How many other websites is Al-Qaeda operating from web hosts in the United States? An update on this story. "Al-Qaida Web Site's Phoenix Hosts Follow Actions Taken In Tampa," by Howard Altman for the Tampa Tribune:
For the second time this week, a Web site described as key to al-Qaida communications has been taken down by a hosting company after a call from a reporter.On Wednesday, the site was removed by a company in Phoenix after a call from the Arizona Republic newspaper. On Monday, a Web hosting company in Tampa removed a related site after a call from The Tampa Tribune.
The site hosted in Phoenix - www.ek-ls.org - was one of six related al-Qaida sites previously hosted in Tampa, said Paul Henry, an Internet security specialist.
The Tampa host company, Noc4Hosts, "is not in cahoots with al-Qaida," said Steve Eschweiler, the company's general manager.
The site, Eschweiler said, was one of several hundred thousand the company hosts. Web hosting companies keep banks of computer servers where individual Web sites are based.
"If there is anything anti-American, we will take them down," he said Wednesday. "We work closely with authorities any time something like this comes up."...
"If there is anything anti-American, we will take them down," he said Wednesday."
I seriously doubt that. In America, we have the right, as citizens, to criticize America. Who defines what is anti-American?
Eschweiler said: "We work closely with authorities any time something like this comes up."
What authorities might these be, I wonder. In the article, phone calls from newspapers were mentioned, but no contact with "authorities", per se. I'm pleased as I can be that Al-Qaeda sites are being eliminated.
That doesn't stop me from feeling queasy about censorship, however. What happens, when the Tampa Tribune decides JW and other like sites are "Anti-American?
I know this isn't the thrust of the story, but it was an asinine statement by Eschweiler. It was most likely a lie, as well. I'm sure Noc4Hosts doesn't give a hoot what's on a website, as long as no one complains, and the owner of the site pays his bills. There's no nobility here.
"Homeland Security"?
Betcha the government doesn't have anyone monitoring jihadist websites and informing web servers.
"For the second time this week, a Web site described as key to al-Qaida communications has been taken down by a hosting company after a call from a reporter."
-- from the article above
What does this mean? If all it took for a Web site "described as key to al-Qaida communications" to be taken down "by a hosting company" was a single telephone call from a reporter, where the hell, all this time, has the American government, which is spending a half-trillion dollars a year on the "global war on terrorism" (the most mis-managed, unnecessarily expensive, and in Iraq entirely counter-productive, "war" that has ever been fought by this country or possibly by any country, in the history of the world), been?
Is there not in the American government an agency, or a department, that should have made that phone call, or made all kinds of phone calls, and not left it up to a single reporter to do so? Is there not, in the American government, somewhere at the C.I.A., the F.B.I, the Pentagon, those who are doing the kind of investigative work that is done by, for example, the "Investigative Project" run by Steven Emerson, or the work done at variious websites, including (most importantly) this one? Why has so much that should be done, not being done by the government, but by private parties, who do not receive government funds, so that in essence a parallel, and more intelligent, war has to be waged, on behalf of everyone, but without the resources squandered, at such great rate, by people who -- out of stupidity, timidity, rigidity, and cupidity (that fear of offending, that desire to please, a source of donations and honoraria, Mr. Big, Saudi Arabia) -- will not, do not, cannot see the things that any steady visitor to this site, unless hopelessly stupid, will finally begin to comprehend?
Brownie - You're doing a heckuva job!
Good questions Hugh.
It should also be noted that the Islamist forum, Al-Ikhlas, where death threats against Geert Wilders' friends, family, and associates were being made was also hosted by the same Phoenix company (CrystalTech).
http://memriiwmp.org/content/en/blog_personal.htm?id=346
Good questions Hugh.
It should also be noted that the Islamist forum, Al-Ikhlas, where death threats against Geert Wilders' friends, family, and associates were being made was also hosted by the same Phoenix company (CrystalTech).
http://memriiwmp.org/content/en/blog_personal.htm?id=346
Good questions Hugh.
It should also be noted that the Islamist forum, Al-Ikhlas, where death threats against Geert Wilders' friends, family, and associates were being made was also hosted by the same Phoenix company (CrystalTech).
http://memriiwmp.org/content/en/blog_personal.htm?id=346
Good questions Hugh.
It should also be noted that the Islamist forum, Al-Ikhlas, where death threats against Geert Wilders' friends, family, and associates were being made was also hosted by the same Phoenix company (CrystalTech).
http://memriiwmp.org/content/en/blog_personal.htm?id=346
Sorry for the multi-posting. The webpage "timed out" on me twice without any indication that the message had posted. Then suddenly, I got a message about too many postings, and 4 postings appeared when I came back to this page.
"Innahum Qadimun-Tactics"
Innahum? An anagram of "inhuman"? Interesting.