Free Republic

Six Navy SEALs filed a lawsuit against the Associated Press and one of its reporters yesterday, saying the news organization revealed their identities, compromised their security and invaded their privacy by publishing personal photographs in a Dec. 4 story.     The complaint says AP reporter Seth Hettena used about 40 images from the personal photo-storage Web site of a Navy SEAL wife. [snip] The images were picked up by the Arab press, including Al Jazeera, and have made their way onto a billboard outside U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where detainees from the war on terror are being kept. The...

MIAMI - Small toys showing an airplane flying into the World Trade Center were packed inside more than 14,000 bags of candy and sent to small groceries around the country before being recalled. AP Photo   Lisy Corp., the wholesaler that distributed the candy, said Friday that the toys were purchased in bulk from a Miami-based import company. The toys came in an assortment purchased sight unseen from L&M Import in Miami and included the toys depicting the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the twin towers, whistles and other small toys, said Luis Pedron, Lisy's national sales manager. The...

U.S.-Based Al Qaeda Websites Operate Freely; Shocking Pix!Jeremy Reynalds, July 22, 2004, MensNewsDaily.com Continuing to use a confusing maze of false addresses and telephone numbers to avoid detection, a web site operator who apparently wants to make people believe he's based in Seattle and California is helping Al Qaeda and other terror groups get their message of terror out to millions. The Internet Service provider is HostingAnime. Spot checks find the company is hosting new terror sites daily. One of the latest is www.hostinganime.com/seer/ – home to this shocking picture. Another Hosting Anime site is www.hostinganime.com/haramin/index.htm,  home to the...

I have created a public register of "bump lists" here on Free Republic. I define a bump list as a name listed in the "To" field used to index articles. Free Republic Bump List Register

A California company has found a way to profit from the recent beheadings of Paul Johnson and Kim Sun-Il.  By providing material support for al-Qaeda and terrorism, traffic to their hosted sites has exploded exponentially.  (Key provisions in the 'Patriot Act' against providing material support for terrorism w.r.t. the internet were nullified last month by a Federal Court in Idaho).  Free web server companies obtain revenue through increased bandwidth. The FBI has been contacted. A spokesperson for the FBI disputes alegations that the government is keeping the sites on online (perhaps for monitoring or tracking IP information, etc.). "Free Speech"...

frame grab taken from web site video footage May 11, 2004, shows a man, who identified himself as Nick Berg of Philadelphia (C) seated in front of his five masked captors moments before he was executed. Al Qaeda's leader in Iraq beheaded an American civilian and vowed more killings in revenge for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners, an Islamist Web site said on Tuesday. After one of the masked men read out a statement, they pushed Berg to the floor and shouted 'God is greatest' above his screams as one of them sawed his head off with a large knife...

Judge indicates he will limit government evidence against Al-Hussayen By BOB FICK , Associated Press, 04/22/2004 ______ A federal judge told prosecutors Thursday he would likely limit the e-mail evidence they can introduce against the University of Idaho graduate student they have accused of using his computer skills to foster terrorism. U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge withheld ruling on any specific e-mails sent to Sami Omar Al-Hussayen by others in the e-mail group devoted to Chechen Muslims until an attempt is actually made to offer them as evidence. Assistant U.S. Attorney David Deitch argued the e-mail's sent to Al-Hussayen...

<p>The image was jolting: within the posting from the jihadi message was a photograph of a charred American corpse hanging upside down from a bridge over the Euphrates. But as disturbing as the image was, it was the sponsor of the page displaying the image that caused me the greatest concern. Right there on the screen beside the desecrated body of the American was an advertisement for the J.C. Penney Customer Appreciation Sale!</p>

Americans Against Hate www.americansagainsthate.com   PRESS RELEASE   For Immediate Release                                                                   Contact: Joe Kaufman        March 26, 2004                                                                                   joe@joe4rep.com   SOUTH FLORIDA ANTI-HATE GROUP TO PROTEST CAIR AND HAMAS (Coral Springs, FL) On Saturday, April 3rd, at 6:00 pm, Americans Against Hate (AAH) will be conducting a protest against the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Palestinian terror group HAMAS.  The event will take place outside the Wyndham Ft. Lauderdale Airport hotel, where CAIR’s national Executive Director, Nihad Awad, is coming to speak. At the rally, AAH will be highlighting: Nihad Awad’s personal connection to a group...

Last Update: Friday, March 19, 2004. 2:59pm (AEDT) Al Qaeda logs on: The Internet is a valuable propaganda tool. (ABC TV) How Al Qaeda uses the Internet The Internet has replaced Afghanistan as the main meeting place for radical Islamists, according to experts studying Al Qaeda's presence on the web.They say the Internet is one of Al Qaeda's key survival tools, through which it is waging a relentless propaganda campaign to incite war against the West.Thomas Hegghammer, who researches Islamist websites at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, last year found a 42-page document detailing how terrorist attacks timed for the...

A Message to the Spanish People: The Neglected Threat by Qa`idat al-Jihad By Reuven Paz (PRISM Series of Special Dispatches on Global Jihad, No. 2/2) Introduction Since the horrible series of explosions in train stations in Madrid on the 11th of March 2004, it is clearer now, a week after the attack, that the operatives belonged to Qa`idat al-Jihad or any other Islamist group affiliated with Global Jihad. The most detailed statement against Spain so far on the background of the Iraqi issue, by elements of Qa`idat al-Jihad, appeared in December 2003, in an analysis of the situation in Iraq...

Almojahid's got it wrong.    Haganah is the Hebrew word for "Defense" .... Internet "Terrorist" Using Yahoo to Recruit 600 Muslims for Hack Attack February 28, 2004 by Jeremy Reynalds Editor's note: MND is uncomfortable providing direct links to potential terrorist groups. The links below have been edited to prevent collection by linkbots, but the edits should be obvious to human readers. One of the internet's most verbally prolific Islamic "terrorists" is now advocating hacking sites which oppose his radical views. In an e-mail on his Yahoo Groups site titled "Half Moon Operation/First Attack," Daleel Almojahid asks for people to...

"Govern yourself accordingly". This was the parting advice delivered to Andrew Whitehead of Virginia Beach, VA at the end of a rather ominous and threatening letter from an attorney hired by the Council on American-lslamic Relations Inc (CAIR). On September 10th, 2003, The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security held the second in a series of hearings aimed at examining Saudi Arabia’s role in exporting Islamic extremism abroad. Senators turned out in force to connect the dots between CAIR and the deviant Islamic extremism that led to the vicious attacks of 9/11.  In his opening statement, Chairman...

Florida Atlantic Terror UniversityBy Joe KaufmanFrontPageMagazine.com | February 19, 2004 Introduction In the summer of 2002, a flyer vilifying Jews and Christians and threatening “confrontation and conflict” was circulated around the Florida Atlantic University (FAU) campus.  It stated:  “When we Arab-Muslim students came to America for study, we had no idea that we would be forced to mingle with Jew students and take instruction from Jew teachers.  This is offensive to us since it is well known that the Jews are the most corrupt and violent people on Earth.” The flyer, which was put out by a group calling...

Bin Laden's own doctor once treated Ujaama By Mike Carter, Feb 12, 2004 Seattle Times staff reporter During one of James Ujaama's trips to aid the Taliban government in Afghanistan in late 2000, the former Seattle native fell ill and was treated by Ayman al-Zawahiri, one of the most-wanted terrorists in the world and Osama bin Laden's adviser, confidant and personal physician. "It gives you an idea of the circles in which Ujaama found himself," noted one federal law-enforcement source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "It would be like you or me getting a bellyache and having the U.S....

The forces of anti-truth in Berkeley are planning to gather at 6:00pm to oppose Daniel Pipes -- please forward to all Freepers in the San Francisco Bay area: __________________ Invitation   Dear Reader:   I invite you, at no charge to attend a talk of mine today:   Topic: “The Middle East Now: Up Close and On Campus”When: Tuesday, February 10, 2004, 7:30-9 p.m., PST Where: 145 Dwinelle Hall, University of California, Berkeley campus For further information :   Directions: http://www.berkeley.edu/visitors/traveling.html Map: http://www.berkeley.edu/map/ Parking: http://www.berkeley.edu/visitors/parking.html   The Muslim Student Association has stated an intention to demonstrate that I am “not welcome...

Muslim Web sites in spotlight as Qaeda scares spread  By Firouz Sedarat, Jan 28, 2004 DUBAI (Reuters) - Islamist Web sites are drawing a wide audience as possible harbingers of al Qaeda attacks but experts say they are erratic and unreliable sources of warnings that could save lives. Analysts say the sites, used by al Qaeda backers to spread their message, are unlikely sources of exact information on where or how Osama bin Laden's network might strike next -- though an experienced eye may spot the more probable comments. Mainly, the Arabic-language sites, usually bulletin boards where anyone can post...

Al-Qaeda launches online terrorist manual Jason Burke, chief reporterSunday January 18, 2004The Observer Al-Qaeda has issued a chilling new call to arms to recruits who remain undetected by security agencies. In a terrorist manual published on the internet, Osama bin Laden says: 'After Iraq and Afghanistan will come the Crusader invasion of Saudi Arabia. All fighters all over the world must be ready.' The manual has been masterminded by Saif al-Adel, the organisation's third most senior man and the only terrorist other than bin Laden and his partner Ayman al-Zawahiri to have a $25 million reward on his head....

U.S. authorities filed criminal charges yesterday against a Saudi student who ran a Montreal-based Internet site that was allegedly used to recruit and raise money for Islamic terrorists. Charges of providing material support to terrorism were filed in U.S. District Court in Boise against Sami Omar Al-Hussayen, 34, a computer student at the University of Idaho. The indictment alleges he ''knew and intended that his computer services and expertise would be used to recruit and to raise funds for violent holy war, or jihad, in Israel, Chechnya and elsewhere.'' Aside from soliciting money for Hamas, Mr. Al-Hussayen operated an e-mail...

Al-Qaeda's 7475 member strong GlobalIslamicMedia YahooGroup has provided an English translation of Osama bin Laden's latest message.   ______________________________________ (The asterisk symbols "****" and "?xml:..." errors are in the original). ______________________________________ From Osama Bin Laden to his brothers and sisters in the entire Islamic nation: May God's peace, mercy and blessings be upon you. My message to you concerns inciting and continuing to urge for jihad to repulse the grand plots that have been hatched against our nation, especially since some of them have appeared clearly, such as the occupation of the crusaders, with the help of the apostates, of...