Terrorist Website Shutdown

Trident Networks, Inc., a leading provider of data management solutions and business web hosting services, today announced that it had been unknowingly hosting the Alneda.com al-Qaeda terrorist website under the name news4arab.org.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT:
William ONeill      
Trident Networks, Inc.
130 W. 2nd Street
Dayton, Ohio 45402
Phone: 937-222-2484
Fax: 937-222-2671
Email: bill@tridentnetworks.com
Web site: www.tridentnetworks.com

               Press Release

Dayton, Ohio; July 31, 2002 - Trident Networks, Inc., a leading provider of data management solutions and business web hosting services, today announced that it had been unknowingly hosting the Alneda.com al-Qaeda terrorist website under the name news4arab.org.

The site was setup approximately three weeks ago using a prepaid credit card from Saudi Arabia" said William O'Neill, President and CEO. We first became aware that it was part of the terrorist network after a news story was run by CNN showing the websites address." The FBI was immediately notified and for the past week Trident has been working with the FBI to gather data on the possible terrorists. After consultation with the FBI it was decided to remove the website from Tridents servers Tuesday evening.

Trident Networks was founded in 1997 and its primary business is that of web hosting, data warehousing, and ecommerce enabling solutions for the small- and medium-enterprise (SME) market. It offers turnkey services ranging from initial domain name registration to custom dedicated servers for e-commerce on today's Web. Trident operates the website tridentnetworks.com among others and hosts thousands of clients from over 100 countries in its Dayton, Ohio Data Center.