Friday, 28. March 2003

Islamic group promotes al-Qaida from Homer Web site


HACKERS: Center for Islamic Studies and Research uses teen's Internet bulletin board. A friendly Internet bulletin board run by an Anchor Point high school student morphed last weekend into a worldwide al-Qaida propaganda outpost calling for attacks on the United States in response to the war on Iraq.

The Web site was hacked into by a radical Islamic group that has been moving its Internet site regularly for at least a year. More than 1,000 people used the portal to check al-Qaida's latest views on the war. By Tuesday morning, the alien information had been removed, presumably to nest again in a few weeks on someone else's server.

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