Pakistani paper reports pro-Al Qa'idah web sites unavailable

[TheOtherOne]

Pakistani paper reports pro-Al-Qa'idah web sites unavailable

07/29/2002

BBC Monitoring

Source: The News web site, Islamabad, in English 29 Jul 02/BBC Monitoring/(c) BBC

Text of report by Rahimullah Yusufzai entitled: "Two web sites of Usamah, Al-Qa'idah shut down", published by Pakistani newspaper The News web site on 29 July

Peshawar: Two Arabic-language web sites supporting Usamah Bin-Ladin and Al-Qa'idah have been shut down while a third one is now operating from a new address. The web sites, www.jehad.net and www.jihad-online [domain name as received], could not be accessed on Friday and Saturday [26-27 July]. The message simply said the page cannot be opened and that it was forbidden. The two web sites were a major source of information on Usamah and Al-Qa'idah.

They also carried news, views and comments about other Islamic movements and highlighted the achievements and sacrifices of the Hamas, Islamic Jihad and like-minded groups in Israeli-occupied Palestine, the Chechens fighting Russian troops in Chechnya, and Taleban and their supporters resisting the US and its allied forces in Afghanistan.

However, another pro-Usamah web site, alneda, is still functional. Meaning "the call", alneda can now be assessed on the address, www.66.132.29.71.

It has struggled to remain online in the face of efforts to track and close it down. It is a fairly resilient web site and has emerged as a leading source of information about happenings in Afghanistan and the Arab world. Its addresses have changed from Malaysia to Venezuela and then to Columbia. For a while it claimed to be operating from US President George W. Bush's home state, Texas.

The alneda web site has been striving to put together whatever information it can regarding Usamah Bin-Ladin, Al-Qa'idah and other Islamic leaders and organizations. It also displays past Usamah interviews and statements. Information about Taleban is also available on the web site.

The exclusive Taleban web site, www.alemarh.com, is also functional. It is in Arabic and Pashto languages and provides information about Taleban Islamic Movement and its founder, Mola Mohammad Omar. It still is not clear who is operating these web sites.

[wienerdog.com]

This ain't so hard. The address is NOT www.66.132.29.71, it's 66.132.29.71. I sure hope the FBI is smarter than this reporter. Note that the addresses are non-portable, meaning that Fiber Network Solutions could either shut down the site or expose the owners.

Search results for: NETBLK-FNSI-CBLK6 

Fiber Network Solutions Inc. (NETBLK-FNSI-CBLK6)
   6816 Lauffer Rd.
   Columbus Ohio 43215
   US

   Netname: FNSI-CBLK6
   Netblock: 66.132.0.0 - 66.132.127.255
   Maintainer: FNSI

   Coordinator:
      Fiber Network Solutions, Inc.  (IF29-ARIN) hostmaster@fnsi.net
      (614) 895-6621

   Domain System inverse mapping provided by:

   NS1.FNSI.NET			206.183.224.7
   NS2.FNSI.NET			206.183.224.8
   NS3.FNSI.NET			206.183.226.10

   ADDRESSES WITHIN THIS BLOCK ARE NON-PORTABLE

   Record last updated on 09-Jul-2001.
   Database last updated on  29-Jul-2002 20:00:19 EDT.

[andy_card]

Al-Neda predicts the destruction of the White House, in Arabic. You can get a marginally intelligible translation at http://atarjim.ajeeb.com.

If this were in English, it would have been pulled long ago. But they're able to hide behind the obscurity of their language.