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Thursday, June 27, 2002

When visited, drasat.com showed the following message: "This account has been suspended for either a violation in Liquid Web Inc.'s terms of services or an issue with payment."

Explaining the terms, the notice said: "All services provided by Liquid Web Internet Services may be used for lawful purposes only. Transmission, storage, or presentation of any information, data or material in violation of any United States Federal, State or City law is prohibited.

"This includes, but is not limited to: copyrighted material, material we judge to be threatening or obscene, or material protected by trade secret and other statute."

Al-Qaeda put a recorded message from its spokesman Suleman al Ghaith on this site last week, urging the United States to "fasten its belts" for more terrorist attacks.

The audiotape was later replayed by an Arabic language television station, al-Jazeera which is based in Qatar.

Web surfers tracked the site to an organization called the Islamic Studies and Research Center but could not obtain its address.

Al-Qaeda has already used more than a half-dozen Web sites to disseminate its message against the United States. In some of these messages it also claimed responsibility for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.

Most of these sites have been hacked. One of them, alneda.com, has been turned into a high-tech discussion site on issues like terrorism, Islam and violence in the Middle East. It also offers chat facilities on these subjects and has a picture gallery.

The gallery also contains pictures ridiculing Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar and other Taliban and al-Qaeda leaders.

Sites containing al-Qaeda's messages started appearing after the defeat of the Taliban and al-Qaeda forces in Afghanistan last November.

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