Who Hacked Al-Qaeda?

Recent visitors to the al-Qaeda-affiliated website www.alneda.com were in for a surprise. A link that once guided the terror group's supporters to "martyrdom: your path to immortality" now led to "Lola: I do things your wife won't." Mystery hackers had sabotaged the site, which U.S. and foreign counterterrorism experts say is maintained by al-Qaeda backers with access to propaganda produced by the group's top leaders. The hackers linked al-Neda (the Call) to pornography sites and later installed a fake site in its place. Al-Neda typically addresses the merits of jihad and offers tips on keeping operations secret. An audiotaped...

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