9 News: American web giant does business with terrorists who killed hundreds of US soldiers in Iraq

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"The inflammatory website of a violent terrorist group responsible for killing hundreds of US and coalition soldiers in Iraq is currently being hosted by one of America's biggest web companies, nine.com.au can exclusively reveal. Kataib Hezbollah (KH), an Iranian-sponsored militia which targeted America soldiers and its allies, including the Australian Defence Force, during the insurgency in Iraq, was designated a Foreign Terrorist Group in 2009 by the US government. But despite KH, also known as Hezbollah Brigades, being on the sanctions blacklist, which is meant to make international commerce more difficult, US internet goliath GoDaddy continues to host the anti-American terrorist group's official website. Counter Extremism Project (CEP), a Washington DC-based think tank which monitors terrorist and extremist groups, told nine.com.au that since 2016 it has repeatedly urged GoDaddy to shut down KH's online presence, without success. 'There is a very clear case to shut Kataib Hezbollah down,' Daniel Roth, a CEP researcher who unearthed the group's commercial link with GoDaddy, said."

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February 11, 2019
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