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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: calgal who wrote (11627)	12/10/2001 9:37:22 AM
From: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27666

U.S. officials fear Islamic Web site has secret codes nationalpost.com Agence France-Presse NEW YORK - An Islamic Web site devoted to jihad, or holy war, has elicited concern among U.S. officials, who fear the site is embedded with secret codes and instructions to militants including affiliates of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network, Newsweek is reporting. Azzam.com, an entity operated by an unknown group of individuals under the auspices of Azzam Publications, is named for Abdullah Azzam, a Palestinian militant killed in a 1989 bomb attack in Pakistan. It has no bricks-and-mortar address, though it operates a post office box in London, and bills itself as "an independent media organization providing authentic news and information about jihad and the Foreign Mujahideen everywhere." In an open letter to George W. Bush, the U.S. President, and throughout the Web site, Azzam Publications is virulently anti-American and anti-Western, openly recruiting martyrs for a worldwide jihad and disputing any Muslim involvement in the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. A recent posting, dated Dec. 9, is datelined from the southern Afghan city of Kandahar and is a message to Muslim youth from bin Laden. The message underscores reported U.S. suspicion that supporters of bin Laden are behind the Internet site. A farewell message from Azzam Publications dated Nov. 20, still on the site, exhorts "Muslims all over the World [to] render as much financial, physical, medical, media and moral support to the Taliban as they can." It encourages Muslims living in the United States to leave the country immediately and "withdraw all their investments" as "recent events have shown the true bigoted nature of the American government and some Americans." Newsweek reported that European hackers, who broke into its German-based subscriber list, found an e-mail address for Said Bahaji, a fugitive identified as a member of the Sept. 11 hijacking cell based in Hamburg, Germany. More damning, the magazine reported in its issue out today, is the belief of British and U.S. intelligence sources that some of Azzam.com's jihad photos and graphics contain messages embedded with a technology known as steganography. Steganography, which takes one piece of information and hides it within another, can replace unused or insignificant areas of data with information such as encrypted mail.