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Subject: piece
From: Jeremy Sapienza <jeremy@redfit.com>
Date: 2/22/11, 17:23
To: barriticus@gmail.com

This is it more or less. Feel free to change terminology.

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A source within hacker activist group Anonymous told Antiwar.com that
media and government targets within Nicaragua and Venezuela may be hit
within days, due to rhetorical support for Libyan dictator Muammar
Gadhafi.

Yesterday, Nicaraguan President and former Sandinista rebel group
leader Daniel Ortega "expressed solidarity" with Gadhafi's
"revolution." Quotes. Several Anonymous-allied Twiter accounts reacted
in outrage to the statement.

In Venezuela, TeleSurTV, founded by President Hugo Chávez and
state-funded in large part, took no official line on Libya but in a
10-minute segment Monday night, only commentators sympathetic to
Gadhafi were interviewed by an "impartial" host. All said that Gadhafi
had done a lot for the Libyan people and the unrest is being provoked
and funded by Western "imperialists." These themes were later echoed
in a rambling speech by the dictator himself on Libyan state
television.

Chávez himself has not himself said anything at all about the Libyan
situation or his erstwhile revolutionary ally.

The Anonymous source said this could leave both Latin American states'
governments open to DDoS attacks, which would shut them down for a
period of time. They may even be hacked.

Libyan state websites were attacked overnight by Anonymous members. As
of right now, the central bank's site is not functioning.

The source clarified that the group only attacks state media.

In other regional news, Peru has withdrawn diplomatic relations with
Libya for the time being.