Jeremy Reynalds "Do You Yahoo? Al-Qaeda Does!" Jeremy Reynalds tracks terrorists on the Internet.  After doing so for the last couple of years he believes it's time to launch a campaign against Yahoo - one of the leading internet purveyors of terror. Jeremy Reynalds, Author of "The Walking Wounded" and "Homeless in America" also hosts a weekly radio show on KKNS AM Albuquerque, NM .  Jeremy's research  shows Yahoo's long time hosting of a recently disabled group called "Global Islamic Media" (GIM), which up until a few weeks ago had over 6,000 members and was a reported mouthpiece for al Qaeda. While GIM appears to be currently off line, it is possible that it could be operating under a slight variation of its previous name. For example. In the space of a few weeks, Jeremy found that the group's on line name changed from Global Islamic Media to Global Islamic Media Centre (note the spelling) to Global Islamic Media Center. If you are wondering why Jeremy is so steamed in view of the group apparently being off line, GIM was only one of many radical Islamic groups that continue to be hosted by the internet giant. Yahoo refuses to respond to requests for information as to why it hosted GIM and other similar radical Islamic hate groups, offering only this recent statement. It came from Mary Osako, Mary Osako, Yahoo's Director of Communication. She said that those wishing to use Yahoo Groups "agree to not use the Service to upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable. When notified of content that may be in violation of our Terms of Service, we are committed to reviewing each report and taking appropriate action, generally within 24 hours." Interestingly, a series of rotating advertisements for American companies can also be found on many of the posts of these Islamic hate groups. Understandably, officials he talked to were less than thrilled about their company being connected with this sort of hate. However, be aware that if you fight Yahoo, they play dirty. When his investigative efforts were recently covered by CNN (http://joyjunction.org/video3.htm), while GIM went off line for a while before reemerging with one of those slightly different names referred to above, His Yahoo accounts were disabled. GIM is a group that achieved recent notoriety in part because in Dec. 2003, Islamic militants discussed the possibility of a terrorist attack designed to affect the Spanish general election. In a March 2004 Agence France Press (AFP) story, the news agency reported that Britain's Channel 4 News revealed that a Dec. 10 posting on GIM, which had previously carried statements purporting to be from Al-Qaeda affiliates, suggested that attacks could help bring about a Socialist election victory and the withdrawal of Spain's troops from Iraq. According to Channel 4 News, the GIM posting was issued under the name of the Centre for Services to the Mujahideen and read, "The approaching general elections in Spain in March next year must be exploited to the extreme. We think that the Spanish government will not stand more than two blows, or three at the most, before it will be forced to withdraw (from Iraq) because of the public pressure on it. If its forces remain after these blows, the victory of the Socialist party will be almost guaranteed, and the withdrawal of Spanish forces will be on its campaign manifesto." After the bombings, which killed 200 people and injured 1,500, Spain's conservative party was defeated. Spain's new Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero who criticized President George W. Bush for the Iraq campaign, has withdrawn Spanish GIM's al Qaeda connection is routinely accepted by many analysts. Paul Eedle, a British investigative reporter who specializes in radical Islam, was interviewed by CNN in March. He commented, "The Global Islamic Media list .... puts out a stream of statements, 30 to 50 a month, explaining the group's strategy and claiming responsibility for its actions, including the Madrid (train) bombings ... " According to Eedle, the Internet has been a wonderful creation for al Qaeda. "The Net creates a virtual meeting place, a glue that holds together al Qaeda, even though its leadership has been holed up in the mountains and is now surrounded." So why does Yahoo al Qaeda? Only they know and they're not telling! +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Jeremy Reynalds was born in England, emigrated to the United States in 1978 and married Sylvia in 1979. They have five boys. Jeremy gave his life to the Lord in 1976 and attends Calvary of Albuquerque. He became an American citizen in 1998 and voted in his first general election in 2000. Jeremy founded and directed a small homeless shelter in Santa Fe, New Mexico from 1982 through 1986. He resigned that and started the Albuquerque based Joy Junction, now New Mexico's largest emergency homeless shelter, in August 1986. Joy Junction does not accept government funding of any type and is not a United United Way. In addition to his responsibilities at Joy Junction, Jeremy is also a freelance writer. He writes on a freelance basis for ACharisma@ Magazine and the Assist News Service (www.assistnews.net), as well as a number of popular internet e-zines such as www.bushcountry.org He has also published two books: "Homeless in America" (Huntington House 1994 and republished in 2001 by Joy Junction as AHomeless in the USA) and "The Walking Wounded" (Huntington House, 1996). He also contributed to another book in 1999 that dealt with how the media portrays the homeless. Jeremy holds a master's degree in communication from the University of New Mexico and is a candidate for the Ph.D. in intercultural education at Biola University in Los Angeles. He may be contacted by e-mail at jeremy@joyjunction.org   See More about Jeremy Reynalds at: http://www.kkns.com/

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