SBC Yahoo Owned by the BinLaden's?

[Praetorian]

Did anyone/everyone else know this????????

I just read in an article that SBC stands for the Saudi BinLaden Corporation.

If you're paying for service from them I hope you changed.

I used to be on Prodigy which was purchased by SBC Yahoo a couple of years ago. Last year, my ZoneAlarm starting catching some really intense scanning from a server that I had never heard of before.

I caught their IP, reverse tracked through SamSpade and found the server owner..............Level 3 communications.

I contacted them, advised I would prosecute for their repeated port scans and was told, bluntly, that they actually supply the online service in contract for SBC/Yahoo/Prodigy!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. I thought it stood for Southwestern Bell Company

Is this a joke?

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. Thought it was Southwestern Bell Company.

:shrug:

[Fargin Ice Hole]

3. Why not? They own half of Boston. Should everyone move out of town?

Maybe the Cia will bust everyone that uses yahoo and throw them in the Cuban cooler for supporting terrorisism. ya thats the ticket..... Penolcode 876234 section VIIX article 2 of the Patriot Act...


Remember the house of saud is our friend. lol

[GOPisEvil]

4. You shouldn't believe everything you read.

[Praetorian]

5. Here's the LINK (Doesn't reference Yahoo, only SBC???)

http://schema-root.org/commerce/corporation/military/carlyle_group/

It's about a third of the way down the page; just look for SBC.

I suppose there may easily be two different SBC's; hence my original question.

Does anyone know of a way to find out for sure?

[Gman]

6. SBC Corporation used to be Southwestern Bell Corporation

quite a few years ago they changed their name to SBC Corporation when it was "fashionable" for companies to have letters for names. For example, USX is the old US Steel (if I remember correctly)...

[Fight_n_back]

7. Snopes

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/citibank.htm

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/snapple.htm

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/arabic.htm

http://www.snopes.com/business/alliance/caribou.asp


Thos are all links to stories of the other companies that people thought Bin Laden owned.


The Bin Laden's DID own a chunk of Arbusto Oil though.