Well, maybe I am not too schooled in the ways of the Internet but if the terrorsits who executed Paul Johnson were displaying videos over a website for the past couple of DAYS, how come they couldn’t be tracked down? Someone has to apply for a domain name, webhost, ISP, just like the rest of us correct? Also, that data stream has to be coming from someplace. To me it seems the Saudi Government was rather apathetic about tracking this site down (if it even was tracked down).
Quite recently, Democratic Senator from New Jersey, Frank Lautenberg said:
“The Saudi Arabian government has shown too much patience for these terrorist cells and the ideologies of hate they preach.” I posted that quote NOT to make this a political discussion but to show the unwillingness or the total ineptitude of the Saudi government to locate that group.
Again, if they had a website why couldn’t it be tracked down ???
Firstly, the website could be in any country - I doubt the Syrian or Iranian authorities would rush to disable it. Secondly, it’d achieve little, because by the time we’ve heard about the video, it’ll be copied in countless locations. Thirdly, even if it is in Saudi Arabia, tracking it down would be very difficult - there’s a huge number of Al-Qaeda sympathisers in that country, who have (among other things) infiltrated the security services, making it hard for the government to crack down on the root operators in these terrorist incidents.