah to enable us to resolve the problems on our site and for it to remain open, because a web-site does not remain open or shut down except by the Permission of the Almighty.

I wonder who this 'Almighty' person is and what is he doing in Pennsylvania?

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-- Johnathan Galt

[Aaron_A]

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[gjpino]

You have your head in the sand.

If you're going to reply with another one of your absurd non-sequiters, don't bother.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Do I? Steve Emerson, who produced the PBS film "Jihad In America" which exposed much of the Islamic terrorist network here in the US(you might want to watch that video, its available free on the internet) estimates that only 15% of Muslims here support or are involved with the radical, violent, aggressive Islamist groups. Emerson is no Muslim shrill, having been effectively banned from NPR after militant Islam mouthpieces like CAIR repeatedly pestered and protested against Emerson.

So do you still want to punish and exile 85% of US muslims for the actions of the other 15%. If so, how is that any different from wanting to ship Blacks back to Africa or drive the Israeli's into the sea?

Vigilance doesn't mean excess with a blunt hammer. We can still tighten our borders, suspend giving visas from active problem countries like Saudi Arabia, profile in every sort of way, background check and expel problem aliens, reform(or better yet replace) the INS, and put the military on the borders without resorting to interment camps.

[gjpino]

When did I say ALL Muslims were terrorists? Apparently you are not reading my posts.

If 15% of Muslims in this country are Jihadists or sympathize with Jihadists, that is way more than enough to revoke visas and limit their immigration.

[Minutemen]

Bump

Great post, this subject demands more attention.
Sounds as if you have some valuable knowledge as to the inner workings of the internet. Have you considered a "career"
in "Internet Espionage"? Keep up the good work!

[smoking camels]

There you go again spouting off your deluded nonsense. You have one distinct talent... and that is to expose your stupidity in a very clear manner.

[smoking camels]

You are a POS. Go twiddle someone elses twa*.

[Consort]

Are the ISP's going to be part of TIPS?

[Diddle E. Squat]

Been drinking tonight? Only took you a month to respond.

[smoking camels]

Yep, had me three whole glasses of water.

Took me 2 minutes to respond after I first found the thread.

Are you insinuating that you changed from a moron to an intelligent being in that 30 days? Hardly possible is it?

[smoking camels]

good post

[Alouette]

Burstmedia is a well-known ad server that provides ad banners for midsize commercial and non-profit sites and is a source of revenue for many valuable web resources. Jewish World Review for one gets most of its ad revenue from clickthrough banners served by Burstmedia. (Please take the time to open another browser window and click the banners on JWR. They truly need it.)

So my question is, is this Burst.net which hosts the terrorist site the same organization as Burstmedia which provides the ad content?