LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Los Angeles man has pleaded guilty to carrying out a cyber-vandal attack on the al-Jazeera Web site during the Iraq war because the Arab satellite TV network had shown pictures of dead and captured American soldiers.

Web designer John Racine II, 24, admitted on Thursday to diverting traffic and e-mails from al-Jazeera's Arabic Web site to a site he had designed called "Let Freedom Ring" and bearing the U.S. flag, federal prosecutors said.

Al-Jazeera, one of the most popular news networks in the Arab world, raised the ire of the United States and Britain in March when it showed footage from Iraq of dead and captured American and British soldiers. The pictures were not shown in Britain or the United States.


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