Screenshot of Al Jazeera homepage after being hacked Tuesday Screenshot of aljazeera.net taken today The website of international news service  has been restored and is working as normal, following a hack of the website by a group identifying itself as Al-Rashedon. On the hacked webpage Al-Rashedon, a group apparently supporting  , said they had performed this action "in response to [Al Jazeera's] position against the people and government of Syria". The Al-Rashedon statement condemned Al Jazeera for its coverage of the in an Arabic language statement which the group said was "support[ive] of the armed terrorist groups and spreading false fabricated news." Al Jazeera has yet to comment about Al-Rashedon's allegations. Syria's civil war has been covered from the outset in great detail by Al Jazeera, based in , a country whose government is supportive of the . Al Jazeera's English website was previously attacked in February, by a group identifying itself as the Syrian Electronic Army [SEA]. The same group accessed Al Jazeera's page on social networking website  in July, posting messages critical of Syrian opposition members. The SEA also claimed responsibility for attacking the websites of  news service and in the US state of Massachusetts.
Screenshot of Al Jazeera homepage after being hacked Tuesday Screenshot of aljazeera.net taken today The website of international news service Al Jazeera has been restored and is working as normal, following a hack of the website by a group identifying itself as Al-Rashedon. On the hacked webpage Al-Rashedon, a group apparently supporting Syrian Bashar al-Assad , said they had performed this action "in response to [Al Jazeera's] position against the people and government of Syria". The Al-Rashedon statement condemned Al Jazeera for its coverage of the in an Arabic language statement which the group said was "support[ive] of the armed terrorist groups and spreading false fabricated news." Al Jazeera has yet to comment about Al-Rashedon's allegations. Syria's civil war has been covered from the outset in great detail by Al Jazeera, based in Qatar, a Middle Eastern country whose government is supportive of the . Al Jazeera's English website was previously attacked in February, by a group identifying itself as the Syrian Electronic Army [SEA]. The same group accessed Al Jazeera's page on social networking website Twitter in July, posting messages critical of Syrian opposition members. The SEA also claimed responsibility for attacking the websites of Saudi Arabian news service and in the US state of Massachusetts.
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