by Aaron Gillies
Thu May 13th, 2004 at 23:20:47 EDT
I was.
This is silly and truly a coincidence, but because she inserted herself in the news again, it occurred to me reading this dateline how weird that Alexandra Polier (intern who allegedly had an affair with Kerry) lives in Nairobi.
The Berg story is just turning out to be the strangest thing. I'm not sure what to make of it at all, except that it just might be the most extraordinary string of coincidences that I've ever heard.
So I started poking around on the Internet ... I only got halfway to finding an answer, but someone else might be able to supplement the details.
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I was curious foremost about al-ansar.biz, the website where the original video was said to be posted. Of course, the website is long gone by now, but ...
Using Google's cache and a little bit of cut and paste magic, I was able to view older copies of the website. Unfortunately, all of the pages that I looked at were in Arabic, which I am unable to read. Here is Google's cache of the former main frame of the website's front page. I clicked around through here, using cut and paste and Google once again, but really didn't come up with much that was interesting. Except for this one page which gives the domain name al-ansar.net, rather than al-ansar.biz associated with an e-mail address. So, I did a WHOIS lookup of al-ansar.net, since apparently the two domains are linked, and came up with the following information: Registrant: Registered through: GoDaddy.com Administrative Contact: Domain servers in listed order: Hmm! A further Google search using some of this data led me to a description of Al Ansar from a pro-Israeli website. Apparently, Al Ansar is a radical Saudi group involved in various counter-government activities in Saudi Arabia and believed to be linked to the Al Qaeda network. It seems that there are a number of guerilla groups named Al Ansar operating in Kurdistan, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon. No idea about possible links between them, but this one appears to be different from the one operating in the Kurdish regions of Iraq. Digging a bit further, I found that the address used to register the al-ansar.net domain name is shared by a London media outfit called Al Jamilla. Could it be this London-based magazine? Seems kind of weird, though. Unfortunately, that is where the tracks ended, as far as Google is concerned. Still, the information that I was able to find shines some light on the subject of who was responsible for posting the video. Someone want to e-mail Raschid at alansar_net@hotmail.com and ask him where he got the video? |