Anonymous Unofficially Targets Zimbabwe Govt Over WikiLeaks Row

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Launched "Operation Zimbabwe", a DDoS protest "targeting Mugabe and his regime in the ZanuPF who have outlawed the free press and threaten to sue anyone publishing wikileaks."

Some members of Anonymous, the group behind a wide range of DDoS protest attacks against groups and sites cosnidered hostile to their tenets of free speech and thought, have unofficially launched "Operation Zimbabwe."

The latest effort is "targeting Mugabe and his regime in the ZanuPF," it says "who have outlawed the free press and threaten to sue anyone publishing wikileaks."

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's wife Grace Mugabe sued the Standard, one of the nation's leading newspapers, for publishing quotes from a Wikileaks cable alleging that she, " "high-ranking Zimbabwean government officials and well-connected elites are generating millions of dollars in personal income by hiring teams of diggers to hand-extract diamonds."

Vice-President Joyce Mujuru and the head of the army, General Constantine Chiwenga, were also mentioned in the cable.

From Anonymous:

Yesterday, Dec. 28, 2010 at about 20:00 GMT, Anonymous unofficially launched "Operation Zimbabwe", a DDoS protest against

http://www.zanupf.org.zw

– web site of The Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF). Within three hours the web site was unreachable. At that time the attack was broadened to also include

http://www.gta.gov.zw

which shares an IP with most of Zimbabwe's government web sites. Both sites have experienced heavy interuption which has not yet ceased.

A further defacement against the Finance Ministry's web site at www.zimtreasury.gov.zw took all news content offline, replacing it with a single message: "We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us."

"Operation Zimbabwe" is unrelated to "Operation Payback," the DDoS campaign targeting pro-copyright and anti-piracy organizations, law firms, and individuals.

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