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August 06, 2005
Key Militant Websites Temporarily Disabled by Hacker
At least two popular websites used by Middle Eastern terrorist groups to disseminate video, communiques, and other propaganda were temporarily disabled early Saturday by a hacker calling him/herself "The Ghost XXXV." Visitors to the two militant forums were greeted with the image of a vampire, the signature and e-mail address of "Ghost XXXV", and the following message: "yOuR sItE hAs bEeN hAcKeD... You Can Run But You Can't Hide. Astalavista Baby!"

By 10am eastern, the claim of responsibility left by "Ghost XXXV" on one victim had been erased and replaced with a message from a site administrator known as "Terrorist007" explaining that the forum was temporarily closed for maintenance.

http://counterterror.typepad.com/

Tunisian Plane Makes Emergency Landing

ROME -- A Tunis Air jet carrying 35 passengers went down in the sea off the Sicilian coast Saturday, and rescuers were on their way, officials said.
The jet left Bari and was on its way to Tunisia when it went down in the ocean off Sicily, Vito De Blasi, a Palermo airport tower official, told The Associated Press.

"It landed in the sea," he said.
http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?sid=551297&nid=105

(Emergency landing???? PC term for "crashed in the sea"?)