[iwar] Hezbollah Web site gets attacked


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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:00:09 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: [iwar] Hezbollah Web site gets attacked 
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               Hezbollah Web site gets attacked

BEIRUT, Oct.  20 — Lebanon’s Hezbollah guerrilla group said Friday its
Web site server crashed earlier this month after being targeted by
millions of hits and hostile e-mails from Israel and the United States. 

It said the crash occurred on Oct.  7, the day Hezbollah guerrillas
captured three Israeli soldiers in an ambush at the border in south
Lebanon. 

“We have names of 8,521 servers mainly in these two countries that
have been hitting our Web site regularly and sending us simultaneously
tens of thousands of hostile e-mails, some of them carrying viruses to
sabotage our server,” Ali Ayoub, the group’s Web master, told Reuters. 
“This is a well known method used to kill Web sites.  This is Israeli
technological warfare.”

Hezbollah’s Web site provides detailed information and news on the
group’s policies, statements and guerrilla attacks.  Hezbollah says the
site normally gets between 100,000 and 300,000 hits a day depending on
developments in the region. 

“We noticed that the number of hits on our Web site increased
significantly at the beginning of the month after we started showing
live video clips and information about the killing of Palestinians by
Israeli soldiers in the West Bank and Gaza,” Ayoub said. 

  “The number increased to 9 million hits per day, mainly from Israel,
the United States and to a lesser degree from Canada and South Africa. 
It became a real e-mail bombing,” he added. 

  Ayoub said Hezbollah dealt with the problem by launching seven back-up
sites on different addresses while trying to fix and upgrade the
capacity of the main Web site, www.hizbollah.org, to cope with higher
numbers of hits. 

  Ayoub said the Web site was important for Hezbollah in its campaign
against Israel. 

  “We will never give up the Internet,” he said.  “We have successfully
used it in the past when we showed video clips and pictures of the
damage caused by Israeli bombings on Lebanon.”

  Hezbollah’s war of attrition helped force Israel to pull out its
troops from south Lebanon in May, ending a 22-year occupation. 

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