Endless War 125/Oooh Angela Baby!

07-19-06

 

Looks like current Israeli-Lebanese conflict might be a black op.

SOURCE: http://cnw.com/~jasonst/hejailanprojects.html  
Hezbollah website hosted by a US defense subcontractor? (Hejailan Projects / United Defense Industries, Inc. / BAE Systems Land and Armaments)

[CORRECTION: July 18th, 2006: UDI sold their stake in Al-Hejailan Group in April 2003]

After many months of me complaining about how often the mainstream media was citing unspecified "internet postings" as sources for their stories, I was reading an article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that finally sourced a claim. They credited an organization that tracks terrorist activities and internet postings. As suspected, it didn't take much digging to find propaganda.

The "SITE Instititute"

The Search for International Terrorist Entities Institute (The "SITE Instititute"), seems to be chronocling most of the terrorist activity you hear about in the news, and appears to be the source for much of the reporting on terrorist activities provided to the mainstream media.

One of the pages hosted on the SITE Institute website, provides a list of "Terrorist Websites".

One of six websites listed is for Hizballah (Party of God)

SITE lists their website as: http://www.nasrollah.org/

You can check it out if you like, (though i wouldn't recommend it), but it looks pretty legitimate...

...until I started digging around into who's hosting it.

According to the domain registration record, nasrollah.org is registered to a "Hussein Beydoun", who resides at a Beirut (Lebanon) address. Looks pretty legitimate, but things get fishy when you look at the IP address of their web server.

www.nasrollah.org resolves to 82.205.138.35

The RIPE registration record for that IP address says it belongs to a "Horizon Communication", out of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The registration record goes on to list "Karthikeyan K" at an address of "Hejailan Projects"

Thinking that was a rather strange address, I searched for information on who "Hejailan Projects" is... I found them listed on a directory of Defense / Aerospace contractors.

Al-Hejailan Projects Co., Ltd.
DESCRIPTION: Al-Hejailan Projects Engineering Co. is a Saudi engineering firm known to be involved in maintenance and upgrading of vehicles belonging to the Royal Saudi Land Forces Infantry Corps.

CHRONOLOGY
* 1993. FMC-Arabia Ltd. is established as a joint venture between United Defense Industries, Inc. (Arlington, VA) and the Al-Hejailan Group (Saudi Arabia). The company is 51% owned by United Defense.

* April 2003. Al-Hejailan Group acquires the 51% stake in United Defense Systems-Arabia owned by United Defense Industries, Inc. (NYSE: UDI) for approximately $0.4 million.


Wikipedia says, "United Defense Industries was a United States defense contractor which is now part of BAE Systems Land and Armaments. This company produces combat vehicles, artillery, naval guns, missile launchers and precision munitions. The company started as a division of the agricultural machine business, Food Machinery Corporation (FMC), when they won a US government contract to build LVTs and became a weapon manufacturer during World War II."


.... Why is a US defense contractor hosting a known terrorist website?

Here is the evidence showing United Defense's Al-Hejailan Projects Co. hosting the Hizballah website.

> whois nasrollah.org
Domain ID:D46574899-LRMS
Domain Name:NASROLLAH.ORG
Created On:08-Dec-2000 21:08:25 UTC
Last Updated On:13-Mar-2006 08:33:15 UTC
Expiration Date:08-Dec-2007 21:08:25 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:Register.com Inc. (R71-LRMS)
Status:OK
Registrant ID:C12631095-RCOM
Registrant Name:Mohamad Hejazi
Registrant Organization:Hadeel.net
Registrant Street1:Haret Herik
Registrant Street2:
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City:Beirut
Registrant State/Province:
Registrant Postal Code:no
Registrant Country:LB
Registrant Phone:+961.3216933
Registrant Phone Ext.:
Registrant FAX:
Registrant FAX Ext.:
Registrant Email:elco@cyberia.net.lb
Admin ID:C47632673-RCOM
Admin Name:Hussein Beydoun
Admin Organization:Hadeel.net
Admin Street1:Haret Herik
Admin Street2:
Admin Street3:
Admin City:Beirut
Admin State/Province:
Admin Postal Code:no
Admin Country:LB
Admin Phone:+1.3216933
Admin Phone Ext.:
Admin FAX:
Admin FAX Ext.:
Admin Email:elco@cyberia.net.lb
Tech ID:C47632674-RCOM
Tech Name:Hussein Beydoun
Tech Organization:Hadeel.net
Tech Street1:Haret Herik
Tech Street2:
Tech Street3:
Tech City:Beirut
Tech State/Province:
Tech Postal Code:no
Tech Country:LB
Tech Phone:+1.3216933
Tech Phone Ext.:
Tech FAX:
Tech FAX Ext.:
Tech Email:elco@cyberia.net.lb
Name Server:DNS34.REGISTER.COM
Name Server:NS.HADEEL3.NET


> nslookup www.NASROLLAH.ORG

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: NASROLLAH.ORG
Address: 82.205.138.35
Aliases: www.NASROLLAH.ORG

> whois -h whois.ripe.net 82.205.138.35

inetnum: 82.205.138.0 - 82.205.138.63
netname: HCS
remarks: INFRA-AW
descr: Horizon Communication Riyadh
country: sa
admin-c: MA3701-RIPE
tech-c: KK1722-RIPE
status: Assigned PA
mnt-by: HSS-MNT
source: RIPE # Filtered

person: Mohammed Aslam
address: Horizon Communication
phone: +96612910244
e-mail: maslam@horizon-communication.com
nic-hdl: MA3701-RIPE
source: RIPE # Filtered

person: Karthikeyan K
address: Hejailan Projects
phone: +96612910244
e-mail: karthik@hejailan.com
nic-hdl: KK1722-RIPE
source: RIPE # Filtered

% Information related to '82.205.128.0/19AS30729'

route: 82.205.128.0/19
descr: HORIZON-SATELLITE
origin: AS30729
mnt-by: HSS-MNT
source: RIPE # Filtered

http://companies.infobasepub.com/detail_pages/17539.html

This business is one of more than 8,000 described in the Companies database of the Defense/Aerospace Competitive Intelligence Service (DACIS), published by InfoBase Publishers.

Al-Hejailan Projects Co., Ltd.

PO Box 9175
Riyadh 11413
Saudi Arabia
tel: 4761414 / 4767491
fax: 4729008

Company Code: ALJ-01

Previous Names
PMW: FMC-Arabia Ltd.

DESCRIPTION
Al-Hejailan Projects Engineering Co. is a Saudi engineering firm known to be involved in maintenance and upgrading of vehicles belonging to the Royal Saudi Land Forces Infantry Corps.

OWNERSHIP

CHRONOLOGY
April 2003. Al-Hejailan Group acquires the 51% stake in United Defense Systems-Arabia owned by United Defense Industries, Inc. (NYSE: UDI) for approximately $0.4 million.
1993. FMC-Arabia Ltd. is established as a joint venture between United Defense Industries, Inc. (Arlington, VA) and the Al-Hejailan Group (Saudi Arabia). The company is 51% owned by United Defense.