[ga] Request to ban Basque nationalist sites via DNS

[Alexander Svensson <alexander@svensson.de>]

>Spain steps up pressure on Basque militants at home and abroad
(...)
>Spanish prosecutors Friday also requested Judge Garzon to apply to the 
>Australian government and The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names 
>and Numbers, based in the United States, to ban Batasuna web sites 
>including www.batasuna.org, www.euskal-herritarrok.org et 
>www.batasuna-barakaldo.org.
>
>The Spanish press reported that Batasuna's site,www.batasuna.org, 
>was registered by an Australian company 

[Melbourne IT is the registrar]

>with a Californian server, 

[VisualRoute actually points to Virginia]

>administered from Bayonne in France.

AFP via Yahoo (http://sg.news.yahoo.com/020830/1/329uu.html), found
via http://www.icannwatch.org/article.php?sid=929&mode=&order=0&thold=0

Batasuna is a Basque nationalist party and the political arm of 
the Basque terrorist group ETA. It has recently been suspended
by an anti-terrorist judge and the Spanish parliament voted
overwhelmingly for an indefinite ban.

Best regards,
/// Alexander

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