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September 5-11, 2002 cover story America Online
Even before the War on Terror had a name, it had a Web presence. Almost one year ago, we published a list of some domain names registered on or soon after Sept. 11 (“Depraved New World,” Sept. 20, 2001). Here’s a review of the status of those sites. September112001.comLots of links, lots of red, white and blue. Dedicated to "A Day to Remember about People who want America Destroyed." AmericaUnderAttack.comRedirects to AmericanDisaster.com, which sells things like "Proud to be American" T-shirts. WTCAttack.comRedirects to September112001.com (see above). OsamaSucks.com"Display your patriotism and utter hatred of terrorism with a high-quality T-shirt! Choose from the three styles listed below and let Osama know that the USA will kick his bitch ass!!!" OsamaYoMama.comComprehensive collection of all those jokes, doctored photos, audio files ("Come Mr. Taliban turn over Bin Laden/Daylight come and we drop the bomb") that were e-mailed to you about 4,000 times each in the weeks after Sept. 11. KillOsamaBinLaden.comDevoted to the "exchange of ideas related to the elimination of Osama Bin Laden." Judging from the lack of content, however, the webmaster was as clueless on the subject as the Bush administration. BombAfghanistan.com, NukeAfghanistan.comRedirect to ItsHappening.com, a collection of 9-11-related message boards. AmericanJihad.comOpens with a MIDI version of "Crazy" and a photo of bin Laden working the counter at a 7-11. Inside is another collection of doctored photos and illustrations. ArabsMustDie.comYes, sadly, this one's in use too. The essay posted there (next to an image of the Statue of Liberty flipping the bird under the words "We're coming, motherfuckers") advocates all-out war on Arab nations that support terrorists "even to the smallest degree," and the seizing of their oil reserves "so that this cowardly, wicked people can never have any power to wield again. Let them eat and drink their sand!" At the end the writer vows to enlist in the American or Israeli military to fight in this war. We wanted to contact him -- or his family, since surely he's been shipped out by now -- so we looked up the domain ownership, but it turns out there is no Johnny America living at 1776 Liberty St. in New York, and 777-911-2001 is not a working number. Odd that such a brave man would hide behind a pseudonym. Not in Use9-11-01.com WTCVictims.com, WTCMissing.com PentagonCrash.com, ShanksvillePA.com TerroristsSuck.com, AlQaedaSucks.com OsamaMustDie.com, DieOsama.com DieBinLadenDie.com, FryBinLaden.com BringMeTheHeadOfOsamaBinLaden.com HijackThis.com *Flight77.com was registered in August 2000 by an Indiana punk band of the same name. On Sept. 11, 2001, the band posted the following: “We’re aware of the coinsidence [sic] between the flight that hit the Pentagon and our name, Flight 77. But let me assure you it is only a coincidence. We are in no way making fun of or taunting the families of the casualties of that or any other flight that had to do with this terrible tragedy. Our prayers are with those in need, and sorry for the confusion.” Today the site is no longer online, and we were unable to reach the webmaster/bass player before press time.
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