i certainly didn't see this coming

who would have thunk it? hmmmm. well i'd pretend to be stupid about it all. i'd allow them to continue to use the united states servers and at the same time, monitor them 24/7. the article below claims not too much can be gleaned from these terrorist or radical sights, but i have read stories to the contrary. you know the adage, keep your friends close but your enemy closer? well, i think it works in this case. we MUST know what they're doing. we also MUST STOP what we're capable of stopping.

(but on the other hand, the article below lists a couple websites. if i clicked on the links, would the cia or fbi or other united states security organizations be investigating ME?)


Extremist Web Sites Are Using U.S. Hosts
Ease and Anonymity Draw Taliban, al-Qaeda

By Joby Warrick and Candace Rondeaux

Washington Post Staff Writers

On March 25, a Taliban Web site claiming to be the voice of the "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan" boasted of a deadly new attack on coalition forces in that country. Four soldiers were killed in an ambush, the site claimed, and the "mujahideen took the weapons and ammunition as booty."

Most remarkable about the message was how it was delivered. The words were the Taliban's, but they were flashed around the globe by an American-owned firm located in a leafy corner of downtown Houston.

The Texas company, a Web-hosting outfit called ThePlanet, says it simply rented cyberspace to the group and had no clue about its Taliban connections. For more than a year, the militant group used the site to rally its followers and keep a running tally of suicide bombings, rocket attacks and raids against U.S. and allied troops. The cost of the service: roughly $70 a month, payable by credit card..................