Friday, August 18, 2006
GREEK PROMOTION
Hezbollah TV 'hijacking' Internet use
UPI
August 9, 2006
AUSTIN, TX, USA -- Al Manar, Hezbollah's television outlet, has been getting US Internet service by hijacking connections, the San Antonio Express-News reports.
Earlier this week, Al Manar successfully connected through Broadwing Communications, which is based in Austin, Texas. The television station hacked into a Broadwing customer's site, the newspaper said.
"Broadwing acted decisively to terminate service as soon as we concluded that our services were being used in violation of our Acceptable Use Policy," a Broadwing vice president, Donovan Dillon, told the newspaper in an e-mail.
Aaron Weisburd, the founder of a group that tracks Islamic extremist Websites, said after Broadwing took the Al Manar site down it reappeared a few days later on a private cable line in New York.
The US Treasury Department classified Al Manar as a terrorist entity in March, making it illegal for any US companies to do business with it.
http://metimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20060809-094842-5368r
Darn persistent jihadis. The terrorists groups will always have their tech wonks, won't they?