SERBIAN 'BLACK HAND' HACKS ITS WAY INTO ZAGREB'S DAILY "VJESNIK"

ZAGREB, Oct 28 (Hina) - Hackers managed to force their way into the Internet pages of Zagreb's daily "Vjesnik" (www.vjesnik.com) on Wednesday morning, blocking the home page and inserting a message with a link to the "Black Hand Home Page". The daily's English home-page was apparently hacked into by a Serbian organisation called the "Black Hand". In a message they left behind, the hackers wrote that the Black Hand is working to change the false image that is circling the planet that Serbs are criminals. The least of our wishes is to threaten anybody, but we will try to prevent any attempt of distorting the truth, using any means possible, the message read. During the past several weeks, the same organisation has hacked into the web pages of several Albanian media. The Black Hand had not been able to enter pages with selected contents, but they did block access to Vjesnik's server for several hours. Vjesnik personnel said the server was down temporarily, but will be switched back on later in the day. Vjesnik is currently waiting for information from the United States on the exact whereabouts of the hackers. Vjesnik's web pages in Croatian (www.vjesnik.hr) were not hacked into because accessing them is much more complicated. The probable aim of this organisation which goes by the name of Black Hand, is to underline their connection with a secret greater Serbian terrorist organisation which was active at the beginning of the century and bore the name Black Hand. Later the organisation changed its name into "Unison or Death". The purpose of this organisation was to unite all Serbs and to head a revolutionary fight outside of Serbia's borders, against all who opposed the idea. The organisation has been tied to the assassination of the Archduke of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Francis Ferdinand, in Sarajevo in 1941, which led to World War I. (hina) lml jn/sp