UPDATE 6/12/2007 12:24 p.m: All websites down! We are grateful to all those who wrote the webhosts and pressured them into taking down the websites.

If you would like to e-mail or call the Taliban, their e-mails are still at the end of this post.

-------------------- A Georgia based company continues to host two official websites for the Taliban after being warned numerous times that providing business services to the Islamist group is against U.S. law. The 'Voice of Jihad' websites are in Arabic and in English. They claim to be the official websites of the 'Imarat Islami of Afghanistan' (Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan) -- the name given to Afghanistan under the Taliban regime.

The websites feature announcements and "news" by Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousuf (aka, 'Ahmedi'), usually on the latest 'victory' of the mujahidin over the 'crusaders' (NATO forces) and 'apostates' (Afghan soldiers and civilians). Images of burning vehicles and of Taliban suicide bombers reading their shahid messages are also a regular feature on the websites. Below is an example of an animated image found at the English language website.

The Taliban websites are hosted by Freewebtown, a free webhosting service headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. A whois search lists the registered owner of Freewebtown as Tulip Systems, located on Piedmont Rd.

By providing free webhosting to the Taliban, Tulip Systems is in violation of U.S. law. American companies are forbidden from doing business with the Taliban, a regime responsible for aiding al Qaeda in the 9/11 attacks which killed nearly 3,000 civilians.

Thousands of U.S. servicemen and women are presently in Afghanistan fighting and dying in an effort to stamp out a resurgent Taliban.

Freewebtown did not respond to e-mails warning them that they were doing business with the Taliban in violation of U.S. law.

Webhosts are often unaware of the content of webpages hosted on their servers. Terrorist propagandists use this to their advantage. Such free webhosting is used to spread their propaganda, raise money, and recruit new blood for terrorism.

Most companies suspend the accounts of terrorists when brought to their attention. Good business practices dictate that no company ought to help facilitate terrorism, and most firms are more than willing to take down websites which help the jihadi cause.

Several weeks ago I posted a few e-mails and a phone number to Taliban spokesmen. I got those e-mails from the two Taliban websites linked above. I did not, however, link those websites. Instead, I wanted to give Freewebtown a chance to take down the websites on their own. They have not.

If you would like to let Freewebtown and Tulip Systems know what you think of American companies which are aiding and abetting the Taliban in their war against the U.S, you can contact them here or by e-mailing here.

If you would like to e-mail the Taliban, you know, just to mess with them:

alemarah1@yahoo.com
zabihullahmujahid@yahoo.com
alfarhad2005@yahoo.com
gran@inbox.com

If you want to call the Taliban on their spokesman's satelite phone:

(011 from US, then) 8821621515539 --- ask for Ahmadi, which is what Qari Mohammad Yousuf's friends call him.

(011 from US, then) 8821621360585 --- calls himself "mujahid", so I'd just ask for soon-to-be-dead asshole

It's like messin' with Bigfoot, only funner!

Posted by: Rusty at 05:33 PM | Comments (26) | Add Comment
Post contains 542 words, total size 4 kb.

1 Hmmm, I got a similar reaction from Dreamhost.  Nada, nothing, but a form-letter.

Posted by: Howie at June 11, 2007 05:40 PM (YHZAl)

2 E-mailed them all. Nothing makes my day better than calling muslim an asshole.

Posted by: greyrooster at June 11, 2007 05:57 PM (1ZyKh)

3

Posted by: Daniel Medici at June 11, 2007 06:09 PM (wbKWg)

4 Any chance the website is being hosted in America to keep an eye on Taliban traffic and who is posting and replying?

Posted by: Daniel Medici at June 11, 2007 06:10 PM (wbKWg)

5 Discount any using the words asshole and piss be upon you. Those are from me.

Posted by: greyrooster at June 11, 2007 06:19 PM (1ZyKh)

6 I emailed them several pics of pork dishes -- yum!

Posted by: Richard Romano at June 11, 2007 06:20 PM (iD1fP)

7 Daniel,

Already checked that.  Nope.

Rusty

Posted by: Rusty at June 11, 2007 06:27 PM (JQjhA)

8 As it turns out, Tulip Systems is just a hop, skip, and a jump from my place of residence.
 
Perhaps I'll visit them personally.
 
Christopher

Posted by: Christopher Calandro at June 11, 2007 06:58 PM (+GQiL)

9 Be nice, boys. Simply invite the violent, camel fkking b@stards to play an innocent game of 'Pass the Pigs'.

Fun for the whole mosque!

Posted by: johnny rokket at June 11, 2007 06:59 PM (Cy7OH)

10 I rarely agree with pressuring American companies over Jihadi web hosting. Here's why:
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/050727/27natsec.htm

The web hosting company was complying with a DHS request to log all of the traffic coming to the web server.

However due to the pressure put on the web hosting company by being flooded in their forum with complaints
from well meaning citizens DHS ended up terminating the monitoring, and now it's back up -- most likely in a place that does not comply with warrants.

It might just be better to send a single Email to the DHS, with a C.C to the company doing the web hosting.

Posted by: davec at June 11, 2007 08:30 PM (kcDpP)

11 Does DreamHost host Taliban websites?

Their policy is strong on 1st-ammendment protection... they don't have to like you to host you.

They even host one pro-Nazi ideology site.

I don't believe, however, they hosts any site in violation of any (constitutional) law.

To repeat myself, do they in fact host Taliban websites?

Posted by: Christoph at June 11, 2007 08:51 PM (BqJ1D)

12 Can we get an address for this Tulip Systems?

Posted by: greyrooster at June 11, 2007 09:19 PM (1ZyKh)

13 "E-mailed them all. Nothing makes my day better than calling muslim an asshole."

Posted by: greyrooster at June 11, 2007 05:57 PM

Well, that's just brilliant, greyrooster. Why don't you email Maliki, the Iraqi army, and our other allies in the region and tell them that too.

Posted by: Christoph at June 11, 2007 10:37 PM (BqJ1D)

14 Christoph: Anyone who thinks muslims are our allies is nuts. Their religion requires that they be our enemies. They are serving their own self interests. We pay the bill. We have Americans and Brits killed. The payoff. None. Whoever wins, Sunni, Shite or fanatic they will turn on us in a moment. The same as they have done in the rest of the world. The only good coming from Iraq is that they continue to fight each other.  As they always have. Lets keep them fighting and blowing each other up in the name of God. When we bring the troops home they plan on following us. What war in Iraq? There is no war in Iraq. The war ended in 3 days. Ever since, its been a playground for a blood thirsty sub species called muslims.

Posted by: greyrooster at June 12, 2007 01:51 AM (1ZyKh)

15 Google search on address forTulip Systems(3495 Piedmont Road NE. Building Twelve, Suite 110 Atlanta, GA 30305) yields at least four Internet service/web hosting companies, none of which are overtly related, but all of which appear to be colocated, if not co-managed.  One site is provided in TURKISH and English, and it only has an IP address, no URL.  Several sites share the same data center photos. 
 
Companies found at that address include:
 
1) TSHosts (Tulip Systems) - http://www.tshost.com/contact_us.php
2) ETTIX Email Solutions - http://www.ettixmail.com/about.php 
3) Tulix Systems/Sollutions - http://www.tulix.com/contact_us.php
4) http://154.37.32.13/turkish/about.php 
 
Piedmont Center is a fairly upscale office complex and is not inexpensive.  It houses several telecom/Internet type businesses due to extensive fiber optic cables transiting under Piedmont Road out in front of the complex.

Posted by: pigs4allah at June 12, 2007 02:00 AM (e6oeM)

16 Grow up Rusty. Sending hate mail to a terrorist is very immature. What are you, five? Grow up. You think they care what we think. That's why you got demoted on Infovlad. You are a loser. And you say I don't have a life. LOL, next time inform doubletap and Tribeca when you want to promote Wilenski to moderator.
 
 
Anyway, at least we are winning the war in Afghanistan. We sent Dadullah to HELL. That's more than what we can say about Iraq.
 
 
Anyway, you may now proceed with calling me a leftturd and other childish remarks.
 
 
 

Posted by: None of your business at June 12, 2007 09:51 AM (TmLg9)

17 Rusty, I just received a response from the General manager of the hosting site and he wants the addresses of the Taliban sites he's hosting and states he'll rectify the situation. I can foward you the e-mail if you wish. Just contact me via my e-mail and I'll send it to you.

Posted by: Steven Miller at June 12, 2007 11:19 AM (6pa7j)

18 That's good news. We didn't need to send any hate mail to fix the problem.

Posted by: None of your business at June 12, 2007 12:05 PM (TmLg9)

19 Yeah, what Black Flag said.

Posted by: Howie at June 12, 2007 01:44 PM (YHZAl)

20 Thanks all!

Posted by: Rusty at June 12, 2007 01:51 PM (JQjhA)

21 Good job fighting the Cyber Jihad.  You are my heroes!

Posted by: Heroic Dreamer at June 12, 2007 02:30 PM (YN9Al)

22 I'm just upset that when Rusty runs these, they work out better. Sigh.

Posted by: Howie at June 12, 2007 02:32 PM (YHZAl)

23 I hope the cyber jihad never ends so I can keep seeing that pic of C3PO!

Posted by: tbone at June 12, 2007 03:27 PM (HGqHt)

24 None of your business: Lefturd asshole! Didn't want you to feel left out. Bitch.

Posted by: greyrooster at June 12, 2007 03:59 PM (S0oBW)

25 ROFLOL, like I care what you think. Anyway, great job guys. I'm surprised it actually worked. You pwned the Taliban. You are now famous.

Posted by: George Ramos at June 12, 2007 06:44 PM (TmLg9)

26

Just so you know, I use many names. You never when you might come across me. Anyway, see you later.

Posted by: George Ramos at June 12, 2007 06:45 PM (TmLg9)

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