AMERICAN-BASED INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER HELPS SPREAD BIN LADEN'S SPEECH AND TERRORIST STICK ART
By Jeremy Reynalds (01/24/06)
A radical Islamic web site apparently housed on an American- based Internet Service Provider has been offering links to downloads of the recent speech made by Osama bin Laden and broadcast on Al- Jazeera television.
Some of the Internet addresses on the Jaami jihadist forum available to download that audio tape are available at www.jaami.com/vb/showthread.php?p=6752.
They include links to the Al Jazeera web site housing the tape, as well as media commentary on the tape.
The site's Internet Service Provider is apparently the Inktomi Corporation, acquired by Yahoo in late 2002 (http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/pr/release1050.html).
Numerous radical Islamic Internet groups are also hosted by Yahoo. They include alqaedacellusarecruiters, alqaedanetwork, alqaida, New_Al-Qaeda, Jehadwithtalha, radicaltroops_amrulloh, alqaedamediafront, islamic_resistance, jihad_lover, jihadtimes, join_jihad, jihad, jehadinislam, TedJo_bifisa, mohsheirgroup and JundAllah.
The Jaami site is registered to a Noah Saman, formerly listing an address in Amman, Jordan. Then sometime between Sept. 30 and Nov. 1 2005, Saman delisted that address in Jordan and switched to an apparently American-based Internet privacy service located in Emeryville, CA (www.ci.emeryville.ca.us).
There was no response to an e-mailed request for comment sent to Saman, whose site also features some ominous stick art. This graphic and other similar "art" is, according to Internet terror expert Aaron Weisburd, also available at other terror friendly sites (www.haganah.us/haganah/internet.html).
WHERE WAS THE RECORDING MADE?
Commenting in an e-mailed interview on the type of location where he thought bin Laden may have been when he made the audio recording, freelance British spy Glen Jenvey (www.glen-jenvey.com) said the tape shows him that "bin Laden is in a building, and background sounds such as a busy road or general inner city noise, have been computer erased."
Jenvey added, "The tape seems to bring out bin Laden's soft- spoken voice more than in other tapes. "
BIN LADEN EXPLAINS WHY NO TERROR ATTACKS SINCE 9/11
"The new operations of al-Qaida havenot happened not because we could not penetrate the security measures. It is being prepared and you'll see it in your homeland very soon," bin Laden said, apparently addressing Americans.
Jenvey added that while the threats in the tape focus on the United States, he wouldn't count out European targets.
Jenvey said that individuals with Pakistani and Arab Internet (IP) addresses were listening to the bin Laden audio when it was posted on his site (www.glen-jenvey.com/06audio-usama-laden.wma). Their addresses, he said, showed up in his site statistics.
The Associated Press (AP) reported that U.S. counter- terror officials said they have seen no specific or credible intelligence to indicate an upcoming al-Qaida attack on the United States, despite the new audiotape.
While warning against downplaying the taped threat, the AP reported that officials at intelligence and law enforcement agencies said there also has been no recent increase in "chatter" that can indicate that such an attack is imminent.
The tape, broadcast last Thursday, but dated to Dec., came after a year of silence from the al-Qaida leader.
"This message is about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and how to end those wars," bin Laden began on the tape. "It was not my intention to talk to you about this, because those wars are definitely going our way. But what triggered my desire to talk to you is the continuous deliberate misinformation given by your President (George) Bush, when it comes to polls made in your home country which reveal that the majority of your people are willing to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq."
The message continued, with bin Laden saying, "We know that the majority of your people want this war to end, and opinion polls show the Americans don't want to fight the Muslims on Muslim land, nor do they want Muslims to fight them on their (U.S.) land ...
"But Bush does not want this and claims that it's better to fight his enemies on their land rather than on American land," bin Laden's message continued. "Bush tried to ignore the polls that demanded that he end the war in Iraq. We are getting increasingly stronger while your situation is getting from bad to worse," bin Laden continued, saying that he was referring to "poor U.S. troop morale, and the huge economic losses inflicted by the war."
Bin Laden continued. "In response to the substance of the polls in the U.S., which indicate that Americans do not want to fight Muslims on Muslim land, nor do they want Muslims to fight them on their land, we do not mind offering a long-term truce based on just conditions that we will stick to. We are a nation that Allah banned from lying and stabbing others in the back, hence both parties of the truce will enjoy stability and security to rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan, which were destroyed by war."
"There is no problem in this solution," the tape continued, "but it will prevent hundreds of billions from going to influential people and warlords in America - those who supported Bush's electoral campaign - and from this, we can understand Bush and his gang's insistence on continuing the war."
Addressing Americans again, the audio tape continued, "If your desire for peace, stability and reconciliation was true, here we have given you the answer to your call."
Bin Laden, who had not been heard of since a Dec. 27 2004 audiotape in which he anointed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Iraq's most wanted man, as al-Qaida's leader in Iraq, also said his network was winning the war against the U.S.
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