The US National Security Agency’s (NSA) website was
offline for several hours on Friday, fuelling speculation that hackers
had disabled it.
The site first went down at about 2 pm (1800 GMT), according to a website that tracks the downtime of other sites.
“Nsa.gov is DOWN for everyone. It is not just you. The server is not
responding...” a message posted on isitdownrightnow.com said.
The NSA site was still down as of 9 pm (0100 GMT Saturday).
Some Twitter accounts claiming to be associated with the hacker group Anonymous took responsibility, according to NBC News. But it pointed out that those claims only appeared after the site had been down for several hours.
The NSA said an internal error that occurred during a scheduled update was the reason the website was inaccessible.
“The issue will be resolved this evening,” a spokesman said, and
rejected claims that the outage was caused by a distributed denial of
service attack.
The agency has been at the centre of
controversy since whistleblower Edward Snowden began releasing
information about its surveillance capabilities and practices.
A Pakistani court
extended the custody of former dictator Pervez Musharraf on Friday,
dampening hopes he would be able to leave the country any time soon
following months under house arrest and legal wrangling over his fate.
Musharraf was arrested two weeks ago on charges related a 2007 raid on a
radical mosque - just as his lawyer announced the former ruler was free
to leave the country after being granted bail in another, unrelated
case.
"The judicial magistrate extended the custody of Pervez Musharraf till
October 29," Iftikhar Chattha, an investigation officer, told news
agencies, adding that the investigation had not yet finished.
Pakistan extends custody of former dictator Musharraf
Pakistan extends custody of former dictator Musharraf
Musharraf seized power in a 1999 coup but was forced into exile nine
years later after a showdown with the judiciary. He returned to Pakistan
this year to contest May elections but was barred from standing by a
flurry of court cases.
The arrest of Musharraf - a former army chief - was unprecedented in a
country ruled by the powerful military for more than half of its life.
Despite his arrest, Musharraf is not being held in a jail with common
criminals. Friday's hearing was held at his villa on the outskirts of
Islamabad. The house has been declared a sub-jail by the authorities.
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neighboring Afghanistan. But many Pakistanis believe the strikes kill
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subject at the United Nations yesterday, also called on other countries
to speak up about when deadly drone strikes are acceptable. They said
the lack of consensus risks creating anarchy as more countries acquire
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conflict with al-Qaida with no boundaries.
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UN said that secrecy is the biggest obstacle to determining the impact
pact on civilian casualties.
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out their own positions. "We all recognize that the moment other states
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use this technology in similar ways, we are facing a situation which
could escalate into a breakdown of peace and security," said Emmerson,
the UN special rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism.
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drone strikes in that country since 2004. Of those, at least 400 were
civilians. But Emmerson said independent verification is difficult and
the involvement of
the CIA in counter-terrorism operations in both Pakistan and Yemen "has
created an almost insurmountable obstacle to transparency."
Emerson said that any time civilians are killed "the state responsible
is under an obligation to conduct a prompt, independent and impartial
fact-finding inquiry and to provide a detailed and public explanation."
The US considers its drone program in Pakistan to be a key weapon
against insurgent groups that it says stages cross-border forays into
neighboring Afghanistan. But many Pakistanis believe the strikes kill
large numbers of
civilians, raising tensions between the two countries and complicating
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Heyns, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, expressed
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Watch and Amnesty International questioning the legality of the drone
strikes.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said the US "would strongly disagree"
with any claims that the US had acted improperly, arguing that American
actions follow all applicable law. He said there must be
"near-certainty" of no civilian casualties before the US proceeds with a
drone strike. He said they're not used when targets can instead be
captured.
Both Emmerson and Heyns said that the use of drone technology in a
deadly strike is not the inherit problem. They said that in many cases,
drone technology allows precision targeting that can reduce the number
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