Web Site of Global Islamic Front Registered in Los Angeles – Austrian Daily

Excerpt from report by Austrian newspaper Der Standard website on 13 March

Berlin/Vienna -Terror attacks can also happen in Germany, but the FRG will not be blackmailed. This is the reaction of the German Government to the video threat against Berlin and Vienna that was published on the weekend [ 10 March] and called for the withdrawal of German and Austrian soldiers from Afghanistan. [passage omitted]

Berlin and Vienna are assessing the video in a joint task force. The German Government is taking the threat “very seriously,” but the authorities do not assume that the danger has increased. [passage omitted]

According to “Who is” information on the Internet, the site of the Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF), was registered by a user named Aaron Wilson in Los Angeles in April 2006. However, the contact e-mail of the owner of the domain has another name and comes from the anonymous free yahoo service. The given telephone number exists, but nobody answered when Der Standard tried to call repeatedly. If the mail address is entered in the worldwide satellite search engine of Google Earth, one gets to a car park in the immediate vicinity of the Van Nuys Airport in Los Angeles.

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