Beheading video site shut down
The al-Qaida-linked web site that first posted a video of American civilian Nicholas Berg’s beheading was shut down today by the Malaysian company that hosted it – because it was drawing too much traffic.
A senior officer of the company, Acme Commerce, said in Kuala Lumpur today it was not aware that the site, www.al-ansar.biz, may have been connected to al-Qaida or that offensive material had been posted on it.
If it had, the company would likely have shut it down earlier, said Alfred Lim, Acme Commerce’s business manager.
“We are a legitimate business, in no way related to al-Qaida,” Lim said. “We have no control over what our clients put on their web sites.”
The site was operated by a client who rented space on a Malaysian-based Web server owned by Acme Commerce, Lim said, although he was not sure exactly when the client began renting the space.
Lim said Acme Commerce disabled the site today because it had attracted “a sudden surge of massive traffic that is taking up too much bandwidth and causing inconvenience to our other clients”.
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