The group 's Afghanistan news website attracted hundreds of thousands of unique visitors in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States , largely because of the understanding Osama bin Laden had launched the attacks from his base in Afghanistan . '' Afghanistan News.Net '' received thousands of angry and abusive emails and posts on its chat board , while hackers eventually took the site down , which resulted in the entire Mainstream Media network going down . The United States Library of Congress included '' Afghanistan News.Net '' in its 11 September Web Archive of sites portraying expressions of individuals , groups , media and institutions in the wake of the 11 September attacks
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