I'm offline, so I haven't read the full article, but Al-Jazeera news service was one of the users of the Infocom Corporation, http://www.infocomcorp.com/ web site in Texas that the Fedz shut down September 5. At 06:30 AM 10/03/2001 -0700, Khoder bin Hakkin wrote:
Note that the offending Arab TV station has a "tendency to run interviews with analysts who argued U.S. foreign policy had brought about the recent attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon."
As if there were another reason. Oh sorry, its about "democracy", right.
US to Qatar: rein in Al-Jazeera Tuesday, 2 October 2001 20:14 (ET)
http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=226316
US to Qatar: rein in Al-Jazeera By ELI J. LAKE
====== At 11:46 PM 09/06/2001 -0500, Jim Choate wrote to the Cypherpunks list
It's an outrageous story. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010906/us/business_raided_2.html http://www.middleeastwire.com/newswire/stories/20010905_meno.shtml http://www.txcn.com/texasnews/463428_TXCN_ba_FBIRaid.html http://www.wfaa.com/wfaa/articledisplay/0,1002,31013,00.html - 9/5/01 http://www.wfaa.com/wfaa/articledisplay/0,1002,31120,00.html - 9/6/01 http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010906/wr/mideast_usa_internet_dc_3.html Infocom Corporation, http://www.infocomcorp.com/ is a web hosting and computer sales company based in Richardson, Texas, supporting over 500 clients, particularly Arabic web sites, which were shut down temporarily during the raid (many are back up now). Clients include Al-Jazeera television and the newspaper Al-Sharq, both based in Qatar, and several major Muslim American organizations such as the Council on American Islamic Relations, the Islamic Society of North America, the Islamic Association for Palestine and the Holy Land Foundation.