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Al-Jazeera's English Language Site Downed |
Current rating: 2 |
by Paul Kotheimer
Email: info (nospam) ucimc.org (unverified!) |
27 Mar 2003
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Al-Jazeera's English language website downed in hacker attack. |
Al-Jazeera suffers DoS attack
Thursday 27th March 2003, Patrick Gray, ZDNet Australia and Ian Fried, CNET News.com
Within hours of an English version of Al-Jazeera's Web site coming online, it was blown away by a denial of service attack
The Web sites of Al-Jazeera have been taken offline, in what has been confirmed by the Qatar- based media organisation as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against the company's Domain Name Servers (DNS).
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Re: Al-Jazeera's English Language Site Downed |
by Paul K again
info (nospam) ucimc.org (unverified) |
Current rating: 0
27 Mar 2003
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You can register for an automated translation from Arabic at this site:
http://tarjim.ajeeb.com/ajeeb/default.asp?lang=1 |
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Al Jazeera Website Hacked |
by Camilo Clarkson
Camuelito (nospam) aol.com (unverified) |
Current rating: 2
27 Mar 2003
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An organisation calling itself 'Patriot, Freedom Cyber Force Millita has hacked the Al Jazeera web site. This vindictive action highlights the intolerence of some within the United States. Disemination of infomation is in all interests but the taking over a news outlet's website shows shameful disregard for the US constitution (free speach. The battle for hearts and minds is taking away a reasonable middle ground as CNN, BBC etc become parts of their respective state foreign offices. This action shameful and should be publicised and condemned. |
See also:
http://www.aljazeera.net
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Re: Al-Jazeera's English Language Site Downed |
by AP via gehrig
(No verified email address) |
Current rating: 0
27 Mar 2003
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Hackers Swap Al - Jazeera Site With Flag
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 1:41 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hackers on Thursday replaced the English-language Web site for Arab satellite television network Al-Jazeera with a U.S. flag and the message ``Let Freedom Ring.''
The hackers, calling themselves the ``Freedom Cyber Force Militia,'' briefly hijacked Internet traffic destined for Al-Jazeera's Web site and redirected it to a different Web page on computers operated by Networld Connections Inc., an Internet provider in Salt Lake City.
The likely hacking technique, called ``DNS poisoning,'' fools so-called domain name servers across the Internet and is relatively difficult to defend against. Internet records show the Web directories sending traffic to Al-Jazeera's site were changed early Thursday, apparently without authorization.
The page also included the message, ``God bless our troops,'' signed by a self-described ``Patriot.'' There was no response to an e-mail sent to an address on the Web page.
A spokesman for Al-Jazeera confirmed the incident but said he had no further information.
The Arab network's Web site has been suffering disruptions for days, ever since it showed pictures of dead and captive U.S. soldiers in Iraq.
Al-Jazeera, also based in Qatar, is an unusually independent voice in the Arab world.
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Al Jazeera Says It Has Duty To Show World Casualties From Both Sides |
by SARAH EL DEEB, Associated Press Writer
(No verified email address) |
Current rating: 0
27 Mar 2003
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(03-27) 08:51 PST DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) --
Responding to criticism for airing footage of dead U.S. and British soldiers, the Arab satellite television network Al-Jazeera said Thursday it had a duty to show the world casualties on all sides in the Iraq war.
"War has victims from both sides," said Al-Jazeera's editor in chief, Ibrahim Hilal. "If you don't show both sides, you are not covering" the war.
On Wednesday, Al-Jazeera showed footage from southern Iraq of the bloodied bodies of two men in uniform identified as British soldiers.
Air Marshall Brian Burridge, the top British commander in the Persian Gulf, told reporters Thursday the men were probably two missing British soldiers and said the broadcast caused "distress to the families of the soldiers."
"All media outlets must be aware of the limits of taste and decency and be wary that they do not unwittingly become the tools of the Iraqi regime," Burridge said.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair criticized the government of Saddam Hussein for releasing photographs of the dead soldiers.
"Day by day we have seen the reality of Saddam's regime. His thugs prepare to kill their own people, the parading prisoners of war and now the release of those pictures of executed British soldiers," Blair said, speaking at a news conference with President Bush at Camp David, Md.
"If anyone needed any further evidence of the depravity of Saddam's regime, this atrocity provides it. It is yet one more flagrant breach of all the proper conventions of war, more than that to the families of the soldiers involved, it is an act of cruelty beyond comprehension," he said.
A few days earlier, U.S. government officials rebuked Al-Jazeera for airing footage of American prisoners of war and dead soldiers. The Geneva Conventions on the humane treatment of those affected by war stipulates that prisoners of war must be protected "against acts of violence or intimidation and against insults and public curiosity."
American networks have shown crowds of Iraqi POWs, but no close-ups in which they would be identifiable or interviews with them. Dramatic pictures of both civilian and military dead, common on Al-Jazeera and other Arab channels, have appeared rarely on U.S. television stations, which have devoted much of their coverage to dusty battles, with some video provided live by embedded journalists.
Before the American POWs were shown on Al-Jazeera and the United States complained the broadcasts violated the Geneva Convention, British TV and newspapers had been freely showing pictures of captured Iraqis. Since then, the media have toned down their footage -- showing captured Iraqi POWs, but usually at a distance or with their faces partly covered.
Hilal said Al-Jazeera gives both Americans and Iraqis their say. Secretary of State Colin Powell was interviewed by Al-Jazeera Wednesday, an American acknowledgment of Al-Jazeera reach and influence in the Arab world.
While U.S. officials appear on the station, other Americans have taken it upon themselves to punish Al-Jazeera for alleged breach of taste.
The Nasdaq Stock Market and the New York Stock Exchange barred journalists from Al-Jazeera, and a Nasdaq spokesman told The Los Angeles Times the network wasn't welcome "in light of (its) recent conduct during the war."
Al-Jazeera's Web site has been plagued by hackers since it showed the dead U.S. soldiers.
Twelve Al-Jazeera reporters are in Baghdad and other parts of Iraq independent of the U.S. or British military, and one Al-Jazeera reporter is embedded with the Marines in southern Iraq.
Hilal said the station would have been able to provide more coverage of the American side if Kuwait had not denied visas to three of its reporters. Reporters had to meet up with the U.S. military units to which they were assigned in Kuwait, one of several Arab countries that have expelled Al-Jazeera reporters because of stories seen as insulting.
©2003 Associated Press |
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Re: Al-Jazeera's English Language Site Downed |
by black
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Current rating: 0
27 Mar 2003
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There can be little doubt about who is behind this act of overt censorship. Al Jazeera has no false qualms about showing the true nature of this war, unlike Western media which continues to display parades of the mighty American invaders and little else. |
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Working Link For Al Jazeera |
by Steve
ssafarik (nospam) speakeasy.net (unverified) |
Current rating: 0
27 Mar 2003
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DNS for Al Jazeera is hosed, but you can access it directly via http://213.30.180.219/
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Working Link For Al Jazeera |
by Steve
ssafarik (nospam) speakeasy.net (unverified) |
Current rating: 0
27 Mar 2003
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DNS for Al Jazeera is hosed, but you can access it directly via http://213.30.180.219/
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Re: Al-Jazeera's English Language Site Downed |
by Jack Ryan
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Current rating: 0
28 Mar 2003
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I had no idea that Al-Jazeera had to ability to lie in English. That will be most helpful.
Jack |
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Al-Jazeera Target Of US/UK Military |
by Pooh
(No verified email address) |
Current rating: 5
02 Apr 2003
Modified: 08:51:42 PM |
Today, the base of the Al Jazeera team in Basra was bombed and destroyed by US/UK Air Force (http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,928144,00.html). The same thing has happened in Afghanistan in 2001. There can be little doubt that US/UK are deliberately targeting Al Jazeera because their mere existence poses a threat to them (maybe a greater threat than the Iraqi army). No wonder US/UK officials have been hitting out against the channel from the first day of the invasion, effectively critizising them for showing authentic pictures and reporting what up to today has always proved to be the truth, and making false allegations concerning the Geneva conventions (those conventions expressly protect the press against armies, not the other way round!)
Al Jazeera's english language web site has been blocked by cyber attackers for more than a week now. I have scanned many reports about this attack and they all claim that this must be the work of some script kiddies, something everybody could do. Strange. I have never heard of any cyber attack as successful. If everybody could do this, I am sure it would happen every day because we all know a site we don't like, don't we? If this were true, nothing would be working at all on the world wide web. I don't believe that this large-scale attack would have been possible without some sort of government backing.
I am convinced that the cyber attack as well as the military attacks are part of US/UK warfare. If anybody has a diferent explanation I would like to hear it.
Another note: the site aljazeerah.info doesn't seem to be a mirror site of Al Jazeera channel. It is a news site with a different name and logo. You can use checkdomain.com to check out who is running that site.
The Guardian ofers a list of war propaganda lies which is updated daily: http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,921647,00.html
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