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• Hackers bring down Al-Jazeera news site .
• The vulnerability of news sites to attack was dramatically exposed after hackers forced the closure of the English language news site of Arabic satellite broadcaster, Al-Jazeera. ...
• "This was a distributed denial of service attack by somebody who wanted to effectively crash the Al-Jazeera web site by loading it up with millions of page impressions. ...
• "However, Al-Jazeera is not a large media organisation so it just doesn't have the resources to deal with this kind of attack. ...
• By Thursday (27 March 2003), the Arabic version of Al-Jazeera's web site appeared to have been conventionally hacked by a group calling itself the Freedom Cyber Force Militia (see screen grab above). ...
• "The editorial policy of Al-Jazeera - not to edit their broadcasts of PoWs and dead servicemen - may have upset a hacker out there who has decided to go for it.
• Al-Jazeera presents news from an Arab perspective and has been criticised in the West for doing so. ...

• Al-Jazeera news bureau in Kabul destroyed by U. ...
• DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The Kabul office of the Arab satellite channel Al-Jazeera, which the United States has criticized for its coverage of the Afghan campaign, was destroyed early today by a U. ...
• The Taliban Ministry for the Suppression of Vice and the Promotion of Virtue was across the street from the Al-Jazeera office. ...
• Asked if he thought Al-Jazeera's office was deliberately targeted, al-Ali said, "They know where we are located and they know what we have in our office and we also did not get any warning. ...
• It could be difficult for Arab employees of Al-Jazeera to move around in Kabul, where they might by mistaken for Arabs who came to Afghanistan to join forces with the Taliban.
• Al-Jazeera has aired taped statements said to be made inside Afghanistan by bin Laden and his aides. Al-Jazeera reporter Tasir Alouni has become familiar to Arab viewers around the world, providing live reports from Taliban-controlled areas barred to most Western reporters.
• American officials have criticized Al-Jazeera's coverage of the bombing campaign as inflammatory propaganda.
• Today, Al-Jazeera showed CNN footage from Kabul and live coverage from its crew in the Taliban's home base, the southern city of Kandahar.
• Upstart Al-Jazeera, already riling Arab world from tiny Qatar, takes center stage in West with exclusive footage from Afghanistan. ...
• On air, correspondent William Reeve dives to floor as wall collapses near him; Al-Jazeera reporter beaten as Northern Alliance rolls into Kabul. ...

• Home   >   Specials   >   Global Terrorism   >   Article Al-Jazeera star accused of terrorist links.
• Al-Jazeera, the Arabic satellite broadcaster, finds itself in conflict with a headline-making Spanish judge who has prosecuted terrorists, South American dictators and corrupt politicians, and has spoken out against the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
• The investigative magistrate Baltasar Garzon has formally accused an Al-Jazeera war correspondent, Taysir Alouni, a Syrian-born Spaniard, of terrorist activity, and ordered him held without bail on charges of financing, logistical support and recruitment for the al-Qaeda network.
• Alouni's work for Al-Jazeera is not central to the case, although Judge Garzon charged that he sometimes used the job as a cover.
• "We are convinced of Taysir Alouni's innocence and we have every confidence in the impartiality of Spanish justice," Al-Jazeera said on its website.

• Governing Council: Al-Jazeera, Al-Arabiya promote violence.
• • CNN ACCESS Al-Jazeera: 'We don't deal in politics'   .
• The council banned Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya from covering official activities and news conferences. ...
• The council issued a statement in which it expressed "deep concern regarding the irresponsible activities in conduct and content of some media groups, notably the Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya satellite channels, which constitute violation of criteria and regulations that should be adhered to by the media to allow them to continue working in Iraq. ...
• Al-Jazeera was founded in 1996 by the emir of Qatar. ...
• "We're not going to let them get pictures of Americans getting torn apart, killed or burned, and other excitement, as Al-Jazeera does that. ...
• When there's an explosion, you always see Al-Arabiya and Al-Jazeera there like they've been informed beforehand. ...

• Tuesday, 13 November, 2001, 13:48 GMT Al-Jazeera Kabul offices hit in US raid.
• The Kabul offices of the Arab satellite al-Jazeera channel have been destroyed by a US missile. ...
• Al-Jazeera Managing Director Mohammed Jasim al-Ali .
• But al-Jazeera's managing director Mohammed Jasim al-Ali, told BBC News Online that the channel's 12 employees in Kabul were out of contact. ...
• Al-Jazeera confirmed later that it was a US missile that destroyed the building and damaged the homes of some employees. ...
• Earlier, al-Jazeera correspondent Yusuf al-Shuli quoted Taleban officials in their southern stronghold of Kandahar as saying they had withdrawn from the cities to spare the civilians air bombardment and acts of vengeance by the Northern Alliance. ...
• Al-Jazeera said these three boys are Bin Laden's sons.
• Al-Jazeera has a reputation for outspoken, independent reporting - in stark contrast to the Taleban's views of the media as a propaganda and religious tool. ...
• Al-Jazeera goes it alone 10 Oct 01 | Middle East.
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• English Al-Jazeera Website Hacked  .
• Hackers attacked the website of Arab satellite television network Al-Jazeera on Tuesday, rendering it intermittently unavailable, the site's host said. ...
• The servers that host the Al-Jazeera site are in France and the United States. ...
• Al-Jazeera, also based in Qatar, is an unusually independent and powerful voice in the Arab world whose broadcasts of U. ...
• 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. ...

• Telling all sides of the story isn't easy for al-Jazeera.
• Hafez al-Mirazi is used to the accusations: On any given day, if the Arab-language television network al-Jazeera is not shoveling propaganda for one government, it's too busy doing it for another. ...
• Al-Mirazi, Washington bureau chief for al-Jazeera, has grown accustomed to the arguments and has learned to laugh them off.
• Recently, for example, Iraq temporarily revoked an al-Jazeera reporter's press license because an official thought the news service was being a little too Western and anti-Iraq in its coverage. ...
• The fledgling television network has been vilified by nearly every Middle Eastern government and still denounced in the United States, specifically after al-Jazeera aired videotapes from al-Qaida sources featuring Osama bin Laden.
• Al-Jazeera stood firm. ...
• Reporters from al-Jazeera have grown accustomed to the cliché "to shoot the messenger," in an all-too-literal sense.

• The decision to temporarily suspend al-Jazeera and al-Arabiya came after a week of criticism by Iraqi supporters of the U. ...
• Al-Jazeera and al-Arabia correspondents in Baghdad refused to comment on the situation other than to say they did not know "exactly what being suspended meant. ...
• "They have not told us anything officially," an al-Jazeera spokesman in Qatar told United Press International.
• Reporters visiting al-Jazeera's Baghdad bureau Tuesday did not see any indication the company was being forced out in the immediate future.
• But when a reporter mentioned that al-Jazeera, which some say has a pro-Palestinian slant in its coverage, continues to operate bureaus in both the occupied territories and Israel, Haddad reconsidered.

• One of Al-Jazeera's scoops was being the only network broadcasting in Afghanistan when the U. ...
• Scrappy Al-Jazeera stands up.
• DOHA, Qatar -- It's a quiet Friday evening in the Middle East, and once again the lead story on Al-Jazeera's 10 p. ...
• The most interesting story tonight doesn't involve Saddam Hussein but Al-Jazeera itself, the Qatari-based satellite TV channel that is almost as adept at making news as it is in covering it. ...
• Earlier in the week, Jordan recalled its ambassador to Qatar and shut the station's bureau in Amman, outraged by an Al-Jazeera talk show that insulted Jordan's royal family. ...
• Now word has come that Jordan is refusing to let an Al-Jazeera correspondent leave the the country until he can prove he didn't continue working after the bureau was ordered shut. ...
• In the six years since it was founded on the motto "We get both sides of the story," Al-Jazeera has outraged almost every Arab government doing just that, giving critics nearly free rein to blast Arab regimes whose media are little more than propaganda machines. ...
• And since the attacks on the United States, Al-Jazeera also has angered the Bush administration and others in the West, who accuse it of being a mouthpiece for Osama bin Laden and fanning anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism. ...
• Yet no one can deny that Al-Jazeera has scored some impressive scoops. ...
• Last October, Al-Jazeera was the only station broadcasting live from Afghanistan when the U. ...
• Thanks to its aggressive coverage, Al-Jazeera claims at least 35-million viewers in the Arab world and 175,000 who pay to watch it it on cable in North America. ...
• "Al-Jazeera is undoubtedly a new trend in Arab media," says Roger Hardy, a Mideast specialist for the BBC World Service in London. ...
• Whether Al-Jazeera is dangerously biased against the West has become a hot topic of debate since the terrorist attacks. ...
• 11 because these were the same people who admired it before," says Mohammed El-Nawawy, a former University of West Florida journalism professor and co-author of a book on Al-Jazeera. ...
• Aware of the channel's huge influence in the Arab world, a parade of officials including Secretary of State Colin Powell and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld appeared on Al-Jazeera in the days and weeks after Sept. ...
• And no one at Al-Jazeera thinks it was a mistake, as the U. ...

• Al-Jazeera tells the truth about war .
• But I am an Islamist journalist, so while the others bedded down at the £1m media centre at US central command in As-Sayliyah, I found a more humble berth in the capital Doha, working for the internet arm of al-Jazeera. ...
• On March 23, the night the channel screened the first footage of captured US PoW's, al-Jazeera was the most searched item on the internet portal, Lycos, registering three times as many hits as the next item. ...
• Of all the major global networks, al-Jazeera has been alone in proceeding from the premise that this war should be viewed as an illegal enterprise. ...
• And before that, on the second day of the war, most of the western media reported verbatim central command statements that Umm Qasr was under "coalition" control - it was not until Wednesday that al-Jazeera could confirm all resistance there had been pacified. ...
• The British media has condemned al-Jazeera's decision to screen a 30-second video clip of two dead British soldiers. ...
• As I write, the al-Jazeera website has been down for three days and few here doubt that the provenance of the attack is the Pentagon. ...

• Al-Jazeera Satellite Channel, founded in 1996 and broadcast from the tiny Gulf emirate of Qatar, can now also make that claim. ...
• Al-Jazeera has been praised, vilified, described as both highly objective and highly irresponsible. ...
• The New York Times opined that Al-Jazeera "often slants its news with a vicious anti-Israel and anti-American bias" and airs "deeply irresponsible reporting that reinforces the region's anti-American views. ... " NPR warned listeners that Al-Jazeera's coverage should "come with a health warning. ...
• So it was not surprising that when National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice requested networks not to air Al-Jazeera's bin Laden footage because he might be transmitting coded messages, they immediately said they wouldn't – even though many realized terrorists could easily get bin Laden's alleged messages through Web or satellite broadcasts. ...
• Meanwhile, Arab-American journalists and writers (as well as many Western reporters familiar with the network) leapt to Al-Jazeera's defense, describing it as a revolutionary force – the first Arab news outlet to offer viewers in the Middle East uncensored information and free interpretation of political events. ... They also argued that Al-Jazeera has unprecedented reporting freedom and a reach of 40 million people, because it receives a $30 million annual subsidy from the Qatar's Emir, who does not exercise editorial control, and because it employs over 50 correspondents from 31 countries. ...
• "Because of its free-wheeling talk shows, Al-Jazeera has evoked the wrath of almost every Arab government," wrote Hussein Ibish and Ali Abunimah of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in a Los Angeles Times editorial titled "Al-Jazeera Tells the War Story Unfiltered. ...
• Does Al-Jazeera provide unfiltered news? Is it broadcasting more accurate and in-depth war coverage of the war in Afghanistan than American networks? Is it revolutionizing Middle East media? And what are its biases? .
• S government is critical of Al-Jazeera? .
• Al-Jazeera is giving a bigger voice to Arab public opinion. ... But now that there is Al-Jazeera and other TV stations and newspapers in the region, public opinion has become too loud and too inconvenient for them to ignore. ...
• Many Middle Eastern writers, journalists and citizens have argued that Al-Jazeera has revolutionized television in the region. Do you agree? What is striking about Al-Jazeera's news coverage? .
• : I agree that Al-Jazeera has been revolutionary. ... The difference, in the case of MBC, is that it was under strict control of the Saudis, whereas Al-Jazeera is mostly free of government interference. Together these stations, and now Al-Jazeera, have given people a greater choice of news sources. But Al-Jazeera has a special place because, first, it was the first 24-hour news service and, secondly, it ran interviews with people not heard on television before: opposition leaders, dissidents, intellectuals of all stripes. ...

• Al-Jazeera website attacked.
• Hacker attacks and technical glitches have caused a string of headaches for a new English-language website launched by Arab satellite TV network Al-Jazeera. ...
• Al-Jazeera ran into more problems yesterday when the New York Stock Exchange banned its reporters from the trading floor - a move widely seen as retaliation for the channel's war coverage. ...
• and focus our efforts on those who focus on providing responsible business coverage, and as a result we cannot accommodate Al-Jazeera at this time," Mr Pellecchia said. ...
• Al-Jazeera website attacked.

• Al-Jazeera English web site goes live .
• Update The Wall Street Journal claimed that the Al-Jazeera site was downed today because of a massive denial of service attack. ...
• NEWS ORGANISATION Al-Jazeera put the English language version of its web site online yesterday and looked sure to attract page views a plenty.
• Al-Jazeera English Bending under the page views, but just about there.

• Al-Jazeera: chairman of Algerian Islamic front for Salvation changed.
• The Qatari al-Jazeera TV station whose correspondent attended deliberations of the conference in Belgium announced that the (Islamic front for salvation) rejects violence taking place currently in Algeria "but it supports the principle of Jihad in situations of legitimate self defense. ... Al-Jazeera added "the conferees elected 13 new members in the Shoura council abroad so as to be the sole representative of the Islamic front for salvation. ...

• Hackers Hit Al-Jazeera Web Site --> March 27, 2003 .
• WASHINGTON (AP) - Hackers on Thursday replaced the English-language Web site for Arab satellite television network Al-Jazeera with a U. ...
• 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. ...
• Internet records show the Web directories sending traffic to Al-Jazeera's site were changed early Thursday, apparently without authorization. ...
• A spokesman for Al-Jazeera confirmed the incident but said he had no further information. ...
• Al-Jazeera, also based in Qatar, is an unusually independent voice in the Arab world. ...

• The al-Jazeera Network Offers News the Mideast Never Had Before, and Views That Are All Too Common .
• The correspondent for al-Jazeera, the Arab world's all-news network, is reporting from a fetid tent city somewhere in Taliban-controlled territory in southern Afghanistan. ...
• This is the world according to al-Jazeera, the 24-hour Arabic-language news channel based in the tiny emirate of Qatar. ...
• But what kind of news is it? Al-Jazeera, for all its innovation, slick graphics and flashy logos, is not an Arab version of CNN. From watching the network for any length of time, it's clear that al-Jazeera takes a consistently hostile stance toward the United States. In al-Jazeera's world, the Taliban is invariably an underdog force, the United States looms as an occupying power, and Egypt and other moderate Arab states have knuckled under to the superpower's pressure. ... Otherwise there is little on al-Jazeera except sports. ...
• But critics of al-Jazeera, including many Arab journalists, say that even when such cultural disparities are taken into account, its credibility is hampered by slanted coverage and a tendency toward sensationalism. Those critics say al-Jazeera is tailoring its approach to suit the preconceptions of the Arab audience. ...
• Al-Jazeera's talk shows, which mirror the most ideologically driven gabfests on American news channels, provide a constant forum for examining American misdeeds. ...
• Afghanistan's fundamentalist rulers and their ideology have gotten no such scrutiny on al-Jazeera. ... " These statements passed without challenge from the al-Jazeera anchor. ...
• news organizations, for whatever reason, were reluctant to show -- al-Jazeera has barely mentioned the vast caches of documents exploring nuclear and chemical weapons found in al Qaeda houses in Kabul. ...
• The orientation of al-Jazeera has not escaped the notice of other Arab journalists, or of the people they cover. ...
• Sayyaf took al-Jazeera to task for what he called biased coverage. "The general perception here in Afghanistan is that al-Jazeera has crossed the line in their reporting," he said on the air. ...

• Spain arrests Al-Jazeera reporter.
• Al-Jazeera.
• MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- Police have arrested a correspondent for Qatar-based Al-Jazeera TV at his home in southern Spain accusing him of having links to the al Qaeda terrorist group. ...
• Police took several books and newspapers in Arabic and two computers -- one belonging to Allouni's son and the other belonging to a production company that Hamed Layasi identified as Andalusia Directo, which she said provides programming to Al-Jazeera. ...
• Since the September 11 attacks, Al-Jazeera has aired numerous video and audio recordings purported by have been made by bin Laden. ...

• Bush admin to fund Al-Jazeera rival .
• A REPORT SAID that the Bush administration was so maddened by broadcasts and webcasts delivered by Al-Jazeera, that it is has put aside $30. ...

• Conversations with Arab friends had convinced him that Al-Jazeera has changed Arab life as much as the September 11 attacks has changed America's. ...
• "They see miserable Afghans struggling to escape our bombs; and maimed children without hospitals are being shown repeatedly on Al-Jazeera TV. ...
• The ongoing peace process would thus become an element in the daily story about the Middle East, part of the televised mix on Al-Jazeera. ...

• America's latest fear: bin Laden on al-Jazeera.
• America's latest fear: bin Laden on al-Jazeera.
• IT is the event that strategists in President Bush's administration fear most: a grinning Osama bin Laden crackling on to the airwaves courtesy of al-Jazeera television to trumpet his escape from Tora Bora and denounce the West.
• As one Republican congressional official said: "Imagine how it would play if another tape suddenly arrived at al-Jazeera. ...

• The war in Iraq will surely not only be a contest for oil, it will also be a competition for television viewers as al-Jazeera’s corner on this market could be up for grabs. A number of upstart stations located everywhere from London to Abu Dhabi have their hopes set on claiming a piece of al-Jazeera’s 35 million audience. ...
• With 32 news bureaus across the world, including in Iraq, Israel, the Palestinian territories and the United States, MBC is headed by Salah Nejem, a BBC veteran and chief editor of al-Jazeera until 2001. ...
• Al-Arabiya is billing itself as the less provocative alternative to al-Jazeera, which airs controversial live talk shows allowing viewers to call in to vent their anger at their own leaders, Israel and the United States. ... Consequently, many wonder whether the station will be able to accurately provide the diversity of opinion - truly the good, the bad, and the ugly of the Arab world - to the same extent that al-Jazeera does. ...
• Much as the 1991 Persian Gulf War made a name for CNN, and the war in Afghanistan put al-Jazeera on the map, the present conflict will be the make-or-break moment for broadcasters. ...
• But with much larger staffs and budgets, al-Jazeera and al-Arabiya will mostly be battling only each other. While al-Jazeera certainly has more of a track record, it has also picked up quite a few enemies along the way, not least of all among Arab governments. ...
• The Bush administration has also not been among al-Jazeera’s fans. ... The Pentagon said it was an accident, but some at al-Jazeera were not so convinced. ... "We're giving the Americans the coordinates of our office in Baghdad and also the code of our signal to the satellite transponder," an al-Jazeera correspondent remarked. ...
• Though it is al-Jazeera’s mark of pride, the station’s rough and tumble approach could prove to be an Achilles heel in the race with al-Arabiya. Over the past months, Gulf Arab countries have refused or delayed accrediting al-Jazeera journalists, and the channel’s journalists are banned in Kuwait, a key American base for the war and a likely staging ground for important coverage. ...
• Al-Jazeera: Qatar's secret weapon? (Aug 15, '02) .

• Airing bin Laden's rants gave al-Jazeera instant fame--at a price.
• Ever since al-Jazeera aired the grainy tapes of Osama bin Laden's monologues after the World Trade Center attacks, the tiny Arab satellite-TV network has seemed to take on the stature of CNN. ...
• Ali Kamal, al-Jazeera's marketing director, says: "In the Arab world advertisers are more concerned with politics than ratings. ...
• Al-Jazeera (Arabic for "the peninsula") was born in controversy. ... As a result many BBC journalists went over to al-Jazeera. ...

• Al-Jazeera Web Site Knocked Off-Line .
• The new English-language Web site of controversial Qatar-based satellite news channel Al-Jazeera was knocked off-line Tuesday by what may have been a denial-of-service attack. ...
• Contacts at Al-Jazeera did not respond to a request for comment on this story. ...
• Patel said that both Al-Jazeera sites have been essentially unavailable since about 3:30 p. ...

• Al-Jazeera's English Site Slammed by Traffic .
• The al-Jazeera Arabic TV channel based in Qatar is known to most Americans only be reputation. ...

• Since its launch in 1996, Al-Jazeera has become the most popular news channel in the Arabic world. ...
• Since the start if the war in Iraq, Al-Jazeera has shown gruesome footage of military and civilian casualties in Iraq. ...

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