New Scare Tactic: Threats from al Qaeda on the Web Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit Arab Daily Claims Malaysian Website Claims Al Qaeda Claims "A New Attack is Coming! Somewhere!" [How terribly convenient... the day after Rumsfeld announces that "The Terrorists" are busy in East Asia, a Singapore-owned domain, apparently located in Malaysia, supposedly contained a threat from al Qaeda addressed to the USA. All this according to al-Hayat, an Arabic paper, in a Reuters report from Cairo. Only problem is... the website isn't online and REuters wasn't even able to confirm the threat existed on the site. Very interesting... Since the half-wit's henchmen didn't get very far with their last attempts to scare the bejesus out of everyone, isn't it great that they now have a new scare, courtesy of al Qaeda Direct. A new terrorist tactic! al Qaeda tears down democracy from within, helping Dummy, Rummy & Scummy scare the yankees into giving up their civil liberties by issuing threats that confirm all the chicken-little warnings from the US government. Oh those wily terrorists! See below for the full DNS info. The names on the registration are quite likely not real, and for all we know the whole thing is a CIA disinfo operation mounted by a CIA proprietary company in Malaysia. Or Singapore... or somewhere. -- NY Transfer] Reuters via yahoo - June 2, 2002 Al Qaeda Tells U.S. to Get Ready for Attack-Paper CAIRO (Reuters) - The pan-Arab daily al-Hayat published Sunday what it said was a statement from an al Qaeda spokesman warning the United States to get ready for another attack. "What is coming to the Americans will not, by the will of God, be less than what has come," the paper quoted al Qaeda spokesman Sulaiman bu Ghaith as saying in a statement. "So beware, America. Get ready. Get prepared. Put on the safety belt," he said in a statement al-Hayat said was published on the www.alneda.com Web site. The Web site, which has in the past regularly carried news on Afghanistan and statements it said came from Taliban leaders, could not be accessed immediately by Reuters. [Note: the site simply says "no website configured at this address," which usually means the port 80 httpd daemon is turned off. See below for more complete info on this website -- NY Transfer] The site published a statement in April it said was from Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar. Bu Ghaith, a Kuwaiti-born cleric who emerged as an al Qaeda spokesman after the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington, said al Qaeda would continue to hit Americans, Jews and their targets, either "individuals or institutions." He cited what he described as America's anti-Muslim policies in countries such as Somalia, Sudan, Indonesia and the Philippines as a reason for targeting the United States. He also complained Israel had acted against the Palestinians for 50 years with "American blessing." Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) and his al Qaeda network are blamed for masterminding the Sept. 11 attacks that killed 3,000 people. U.S.-led coalition forces are hunting for the remnants of Taliban and al Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan, after launching an offensive in October that ousted the Taliban from power. [end] * The domain alneda.com is registered to an address in Singapore. The DNS records show the website www.alneda.com is at the IP address 202.56.157.109, which is registered to DataOne in Malaysia. A traceroute from New York shows the route going through Singapore and then to Malaysia, but the website IP address is unreachable; packets do not go beyond the IP address 210.19.2.230, which is owned by the ISP Time Telecommunications in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. APNIC (the asian internet authority) lists the following information for 202.56.157.109 (www.aneda.com): inetnum: 202.56.156.0 - 202.56.157.255 netname: D1MALAYSIA descr: DATAONE(MALAYSIA) descr: DATAONE(ASIA)'S MALAYSIA descr: INTERNET DATACENTRE descr: AS10111 country: MY admin-c: RN11-AP tech-c: KT74-AP mnt-by: MAINT-AP-D1 changed: kevin.tan@d1asia.com 20020102 source: APNIC person: Ricky Ng address: 25 Tampines St 92 #01-01 S(528877) country: SG phone: +65-850-6905 fax-no: +65-787-8001 e-mail: ricky.ng@d1asia.com nic-hdl: RN11-AP mnt-by: MAINT-AP-D1 changed: ricky.ng@d1asia.com 20010517 source: APNIC person: Kevin Tan address: 25 Tampines Street 92 SG528877 country: SG phone: +65-850-6915 fax-no: +65-787-8007 e-mail: kevin.tan@d1asia.com nic-hdl: KT74-AP mnt-by: MAINT-SG-DATAONE changed: kevin.tan@d1asia.com 20010828 source: APNIC ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org ================================================================= nytmed-06.02.02-15:02:55-12120