Wow! This is fascinating. Thanks for posting it. I subscribe to the politech list (it's free) but have been letting it stack up lately.
Azzam responded to the charges of 'Stegograms' here:
http://66.197.135.110/~azzam/afghan/news/news.php
Use the 'month view'.
13 December 2001 : Why is azzam.com being attacked in the media?
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2) The second accusation is that the US officials 'fear the site is embedded with secret codes and instructions of use to militants including affiliates of Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network' using steganography image-encrypting techniques. This is a laughable claim that is made against any media organisation that exposes the lies of the US. It was made before against Al-Jazeera TV and now it has been made against us. The US has apparently confirmed that this site is 'being monitored' and this in itself is an answer to the baseless claim above. What they are saying is that cells of terrorist 'sleepers' who try to hide themselves from society and intelligence whilst they plan for their terrorist attacks are going to go to perhaps the most well-known English language site on Jihad, which is almost certainly being 'monitored' by authorities, (having their IP addresses tracked in the process), and then download image files contain secret messages containing their instructions. Common-sense would dictate that such terrorists would stay away from high profile sites altogether for fear that accessing them might give them away. The real reasons for hostility to the site are given below.
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