Turkish Terrorists Hack Town of Yanceyville's Website
So read the headline of the WFMY story that begins "Yes, you read correctly, Turkish terrorists hacked into a Triad town's website."
"Once again, Caswell County is being connected to terrorism," anchor Frank Mickens says in introducing the video report.
Terrorists?
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| Google translates the Turkish as "We can not separate the two us wrapped in a flag of a universe." |
As WFMY tells it, the town of Yanceyville's website was defaced with a new home page. It happened two weeks ago, but WFMY reported it yesterday, 9/11.
The hacked webpage attributed the hack to "Turkish Muslim hacker," and included the message "Real Terrorist ABD and Zionist Israel - Russia - France - BOYCOTT! Down with Israel & US & Russia & France!" Disturbing, but the work of terrorists?
The word "terrorist" on the hacked page is an accusation against others, not a claim of self-identification. How WFMY came to know the hack to have been the work of terrorists, they don't say. They just assert it without substantiation. Which terrorists? They don't say. Who, exactly, they don't say.
Call me old fashioned, but I think the word terrorist should be reserved for people who commit or plot to commit acts of terror—as the Office Of the Coordination for Counterterrorism defines them, acts of violence intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population or government. That sounds about right. Does, WFMY know such a group to have been responsible for the hack? They don't say.
Even without evidence of who committed the hack, it sure makes for a great headline to say it was terrorists—extra special to report it that way on the anniversary of 9/11 attacks. Maybe WFMY has some more convincing information that didn't make it into this report that they'll be sharing with us soon. I just hope this doesn't turn out to join the Great Downtown Flash Mob Beatdown and the Police Black Book stories among the ranks of over-sensationalized untruthful garbage from WFMY.
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