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Many Jihadist Websites Hosted in U.S.

Via UPI.

Many anti-American jihadist Web sites are hosted by servers in the United States, an Israeli expert said this week.

"Islam makes great use of the Internet," Yigal Carmon, president of the Middle East Media Research Institute, a pro-Israel think tank in Washington, told a press conference on Capitol Hill. Carmon previously served as a senior intelligence official in the Israeli Defense Forces for 20 years and as a top counter-terrorism adviser to Israeli prime ministers Yitzhak Shamir and Yitzhak Rabin.

Terrorists in all three of the recent botched terrorist attacks -- the London car bombs, the JFK airport fuel line and the Fort Dix military base in New Jersey -- were inspired by jihadist Web sites, according to MEMRI.

Carmon said that there are countless Web sites, like the one with a caption atop its main page saying "Kill Americans everywhere," that are hosted by American servers in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Texas, Minnesota, Washington and New Jersey.

posted by Fergie @ 7/20/2007 07:08:00 PM