What is possibly happening is the 'jihadists' are spamming the IP. Since the connections have to make a number of 'hops' to the servers, it's possible they are tying up a lot of bandwidth.
This is a pretty minor league way to tie up a website.
45 posted on 10/31/2007 10:00:24 AM PDT by Pistolshot
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