Al-Qaida hijacks Arkansas website

[NewGuy]

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39403
You have to read it all.
This is a clip from the beginning:

Violent propaganda distributed via government system

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Posted: July 13, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

The state of Arkansas unknowingly helped the al-Qaida terrorist network distribute propaganda promoting violence against the United States.

Laura Mansfield, associate director of the Northeast Intelligence Network, first noticed the postings yesterday while monitoring a forum on an Arabic-language Internet bulletin board frequented by al- Qaida sympathizers.

The Ansar forum received notoriety for releasing the video of the beheading of American citizen Nicholas Berg in Iraq.

From July 9 to mid-morning yesterday, a self-proclaimed U.S.-based al-Qaida sympathizer known as "Irhabi 007," or Terrorist 007, listed a large number of video and audio files for download by fellow sympathizers, Mansfield reported to WorldNetDaily.

The files were located on an anonymous FTP server at the Arkansas Department of Highways and Transportation in two directories called "007" and "ALQA3EDAH."

Among them were files highly sought after by jihadis, including the al-Qaida films "Badr al Riyadh," "American Hell in Iraq," "Russian Hell," "Martyrs of the Confrontation" and "Wills of Martyrs." Also posted were the Berg beheading video and many audio and video clips of various al-Qaida leaders, including Osama Bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri and Abu Musa'ab al-Zarqawi.

The files were located at ftp://www.ahtd.state.ar.us/incoming/GIS/007 and at ftp://www.ahtd.state.ar.us/incoming/GIS/ALQA3EDAH

Mansfield reported the postings to the Joint Terrorism Task Force at 3:20 a.m. Eastern time and by noon yesterday, the directories and files no longer were accessible.

I have a BIG problem with this.

Notice the only reason they called it terrorist hijacking is because video and audio files are found.

What about an American's ability to download and see for themselves what we are facing?

What about freedom of press?

What about this police state crackdown based on assumption?

 

[dmp]

hello?

Among them were files highly sought after by jihadis, including the al-Qaida films "Badr al Riyadh," "American Hell in Iraq," "Russian Hell," "Martyrs of the Confrontation" and "Wills of Martyrs."

Freedom to provide files of ANYTHING to 'The List' = supporting Terrorism.

wow.

 

[dilloduck]

What's wrong with the owner of website attempting to control it's use?

 

[tim_duncan2000]

Ort said the department notified law enforcement authorities as soon as he learned of the unauthorized intrusion. All access to the FTP server was closed as soon as the discovery was brought to his attention, he said.

Unauthorized intrusion may be in the opinion of the author, but it also might have really been an unauthorized intrusion. If so, they had every right to shut it down.

 

[NewGuy]

Originally posted by tim_duncan2000
Unauthorized intrusion may be in the opinion of the author, but it also might have really been an unauthorized intrusion. If so, they had every right to shut it down.

Agreed.

It appeared to have been opinion to me.