US attacking Aljazeera!
Aljazeera is down for 4days
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Aljazeera TV, March 26, 2003: The most popular TV station in the Arab world announced that since the start of the war against Iraq, its internet website has been repeatedly attacked by computer hackers. The website, whose internet traffic is now 185 Megabyte per second (M/S)–up from 35 M/S a week ago–claims that the organized sabotage is yet another front of the war waged by UK and American governments in the Middle East . The site says hackers speed up their attacks when Aljazeera posted pictures of American POWs on its website. According to the website this is not the first time US government is trying to silence the network: after the events of September 11, 2001, the FBI burst into an internet company hosting the Aljazeera website and confiscated the all it equipment. In another incident, because of unbearable pressure from “certain countries”, the biggest software and hosting companies refused to provide service to Aljazeera.
Editor’s Note: Apparently, due to another wave of sabotage, the Aljazeera website is today inaccessible.
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Nasdaq Stock Market Turns Away Al Jazeera
Wed March 26, 2003 04:04 PM ET
By Nicole Maestri
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Arabic-language television network al Jazeera, banned this week from airing live market reports from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, has also been turned down by the Nasdaq Stock Market Inc.
Al Jazeera asked Nasdaq on Tuesday for permission to broadcast live reports from its building in Times Square, Nasdaq spokeswoman Silvia Davi said, but the request was denied. She would not expand on why the Nasdaq refused.
The NYSE this week revoked credentials that allowed two al Jazeera reporters to broadcast from its fabled trading floor on Wall Street, saying its credentials were for networks that provided "responsible" coverage.
Some in the news business said the ban violated freedom of the press and set a bad precedent. "This is ridiculous," said Jeffrey Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, a media watchdog group in Washington, D.C. "Clearly, it is a violation of press freedom."
Al Jazeera has been criticized in the United States for broadcasting Iraqi television footage of U.S. prisoners of war and Iraqi casualties.
Al Jazeera had been reporting from the NYSE for four or five years, said NYSE spokesman Ray Pellecchia. He said the NYSE has a finite number of broadcast slots available, and wants to give priority to networks that "investors look to find out what's going on in the market."
Of the 25 or so networks that broadcast from the NYSE trading floor, al Jazeera is the only network to lose its credentials.
Al Jazeera said on Tuesday it regretted the NYSE decision.
"We urge the NYSE to reconsider its decision in the interest of upholding the values of the United States of America," the network said in a statement.
The NYSE is not reconsidering, Pellecchia said on Wednesday. Al Jazeera could not immediately be reached for further comment.
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