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12/18/2002 Archived Entry: "One Man's Info War on al-Qaida"

I DON'T MIND VIGILANTISM SOMETIMES BUT...: Sometimes it screws up legitimate law enforcement work.

"In a case that shows both the risks and rewards of vigilante tactics, an American man has hijacked two Web addresses apparently used by al-Qaida to laud terrorist attacks.

"The domains, jehad.net and jehadonline.org, are now in the control of a manager for a large Minnesota financial services firm. The man said he wrested control of the domains from their owners after reading on Dec. 8 that al-Qaida used jehad.net to claim responsibility for recent attacks on an Israeli airliner and a hotel in Kenya."

Read on.