Hackers Target Sheldon Adelson Over Iran Bomb Comment

[Purveyor]

Las Vegas Sands website shows Sheldon Adelson standing next to Netanyahu and says that encouraging the use of WMDs is a crime.

By Haaretz | Feb. 12, 2014 | 2:44 PM

Sheldon Adelson, the multibillionaire casino mogul who is close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has been targeted by hackers who appear to have taken issue with his comment late last year that the United States should drop a nuclear bomb on Iran.

The hackers temporarily took over the website of Las Vegas Sands, the world's largest casino operator, the Allentown, Pennsylvania-based newspaper The Morning Call reported. The daily said people trying to access the site saw a photograph of Adelson standing next to Netanyahu and a line saying: "Damn A, don't let your tongue cut your throat. Encouraging the use of weapons of mass destruction, under any condition, is a crime."

The hackers identified themselves during their Tuesday attack only as the "Anti WMD team."

The Sands website was not operating Wednesday, instead announcing, "The website is undergoing maintenance."

In October, Adelson, a high-stakes contributor to Republican causes, said in a panel discussion at Yeshiva University in New York that the United States should fire a nuclear missile at an unpopulated area of Iran and threaten to wipe out Tehran if the country doesn't back down from developing its nuclear program.

"And so there’s an atomic weapon, goes over ballistic missiles, the middle of the desert, that doesn’t hurt a soul. Maybe a couple of rattlesnakes and scorpions or whatever," Adelson said, in remarks videotaped by the news site Mondoweiss. "Then you say: 'See! The next one is in the middle of Tehran. So we mean business. You want to be wiped out? Go ahead and take a tough position and continue with your nuclear development. You want to be peaceful? Just reverse it all, and we will guarantee you that you can have a nuclear power plant for electricity purposes, energy purposes.'"

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[SamKnause]

1. Fuck you Sheldon Adelson

[DirkGently]

2. This guy is why money shouldn't equal speech.

Mr. "Let's bomb Tehran" would like to pick our Presidents for us.

Wealth is no index of wisdom; if anything just the opposite. The most isolated, arrogant, poorly informed rich people are exactly the ones trying hardest to control elections.

[fujiyama]

3. It's a good thing his picks

didn't make it to the WH. Gingrich was his boy originally and then he gave Romney a lot of money.