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INTERNET TERROR FROM HOUSTON BY WAY OF SAPULPA OK?And Watch Out for a whole New Meaning to Identity Theft! Your Name May Be Listed as Hosting an Internet Terror Site Without You Ever Knowing It  Jeremy Reynalds, March 5, 2005      A few months ago I conducted a small one-man sting investigation hoping to find the individuals apparently formerly behind a mysterious and elusive free Internet service provider –  that at one time was hosting as many as 15 to 20 al Qaeda affiliated and other well known terror sites.        Hosting Anime (formerly hosted by the Houston-based...

SAN FRANCISCO -- He calls himself Abu Maysara al Iraqi, or father of Maysara the Iraqi, and he's a master at being everywhere and nowhere in the virtual world, constantly switching his online accounts and taking advantage of new technologies to issue his communiqués to the world. American Internet sleuths know next to nothing about him, whether Abu Maysara is his real name, whether he's an Iraqi or even whether he's in Iraq. What is clear is that he is one of the most important sources of information from the country's insurgency, getting his message out through the Internet, and...

Jihad websites removed from computer By PAUL LUNGEN Staff Reporter RackForce Wholesale Hosting Solutions, an Internet company in Kelowna, B.C., has removed six sites from its computers that promoted jihad and vilified Jews. One of the websites, www.shareeah.org, had connections to Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist organization and was being investigated by the RCMP. Operated by Abu Hamza Al-Misri, a terrorism suspect in prison in Britain and waiting deportation to the United States, the site promoted and supported suicide bombing. Once the company determined it violated its acceptable use policy, RackForce decided to remove it along with five other sites...

[Technology News]: Spam fighters are cheering from the sidelines a recent US court decision that dovetails with their technological efforts to turn the tidal wave of spam that threatens to drown the world's computer networks. Jeremy Jaynes was found guilty last November by a state court in Leesburg, Virginia, of sending more than 10 million unsolicited emails a day. He was hawking pornography, work-at-home schemes and stock-picking software. The spams are estimated to have earned him about $750,000 a month. He is now on $1 million bail, forbidden from using the internet and will be sentenced this month. The jury...

Jeremy Reynalds on Fox's O'Reilly Factor Tonight (Feb.16). Joy Junction Director Jeremy Reynalds -- Scheduled for Fox News' OReilly Factor -- after Death Threat Following Attempts to Bring Down Terrorist Web Sites     ______________        Long time Albuquerque resident Jeremy Reynalds is best known for his work with Joy Junction, the shelter for homeless families he founded in 1986 and continues to direct.        However, there's another side of Reynalds that is not quite as well known -- as a  terrorist hunter.        For almost the last three years Reynalds has investigating a number of Islamic...

Internet phone provider Vonage said it's asked U.S. utility regulators to investigate allegations that a "major" broadband operator is deliberately blocking Internet phone calls. Any investigation and its findings will add more tension to the relationships between providers of high-speed Internet and voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), software that lets Internet connections double as inexpensive phone lines. Vonage recently met with Federal Communications Commission representatives, said Vonage spokeswoman Brooke Schulz, to discuss an instance of "egregious, alarming and harmful port blocking." Port blocking is when Internet providers prevent traffic of certain kinds from traveling through their Internet Protocol (IP) networks....

FOLLOWING DEATH THREAT AGAINST CHRISTIAN WRITER, TERROR SITE GETS RUN OUT OF HOUSTON AND MOVES TO CHICAGO Death Threat Remains on Lineby Jeremy Reynalds Executive Director Following extensive media coverage regarding the death threat (http://haganah.org.il/harchives/003608.html) against me posted on a radical Islamic bulletin board service (which remains on line), www.ansarnet.ws has now changed its Internet Service Provider. After being suspended, it has moved from the Houston-based Everyone's Internet (www.ev1.net) to the Chicago-based www.hostforweb.com Notice of Suspension of www.ansar.ws by its former Internet Service Provider www.ev1.net An e-mail to the company asking why they were hosting a well-known terror friendly site...

Violence-Preaching Web Magazine Linked To N. Texas Brothers Feb 7, 2005 9:00 pm US/Central By Todd Bensman and Robert Riggs The Investigators CBS-11 News (KTVT, Dallas)BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND - A radical Islamist web magazine published here, which has encouraged suicide attacks against American forces in Iraq, is hosted by a North Texas Internet company linked to three Palestinian brothers about to be tried on federal terrorism charges in Dallas, CBS-11 News has learned.The monthly journal and its publisher in Birmingham, England, the Centre for Islamic Studies, have come under international condemnation and investigation for allegedly soliciting suicide bombers to attack American...

Islamists target Christian journalist on website Christian journalist and long-time friend of Internet Haganah, Jeremy Reynalds has been targeted for killing by Islamists on the Al Ansar forum (ansarnet.ws).The thread:www.ansarnet.ws/vb/showthread.php?t=27276In a thread on the Houston-based site, the person who ran the now-defunct mawsuat.com site starts by blaming Reynalds for the site's demise, posts a POBox address for Reynalds, and asks if anyone else has more information about him.In the discussion that follows, the Islamists first post Reynald's home address so that he might be "visited", then a picture of him and a wish that his ribs should be broken, and...

JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- The FBI is trying to determine whether an Islamic Web site that tracked users of an online chat room had anything to do with the killings of a Christian Egyptian family. The site, barsomyat.com, is no longer online. But before it was shut down by its Minnesota hosting company, it reportedly featured photos of Hossam Armanious and his wife, Amal Garas, referring to him as a "filthy dog" and "his filthy wife," according to the New York Sun.

The New Jersey man brutally murdered with his family was just one of a number of Christians systematically tracked by a radical Islamic website because they debate Muslims on the popular Internet chat service PalTalk.com. The password-protected Arabic website www.barsomyat.com, includes the kind of death threat received by Hossam Armanious, a Coptic Christian from Jersey City, N.J., who was found Jan. 14 with his wife and two daughters, bound and gagged with their throats slashed, the New York Sun reports. Two months before his murder, according to authorities, Armanious received a death threat from a Muslim PalTalk user: "You'd better...

PBS Frontline Special on "Al-Qaeda's New Front" beginning Friday, Jan 28th in many areas.  Visit http://www.pbs.org/ insert your ZIP in the 'When to Watch' box on the left side and search for the 'Frontline' schedule in your area. For all the fear that cyber terrorists will turn the Internet into a weapon of mass disruption, many intelligence experts contend the Web is most effective (or detrimental) as it was designed to be -- as a way to communicate and create community. This essay explores how jihadis are using the Web, plus some of the cyber "tricks" used by terrorists to...

US accused after Iran site closed The row has prompted calls for Iran to develop its own internet servers BBC - Monday, 24 January, 2005, 17:07 GMT Iran has accused the US government of ordering an American internet service provider to stop hosting the website of an official Iranian news agency. The Iranian Student News Agency said no explanation had been given by the server, called The Planet, for its abrupt move to terminate the contract. Isna, which is widely read in Iran, says it has moved to another server, which it did not name. The Planet was unable...

Atriks claims it's innocent, but company shows up on independent spam monitor list. A company reported to an ISP for sending bulk spam is replying by suing the individual who made the allegation. The sued party, Jay Stuler, reported New Hampshire-based Atriks, otherwise known as Distributed Mail, to his ISP after receiving unsolicited bulk e-mail over a period from April 2003 onward. According to court papers, Atriks then lost its account with its ISPs, Lightship Telecom, Spectra Access, and North Atlantic Internet, resulting in the legal action against Stuler. The writ issued by the company denies the allegations, stating that...

Hamas: Hosted in the USA by a Russian company If one causes the English Hamas site palestine-info.co.uk to produce an error message, by asking for a file that isn't on the server, e.g.http://palestine-info.co.uk/fubar.htmlThe error page that comes up is this:http://atlex.ru/404.phtmlThis makes sense, since I had previously connected this site with atlex.ruSee:Hamas site prepares to resume operations in the USDNS service for this domain is provided by the following:ns1.host-telecom.com 66.36.240.248 ns2.host-telecom.com 66.36.246.112Both atlex.ru and host-telecome.com are registered to the same man in Moscow:domain: ATLEX.RU type: CORPORATE descr: ATLEX.Ru company state: REGISTERED, DELEGATED person: Pavel V Chernobrov Domain name: HOST-TELECOM.COM Administrative Contact:...

How Terrorist Propaganda KillsBy Rachel EhrenfeldFrontPageMagazine.com | December 10, 2004 Tony Blair and the Europeans are focusing their attention on the creation of a Palestinian state as the magic formula for peace in the Middle East.  At the same time, they are turning a blind eye to the growing propaganda and fundraising campaign on websites and TV stations in their own countries.   The Europeans’ behavior is not surprising.  Their top foreign policy official, Javier Solana, the EU High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy, expressed a “deep sadness” over the death of Yasser Arafat, the failed Palestinian leader...

      Special Information Bulletin Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Center for Special Studies (C.S.S) November 2004           Marketing of terrorism through the Internet: The marketing of Hamas' messages of hatred and terrorism through an extensive network consisting of approx. 20 active websites. These websites are serviced by various companies worldwide, primarily by East European and East Asian companies (first priority) and US companies (second priority)   The upper part of the main page on Hamas' Izz al-Din al-Qassam website. The website is serviced by a Malaysian company.       Overview...

A terrorism case that went awry By Maureen O'HaganSeattle Times staff reporter, Monday, November 22, 2004 Sami al-Hussayen, a Saudi Arabian, faced terrorism charges in Idaho. John Ashcroft called Sami al-Hussayen part of "a terrorist threat to Americans that is fanatical, and it is fierce." Idaho Gov. Dirk Kempthorne said al-Hussayen is proof that terrorists are hiding in the heartland. Yet al-Hussayen, a 34-year-old doctoral candidate at the University of Idaho, didn't exactly fit the profile when he was arrested in February 2003 and likened in court documents to Osama bin Laden. Instead, al-Hussayen's alleged crimes occurred at his...

Hosting Anime's New Owners Apparently Pulling the Plug on Terror SitesJeremy Reynalds, JoyJunction, Nov. 16, 2004      It appears a shadowy internet service provider that showed many of the recent beheadings in Iraq, as well as the video of now decapitated British hostage Ken Bigley chained and in a cage begging for his life, is now changing for the better.        This message appears on many of the terror sites formerly hosted by Hosting Anime (sic). "This account has been suspended for (terms of service) violations. Hosting Anime is under new management and we will not be as tolerant...

Internet Service Provider Promises to Shut Down Location Showing Beheadings and MoreJeremy Reynalds, Nov. 5, 2004 ____ The beheading video of an innocent Japanese man recently abducted and brutally murdered in Iraq was quickly made available on the Internet. A group led by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi showed the beheading of Japanese hostage Shosei Koda in Iraq in an Internet video posted Tuesday. The video shows the hostage kneeling on the edge of an American flag. Three masked men all dressed all in black stand behind him. After reading a statement, the militants grab Koda and lie him...