Hackers have begun attacking Web sites connected to Afghanistan's Taliban rulers and to other Islamic nations

On Monday, hackers outraged at the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center defaced the Web site belonging to the Iranian government's ministry of the interior. The site, at www.moi.gov.ir, now carries the message "Owned ! Ya biatch !" and several graphics, one of which includes a picture of the Saudi Arabian dissident named last week by the US government as their prime suspect, Osama bin Laden, with two guns to his head and the caption "Osama die". Below the image, the hackers--who have adopted the name The Dispatchers--describe themselves as a group of computer security enthusiasts "who are outraged at the acts of terrorism and such which are taking place in this day in age. It is our cause to fight back in everyway which we can." The group says it is a composed of people of "all races and of many countries, not just Americans," and is targetting "every place that poses a possible threat to or safety and the safety of our friends and family all over the world." The individual who defaced the Iranian Website, RaFa, is a former member of World Of Hell, an exclusive hacking group known for their ability to own top level domains. Current targets of The Dispatchers are those nations who, it says, support terrorism and "groups of terrorism including but not limited to Israel, Palistine, Afgahnistan etc" (sic).