** Update - put a link on to thereligionofpeace.com - a very good site and rather informative as well.
The European Union insisted Friday that governments and the private sector must share the responsibility of overseeing the Internet, setting the stage for a showdown with the United States on the future of Internet governance. A senior U.S. official reiterated Thursday that the country wants to remain the Internet’s ultimate authority, rejecting calls in a United Nations meeting in Geneva for a U.N. body to take over.
EU spokesman Martin Selmayr said a new cooperation model was important “because the Internet is a global resource.” “The EU ... is very firm on this position,” he added. The Geneva talks were the last preparatory meeting before November’s World Summit on the Information Society in Tunisia. A stalemate over who should serve as the principal traffic cops for Internet routing and addressing could derail the summit, which aims to ensure a fair sharing of the Internet for the benefit of the whole world.
At issue is who would have ultimate authority over the Internet’s master directories, which tell Web browsers and e-mail programs how to direct traffic. That role has historically gone to the United States, which created the Internet as a Pentagon project and funded much of its early development. The U.S. Commerce Department has delegated much of that responsibility to a U.S.-based private organization with international board members, but Commerce ultimately retains veto power.
Some countries have been frustrated that the United States and European countries that got on the Internet first gobbled up most of the available addresses required for computers to connect, leaving developing nations with a limited supply to share. They also want greater assurance that as they come to rely on the Internet more for governmental and other services, their plans won’t get derailed by some future U.S. policy. Policy decisions could at a stroke make all Web sites ending in a specific suffix essentially unreachable. Other decisions could affect the availability of domain names in non-English characters or ones dedicated to special interests such as pornography.
** Just like the EU to try and control every thing, even when its got nothing to do with them.
Another attack in Bali www.news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4300274.stm/ and Indonesia has reduced the 30-month sentence handed down to controversial cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir for his role in the Bali bombings. www.news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4158270.stm/
Ba'asyir, who was found guilty in March of conspiracy in the 2002 attack that killed 202 people, had his jail term cut by four months and 15 days. Makes you wonder what the hell is wrong with that country? They catch this arsehole and give him a token 30 months in jail, now they cut that?
Abu Bakar Bashir, the Indonesian Muslim leader who is or has been the head of the radical Muslim group Jemaah Islamiyah (although he denies it) has said that "the Bali bombers and an Indonesian bomb-maker killed by the Philippine military in October were not 'terrorists' but God's fighters." ** I agree with sending them to meet their god asap.
"Fathur Rohman al-Ghozi, who recently became a martyr, is a jihad [holy war] fighter, not a terrorist," Bashir told a gathering of prisoners at Salemba prison in Central Jakarta that journalists and his supporters were allowed to attend.
Convicted Bali bombers "Imam Samudra, Mukhlas, Amrozi and his friends are not terrorists either, they are fighters of the army of God," Bashir said, who is serving time for immigration offences. Bashir, 65, also praised Osama bin Laden as a Muslim fighter. He has praised bin Laden, head of the Al Qaeda terror network, in the past but his public accolade for Bali bombers was the first.
A court in Bali has sentenced Samudra, Amrozi and Amrozi's brother Mukhlas to death for their roles in the Bali bombings, which killed 202 people, mostly Westerners, on October 12, 2002. Self-confessed bomb-maker Al-Ghozi, a senior operative of the Jemaah Islamiah (JI) extremist network that is linked to al-Qaeda, was killed by Philippine troops in October after escaping from a Manila jail three months earlier. The JI network is blamed for a string of bloody attacks including church bombings which killed 19 people on Christmas Eve 2000, the Bali blasts on October 12, 2002, which killed 202 people and the August Jakarta Marriott hotel blast that claimed 12 lives.
Bashir said Indonesian Muslims had been targets of slander from the United States, which he warned the authorities not to support. "I warn police if they remain supportive of the US, they can laugh now but will later cry for the rest of their lives," he said
Earlier in the day Bashir's lawyers filed a petition to the Supreme Court against an appeal court ruling that he must serve three years in jail. In September he was convicted of treason through taking part in a JI plot to overthrow the government. But the court said there was no proof that he headed the JI terror network, as prosecutors alleged. The appeal court this month cleared Bashir of treason. It upheld his conviction for immigration offences and forging documents but cut his jail term from four years to three. His lawyers want him cleared of all charges. Bashir has denied any links to terrorism and said he was framed by Washington because he campaigns for Islamic sharia law. ** What an arsehole.
Finally some more good news from Iraq:
U.S. Soldiers nab 18 terror suspects
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Task Force Baghdad Soldiers continued clearing roadside bombs and detaining terrorists in operations around the Baghdad area Sept. 29 and 30.
Around 9 p.m. Sept. 29, a Task Force Baghdad patrol reported finding an improvised explosive device on a highway in west Baghdad. An explosive ordnance disposal team safely cleared the bomb from the site. Two suspects were detained for further questioning in connection with the IED.
Elsewhere, after setting up an impromptu control point in northeast Baghdad, Task Force Baghdad Soldiers stopped four suspicious vehicles around 11:55 p.m. Sept. 29. Upon searching the car, the Soldiers discovered terrorist propaganda, 10 Iraqi Police badges and six IP-issue Glock pistols. Soldiers detained 12 suspects for further questioning.
About 10 minutes later, another vehicle was stopped at the same check point and the four occupants of the car were discovered to have Iraqi government badges, three AK-47 assault rifles and one Glock pistol. The four individuals were also detained for further questioning by IPs.
At 12:30 a.m. Sept. 30, a Task Force Baghdad patrol saw two individuals placing a roadside bomb on a highway south of Baghdad. The Soldiers fired on the individuals who then fled the scene. The area was cordoned off and the anti-tank landmine was safely destroyed by an EOD team.
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