Al Jazeera's new English-language web service, launched just a few days ago, has been put offline by a massive denial-of-service attack, says this article, quoting station reps. Then again, this article also quotes station reps saying it's not true -- you just can't get to the site because it's overloaded with traffic. Probably both versions are correct. In recent days, I've had trouble reaching both Al Jazeera's regular Arabic site and the English version.

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UPDATE: I still can't open the link, but my friend reports that she got to a big Amercian flag draped over the shape of the USA with the words "Brought to you by Freedom Cyber Force Militia." Jesus, what morons. There are reasons not to like Al Jazeera -- I have my own problems with a news service that refers to Palestinian suicide bombers as "martyrs" -- but understand this: Al Jazeera is the closest thing that now exists to what "Free Iraq" will look like. So suck it up and get used to it.