A few aviation newsgroups (browse the Planenews NewsPortal module) recently received a post titled: “Al Queda will destroy the infidels (next attack on Buy Nothing Day).” Note the spelling error.. The body of the post contains a PGP encrypted message and signature, apparent threats of attacks on Christmas day. While this is most likely a hoax, the text with full headers (Read More for details) has been forwarded to the FBI by some readers. I hope whomever sent this gets arrested!
Full Header as follows:
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planenews.com/lybh!newsfeeds-atl2!c02.atl3!news.webusenet.com!news.maxwell.s
planenews.com/oiecu!http://planenews.com/nsdj!http://planenews.com/woru!http://planenews.com/woru!http://planenews.com/fplqtp://planenews.com/mvpe!newsf
planenews.com/nsgk!http://planenews.com/hvqf!http://planenews.com/nxir!newspump.sol.net!http://planenews.com/nxir!n
planenews.com/txvr!http://planenews.com/avpp!http://planenews.com/uofzt!http://planenews.com/uldv.P
OSTED!annihilator!not-for-mail
From: annihilator-7@http://planenews.com/evgm
Newsgroups:
Subject: Gul Ahmed EL-Hajeb: Al Queda will destroy the infidels (next
attack on Buy Nothing Day)
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 00:15:47 GMT
Organization: Al Queda
Lines: 27
Approved: annihilator-7@http://planenews.com/evgm
Message-ID:
NNTP-Posting-Host: 218.188.58.6
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Trace: planenews.com/fplqtp://planenews.com/mvpe 1038272122 68923 218.188.58.6 (26 Nov 2002 00:55:22
GMT)
X-Complaints-To: daniely@http://planenews.com/mvpe
NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 00:55:22 +0000 (UTC)
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4)
Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2
Xref: planenews.com/hjim planenews.com/nwqaderated:146825
X-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 19:38:45 EST (planenews.com/lybh)
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Gul Ahmed EL-Hajeb, allah be praised, here are your orders:
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Comment: For info see planenews.com/adzu
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