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Afghanistan
13 die as Afghan tour bus hits land mine
A bus carrying people to a picnic area hit a land mine in central Afghanistan, killing 13 passengers and injuring six others. The accident took place Saturday near Bamiyan, said U.N. spokesman David Singh. Passengers urged the driver to take a detour because of land mines on the main road, but he ignored their pleas, Singh said. A team later cleared the remaining mines from the road. Singh said that of the six injured, one passenger was in serious condition. The bus was carrying 22 passengers, all Afghans en route to a picnic area near the eastern edge of Band-i-Amir lake, a picturesque resort area.
"Hey, driver! Take the scenic route, wouldja? This road's chock full of land mines!"
"Don't tell me how to do my job! I been on this road lotsa times. There ain't no (KABOOM!) land mines..."
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/21/2002 08:59 am || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Going on a picnic, knowing there are land minds in the area???
Posted by: Tresho || 07/21/2002 21:26 Comments || Top||


Another Senior Official Killed In Afghanistan
The head of Kandahar's Department of Law and Justice was shot to death in broad daylight outside his home, Kandahar radio reported Friday. Azizullah Farangwal was shot on Thursday as he approached his home in Kandahar after leaving his office. Local police could not be reached to confirm the report. The southern Afghan province of Kandahar was a stronghold of the Taliban until the U.S.-led military campaign.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/21/2002 09:14 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  More bloody nonsense in the Moslem-sandbox? Last September 12, a formal counter-terror alliance should have been made between NATO, India, China, Russia and the former Soviet republics. Both unilateral disarmament and change of government should have been demanded of both Taliban-Afghanistan and the "tribal territories" of Pakistan, under threat of annihilation. What have we got now? Scumbags for allies. Civil war conditions in Afghanistan. Islamist majorities in Egypt, Turkey, Algeria, and Yemen. A genocidal government in Saudi Arabia. Islamic clerics who support suicide-massacre, in America.
Israel under a death watch. Jamaat-i-Islami operatives openly working on free soil,for the destruction of democracy and liberty. American losses of one-third of personal wealth held in stocks. A media that won't report Cheney's $60,000,000 wealth from Saudi connections, or Bush moneyman' Grover Norquist's personal lobby work for the American Muslim Council.

Since President Stupid has conned 72% approval from the pigeon class, let them explain this comment from Bush' ally number one, Abdurahman Alamoudi (AMC), "I have been labeled by the media in New York as being a supporter of HAMAS. Anybody supporters of HAMAS here?" The crowd cheered. "Hear that Bill Clinton? We are all supporters of HAMAS...I wish they added that I am also a supporter of Hezbollah." (October 28, 2000, in front of the White House)
Posted by: RG Fulton || 07/21/2002 15:23 Comments || Top||


Axis of Evil
Revolutionary Guards warn against disagreeing with them...
Iran's hardline Revolutionary Guards Corps issued an unprecedented warning to reformers within the Islamic regime Sunday, saying they had exceeded all bounds in recent months by "openly supporting subversion on the streets." Opponents of the Islamic state, who had infiltrated the regime, were hoping to take advantage of the country's economic woes to sweep elections due over the next three years and introduce a secular regime amenable to the Islamic Republic's enemies, the Guards Corps's high command charged in a statement. The Guards would not stand idly by but would defend the revolution and the Islamic state, the statement warned.
That means they're going to kill all the people they don't agree with...
"We have noticed a strong tendency towards secularism, which wants to separate Islam from government and weaken the guardianship of the jurist (the constitutional dominance of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei). This tendency, which perhaps in the past was with the Islamic revolution, has succeeded in increasing the number of its supporters and has even infiltrated the regime. The tendency insults the various pillars of the revolution and undermines respect for Islam."
Probably explains why people are viewing Islam itself with disgust...
"In the past few months these people have exceeded all bounds by openly supporting subversion on the streets, discussing prostitution and plotting to win the forthcoming elections by taking advantange of social discontent with slogans like: 'Freedom for boys and girls,' and 'Freedom to watch satellite television."
Being devout doesn't mean having freedom. It means having a turban... and a gun...
"As for us, we will safeguard the revolution and stand ready to defend our beloved country and our people who have always remained faithful to the foundations and principles of the revolution."
Yup. Coming to a boil. They've now decided to overreact...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/21/2002 10:47 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Euro MP says EU disagrees with US stand on Iran
The head of a visiting European parliamentary delegation said in Teheran on Sunday the EU "did not agree" with the US stand on Iran and that stronger EU-Iranian ties could help resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict. "We do not agree with the Americans on Iran, we do not accept their views on this country," Elmar Brok, head of the European parliament's foreign affairs committee, told AFP.
"The Americans are wrong, wrong, I tell you! Cowboys! Simplistic unilateralists!"
"Great Satans!"
"Ja, ja! That, too..."

"On the contrary, we want to strengthen and expand relations with Iran," the German Euro MP said.
"We have ever so much more in common with you. You treat your people so well! Yes, thank you. I'd love some warm milk."
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/21/2002 10:40 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Meshkini accuses Taheri of ''fomenting division''
A leading conservative cleric launched a public attack on a reformist colleague's criticism of the Islamic state Sunday, despite appeals for calm from supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Ayatollah Ali Meshkini, prayer leader of the holy city of Qom, accused his former opposite number in the central city of Isfahan, Ayatollah Jalaleddin Taheri, of seeking to "foment division between the people and the Islamic system" with his shock resignation earlier this month. Meshkini's comments, published in the daily Iran, came despite repeated appeals from supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for rival conservatives and reformers to tone down their rhetoric in the face of unprecedented factional tensions within the regime.
Ummm... I think the Revolutionary Guards just went over the top in that department. Is the civil war under way yet?
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/21/2002 10:46 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Watch that Meshkini. I believe he was one of the chief instigators and original proposers of the anti-American protest sham. In general, the clerics of Qom are behaving like they feel the need for another revolution. As crazy as that sounds, it makes perfect sense, in the political atmosphere over there.

Khamenei and President Khatami have some sort of a compromise going, but each is losing their hold over their respective constituencies. Just as the most recent elections saw reform party representatives replaced with more radical members of their movements, the more reactionary clerics are growing increasingly dissatisfied with Khamenei's "leniency" toward the reformers.

So we see a standard, done-a-million-times scenario building, in which the next revolution is not kicked off by the revolutionaries, but by the more radically hard-nosed members of the ruling class doing something dunderheaded like, oh, I don't know, initiating a movement to deny reform party candidates the right to run in the next election? (Yep, that's being initiated by...guess who? The "Senior Cleric Association" of Qom.)

Posted by: Mac || 07/21/2002 22:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Interesting developments. I was thinking of Khamenei filling a Karensky type position, between the overthrow and the "real" revolution. If you're right, he might be Danton, with Robespierre and his works still to come. That's a scareful thought.
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2002 6:10 Comments || Top||


East/Subsaharan Africa
Sudanese government, rebels hammer out peace framework
The Sudanese government and southern rebels have agreed on how to resolve the major issues in Africa's longest-running civil war and reached a framework Saturday for talks next month to draft a final peace deal.
Toldja they were serious about trying to work something out...
Ghazi Salah Eddin Attabani, the government's peace adviser, and Samson Kwaje, spokesman for the rebel Sudanese People's Liberation Army, said they have reached agreement on the separation of state and religion as well as self-determination for the southern Sudanese.
"Separation of state and religion," is it? What an original idea. Actually, I'm flabbergasted that a Muslim state would agree to such a thing. But there is all that oil, which could produce all that money, so maybe somebody's get his priorities in order...
Both men said the remaining issues will be relatively easy to resolve when the parties meet again next month.
Then all they have to do is adhere to the agreement. Both sides have had problems with that idea...
Samson Kwaje, spokesman for the rebel Sudanese People's Liberation Army, said that "the most critical issues have been solved," including the government's attempts to impose Islamic law, known as sharia, on southerners, who mostly follow traditional religions and Christianity. The Sudanese constitution would be rewritten to ensure that sharia law can be used in the north, but will not infringe on the rights of non-Muslims in the south.
The Muslims are gonna hate it that they can't cut infidels' heads off, though. They're just gonna hate it.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/21/2002 09:00 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Considering that this is happening to a country that used to be Osama's home and one of the "hot beds" of Islamic shari'a government gone amuk...WOW.
Looks like the Animists and Christians in the south of the country gave them a run for their money!
Good thing,too, because the northern Islamists were doing things like making the southerners into slaves as well as kidnapping their children! (not to mention that mutilation thing!)
Great news find, Fred, Thank you!
Posted by: Jennie Taliaferro || 07/21/2002 12:08 Comments || Top||

#2  The rebels threatend to attack the Talisman oil extraction operations, with mortars. Sudan needs oil money, without interruption.
Posted by: RG Fulton || 07/21/2002 15:29 Comments || Top||


Europe
Greece nabs priest's sons in November 17 roundup
The Greek Orthodox priest whose three sons were alleged executioners for the feared November 17 terrorist group said Saturday his children had turned away from God and must pay for their crimes.
That's certainly unusual. Usually they say something like, "There must be some mistake..."
Police, meanwhile, said two more men were picked up Saturday as they continued their sweep against the ultra-leftist terror band that operated with impunity in Greece for 27 years. Also, an alleged founder of the organization, charged with 13 murders, denied the crimes Saturday, police and court officials said.
"Nope. Wudn't me."
For three weeks, Rev. Triandafyllos Xiros had insisted there was no connection between his family and November 17. But after police announced earlier this week that two sons had confessed to a string of murders, bombings and bank robberies, the priest - who has 11 children - appeared a broken man. "They will go to jail, and they must repent," he said. "All these days I have been praying ... for God to reveal the truth, for the guilty ones to be revealed. God has done his miracle. The police did their job well. The truth was revealed and the guilty ones were revealed. And I am happy for this, even if my own children were involved. Whoever did something must pay. Everyone must pay, either here or in the next life."
Pop's a man, even if his children are thugs. He's going through a parent's nightmare. He's the one who deserves sympathy.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/21/2002 08:59 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The reverend is quite a contrast to Johnny Walker Yellow's old man.
Posted by: Mike Cakora || 07/21/2002 18:43 Comments || Top||


Home Front
Shishani's really a good boy...
Jordanian-American Omar Abdul-Fatah Hamed Shishani, 47, detained by U.S. authorities for carrying allegedly phony checks totaling $12 million is a wealthy computer salesman with no ties to any militant group, his Jordanian brother and an acquaintance said Sunday.
He just happened to be carrying $12 million in phony checks...
The FBI is investigating whether Shishani has ties to terrorist organizations, but his name is not on the American terrorist watch list, a Detroit law enforcement official said.
I heard on FoxNews yesterday that his name had turned up documents they found in Afghanistan...
In Jordan, Ahmad Shishani said his brother has "absolutely no links at all with any terrorist group or al-Qaida... He leads a mundane life; he enjoys life; he often travels first class and he wears modern, western-style suits," the younger Shishani told The Associated Press. Omar "would have entrusted one of his 16 brothers and sisters with his secret, if he had one," he said of the investigation into Omar's alleged links to Muslim militants.
No doubt. No doubt. Secrets are always safer shared among 17 Muslims...
He said his brother has never visited Afghanistan, but that he often traveled to Indonesia and Japan as part of his business in computer sales. He didn't elaborate on his brother's business. Jordanian security officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Shishani had no police record in Jordan. Such records are kept for citizens affiliated with militant Muslim groups, those who are politically active or who have violated laws in Jordan or abroad.
Clean like a whistle, is he?
Shishani was born to a middle-class family in the minority Chechen community in Zarqa, 17 miles northeast of the capital, Amman. He immigrated to the United States 20 years ago, where he married an alien resident of Japanese origin. He holds both the Jordanian and American passports. Abdul-Baqi Gammo, a former member of parliament and a Zarqa dignitary, said Shishani "isn't a (Muslim) fundamentalist and it's well known to every member of the community here that he's not a devout Muslim."
A Chechen from Jordan. Well, obviously he's above suspicion...
In Detroit, the law enforcement official, also insisting on anonymity, said only the amount of phony checks which Shishani was allegedly carrying have caused FBI officials to take notice.
Why, it was only a few weeks ago they were talking about sleeper cells in the country.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/21/2002 08:59 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
India frees Yasin Malik, re-arrests him moments later
Police arrested a Kashmiri separatist leader under India's anti-terrorism laws Saturday, moments after he was freed on bail on charges of smuggling $100,000 to finance anti-Indian guerrillas in the territory. Yasin Malik, head of the Jammu-Kashmir Liberation Front, was first arrested in March after police detained a woman traveling from Nepal carrying the cash, allegedly intended for him. He was charged with money laundering. Malik denied the claims.
Not very convincingly, we might add...
On Saturday, a court ordered Malik released on $2,000 bail after being told his health had deteriorated while in detention. But shortly after he was released, police detained him again and charged him under India's new anti-terrorism laws, chief of police in India's Jammu-Kashmir state, A.K. Suri, told The Associated Press. He can now be detained for two years without trial.
Shoulda just stayed in jug. It would have saved everyone a lot of trouble and him $2000.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/21/2002 08:59 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What fun would that be? Bet the police were pissing themselves laughing over this one...
Posted by: Joe || 07/21/2002 9:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Damn! beaten to the keyboard this time.

Those were my thoughts exactly, but it seems if his health has deteriorated in 4 months - can you imagine what it'll be like in 2 years? Yup, that's right - non-existent.

Too bad.
Posted by: Tony || 07/21/2002 16:00 Comments || Top||


US wary of ISI links to al-Qa'ida
The FBI is becoming almost as distrustful of its Pakistani counterpart as the CIA is of the warlords across the border in Afghanistan. During the trial of journalist Daniel Pearl's murderers – which ended with the conviction of the British public schoolboy Omar Sheikh – one small but disturbing fact never made its way into the headlines: that one of the co-accused was a former Pakistani police officer. The final testimony of the trial must owe something to his evidence. It revealed, for example, that Mr Pearl made two escape attempts from his captors and that it was this which prompted them to murder him. Three Yemenis were brought in to perform his throat-cutting. But all we know of the ex-cop is that – even at the time of his arrest – he was still working for the Pakistan Special Branch.
Only one of myriad reasons they didn't want to extradite Omar Sheikh...
Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the powerful state institution which helped arm Afghan fighters against the Soviets and then supported the Taliban, was supposedly reformed once the Pakistani President, General Pervez Musharraf, joined President George Bush's "war on terrorism".
Of course things have changed. But these things have to be done in stages. First you change the letterhead, then you can worry about changing the signature blocs — one of these days.
Few in Pakistan believe it. There are rumours, for example, that intelligence officers helped to hide three al-Qa'ida members after a gun battle in a village in Waziristan, in the border tribal territories on 25 June in which 10 soldiers were killed. US agents in Pakistan suspect that several of their raids on remote villages in Waziristan were betrayed to al-Qa'ida operatives in advance. Since then, both the FBI and the Pakistan army have preferred not to inform local police officers of their activities.
Good move on their part...
Although authorities in Islamabad insist that US forces cannot operate alone inside Pakistani territory, recent reports suggest the contrary. Last week, for example, three Pakistani tribesmen were apparently picked up by US troops from the border town of Angoor Adda and flown across the frontier to the US base at Birmal in Afghanistan. It also appears that American forces have been using their old Afghan device of handing out wads of cash in return for local tribal loyalty.
Just hope they remember the other half of the equation: "Give 'em money when they cooperate, kill 'em when they don't."
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/21/2002 09:32 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


International
Colombian rebel commander surrenders
A rebel commander surrendered Saturday to soldiers in southern Colombia, saying he had lost faith in the decades-old guerrilla uprising, an army spokesman said. Omar Bernal, commander of the 63rd front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, is suspected of having kidnapped a senator two years ago and of participating in deadly attacks during his 15 years as a guerrilla, said Sgt. Luis Hernandez, an army spokesman.
It'd be nice if this was the start of a trend, but it probably isn't. The guy's been at it for 15 years and he's probably tired.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/21/2002 09:00 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Middle East
Israel thinking about withdrawing from a couple cities...
Israel has proposed withdrawing troops from some Palestinian areas in the West Bank to test the ability of Palestinian security to prevent attacks on civilians, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said Sunday. "We have no interest in staying in those places where the Palestinians can prove that they can take control," Peres told Israel Radio. The proposal was made at Israeli-Palestinian talks Saturday night as part of an effort to find ways of easing the tough restrictions placed on Palestinians in the West Bank.
If the Paleostinians were remotely interested in preventing such attacks, the IDF wouldn't be in the cities right now, would they?
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/21/2002 09:00 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Peres proposes setting up a committee...
At the Saturday night talks, the meeting focused on efforts to boost the Palestinian economy, which has been shattered by nearly 22 months of fighting. The two sides discussed the possible transfer of taxes that Israel has collected on behalf of the Palestinians, but has withheld since shortly after violence erupted in September 2000. Israel is now holding about $600 million, saying it does not want to release the money to the Palestinian Authority because Israel believes it has been funding terror attacks. Israel will not transfer the funds until an international committee is set up to oversee how the money is handled, Peres said.
A committee? Why didn't I think of that, by Gawd! That always works!
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/21/2002 09:00 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Paleos try to bomb a train...
A bomb attack on a train injured the engineer as it was traveling south of Tel Aviv, in Yavneh, on Sunday morning. The explosion went off on the tracks and damaged the engine of the passenger train, police said. The engineer was injured in the abdomen by the force of the blast, but the train was not derailed, police said. The remote-control bomb weighed about 11 pounds, police said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but police said they believed Palestinian militants were responsible.
"Excellency, they're talking about a ceasefire!"
"Well, bomb a bus!"
"We just did that, Effendi."
"How 'bout a train? Have we bombed a train yet?"
"A train?"
"Yes, Mahmoud. Like a bus. Only longer."
"Mein Fuehrer, you're a genius!"
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/21/2002 09:00 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Paleostinians bitching about corruption...
Many Palestinians now accept as fact allegations that officials take kickbacks and bribes from contractors and have misappropriated funds from Arab states meant to rebuild homes and businesses destroyed by the Israeli army. "We are poor, we are critical, we are angry, and also we have a cause," said Ziad abu Amr, a Palestinian legislator and academic. "This is a small society, and cases of corruption are highly visible. People believe that we are supposed to be clean, because we are fighting for our rights. So, objectively speaking, in relative terms, our corruption may be less than people think, but it doesn't matter."
I tend to doubt it's less than people think, unless they think it's total...
Palestinians, Abu Amr said, are fed up with seeing "an official whose salary is $1,000 a month who buys property worth millions. There was a lot of stealing, extortion, bribery."
Yup. That'd fire me up, too...
"Where have the millions gone?" shouted thousands of unemployed workers who poured into the streets of Gaza City in a demonstration against the Palestinian Authority this month. It was a not-so-subtle question about how millions of dollars in aid from Arab countries and the international community have been spent by the authority since fighting erupted in September 2000.
Well, shucks. Those muckety-mucks have to eat, too...
"Soon, the situation will become so dangerous that people will start accusing everybody, including people like me, of being the symbol of destruction, of defeat," said Abbas Zaki, a Palestinian legislator from the West Bank city of Hebron and veteran leader in Arafat's Fatah movement.
We feel your pain...
This generation of leaders, Palestinian critics charge, has failed dismally both at making peace and at making war. "For the people, they're finished," said Salah Abdul Shafi, a Gazan economist. "People now even talk about Arafat, and this is completely new."
Still waiting for certain circles to apologize to Bush & Co. Instead, they've changed the subject...
Abdul Shafi said he worries that unless Arafat institutes the top-to-bottom reforms he has promised, "there will be a wave of internal assassinations." Palestinian ministers, the economist noted, no longer attend the funerals of Palestinians killed in clashes with Israeli troops, "because they are afraid of the people."
Maybe they can import some guys from Iran to help keep them in line?
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/21/2002 10:24 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Southeast Asia
Abu Sayyaf ambushes Sulu governor
A provincial governor and three other people were wounded when fighters of the Abu Sayyaf Muslim kidnaping group ambushed them in the southern Philippines on Saturday, the military said. Gov. Yusop Jikiri of Sulu, town police chief Rogis Tingkahan, his wife, and a soldier were wounded when they were ambushed in Indanan, Jolo, as they were returning from a wedding party, regional military chief Col. Romeo Tolentino said. However, the security escorts fought back and the four wounded people were able to reach safety. Jikiri, a former Muslim guerrilla leader himself, suffered only slight injuries from shrapnel. Two trucks loaded with soldiers and two armored vehicles have been sent to the area where fighting with the Abu Sayyaf is still going on.
Still some mopping up to do there...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/21/2002 09:00 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Terror Networks
Egypt nabs 34 suspected Ikhwani...
The state prosecutor on Sunday ordered the detention of 34 suspected members of a banned Islamic group. The 34 were arrested Saturday while meeting at a house 44 miles north of Cairo, the prosecutor's office said. They are suspected of membership in the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's oldest and largest Islamic group. The suspects will be held in detention for 15 days pending investigation on charges of joining an illegal organization and possessing books that propagate the group's ideology. Among the detainees were Sherif Abu el-Magd, head of the civil engineering department at Helwan's University, and Mohammed Haider, a professor at the college of education in the same university. The others are a lawyer, a businessman and a hospital director and 29 students from different universities. Police said they surrounded and stormed the house, arresting all the men without resistance. Police have been systematically arresting suspected Brotherhood members. The group was outlawed since 1954, though it officially renounced violence in the 1970s. Despite being banned, the group endorses nominally independent parliamentary candidates in pursuit of its stated aim of governing Egypt based on its conservative vision of Islam.
Muslim Brotherhood is not so much a threat in itself as the offshoot organizations it spawns or collaborates with. It's both an independent, low-profile propaganda organization and a "next level up," allowing communication between seemingly disparate groups like al-Qaeda and the ayatollahs.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/21/2002 09:00 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


www.alneda.com has been hijacked...
In a statement broadcast yesterday to Arabic message boards and mail lists, Alneda has advised that the site located at www.alneda.com is not published by Alneda, but rather by authorities. In fact, the originators say that they are no longer able to access their URL and that original information published on their site and that now appears on www.alneda.com has been altered and manipulated. www.alneda.com now includes advertising and some of its links are redirected to adult sites, further validating this information.
Oh, Gawd! "No, ma'am. We in the FBI have no sense of humor that we're aware of..." Hand me a tissue, please!
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/21/2002 09:05 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Who the heck were these guys before? Anyone have an idea?
Posted by: Joe || 07/21/2002 9:36 Comments || Top||

#2  www.alneda.com is al-Qaeda's website. See this entry and this one. The Feds keep closing them down, since they don't want secret messages broadcast to a world-wide network of Bad Guys. Seems after the last close-down, the snagged the domain name and converted it to a "black" site. If they hadn't thrown in the porn site links, it'd probably have been another month before the Bad Guys noticed.

Even so, now, when they come up with Son of AlNeda.com, the gunnies still aren't going to know if the Directives from the High Command are genuine or if they're being herded into one place so the coppers can grab them in bunches.
Posted by: Fred || 07/21/2002 10:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Joe, try here.
Posted by: Bill Quick || 07/21/2002 10:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Less than a week after the FBI got monitor' powers, another Wahabbi genocide site - www.khurasaan.com - also was squelched. You can find shadow sites within www.islamicawakening.com, if you look carefully.
Posted by: RG Fulton || 07/21/2002 15:35 Comments || Top||



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