The Arab satellite television network Al-Jazeera suffered a second day of sustained distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against its English- and Arabic-language Web sites today.

The attacks have pushed the network, which is based in Doha, Qatar, off the Web for the time being and have forced Al-Jazeera to increase bandwidth for the sites and step up security in a desperate effort to get back online.

"All of our Web sites are down. The U.S. [Web site] is out of order, and the Europe [Web site] is under attack. We come up for five or 10 minutes, and then the attacks bring us down again," said Salah AlSeddiqi, IT manager at Al-Jazeera.

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