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Reuters site hacked, fake interview posted

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Thomson Reuters announced that due to their blogging platform being hacked on Friday, a false story about an alleged interview with a Syrian rebel leader was posted.

“Reuters.com was a target of a hack on Friday,” the company said in a statement. “Our blogging platform was compromised and fabricated blog posts were falsely attributed to several Reuters journalists.”

Thomson Reuters confirmed that their blogging platform security was breached and said they did not have any immediate information on who or what organization was behind the false stories. They took down their blogging platform on Friday while they fixed the problems, and it still appears to be down as of 3:00 p.m. ET.

One of the posts was an “interview” with the head of the Free Syrian Army, Riad al-Assad. Al-Assad allegedly said that his forces were pulling back from the northern province of Aleppo after repeated battles with the Syrian Army.

“Reuters did not carry out such an interview and the posting has been deleted,” they added.

The Free Syrian Army issued a statement saying that the interview never took place and blamed President Bashar al-Assad’s government for planting the story, according to Reuters.

“(It) was fabricated by the regime, as it seems the news agency was hacked,” the Free Syrian Army statement said.

The fighting continues in Syria where 21 people were killed in a Palestinian refugee camp on the outskirts of Damascus on Friday, according to activists and the U.N. agency running the camp. The government and rebel forces were battling in nearby Damascus suburb of Tadamon on Thursday evening.

Just yesterday, Kofi Annan resigned as the U.N. envoy to Syria. He blamed the U.N. Security Council, saying he “can’t want peace more than the protagonists, more than Security Council or the international community.” Annan argued that a failed six-point peace plan that is normally attributed to him actually belongs to the Security Council because they endorsed it.

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15 responses to “Reuters site hacked, fake interview posted”

  1. wargame1 Avatar
    wargame1

    Mar.29, 2011 haaretz published an article on Syrian Bashar Al Assad
    Israel’s favorite Arab dictator of all is Assad

    Both Assad senior and Assad junior advocated resistance against Israel. This slogan was hollow, serving the regime merely as an insurance policy against any demand for freedom and democracy. 

    The Syrian “resistance” government has not uttered a peep on the Golan front since 1973. Instead, the “resistance” regime was and still is ready to fight Israel to the last Lebanese, and if that doesn’t do the trick – then to the last Palestinian. 
    As voices in Israel have recently spoken out in favor of Hamas’ continued rule in Gaza, so many Israelis are worried these days over the Syrian regime’s welfare. Astonishingly, not only Jews are praying secretly for the Damascus regime’s survival, but many in the Arab parties as well.

    These parties’ leaders have been dumbstruck, their voices have been muted and no outcry has been raised against the Syrian regime’s massacre of civilians.All the hypocrites, Jews and Arabs alike, have united. It seems Assad has wall-to-wall support here, as though he were king of Israel. Mar.29, 2011 haaretz

    1. Moe2000 Avatar
      Moe2000

       Assad has been soft on Israel i agree on that, Mainly because Israel always had air superiority. Now Syria has heavy AA Syria is even said to have the S300.

      1. rossoferrari Avatar
        rossoferrari

        mohamad, you must be kidding. All gadgets you are using have chips made by zionists, you must still live in the desert to think that you can be selective of what you are buying. You are not trading kousa and batinjan in the souk here and lastly, your statment about ass assad is a lame excuse, I really feel bad for you and your logic.

        1. Moe2000 Avatar
          Moe2000

          They only make celeron processors for Laptops That’s it! What did you say you have batinjani in your what?

    2. Moe2000 Avatar
      Moe2000

       Assad has been soft on Israel i agree on that, Mainly because Israel always had air superiority. Now Syria has heavy AA Syria is even said to have the S300.

  2. wargame1 Avatar
    wargame1

    Mar.29, 2011 haaretz published an article on Syrian Bashar Al Assad
    Israel’s favorite Arab dictator of all is Assad

    Both Assad senior and Assad junior advocated resistance against Israel. This slogan was hollow, serving the regime merely as an insurance policy against any demand for freedom and democracy. 

    The Syrian “resistance” government has not uttered a peep on the Golan front since 1973. Instead, the “resistance” regime was and still is ready to fight Israel to the last Lebanese, and if that doesn’t do the trick – then to the last Palestinian. 
    As voices in Israel have recently spoken out in favor of Hamas’ continued rule in Gaza, so many Israelis are worried these days over the Syrian regime’s welfare. Astonishingly, not only Jews are praying secretly for the Damascus regime’s survival, but many in the Arab parties as well. These parties’ leaders have been dumbstruck, their voices have been muted and no outcry has been raised against the Syrian regime’s massacre of civilians.All the hypocrites, Jews and Arabs alike, have united. It seems Assad has wall-to-wall support here, as though he were king of Israel. Mar.29, 2011 haaretz

    1. Moe2000 Avatar
      Moe2000

       Assad has been soft on Israel i agree on that, Mainly because Israel always had air superiority. Now Syria has heavy AA Syria is even said to have the S300.

      1. rossoferrari Avatar
        rossoferrari

        mohamad, you must be kidding. All gadgets you are using have chips made by zionists, you must still live in the desert to think that you can be selective of what you are buying. You are not trading kousa and batinjan in the souk here and lastly, your statment about ass assad is a lame excuse, I really feel bad for you and your logic.

        1. Moe2000 Avatar
          Moe2000

          They only make celeron processors for Laptops That’s it! What did you say you have batinjani in your what?

  3. Moe2000 Avatar
    Moe2000

    It’s not so difficult to packet sites offline by denying them service with a couple of thousand IRC botnet servers. I was into that stuff when i was younger. Now i build custom overclocked/watercooled pcs and i do not buy Zionists made chips.

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      Watercooled ?? Hell … I have enough trouble with the radiator on a car … 🙂

  4. Moe2000 Avatar
    Moe2000

    It’s not so difficult to packet sites offline by denying them service with a couple of thousand IRC botnet servers. I was into that stuff when i was younger. Now i build custom overclocked/watercooled pcs and i do not buy Zionists made chips.

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      Watercooled ?? Hell … I have enough trouble with the radiator on a car … 🙂

  5. Moe2000 Avatar
    Moe2000

    It’s not so difficult to packet sites offline by denying them service with a couple of thousand IRC botnet servers. I was into that stuff when i was younger. Now i build custom overclocked/watercooled pcs and i do not buy Zionists made chips.

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      Watercooled ?? Hell … I have enough trouble with the radiator on a car … 🙂

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