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| By israelinsider staff November 29, 2006 |
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The Vatican website came under attack today in an effort organized by the leadership of 'electronic jihad' to down the site.
The online Islamist terrorists, or e-jihadists, distributed programs to dozens of hackers around the world in order to stage a multi-pronged attack on the site as Pope Benedict XVI visited the Islamic nation of Turkey.
The Pope stirred an uproar in the Muslim world last September when in a speech about theology he quoted a 14th-century Byzantine emperor's comments about Mohammed.
Various parts of the Muslim world burst into anger after the comment, staging riots and burning the Pope in effigy. An Italian nun doing aid work in Somalia died after she shot in the back, an act widely believed to be in response the comment.
Today's attack on the website of the Holy See was cited in part as a response to the Pope's comments and anger related to his conciliatory visit to Turkey. In a speech during the visit the Pontiff declared that religious leaders must 'utterly refuse to sanction recourse to violence as a legitimate expression of religion', and referred to the situation in the Middle East as 'disturbing'.
The cyberattack that came in the wake of the Pope's visit was successfully thwarted by Vatican authorities.
One blogger, noting that the website withstood the attack, remarked, "Kudos to the Swiss Guards of the cybersphere for doing an excellent job."
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