Akamai ends Al-Jazeera site support

MSNBC ^ | 4-4-03 | Sandeep Junnarkar

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AKAMAI WORKED BRIEFLY this week with Al-Jazeera to understand the issues they are having distributing their Web sites. "We ultimately decided not to continue a customer relationship with Al-Jazeera, and we are not going to be providing them our services,” according to a statement released by Akamai. The company declined to elaborate on the reasons.

The end of the Akamai relationship is the latest setback for Al-Jazeera’s Web efforts. Both the Arabic and English versions of the Web site were vandalized last month — visitors were greeted with an American flag and a pro-U.S. message. The apparent hack came on the heels of severe outages caused by waves of traffic.

Al-Jazeera also has had to deal with U.S.-based sites declining to run its advertisements.

In addition, the news organization’s financial correspondents were shut out of the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq last month shortly after the U.S. Defense Department complained of Al-Jazeera’s coverage that showed dead U.S. soldiers and American prisoners of war held by Iraq.

Al-Jazeera is headquartered in Doha, Qatar, one of the Persian Gulf nations providing bases for U.S. forces. The news channel could not immediately be reached for comment.

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Aw, gee, just when I got used to listening to All-terrorist, all the time news and lies from around the world. Now I'll have to go back to waiting for Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter interviews.

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Yes, it's part of the original article, you cannot post an entire MSNBC article here (ambulance chaser alert).

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Here's the paragraph from the article.

CO-FOUNDER DIED IN 9/11 TRAGEDY

A year and a half ago, Cambridge, Mass.-based Akamai found itself caught in the turmoil that has flared up between the United States and the Islamic world. The company’s co-founder and chief technical officer, Daniel Lewin, was aboard one of the hijacked flights that crashed into New York’s World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.