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| Saudi hostage video hosted on hijacked US web site |
| 2004-06-17 |
| via Drudge: Video images of a US engineer taken hostage in Saudi Arabia, possibly by the al-Qaeda network, could have been put on the internet via a US firm based in California, Der Spiegel magazine reported on Thursday. The video was released on Tuesday and shows relatively high-quality film of hostage Paul Johnson, who kidnappers from a group called "al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula" have threatened to kill by Friday. The origin of the video was traced to Silicon Valley Land Surveying Incorporated, a California land surveying and mapping company, said Spiegel online, the internet service for the respected German weekly. The magazine said that according to its research the move was the first time al-Qaeda had "hijacked" a website to broadcast its propaganda. The network usually spreads its message through Islamist sites but this time, Spiegel maintains, hackers created a special file at the company’s web address at least an hour before global news agencies broke word of the video. The magazine said that company chief Tim Redd had refused to comment. "We’re speechless, actually." |
| Posted by:Seafarious |
| #9 Sorry about the block - yeah, they 'filter' everything down to almost nothing - that doesn't serve their world view. I know the feelings - it hit me all at once last year. I think the guy's been dead a couple of days, already - to tell the truth. And he was just like 50 guys you know over there - been there so long they actually thought of it as home and even considered some Saudis as 'friends'. Neither is true unless you convert, of course. Try this new link - it outta go thru! And I'll rename the other so it doesn't get blocked. Just having a little fun, heh. Take care of you and yours, y'hear? |
| Posted by: .com 2004-06-18 1:33:40 AM |
| #8 Hi .com, Thanks! The website you posted has been blocked by you know who's sensor. It is ironic, that they can block any site containing a bad word but cannot seem to manage to block the circulation of the photos of the prison "abuse" inside the company. Moreover, they seem to find it very hard, almost impossible, to block all the jihadi websites calling for the destruction of America. Hypocrites! PS: Today, I am very angry and sad at the same time. I am fed up with these people savagery, lunacy, depravity, barbarism, etc., and with all westerners who rationalize/justify their behavior. I am sad because of the fate of that poor man, who is, after suffering unspeakable terror, probably dead now. His only sin to make him deserving of such horrible fate seems to have been that he was born in America. |
| Posted by: Anonymous4617 2004-06-18 1:26:50 AM |
| #7 Great rant, A4617! Kudos! |
| Posted by: .com 2004-06-18 1:03:19 AM |
| #6 Big Ed, I pray to God that someone is listening. I have been called all types of name for saying that, the 8.5 million muslims already in the US are the biggest threat to the country. Since 9/11, they have had ample time to come out and support the country in this fight against terrorism. Have they done it? No, and will never do it. They ara muslims first and they will support any muslim cause even at the risk of their own destruction. I see it everyday. There are plenty of muslims here (Pakistanis, Palestinians, Iraqis, Egyptians, etc) who carry American passports and whose children were born in the States. No one, no a single one has ever come out and condemn the killing and kidnapping of Americans. All these "Americans" after being brainwashed more deeply in the Land of the Prophet, eventually will go back and will continue to undermine any effort against this fight. "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banners openly. But a traitor moves among those within the gate freely, and his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys are heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to their victims and wears their face and their garments, and appeals to the baseness which lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of the nation; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared." |
| Posted by: Anonymous4617 2004-06-18 12:55:53 AM |
| #5 Is anybody listening? Have the authorities questioned the professor? |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-06-18 12:18:42 AM |
| #4 This sounds like a job for R. Clarke,the cyberterrorism nerd. |
| Posted by: rich woods 2004-06-17 9:38:19 PM |
| #3 bingo! good catch BigEd |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-06-17 8:08:29 PM |
| #2 Let's Get Bizarre and conspiratorial. How was some obscure civil engineering firm in San Jose selected? This "Tim Redd" sits on an advisoiry committee for civil engineering at Evergreen Valley College with one "Dr. Akthem Al-Manaseer" who is a civil engineering professor at San Jose State. The good professor is also a member of a Philatletic (Stamp Collector) club called The Ottoman and Near East Philatelic Society. Prof al-Manseer's specialty is stamps from "Mesopotamia and Iraq". Uh-huh. Note : The two al-Manseers are the same - SAME EMAIL. It get curiouser and curiouser. I'd like to know who else Professor al-Manseer hangs with besides Stamp Collectors. A college Professor at San Jose State probably knws a lot of student programmers of Mid-Eastern descent who might facilitate hacking? |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-06-17 8:01:41 PM |
| #1 Im see job security for peee deee. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-06-17 7:46:56 PM |