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    GENOCIDE BILL PROTESTERS HACK FRENCH SITES

    http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2011/12/29/Genocide-bill-protesters-hack-French-sites/UPI-61741325158380/
    Published: Dec. 29, 2011 at 6:33 AM

    PARIS, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The Web site of the French Senate was
    functioning again this week after it was hacked by Turkish protesters
    upset at an Armenian genocide bill.

    The Senate's Web site was commandeered Christmas Eve by a hacker
    identifying himself as the notorious Turkish computer outlaw Iskorpit,
    who boasts of having hacked 500,000 Web sites, France24 reported.

    The cyberattack came as the upper chamber of the French Parliament was
    considering whether to approve a bill passed by the National Assembly
    that would outlaw the denial of the 1915 massacre of Armenians in
    Turkey as a crime of genocide.

    The attack rendered the Senate's Web site inoperable for two days
    but it was functioning again Tuesday, authorities said.

    Also affected was the Web site of National Assembly member Valerie
    Boyer of the ruling UMP party, who was the primary sponsor of the
    genocide bill.

    Her Web site was still inoperable Tuesday, the broadcaster said. The
    lawmaker's site showed a black screen with a Turkish flag while it was
    commandeered, with messages in Turkish and English signed by a group
    calling itself "GrayHatz" denouncing the bill as "pathetic and pitiful"
    and accusing France of committing genocide in Algeria, France24 said.

    The French news site Nouvelobs.com reported "GrayHatz" shares
    membership with another cyberterror group called Akincilar, which
    attacked the Web site of satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo
    after it angered Muslims in November.

    The newspaper, which ran an image of the Prophet Mohammed on its cover,
    was firebombed in the incident.

    The Akincilar promised to "hack the Web sites of every single French
    lawmaker" along with their GrayHatz "friends," Nouvelobs.com said.

    Boyer told reporters that she was filing a criminal complaint for
    harassment, claiming she had received death threats aimed at her,
    her parents and children.

    The National Assembly last week passed the bill that criminalizes
    denial of the 1915-16 deaths of Armenians by Ottoman Turks during
    World War I as genocide. France and approximately 20 other countries,
    including Italy, Canada and Russia, have formally recognized genocide
    against the Armenians.

    Turkey, however, disputes that the deaths of hundreds of thousands
    of Christian Armenians was carried out as a systematic genocide and
    that Turks also suffered during the conflict.

    Ankara recalled its ambassador to France immediately following the
    Assembly's adoption of the bill, which must be passed by the Senate
    and signed by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to become law.

    Turkish ally Azerbaijan, which is locked in a dispute with Armenia
    over the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave, voiced support for Ankara, adding
    the French move doesn't help an international effort to resolve the
    "frozen conflict."

    Azeri Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov told the Turkish daily
    Today's Zaman Monday his country is "badly disappointed" by the French
    Parliament's decision.

    "Putting my feet in the shoes of my colleagues in Ankara, I cannot
    trust a country [Armenia] which creates genocide initiatives on
    the one hand and speaks about a desire to cooperate on the other,
    not recognizing the territorial integrity of Turkey and compromising
    the borders of the country," Azimov said.

    Turkey backs Azerbaijan's claims to majority-Armenian Nagorno-Karabakh,
    which revolted against Muslim Azerbaijan in 1993 following the collapse
    of the former Soviet Union.

    Baku claims Armenian forces that backed the rebels expatriated most
    of the region's Azerbaijani settlers during the fighting.

    Read more:
    http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2011/12/29/Genocide-bill-protesters-hack-French-sites/UPI-61741325158380/#ixzz1hvIgmZix

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