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U.S. Treasury Freezes InfoCom Accounts

Posted by timothy on from the tromping-on-the-thin-ice dept.

mbauser2 writes: "The U.S Treasury Deparment has frozen two bank accounts held by InfoCom Corp, the Texas-based web-hosting company raided by an anti-terrorism task force the week before the WTC/Pentagon attacks. The Treasury Department cited a 1993 investment by the wife of a man who was declared a terrorist in 1995. Are internet companies really supposed to run background checks on their investors' husbands, or is the War on Terrorism's lack of due process catching innocent (Moslem) bystanders in its net? Are other ISPs at risk if they upset the government?"

3 of 9 comments (clear)

  1. Hey, how about this option? by PD · · Score: 3, Informative

    Instead of just chalking this up to a case of overzealous and underpaid federal gestapo goose-stepping all over the rights of the peeps, why not just say that you don't know what's going on?

    The monies seized were $70K, and one of the investors was the wife of a terrorist. Husbands and wives share money. If my Canadian wife fails to pay her credit card bill, those credit card companies can come after me to collect. This is no different. The wife of a terrorist invests money, so they seize the money. Because they are married, it's the same as if he invested it himself.

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  2. This sounds like a Bill of Attainder. by bmasel · · Score: 3, Informative
    US Constitution Article I Section 9
    Powers denied the Congress
    No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.

    Analysis of the Case History of this clause findlaw

    InfoCom Corp., an Internet service provider that was under investigation by federal anti-terrorism agents before the Sept. 11 attacks, received a $250,000 investment in 1993 by Nadia Elashi Marzouk. Her husband, Moussa Abu Marzouk, is deputy of the Hamas political bureau in Syria.

    Marzouk was placed on a Treasury Department list of terrorists in 1995, allowing the government to seize his U.S. assets.
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  3. InfoCom has SERIOUS links to Bin Laden by Seth+Finkelstein · · Score: 3, Informative
    Check it out:

    whois binladen.com

    Registrant:
    Binladen (BINLADEN2-DOM) 630 International Pkwy
    Suite 100
    Richardson, TX 75081
    US

    Domain Name: BINLADEN.COM

    Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Billing Contact:
    Elashi, Bayan (BE159) bayane@INFOCOMCORP.COM
    InfoCom Corp
     630 International Pkwy, #100
    Richardson, TX 75081
    (972) 644-5363 (FAX) (972) 644-8609

    binladen.com was Osama's family business, not him. But still, there a lot of reason for the FBI's interest.

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