October 02, 2007

FBI Most Wanted Terrorist Has a US Hosted Website!

A man on the FBI's most wanted terrorist list maintains a website hosted by a U.S. company. While checking through the FBI's Rewards for Justice website, I came across a face that looked very familiar.

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Look familiar? Here's another face seen on every page of a website I routinely monitor.

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Dr. Ramadan Shallah is a founding member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and is wanted by the FBI. In fact, there is a $5 million dollar reward for information leading to his arrest.

From the FBI:

Ramadan Abdullah Mohammad Shallah is wanted for conspiracy to conduct the affairs of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), a specially designated terrorist organization, through a pattern of racketeering activities such as bombings, murder, extortions and money laundering.

Shallah was one of the original founding members of the PIJ and since 1995 has been the secretary-general and leader of the organization, which is headquartered in Damascus, Syria.

Shallah was listed as a 'Specially Designated Terrorist' under United States law on November 27, 1995 and was indicted in a 53-count indictment in the United States District Court, Middle District of Florida, in 2003.

And his official website is hosted right here in the good ol' USA.

http://www.falestiny.net/ = 67.18.114.106
ThePlanet.com
Dallas, Texas
abuse@theplanet.com

Registration provided by: Yahoo! in Sunnyvale, CA
DNS provided by Mydns.net in St Cloud MN
admin@mydnsnet.com

It's not like we're going to catch Shallah with this post--he's alive and well and living in Damascus--but is it too much to ask that U.S. companies stop doing business with wanted terrorists?

By Rusty Shackleford, Ph.D. at 04:31 PM | |