Internet jihad update, from Snoozeweek, with thanks to EPG:
NewsweekApril 4 issue - Intelligence and law-enforcement agencies are learning that tracking down the operators of Islamic terrorist Web sites is like trying to locate a floating craps game: here today, gone tomorrow. During the past year, investigators in America and Europe watched as a business called 357Hosting, based near Utrecht, the Netherlands, became the officially registered Internet host for several notorious militant Islamic Web pages and bulletin boards, including sites that disseminated videos of beheadings of foreign hostages in Iraq and messages from Qaeda leader Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi. The public prosecutor's office in Utrecht tells NEWSWEEK that it has opened a criminal investigation into possible Internet hate crimes.
The article goes on to note that this outfit hosted Abu Hamza's site and others. The owner was no doubt just trying to make a buck -- with no concern for the larger picture at all.
If those offering such services did not merely have their businesses shut down -- only to open under a different name -- but were instead given very large fines, imprisoned, and permanently banned from having any Internet business, this would improve matters. After a few well-publicized convictions, word would get around. This would not stop True Believers from hosting Muslim websites, but it would discourage Infidel hirelings from doing so, and generally help make things more difficult.
Good idea Hugh, but the internet, domain hosting, and web servers are international... notice that this situation addresses a web hosting company and servers in the Netherlands.
And the power and influence of these people in Europe is greater than it is in the U.S. and until I read Paul Sperry's Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives have infiltrated Washington (and recruited and welcomed into the Whitehouse by Bush, Rove and Norquist BTW, I had no idea how pervasive, entrenched, protected and influential they were.
The Bush Administration if it had the will, which it doesn't because "Islam is a religion of peace", couldn't do a thing about web hosting in foreign nations.
"George W. Bush was elected president of the United STates of America because of the Muslim vote. That's right, the Muslim vote" Gop strategist GROVERNORDQUIST, founder of the Islamic Institute, after the 2000 elections.
**quote**
The owner was no doubt just trying to make a buck -- with no concern for the larger picture at all.
**endquote**
No, he's a jihadi. I've been after him for over two years.
See:
http://haganah.org.il/harchives/003868.html