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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Saudi hacker takes down


Beirut media freedom site
BEIRUT: A Saudi hacker hit the
Beirut-based SKeyes center for
Media and Cultural Freedom Sun-
day, bringing down their internet
site, which continued to be off-line
well into Sunday evening. Skeyes
(Samir Kassir eyes) is the official
web page of the Samir Kassir Foun-
dation, which is dedicated to the
memory of the slain journalist, killed
in 2005. The hacker, calling himself
Khaled al-Anzi, posted a message on
the site, dedicating the act of piracy
to the King of Saudi Arabia Abdul-
lah Bin Abdel-Aziz and to the Syrian
President Bashar Assad. Skeyes
media watchdog was set up in 2008
to monitoring and report on press
freedom in Lebanon, Syria and Jor-
dan. A prominent left-wing activist
and An-Nahar columnist, Kassir was
a major critic of the Syrian presence
in Lebanon. He was also a leading
figure in the Cedar Revolution, a
series of protests in 2005 which led
to the withdrawal of Syrian troops
from Lebanon. – The Daily Star

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