Feds seize Indymedia servers [more info]

Monday 6th of September 2010 07:53:42 PM
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The FBI yesterday seized a pair of UK servers used by Indymedia, the independent newsgathering collective, after serving a subpoena in the US on Indymedia's hosting firm, Rackspace. Why or how remains unclear. Rackspace UK complied with a legal order and handed over hard disks without first notifying Indymedia. It's unclear if the raid was executed under extra-territorial provisions of US legislation or the UK's Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA). Provisions of RIPA make it a criminal offence to discuss warrants, so Rackspace would not be able to discuss the action with its customer Indymedia, or with the media....

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Indymedia Servers Raided by FBI [drive removed, some site(s) up]

Monday 6th of September 2010 07:53:42 PM
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Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 07, @05:45PM from the need-to-know-basis dept. jaromil writes "Today at about 18:00 CET FBI raided the indymedia servers hosted by Rackspace both in US and England. At present, the italian indymedia and numerous other local IMC websites are obscured, while the reasons why the hard drives were taken are still unknown."

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War games becoming all too real

Monday 6th of September 2010 07:53:42 PM
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War games becoming all too realWhile Hezbollah's young supporters pick off virtual Israelis in a bloody new video game, the simmering conflict in the Lebanon looks set to escalate as soon as Iraq is attacked, reports Alasdair Soussi in Beirut   THE slogan on the outside of the packaging says it all: 'Be a partner in the victory. Fight, resist and destroy your enemy in the game of force.' This is the latest technological development by Lebanon's Islamic resistance group, Hezbollah: a computer game that allows players to take the part of its fighters during military operations against Israeli soldiers...

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(Texan) Terrorism links under investigation

Monday 6th of September 2010 07:53:42 PM
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Terrorism links under investigationFBI spokesman says 24 Texas suspects came from watch list By Jonathan York (Daily Texan Staff) December 10, 2002 Massive and oblique, the investigation into Texas terrorism connections has continued, but its traces remain in an FBI "watch list" dating from immediately after Sept. 11, 2001. The connections spread into Houston, where links to a foreign airline and two addresses are unexplained. They haunt Dallas, where a tangle of odd business involving an Internet service provider caused the United States to shut down its largest Islamic charity. Of about 370 suspects on the list, 24 are...

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