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ISIS – Islamic State – suspected link to NZ Companies Office Listings

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A website suspected of being created by the Middle Eastern terror group Islamic State has been registered to an office in Parnell, Auckland, close to the home of the Prime Minister John Key.

Website Khilafah.is was closed down by Iceland overnight as controller of the country’s suffix address name.

Documentation for the web listing shows it was registered to Suite 4551, 17B Farnham St, Parnell, Auckland.
Its owner is described as Azym Abdullah.

Managing Director of Private Box Ltd, Gareth Foster, of Porirua, told TV One News they do provide a mail drop service for Suite 4551 on 17b Farnham St, but said the website’s domain was registered to a Azym Abdullah, who is not a customer of Private Box.

“We will be working with authorities to identify what relationship this account has with the person or website in question (if any),” Mr Foster told TV One News.

On the New Zealand Companies Office listings, the Parnell suite is the registered office for at least 63 companies, including a number that have been struck off.

Under New Zealand’s company system, registration can be done on line with virtual offices providing a legal entity for mail drops.

It is not the first time New Zealand virtual offices and shell companies have been caught up in international security.

Full Story: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/10613951/Islamic-State-site-linked-to-New-Zealand-office

Also see: http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/kiwi-postal-service-horrified-possible-link-isis-6105879

ISIS website shut down in Iceland had New Zealand address

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A suspected Islamic State website shut down by Iceland authorities was registered to a private box in an upmarket Auckland suburb.

Iceland closed down a terrorist website believed to be used by jihadist organisation, according to the authority responsible for the country’s internet domain name ‘.is’, Agence France-Presse reported.

The site “khilafah.is” – which internet in Iceland Inc (ISNIC) said was run by a group calling itself Islamic State – was traced back to a web hosting company in Iceland at the weekend.

It was believed to have been online since mid-September.

The address listed on its domain registration is a private box in Farnham St, Parnell. ISNIC said it had “suspended domains that were used for the website of a known terrorist organisation”.

Several other websites with similar names which IS militants claim to have established in parts of Iraq and Syria already exist in other countries and without clear links to the group, AFP said.

Full story: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11341989

David Lane SPCS – “Caged Minds? Creation, Modern Science and Christianity” – by David H. Lane

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David Lane SPCS –  Published article: “Caged Minds? Creation, Modern Science and Christianity”.

David Lane SPCS

David Lane (Photo Copyright David H. Lane)

Celebrating Christian Tradition

David Lane SPCS

Michelangelo’s “The Creation of Adam” on the Sistine Chapel ceiling

Essay “Caged Minds? Creation, Modern Science and Christianity” is based upon opening address by David H. Lane M. Sc. (Hons.), Dip. Tchg. in a multidisciplinary presentation to the students at staff at the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.

Published in Creation ex nihilo Technical Journal.   See: http://creation.com/journal-of-creation-121

Complete essay by David H. Lane also available here –  20141013162541106 (PDF)

Text to high-flier: ‘I’ve got a girl to sell’

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A 17-year-old girl acted as a “pimp” for a wealthy Auckland businessman – finding and enticing girls as young as 15 to have sex with him in return for drugs and cash, prosecutors say.

The pair allegedly preyed on methamphetamine-addicted teenagers, the 17-year-old sourcing the girls and delivering them to the man’s multimillion-dollar inner-Auckland property.

The man, 56, and the girl, now aged 20, are on trial in the Auckland District Court over events alleged to have taken place from October 2010 to December 2011.

The Crown says as well as inducing 15-year-old girls to provide “commercial sexual services” in return for methamphetamine, the pair conspired to drug one of the teenagers with the date-rape drug GHB.

A text from the girl read: “She [the alleged victim] is very hard for me to tolerate lol. Let’s spike her please.” [Read more…]

Text to high-flier: ‘I’ve got a girl to sell’

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A 17-year-old girl acted as a “pimp” for a wealthy Auckland businessman – finding and enticing girls as young as 15 to have sex with him in return for drugs and cash, prosecutors say. [Both have name suppression at present]

The pair allegedly preyed on methamphetamine-addicted teenagers, the 17-year-old sourcing the girls and delivering them to the man’s multimillion-dollar inner-Auckland property.

The man, 56, and the girl, now aged 20, are on trial in the Auckland District Court over events alleged to have taken place from October 2010 to December 2011.

The Crown says as well as inducing 15-year-old girls to provide “commercial sexual services” in return for methamphetamine, the pair conspired to drug one of the teenagers with the date-rape drug GHB.

A text from the girl read: “She [the alleged victim] is very hard for me to tolerate lol. Let’s spike her please.”

Prosecutor Jo Murdoch said in one instance, associates of the man located a girl who owed him money and brought her to the man’s inner-city residence.

He put her “in a device” and she was forced to perform oral sex on the businessman as a punishment.

Both accused have name suppression.

Murdoch said text messages from the girl said: “I don’t work ever. I’ve always been the pimp.”

Another text said: “I’ve got a girl to sell.”

Talking about her boyfriend, she said: “He hates that I was hanging around with meth maggots and pimping underage girls.”

The stupefying charges related to texts in which the girl suggested spiking the girls’ drinks with “waz” – the date-rape drug GHB.

The businessman is accused of sexually assaulting one of the teenagers after she was drugged.

The Crown said the 17-year-old eventually went to police.

She told them she procured girls as young as 14 for the man who liked them “the younger, the better”.

The girl’s defence counsel, Lorraine Smith, said her client was addicted to methamphetamine at the time and she was as much a victim as any of the girls who would give evidence.

The girl sold sex to get the drug and no-one was compelled to do anything, Smith said.

The businessman’s lawyer, Mark Ryan, said his client had had sex with the girls but it was not a court of “morals”.

He had paid cash for the sex and he “completely rejected” the methamphetamine allegations.

His defence would be one of “due diligence” – that he made reasonable inquiries to be assured the girls were 18, Ryan said.

The man faces 23 charges including disabling or stupefying, supplying Class A and Class B drugs, indecent assault, sexual violation, abduction, inducing or compelling a person to provide commercial sexual services and four counts of receiving commercial sexual services from a person under 18 years old.

The girl faces two charges each of inducing someone to provide commercial sexual services and assisting persons under 18 to provide those services.

She also faces one charge of conspiring to disable or stupefy.

The trial before Judge Russell Collins and a jury continues this week.

Source – Sunday Star Times

Text to high-flier: ‘I’ve got a girl to sell’ by Ian Steward. 12 October 2014

Fairfax NZ

Story by Ian Steward 12/10/2014

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/10606894/Text-to-high-flier-I-ve-got-a-girl-to-sell