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http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41938

WND shuts down Hamas websites
Inquiries prompt major clampdown on terror group's U.S.-hosted pages

Posted: December 15, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Aaron Klein
2004 WorldNetDaily.com

Official Hamas websites being hosted in the United States were shut down
yesterday following inquiries by WorldNetDaily for an article about the terror
group's online activities in Western countries.

Hamas has been using the Internet – through service companies in the U.S.,
Eastern Europe and East Asia – to maintain communication with its own
networks, talk to other terror organizations and spread anti-Israel and
anti-American terrorist propaganda to large audiences, intelligence sources
said.


A list of official Hamas sites, along with technical specifications, names of
hosting companies and registration information was obtained by WorldNetDaily
and used to call various American companies for comment, leading to a major
clampdown on U.S.-hosted Hamas sites.

The website of the Islamic Bloc, Hamas' student wing, www.alkotla.net, which
was being hosted by Co-Location.com Inc. of Beverly Hills, Calif., was shut
down yesterday upon inquiry. The site urged students to become "martyrs,"
encouraged anti-Israeli terrorism and praised suicide bombers.


http://www.alkotla.net/


The site was rented by Co-Location to a secondary hosting company, Online
Horizons, which leased the online space to a group called Al-Kutla
al-Islamiyya. The Online Horizons agent who represented the transaction, Ahmed
Muhammad, would not comment.

Robert Kiminecz, president of Co-Location, told WorldNetDaily: "Co-Location.com
is the largest Level-3 USA and European wholesaler. We sell high-speed
connectivity and datacenter space to Internet service providers. It was our
customer, Online Horizons, that immediately took down their customer's website
at our request. Given the illegal aspects of the website, if our ISP customer
would not have taken immediate action, we would have been forced to null-route
their entire network."

Also shut down upon WND inquiry is www.alresalah.org, a weekly online Arabic
periodical published in Gaza on behalf of the Islamic Salvation Party, a branch
of Hamas. The website, which was hosted by Rackspace.com of San Antonio, Texas,
contained research articles and Hamas background information, and called for
terrorism against Israelis. The site also targeted the "moderate leadership" of
the Palestinian Authority.

Intelligence officials told WorldNetDaily the site was "an experimental Hamas
publication."

Annalie Drusch, director of corporate communications for Rackspace, told
WorldNetDaily: "Our company acted as soon as we received notification. We have
60,000 customers and host half a million domains. ... Like others, we rely on
good folks to find violations of acceptable-use policy."

Hamas sites www.islamicblock.org and www.fm-m.com, which were previously hosted
by ThePlanet.com of Dallas, Texas, but were moved to EveryOne's Internet in
Houston, were closed yesterday upon WND inquiry as well.


http://www.islamicblock.org


Islamic Bloc is Hamas' student movement at Al-Najah University in Nablus. The
site documented various Hamas student organizations, called for "armed
struggle" against the "Zionist entity" and glorified suicide bombings.

Fm-m.com is the site for Filastin al-Muslimah, a monthly Hamas publication
based in London that covers Hamas topics, features interviews with senior Hamas
officials and praises suicide bombings.


http://www.fm-m.com/


A lawyer for ThePlanet.com told WorldNetDaily the company acted against the
sites before they were moved to EveryOne.

The site www.aqsavoice.net, an online radio station associated with Hamas and
subleased to a customer in Gaza through EveryOne, will be taken down within 72
hours. The station previously broadcast Hamas propaganda in Gaza on 106.7 FM,
but was closed after an Israeli air force attack on the station's offices. The
site still has an active message board that intelligence officials told
WorldNetDaily is used by Hamas.


http://www.aqsavoice.net/


Internet service providers often host hundreds of thousands of websites and are
not aware of the content of every site, a representative for EveryOne said.

Although the closings marked a defeat for Hamas' online activity in America,
the group will likely find other online hosts and reopen the same sites within
60 days, an intelligence official said.

"The sites hosted by American companies are not the most crucial for Hamas.
They are sure to keep top-tier sites in countries that Hamas feels are less
vulnerable to American pressure. ... The damage inflicted upon Hamas by the
closing of the sites hosted in America is not extreme, but it will annoy them,"
said the official.

Intelligence sources outlined 20 main websites in seven languages created and
controlled by Hamas that have over the years been used to build an extensive
Internet infrastructure to release Hamas news and information, discuss issues
fundamental to the terror organization, and provide forums and methods of
communication between Hamas cells in various parts of the Middle East and other
terror networks.

Hamas gives various levels of priority to its websites and ensures those it
considers most important are hosted by its first choice of Internet service
providers in Eastern Europe, the sources said.

Indeed, those identified as Hamas' primary group of websites, including the
terror groups stated official website, Palestine Info, are serviced directly or
through subcontractors by four companies in Russia and Ukraine.

Palestine Info, which recently communicated with WorldNetDaily and openly
admits to being controlled by Hamas, features a Hamas news portal in Arabic and
is supported by several secondary websites hosted in Malaysia and Ukraine that
contain information on the Hamas movement and its history, official Hamas
announcements, interviews with senior Hamas members, incitement against Israel
and messages praising terrorism and suicide bombers.

Palestine Info maintains secondary sites in Arabic, French, Russian, Malay,
Urdu, Farsi and English.

The ISPs for the Arabic site, originally registered in Beirut, have been
identified as Colocall Ltd. in Kiev, Emirates Telecommunications Corporation in
Dubai and Telekom Multimedia in Malaysia.

An e-mail recently sent to Palestine Info by WorldNetDaily inquiring about the
site was returned by someone identifying himself as Omar.

"Sorry, we do not talk to American infidels," wrote Omar.