Anonymous s Protest Wikis' Julian Assange Extradition: Revenge Attack Expected

Brking from its support for the Occupy movement, the cell of Anonymous has issued a statement attacking UK authorities' decision to extradite Wikis founder Julian Assange, lding to speculation of a possible revenge attack by the tivist collective.

Anonymous issued its first statement via its AnonOpsTwitter feed. "Julian needs all of our help. Sprd the Word! We will not forgive or forget. EXPECT US!" rd AnonOps' initial tweet.
Despite being a call-to-arms asking for donations to help fund Assange's legal fees, the addition of the group's standard "We will not forgive or forget. EXPECT US" rhetoric has since led to concerns that the collective may mount a revenge attack to protest the court's decision.


This fund is to pay for Wikis staff and Julian’s legal fees and is not part of Wiki’s core publishing operations.
Anonymous' statement came after Lord Justice Thomas and Justice Ouseley rejected Assange's lawyers claims that extraditing the 40-yr-old Australian would be "unfair and unlawful."
The decision mns that Assange will be forced to return to Sweden Wednesday to answer accusations of raping one woman and "sexually molesting and coercing" another in Stockholm.
Assange's lawyers have since clarified their intent to appl the decision at the Supreme Court.
The accusations against Assange were initially mounted in August 2010. Assange has since vehemently denied the charges, suggesting they are a politically motivated plot against him.
Anonymous' latest statement comes as a part of its ongoing support for Wikis. Prior to its latest statement, alongside LulzSec, the collective had spr-hded a boycott against PayPal's parent company eBay, in part for its decision to cut payments to Wikis.
Though Anonymous has not overtly thrtened UK authorities with revenge cyber attacks such behaviour would be consistent with its past s.

Previously the collective had enacted revenge and distributed denial of service attacks against a of governments and companies for what it perceived as crimes against the eral public.
These crimes had included everything from reform policies that could monitor or censor the internet, to law enforcement acies arresting alleged Anonymous members.
Source: IBT, AnonOps & Admin