Return-Path: <sentto-279987-3819-1005231831-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 [204.181.12.215] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.7.4) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Thu, 08 Nov 2001 07:05:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 21134 invoked by uid 510); 8 Nov 2001 15:02:52 -0000 Received: from n22.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.72) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 8 Nov 2001 15:02:52 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-3819-1005231831-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [10.1.1.221] by n22.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 08 Nov 2001 15:03:51 -0000 X-Sender: fc@red.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 8 Nov 2001 15:03:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 94788 invoked from network); 8 Nov 2001 15:03:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.171) by m3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 8 Nov 2001 15:03:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO red.all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 8 Nov 2001 15:03:50 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by red.all.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) id fA8F41i06337 for iwar@onelist.com; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 07:04:01 -0800 Message-Id: <200111081504.fA8F41i06337@red.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> X-Yahoo-Profile: fcallnet Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 07:04:01 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] [fc:U.S..Anti-Terrorism.Sweep.Nails.Net,.Phone.Companies] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit U.S. Anti-Terrorism Sweep Nails Net, Phone Companies By Robert MacMillan, Newsbytes, 11/8/2001 <a href="http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171955.html">http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171955.html> President Bush and his top cabinet members today announced that several small Internet and telephone companies operating in the U.S. have been implicated as participants in the global terrorist network operated by Osama bin Laden and suspected of carrying out the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11. The investigation into global terrorism has resulted in evidence seizures and raids at several businesses across the country and throughout the world. Bush said that companies operating inside several loose financial networks have provided secure Internet and satellite phone services, among other communications facilities. The crackdown on bin Laden's network so far has resulted in $24 million in blocked assets of suspected terrorist organizations and their helpers. Attorney General John Ashcroft said that law enforcement has made a variety of arrests across the country, including individuals and businesses connected with "Al-Barakat" (spelled variously as Barakaat, Barako, Baraka, etc.), and "Al-Taqwa." "(In) locations across the country, the Department of Justice, the FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies are interviewing individuals and taking other investigative steps in ongoing criminal investigations," Ashcroft said, noting that law enforcement agencies have identified and raided businesses in Massachusetts, Ohio, Washington, Minnesota and Virginia, as well as other locations. Ashcroft added that the Justice Department plans to use administrative, civil and criminal prosecutions to nail the networks' participants. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill said that the gradual emergence of the shadowy network of individuals and businesses financing and abetting the international terrorist efforts of bin Laden's Al Qaeda network shows that its members operate largely as "undocumented, unregulated financial networks." "Their system isn't perfect," he said. "Somewhere it must always interface with modern banking and finance. When that connection is made, we have the wherewithal to intervene ... " Among the businesses named in a Treasury Department release are Al-Barakat Global Telecommunications (also known as Barakaat Globetelcompany), Al-Barakaat Wiring Service, Barakaat Red Sea Telecommunications, Barakaat Telecommunications Co. Somalia Ltd., Barakat Telecommunications Company ltd. (BTELCO), Barakat Computer Consulting, Barakat Global Telephone Company, Somali Internet Company, Somali Network AB (SOM NET). While some of the companies are located in the U.S., the sweep was international in scope, with investigations being conducted in Liechtenstein, Sweden and other locations. The Somali Internet Company was established as the troubled east African nation's first Internet service provider, and began operations in August 2000. Al-Barakat Global Telecommunications is one of the telecom companies that established the Somali ISP. The Barakaat Group of Companies, which operates several companies including Barakaat Red Sea Telecommunications, said it was planning to sue the U.K.-based Daily Telegraph for reporting that it had ties to terrorist organizations. Treasury Department officials were not immediately available for comment. ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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