Thursday, August 06, 2009 TEL AVIV: Arab hackers broke into the Kadima Party’s website early Thursday.The hackers presented a sensational photo of a skeleton with the slogan, “This is the fate of Sharon.” Below the photo is a still of Kadima chair Tzipi Livni with the caption, “We guarantee that we’re coming.”The hackers also displayed a terrorist attack scene along with a child whose head was decapitated. Underneath the photo was the caption, “Israel will continue to defeat our women and children.”The website’s homepage displays the words “Gaza Hacker” in English and Arabic.
BEIRUT: Thousands of people converged Saturday on central Beirut to mark the fourth anniversary of the assassination of Lebanese former premier Rafiq Hariri.Waving Lebanese flags and carrying pictures of the slain leader, men, women and children gathered under sunny skies in Martyr's Square where members of the parliamentary majority were to address the crowd. The rally comes as final preparations are underway in The Hague for the launch of the international tribunal set up to bring Hariri's killers to justice. It also comes as the country prepares for legislative elections in June that will pit Western-backed political parties against a Hezbollah-led alliance backed by Syria and Iran.Hariri died in a massive car bombing on February 14, 2005 that also killed 22 others. The assassination was widely blamed on then Lebanese power-broker Syria, which has denied any involvement. The attack on the Beirut seafront was one of the worst acts of political violence to rock Lebanon since t...
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