Islamist hackers seize control of Defra's air-quality website

Group calling itself Moroccan Islamic Union-Mail posts picture of Saddam Hussein and criticises Britain for its role in invasion of Iraq

Islamist hackers seized control of the government's official air-quality website to post a message criticising Britain for its role in the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Visitors on Tuesday morning to the UK-Air website, part of the Department of Food, the Environment and Rural Affairs, were greeted with a black background with a a large portrait of the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.