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Homeland Security appears to kill 9/11 conspiracy website

By John Byrne
RAW STORY EDITOR

Visitors of a 9/11 conspiracy site allege that the Department of Homeland Security has shut down a 9/11 conspiracy website, formerly hosted at http://www.realality.com/911. The cached file at Google holds for the site displays the Homeland Security website for cybersecurity, though the site itself, after 1:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday, now directs to a generic Internet domain holding portal.

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The Google cache will expire in 24 hours, after which point no hard evidence will prove the site ever existed. At the time of this writing, the owner of the domain has not responded to an email request for comment.

The Department of Homeland Security's press spokeperson for cybersecurity, Michelle Petrovich, refused to confirm or deny the report. After speaking as to whether the Department engages in such practices, she asserted that her comment was not actually to be construed as a comment.

In theory, the owner of the domain could have set the site to automatically redirect to the Department of Homeland Security as an elaborate hoax.

"Homeland Security has gone beyond what it was designed to do," remarked one frequent visitor of the site. "It was designed to protect the nation against terrorists, but now it is inhibiting freedom of speech."

"What about our freedoms?" asked visitor Laurie Manis.

The site apparently contained detailed articles outlining a conspiracy plot by the U.S. government with regards to 9/11. By examining what posters have said about the site, the site made allegations that the World Trade Center was actually demolished by an explosive; and that the Air Force was told to stand down when they knew attacks were imminent. It allegedly also states that damage to the Pentagon was in the shape of a cruise missile blast.

Discussion regarding the site proliferated on a popular political forum, politics.com, where numerous posters derided the site's contents as "hogwash" and a "pile of crap."

However, others, including a poster named who seems to have worked with the site itself, indicated that they believed that even discussion of the site might endanger them. He claims to be a high-ranking member of the Air Force with a DCSI 1/14 clearance.

"The last time I started looking into some of this the Office Of Special Investigations (OSI) tracked me down and interogated me on what I knew about it and began asking me all these weird questions about what I knew about some group called the "Illuminati," he remarked in the post. "I later found out that several of my friends here who looked into it too were also interogated and harrassed by OSI shortly afterwards too."

"Honestly," he wrote, "I am not telling you one way or the other what you should belive [sic]. But openly discusing [sic] this in a chat like this can get you in major trouble."

One poster remarked, "I know that not everything is as it seems, but this is going a bit far, no?"

The site employee replied, "Yes it is going a bit far....Not everything on that site was a lie, I can tell you that. I can honestly say that it isn't something you really want to look into though and I am DEAD serious about that.

"I think many people on this site know I am a very level headed guy," he continued, "but trust me this is one area you don't want to dig around too much in."

"Some weird shit happens when you really start to look too deep on some of this stuff," he remarked later. "Strange warnings, weird phonecalls, officials that just 'randomly' start stopping by. And not just you either but your friends and family too."

The Google image of the site, which will soon expire, is included after the story in raw html. The code forcing the page to redirect to the Department of Homeland Security is highlighted in blue.

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
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<table border=1 bgcolor=#ffffff cellpadding=10 cellspacing=0 width=100% color=#ffffff>
<tr><td><font face=arial,sans-serif color=black size=-1>This is <b>
<font color=#0039b6>G</font> <font color=#c41200>o</font>
<font color=#f3c518>o</font> <font color=#0039b6>g</font>
<font color=#30a72f>l</font> <font color=#c41200>e</font></b>'s
<a href="http://www.google.com/help/features.html#cached"
><font color=blue>cache</font></a> of <A HREF="http://www.realality.net/911/">
<font color=blue>http://www.realality.net/911/</font></a>.<br>
<b><font color=#0039b6>G</font> <font color=#c41200>o</font>
<font color=#f3c518>o</font> <font color=#0039b6>g</font>
<font color=#30a72f>l</font> <font color=#c41200>e</font></b>'s
cache is the snapshot that we took of the page as we crawled the web.<br>
The page may have changed since that time. Click here for the
<A HREF="http://www.realality.net/911/"><font color=blue>current page
</font></a> without highlighting.<br>To link to or bookmark this page,
use the following url: <code>http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:1emvccCQON0J:
www.realality.net/911/+realality&amp;hl=en</code></font><br><br><center>
<font size=-2><i>Google is not affiliated with the authors of this page nor responsible for its content.</i></font></center></td></tr>
<tr><td>
<font face=arial,sans-serif color=black size=-1>These terms only appear in links pointing to this page: <B>realality </B></font>
</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>
<hr>
<html>
<script language="javascript">
setTimeout("location.replace('http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/theme_home6.jsp')",0000);
</script>

</html>

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