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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: David in Ontario who wrote (22370)	3/25/2003 11:08:53 PM
From: David in Ontario	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27702

Hackers hit Al-Jazeera web site theage.com.au March 26 2003 Hackers attacked the web site of Arab satellite television network Al-Jazeera today, rendering it intermittently unavailable, the site's host said. The newly launched English-language page, which went live yesterday and posted images of the corpses of US soldiers killed in Iraq, was hardest hit in a bombardment of data packets known as a denial-of-service attack. Ayman Arrashid, internet system administrator at the Horizons Media and Information Services, the site's Web host, said the attack began this morning local time. Nabil Hegazi, assistant to the managing editor of the English Web site, denied that an attack was the reason the site was unavailable. He said it was difficult to access because traffic was almost four times more than expected. The Web host is based in the Persian Gulf state of Qatar. The servers that host the Al-Jazeera site are in France and the United States. Arrashid said he could not determine the attack's origin, but only the US servers were affected, leading him to suspect that the attackers were in the United States. He said technicians were working to thwart the attack, but could not estimate when the site would be fully available again. In denial-of-service attacks, hackers normally send a deluge of false requests to Web servers, overloading them and making them unavailable to surfers. Al-Jazeera, also based in Qatar, is an unusually independent and powerful voice in the Arab world whose broadcasts of US prisoners and war dead has angered many Americans. Earlier, Al-Jazeera said two reporters had their credentials revoked by the New York Stock Exchange because of the network's coverage of the war. The exchange said the decision was prompted by space constraints. Al-Jazeera's English site was unavailable today from four out of five locations in the United States, said Roopak Patel, a senior analyst at Keynote Systems Inc, a company that tracks Web performance. He said the Arabic site had starting Sunday experienced periods of very poor availability - which may have been caused by hackers, Patel said. - AP

To: David in Ontario who wrote (22370)	3/26/2003 7:32:26 AM
From: lorne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27702

David. ....." Insults fly at Arab summit ".... Devide and conquer. So far it looks like the war is working well, as long as the ME muslims are killing each other they may not have time to think up ways of killing us. The different offshoots of islam have been killing each other for hundreds of years and maybe it was just a matter of getting them fighting each other instead of killing us infidels. And who knows maybe in the end the muslims will figure out a way for a peaceful islam to exist in the world.

To: David in Ontario who wrote (22370)	3/26/2003 7:49:27 AM
From: John Carragher	Respond to of 27702

Syria is concerned as they think they may be next.. If some in Washington had their way we would continue right into Syria. In converstion on Hardball with Chris Matthews a week ago the retired cia director (I think his name is Woosley) says we should continue to Syria, Leban. Chris looked shocked. and tried to get out of him if he was talking for administration.. after being asked a few times. He finally said no.. I wonder how far some of them really want to go with this comment coming out..