Interesting news about our security and readiness. From WND, with thanks to Richard:
The state of Arkansas unknowingly helped the al-Qaida terrorist network distribute propaganda promoting violence against the United States.
Laura Mansfield, associate director of the Northeast Intelligence Network, first noticed the postings yesterday while monitoring a forum on an Arabic-language Internet bulletin board frequented by al- Qaida sympathizers.
The Ansar forum received notoriety for releasing the video of the beheading of American citizen Nicholas Berg in Iraq.
From July 9 to mid-morning yesterday, a self-proclaimed U.S.-based al-Qaida sympathizer known as “Irhabi 007,” or Terrorist 007, listed a large number of video and audio files for download by fellow sympathizers, Mansfield reported to WorldNetDaily.
The files were located on an anonymous FTP server at the Arkansas Department of Highways and Transportation in two directories called “007” and “ALQA3EDAH.”
Among them were files highly sought after by jihadis, including the al-Qaida films “Badr al Riyadh,” “American Hell in Iraq,” “Russian Hell,” “Martyrs of the Confrontation” and “Wills of Martyrs.” Also posted were the Berg beheading video and many audio and video clips of various al-Qaida leaders, including Osama Bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri and Abu Musa’ab al-Zarqawi.
The files were located at ftp://www.ahtd.state.ar.us/incoming/GIS/007 and at ftp://www.ahtd.state.ar.us/incoming/GIS/ALQA3EDAH
Mansfield reported the postings to the Joint Terrorism Task Force at 3:20 a.m. Eastern time and by noon yesterday, the directories and files no longer were accessible.