The latest escalation in these cyber wars began when Wikileaks posted a leaked 2007 video from a helicopter showing the shooting of eight Iraqi's, including two Reuters photographers, who are casually walking around in a Baghdad courtyard. The 250,000 emails posted by Wikileaks had numerous revelations but were screened to insure no person was endangered, that information was redacted or withheld by Wikileaks.
The first release however was a disturbing view of American policy in Iraq. In the video there is one AK47 and one RPG present, both slung, none of the individuals are acting in a hostile manner. It is impossible to determine if they are hostiles or regular Iraqi's concerned about a firefight going on a short distance away. The initial strafing wipes out the group. The only survivor one of the photographers is badly wounded and crawling towards a building, the gunner is begging for him to reveal a weapon so he can shoot him again.
Two men come in a van a few minutes later and load him up. The pilot tells command there are weapons present even though none are seen. They blast the van with machine gun fire and blast it again after it is stationary. Ground troops find both men killed, the photographer and two children ages 8 and 4 wounded, they find no weapons. It gave folks back home a real idea about what their tax dollars were going for, not something the Obama administration wants you to see.
The Army arrested Private Bradley Manning as the source of the material and subjected him to conditions comparable to those used on terrorists for releasing the information to Wikileaks. Physical and emotional isolation, removing his clothes, and other techniques used in American interrogation centers.
Meanwhile the Obama administration has pursued every means possible to jail and silence Assange. The U.S. applied pressure everywhere it could and Sweden suddenly decided it had two sexual misconduct cases against Assange. Banks, which have never found any money too dirty to manage, suddenly decided not to process Wikileaks' donations.
Anonymous as an Anarchist movement
There is a word that modern mainstream media really avoids using, Anarchist. It seems threatened by the very idea. It talks about anarchist activities and but scrupulously avoids using the name and either ignores the evidence or fails to recognize it as a growing movement around the world. Maybe because Anarchists don't have a public relations department and a press secretary, perhaps because they don't function like an international corporation like Exxon, or perhaps because they form the biggest threat to the government-corporate stranglehold on freedom since the French Revolution. They range from Egyptian rebels, to Mexican drug cartels to hactivists, but they and their movement is growing.
The hactivists, like Anonymous, discuss plans such as attacks on companies openly on the internet and still carry them out. They use denial of service attacks by flooding a website with packets of data that overwhelm the system, shutting out regular business. They have the power to insert worms, viruses and other system damaging data but rarely do; instead they leave their signature, the equivalent of graffiti on a site, or post embarrassing or personal information taken from the site.
It's an anarchist organization, operating by joining and taking actions, sometimes individually, sometimes as an organic network, leaving the anonymous message to let their targets know who did it. They style themselves after the anarchist movie "V" with members showing up at events in the Guy Falk mask made famous in the movie. Guy Falk day is November 5th, the day he was caught trying to blow up the King and the British House of Lords in the Gunpowder Plot.
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