From the fearless, peerless Aaron at Internet Haganah: "Jihad in Thailand and the websites that promote it":
Thailand has been the victim of a rising tide of Islamist violence over the last few years, and like any jihad, those promoting this violence have websites.The violence has been centered in the southern-most Thai provinces that border Malaysia and the jihadis are believed to have connections with the Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist organization.
The groups involved:
PULO - Patani United Liberation Organization
The General Union of the Patani Revolutionary Students
Free Patani (UTUSAN PATANI MERDEKA)Their members are known to be active in Sweden, Malaysia, Netherlands and Syria, and their websites are used to facilitate communications between groups and individuals in these various countries.
The websites:
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3. patanistudents.com
Description: Official site of The General Union of the Patani Revolutionary Students. This site is operated by an individual in Damascus, Syria and is hosted by a Syrian company with a .uk domain name on a server in Dallas, Texas. Examples of the site's content:
www.patanistudents.com/thai/article/3.htm: Calls for the punishment of Patanese who do not fight against the Thai government
Please, all Patanese, try to fight and you will know that we could do and Thai flag will be destroyed. Islam Patani flag will be shown on the Patani land. Islam Patani will be the greatest country again. Allah Akbar!www.patanistudents.com/thai/article/6.htm: Calls on Patanis to join their "Malayu Insurgency" fighing against the "Evil Thai". Encourages the use of bullets, bombs, guns or anything else that can be used to kill Thai.
www.patanistudents.com/thai/article/2.htm: All Islamic Malayu Patani people are told to wage jihad against the Thai government.
www.patanistudents.com/thai/article/13.htm: Islamic Patanis are told to give their souls to Allah and wage jihad for his sake against the Thai, with the promise of Paradise after death.
www.patanistudents.com/thai/article/18.htm: Patanis are to think of themselves not as Thai but as Islamic and to fight against the Thai.
www.patanistudents.com/thai/article/11.htm: They offer to stop the violence if Thailand withdraws from south Thailand.
Status: Active
IP: 70.84.128.116
Datacenter: ThePlanet.com, Dallas, TX USA
Host: Nobalaa Co., Damascus SY dba webtophosting.co.ukNote that Nobalaa is a Syrian company, that Syria is the subject of US trade sanctions as a result of being a state-sponsor of terrorism, and they are using the facilities of an American company to operate this site.
Whois summary
Abo Mouhammad
(abomouhammad@gmail.com)
+66.0066221592209
Cartage Tonis TNThe Tunisian address and Thai phone number notwithstanding, this individual is known to be in Damascus, Syria.
There is much more, plus screenshots, at Internet Haganah.
Well, well. That's right in our back yard. Why would he choose Dallas? I just might have to mosey over yonder 'n' take a look-see.
from the pataninews.com site..article about u.n. human rights commision
"The southern region was once an independent Muslim sultanate."
therein, of course is the basis of the claim for an independant patani ..what was once ummah is forever ummah
and what was it BEFORE it was an independant sultanate?
Langkasuka..
http://www.sabrizain.demon.co.uk/malaya/kedah3.htm
The Planet is a large budget data center and there are a number of value added resellers leasing their servers, because they are dirt cheap, and using automated billing systems. The thing to do here would be to complain to the Planet, pointing out any violation of the law and let them handle it from there.
The New Duranty Times always brings up that part of Southern Thailand being part of a Muslim Empire too.
OT: Here is the Brave New World:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/engineering_life&printer=1;_ylt=Ainu_oonyDRgC7m_AfKrfrlxieAA;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MXN1bHE0BHNlYwN0bWE-
Researchers Creating Life From Scratch By PAUL ELIAS, AP Biotechnology Writer
Thu Aug 18, 5:55 PM ET
They're called "synthetic biologists" and they boldly claim the ability to make never-before-seen living things, one genetic molecule at a time.
They're mixing, matching and stacking DNA's chemical components like microscopic Lego blocks in an effort to make biologically based computers, medicines and alternative energy sources. The rapidly expanding field is confounding the taxonomists' centuries-old system of classifying species and raising concerns about the new technology's potential for misuse.
Though scientists have been combining the genetic material of two species for 30 years now, their work has remained relatively simplistic.
Scientists might add one foreign gene to an organism to produce a drug like insulin. The technique is more art than science given the brute trial-and-error it takes to create cells that make drugs.
So a new breed of biologists is attempting to bring order to the hit-and-miss chaos of genetic engineering by bringing to biotechnology the same engineering strategies used to build computers, bridges and buildings.
The idea is to separate cells into their fundamental components and then rebuild new organisms, a much more complex way of genetic engineering.
The burgeoning movement is attracting big money and some of the biggest names in biology, many of whom are attending the "Life Engineering Symposium" that begins Friday in San Francisco.
"Synthetic biology is genetic engineering rethought," said Harvard Medical Center researcher George Church, a leader in the field. "It challenges the notion of what's natural and what's synthetic."
Already, synthetic biologists have created a polio virus and another smaller virus by stitching together individual genes purchased from biotechnology companies.
Now, researchers are getting closer to creating more complex living things with actual utility.
In Israel, scientists have created the world's smallest computer by engineering DNA to carry out mathematical functions.
J. Craig Venter, the entrepreneurial scientist who mapped the human genome, announced last month that he intends to string together genes to create from scratch novel organisms that can produce alternative fuels such as hydrogen and ethanol.
With a $42.6 million grant that originated at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Berkeley researchers are creating a new malaria drug by removing genetic material of the E. coli bacterium and replacing it with genes from wormwood and yeast.
"We're building parts that can be assembled into devices and devices that can be turned into systems," said Jay Keasling, head of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Berkeley synthetic biology department, which was created last year.
Keasling, who doubles as a chemical engineering professor at the University of California, Berkeley, hopes to create never-before-seen living molecules by fusing genes from the three species — a new breed of bacteria capable of spitting out malaria-fighting artemisinin, a chemical now found only in small traces in the wormwood plant.
Artemisinin has been extracted from finely ground sweet wormwood for more than 2,000 years as a treatment for a variety of ailments, but the method is expensive, time consuming and limited by access to wormwood, which is found mainly in China and Vietnam.
Keasling has a similar project in the works to synthetically create a compound now found in Samoan trees, one that shows promise in fighting AIDS.
Such efforts are attracting more than grant money.
A group of topflight venture capitalists led by Vinod Khosla of the Menlo Park-based Perkins, Caufield & Byers invested $13 million in Codon Devices of Cambridge, Mass., which was co-founded by Keasling and Church. Keasling also co-founded Amyris Biotechnologies of Emeryville to build microbes that will produce novel or rare drugs.
Venter, meanwhile, has launched Synthetic Genomics Inc. with Nobel laureate Hamilton Smith and will compete with Codon and several other recent startups to commercialize the technology.
But with success also comes ethical questions.
For example, national security experts and even synthetic biologists themselves fret that rogue scientists or "biohackers" could create new biological weapons — like deadly viruses that lack natural foes. They also worry about innocent mistakes — organisms that could potentially create havoc if allowed to reproduce outside the lab.
"There are certainly a lot of national security implications with synthetic biology," said Gigi Kwik Gronvall, a researcher at the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Biosecurity.
Researchers are casting about for ways to self-police the field before it really takes off. One solution could be to require the few companies that sell genetic material to register with some official entity and report biologists who order DNA strains with weapons potential.
The Arthur P. Sloan Foundation in June awarded the Venter Institute, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Center for Strategic and International Studies a $570,000 grant to study the social implications of the new field.
"There are a cascade of ecological issues," said Laurie Zoloth, a bioethics professor at Northwestern University. "Synthetic biology is like iron: You can make sewing needles and you can make spears. Of course, there is going to be dual use."
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I just sent the original post to all the contact email addresses at ThePlanet.com and every one of their identified corporate "partners," asking them when they're going to shut the site down.
The fact that they're operating right here, using our own resources against us and our allies burns me up.
texan, if you follow internet haganah, there is a datacenter in dallas that is fond of posting jihadi websites. seems like someone from there got convicted recently as well.
Off Topic:
Does anybody have an idea of what happened to faithfreedom.org? When I type in the URL I just get the following:
Index of /
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Akram's work!?
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/007728.php#comments
One of ThePlanet.com's partners wrote me back with a promise of contact. I suspect it'll just be a "We're sorry, but...." But, we'll see.
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Online database of terrorist organizations
Please join the "legal" fight to shut these puppies down. Email the the web host, ISP providers etc and alert them about these sites.
Most host do not have the resources to monitor these sites. When "alerted" they will do the right thing and disable them.
Does anybody have an idea of what happened to faithfreedom.org?
Ali was forced to find a new ISP due to the (wonderful) use of bandwidth. He'll be up and running soon....no islamic attack THIS time...
formerbigshot:
In case you missed it, the old host couldn't handle faithfreedom's traffic volume and shuttered the site without notice or refunding five months service paid for in advance. Sina then got ripped off by a fly-by-night. New site should be up and running shortly.
It may be better to alert the FBI regarding any sites hosted in the US, rather than causing them to be closed. The sites can be watched and mined more easily, assuming the FBI would want to do that.
mlah--thanks for the reference.