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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (10283)	3/27/2003 1:55:48 PM
From: SmoothSail	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14610

Finally a hacker does some good Al-Jazeera Web site faces continued hacker attacks Reuters, 03.27.03, 11:50 AM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hacker attacks continued to plague the Web site of Arab satellite TV network al-Jazeera on Thursday, as cyber-vandals replaced the news site with a stars-and-stripes logo saying "Let Freedom Ring". Both the Arabic site, at (http://www.aljazeera.net), and the English-language version at (http://english.aljazeera.net) could not be accessed Thursday. Users who tried to log onto the site found a message that read, "Hacked by Patriot, Freedom Cyber Force Militia" beneath a logo containing the U.S. flag. "This broadcast was brought to you by: Freedom Cyber Force Militia," the site said. "God bless our troops!!!" Al-Jazeera information technology manager Salah Al Seddiqui said someone had hijacked the domain name and redirected it to another server computer. "Our Web site is working but nobody can see it," Al Seddiqui said. The al-Jazeera Web site has faced near-constant cyber attacks since an English-language version devoted exclusively to the war in Iraq was launched Monday. Hackers have blitzed the site with meaningless data in an effort to squeeze out legitimate traffic and render the site inaccessible, a technique known as a "denial of service" attack. That attack eased at around 3 a.m. London time on Thursday, Al Seddiqui said, but the domain name was hijacked shortly after. The Qatar-based network had tried to switch the address back but was denied access by domain-name seller Network Solutions Inc. ,he said. "We can't say it's their fault or our fault," he said. A Network Solutions spokesman was not immediately available for comment. The company also HAS had to search for a new home for the site after U.S.-based DataPipe said it could no longer host the site from the end of the month. Al Seddiqui said the company had moved its servers to a data center in France. Copyright 2003, Reuters News Service

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (10283)	3/27/2003 5:10:00 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14610

Brava! Neil Cavuto! (note: what the text leaves off, he said on the air, last statement..."you sicken me") Thursday, March 27, 2003 By Neil Cavuto Why do the French make things so easy for me? Have you heard this one? Never mind that France wanted nothing to do with getting rid of Saddam and wants everything to do with rebuilding Iraq after Saddam. Here's the kicker: France says Britain and the U.S. should not have a role -- it's up to the United Nations to decide. So, let me see if I've got this right. France offered not one soldier, not one plane, not one tank, or ship, convoy or grenade. Not one missile. Not one drop of blood. And yet, France is going to decide the new Iraq? Well pardon me, Pepe, but I don't think so. I don't know what amazes me more: How callous the French are, or how arrogant they are. People are still dying in Iraq and they are already tripping over their corpses to cash in on Iraq? France couldn't lift a hand to a rifle to help us, but is more than willing to go for a few of their precious Euros to screw us? We fight and die to free a people whose suffering you more than happily ignored. And they saunter in to set up shop so that they can merrily profit? Please tell me the French word for chutzpa! France schemes to sell brie, after we've given blood? France plots business storms, while our guys are choking in sandstorms? France notifies the world they're ready to do deals, while we have servicemen in this country notifying families of killed soldiers they're ready to do funerals? What the French lack in guts, they more than make up for in nerve. France wouldn't help the Iraqi people when they needed rescuing, but is more than willing to dive in and take the money because maybe France needs rescuing. The French are as morally bankrupt as I hope soon they will be financially bankrupt. Pity the poor country that calls you a friend and realizes the hand it's holding, is only digging for spare change.