From another forum I used to frequent:
Interestingly enough........
AL QAEDA WEBSITE TRACKS BACK TO ... MARYLAND???
Submitted by a reader.
From:
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/06/24/binladen.video/
"These statements and others from al Qaeda have been appearing from time to time on a Web site called www.alneda.com.
"In recent months, the site, which experts suspect is closely linked to al Qaeda, also has posted manifestos signed "al Qaeda jihad" in which it says bin Laden is alive and well and preparing future attacks against the United States.
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Interesting "link" to al-Qaeda, as revealed by whois data for alneda.com:
alneda.com
Registration Service Provided By: DIRECTI
Contact: +91.2256797500
Website:
http://www.directi.com
Domain Name: ALNEDA.COM
Registrant:
SFP, Inc
Jon David (jondavid@4jon.com)
Po 312
Berlin
Maryland,21811
US
Tel. +011.4107237089
Creation Date: 16-Jul-2002
Expiration Date: 16-Jul-2013
Domain servers in listed order
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Jon David, a fine Islamic sounding name, no doubt named after a martry or prohpet or some such. Located in that hotbed of terrorism, Berlin, Maryland USA.
I ran a traceroute to the web address. I've left off the first ten hops to obscure the source of my trace, to protect my privacy. But as you can see the trace ends up at broadwing.net:
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traceroute to alneda.com (65.89.91.148), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
11 sl-browing-15-0.sprintlink.net (144.223.246.82) 3.630 ms 3.539 ms 3.682 m s
12 216.140.8.6 (216.140.8.6) 4.874 ms 4.364 ms 4.431 ms
13 p4-0.c0.wash.broadwing.net (216.140.8.89) 4.361 ms 4.321 ms 4.235 ms
14 p2-0.a0.nwrk.broadwing.net (216.140.9.2) 11.472 ms 11.432 ms 11.875 ms
15 P1-0.a1.dc.nwrk.broadwing.net (216.142.236.61) 11.453 ms !H * 11.596 ms !H
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Broadwing Communications of Austin, TX. Hey, aren't we killing and incarcerating Iraqis so we don't have to host terrorist webistes in der homeland?
Admin contact info for Broadwing is provided below. Might be fun to ask them what they're doing hosting terror websites connected with the recent bombing.
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Registrant:
Broadwing Communications, LLC
1122 Capital of Texas Highway South
Austin, TX 78746
US
Domain Name: BROADWING.NET
Administrative Contact:
Smith, Kyle
DNS@BROADWING.COM
Broadwing Communications, LLC
1122 South Capitol of Texas Highway
Austin, TX 78746
US
302.283.2854 302.283.2802 fax: 302.283.2802
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Following another line of inquiry, the authoritative name records for alneda.com are hosted by thewetlandsinc.com
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; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> @A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET alneda.com ns
;; ANSWER SECTION:
alneda.com. 172800 IN NS ns1.thewetlandsinc.com.
alneda.com. 172800 IN NS ns2.thewetlandsinc.com.
; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> @ns1.thewetlandsinc.com alneda.com ns
;; ANSWER SECTION:
alneda.com. 3600 IN NS ns2.thewetlandsinc.com.
alneda.com. 3600 IN NS ns1.thewetlandsinc.com.
;; ANSWER SECTION:
alneda.com. 3600 IN A 65.89.91.148
; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> @ns1.thewetlandsinc.com alneda.com mx
;; ANSWER SECTION:
alneda.com. 3600 IN MX 10 mail.thewetlandsinc.com.
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Thewetlands.net is registered to a web hosting company in Sarasota, FL:
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whois thewetlands.net
Registrant:
Geektech Corporation
1455 Tallevast Road
Suite L6098
Sarasota, FL 34243
US
17029208323
Domain Name: THEWETLANDS.NET
Administrative Contact:
Corporation, Geektech
domainadmin@m0vie.com
1455 Tallevast Road
Suite L6098
Sarasota, FL 34243
US
Record last updated 07-17-2002 09:20:43 AM
Record expires on 04-25-2006
Record created on 04-25-2000
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THEWETLANDS.NET is a pornographic webiste. Interesting that Islamic fanatics would consent to posting their holy jihad web site on a porn server.
The Geektech.com website states, “Founded in 1997 as a web design and hosting company GeekTech has evolved into an e-business incubator. Currently GeekTech provides technical and employee services to 9 companies in 3 states and Canada. We have forged rock solid partnerships with many fortune 500 companies.”
GeekTech’s domain regiastration lists an offshore address, in Aruba:
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[whois.directnic.com]
Registrant:
Strive Investments AVV.
Watapanastraat 7
Oranjestad, Dutch Caribbean --
AW
54-11-4032-0103
Fax:54-11-4032-0103
Domain Name: GEEKTECH.COM
Administrative Contact:
Administrator, Network
admin@striv.biz
Watapanastraat 7
Oranjestad, Dutch Caribbean --
AW
54-11-4032-0103
Fax:54-11-4032-0103
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A Google search on Strive Investments, the registered owner of GeekTech.com, lists the following address in Curacao:
Strive Investments AVV
HBM Aruba N.V.
Watapanastraat 7
Emancipatie Blvd 31
Curacao
West Indies
NE
Netherland Antilles
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According the CNN June 25, 2002 web ariticle (URL listed above):
The site reappeared in early June and this time CNN traced it to a Web-hosting company in Texas. As CNN went to air with another story on it last Monday, alneda.com once again disappeared from the Web.
However, as the above traceroute shows, the DNS for alneda.com still points web queries to broadwing.net, in Austin, TX.
Interesting how the U.S. corporate medium absolutely fails to point out that this “terrorist” webiste is hosted in Texas.
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UPDATE: (From another reader)
re:
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/alqmaryland.html
It is all good till about halfway down
alneda.com.
3600 IN
NS ns1.thewetlandsinc.com.
Thewetlands.net is registered to a web hosting company in Sarasota, FL:
whois thewetlands.net .....
It is NOT thewetlands.net
It is thewetlandsinc.com Which traces back to Jon David in MD. Everything in the latter half of the analysis your reader sent in is Bogus.
Registrant:TheWetlands.com, Inc.
PO Box 312
Berlin, MD 21811
US
Domain Name: THEWETLANDSINC.COM
Administrative Contact:
David, Jon
jd@THEWETLANDSINC.COM
12507 SUNSET AVE STE 21
OCEAN CITY, MD 21842-9296
US
410-723-7089 fax: 410-723-7085
Record expires on 13-Oct-2011.
Record created on 13-Oct-1999.
Database last updated on 9-Jul-2005 12:01:33 EDT.
Domain servers in listed order:
NS2.THEWETLANDSINC.COM 216.226.150.171
NS1.THEWETLANDSINC.COM 216.226.150.170
It says:
Registrant:
TheWetlands.com, Inc.
Unlisted-Whois.com Protection Service
P.O. Box 229
Margaretville, NY 12455
US
Domain Name: THEWETLANDS.COM
Administrative Contact-
Unlisted-Whois.com, LLC Ref# 103974:
nzsc2ntuv9was5e@brprivatewhois.com
Unlisted-Whois.com Protection Service
P.O. Box 229
Margaretville, NY 12455
US
Phone- 4107353410
Fax- 014107353433
Record create date: 1998-01-27
Record expires on: 2007-01-26
thewetlands.com is a Porn site though.
Furthermore alneda.com references an email address at 4jon.com
Unlisted-Whois.com Protection Service
P.O. Box 229
Margaretville, NY 12455
US
Domain Name: 4JON.COM
Administrative Contact
Unlisted-Whois.com, LLC Ref# 103966:
cb8hpkhy63m3h5@brprivatewhois.com
Unlisted-Whois.com Protection Service
P.O. Box 229
Margaretville, NY 12455
US
Phone 4107353410
Fax 014107353433
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/alqmaryland.html
Just thought people would get a kick out of this...I find it somewhat ironic that this Jon David person owns a Jihadi website that has been the source of so many of al Qaeda's statements of responsibility... :wink:
