Like a Hollywood film star. Osama bin Laden has his own online fan clubs, and they're thanks in part courtesy of former U.S. vice president al Gore.
"al-Qaeda sympathizers are using Orkut, a poplar worldwide Internet Service owned by Google, to rally support for Osama bin Laden, share videos and Web links promoting terrorism, and recruit non-arabic-speaking Westerners, according to terrorism experts and a survey of the sites." (www.sci-tech-today.com, March 10, 2006).
Gore is a senior adviser to Google which hosts the bin Laden sites and also sits on the board of apple Computers, which provides the Department of Homeland Security with its computers. a department of the same Homeland Security we might add, that would not exist but for bin Laden directly and indirectly by the failure of the Clinton-Gore administration to arrest bin Laden when he was handed over to them on a silver platter by the Sudan. Thus al Gore profits when allowing bin Laden to be free.
Clinton, according to his own former top political adviser, Dick Morris, a paid agent of the crown prince of Dubai, once allegedly did not bomb bin Laden because the Dubai sheikhs' private jet was at his compound, and he did not want to risk the furor that would come from them getting killed.
a booster of the controversial UaE port deal, Clinton is a paid senior adviser to a company known as Yucaipa, which recently set up a relationship with a group called the Yucaipa investment group called DIGL, Morris said on The O'Reilly Factor.
"DIGL Inc. is in charge of managing the investments of the crown prince of Dubai throughout the world. Bill Clinton is paid by Yucaipa a percentage of the profits it makes, and Yucaiupa said its profits have exceeded 40 percent in recent years."
No one is asking if Clinton is committing federal felonies in doing so because he is failing to register as a foreign agent under the 1933 Foreign agent Registration act.
If you advise a foreign government, get paid and lobby for legislation to the U.S. government--even though that government includes his wife–Clinton must register, and failure to do so is a crime.
When is the Grand Jury going to be convened?
as far as the cyberspace bin Laden fan clubs are concerned, "The largest bin Laden community has more than 2,000 members, according to Orkut's tracking data, available on the site. It has a link to the site of the Islamic army in Iraq, the group that claimed responsibility for and released a video of a bombing Dec. 2 that killed 10 Marines in Fallujah (www.sci-tech-today.com).
Most jihadist message boards on traditional Websites are in arabic and require users to know someone connected with the board before they can gain access. Social-networking services such as Orkut, Friendster, and MySpace, however, allow users to create personal profiles and associate with "communities" based on shared interest. after users join one of these services, they have access to the forum postings in any public community.
Meanwhile, English-speaking visitors to the bin Laden support sites, can find videos of attacks, see pictures of dead U.S. soldiers, and read an English translation of the Iraq-based wing of al-Qaeda's latest communiqué before it is available in English anywhere else.
"We know for sure that al-Qaeda is trying to recruit as many as possible from the Western societies, not people who look like arabs," says Rita Katz, director of SITE Institute, a Washington non-profit that tracks terrorist activity online for government and private clients–including the Department of Homeland Security. SITE gathers data by infiltrating and monitoring message boards and other sites that terrorism supporters frequent.
Orkut, which claims 13 million members, is particularly popular overseas, notably in Iran and Brazil. Iranian traffic was curtailed in January when the government banned Orkut and several popular blogging tools that carried anti-government content, Reporters Without Borders noted.
Despite Iran's actions, Orkut's size offers a measure of protection from outside interference that attracts terrorism sympathizers. "It's difficult for Saudia arabia, for example, to censor that whole website" because so many citizens use it for legitimate purposes and would notice if were shut down, Katz says. Orkut users who are members of communities such as "al-Qaeda" and "Jihad Videos" take advantage of this to trade information as well as to provide links to other radical Web sites.
Osama bin Laden is alive and well in cyberspace, and who ever would ever have thought, it's thanks, in part to good ole' boy al Gore?
Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com
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