Protesters holding signs and shouting to support WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange to an event before the Government Federal building in New York, 9 December 2010.
Credit: Reuters/Brendan McDermidBy William MacLeanLONDON | Saturday, December 11, 2010 8: 08 pm EST
London (Reuters) - Cyber militant organizations such as the enemies of the WikiLeaks briefly blocked a website Dutch prosecution Friday after a 16-year-old suspected of having participated in the campaign was arrested at the Netherlands.
Activists also tried to block the site Web of online payment firm Moneybookers but he denied that their attacks were designed to create disturbances or poorly disrupt Online Christmas shopping business.
Several companies have taken end services to the WikiLeaks after has published thousands of secret diplomatic reports U.S. caused tensions between Washington and its allies.
Web site has continued its release of U.S. cable Friday, with the latest reports, including a prediction of the United States Ambassador in Cairo, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak would "inevitably" win the elections in 2011 and remain at the Office life.
The US authorities said they had not been pressure on companies to stop working with WikiLeaks.
"We do not pressure someone do something," Attorney General Eric Holder said to reporters in San Francisco, where he attended a Conference of financial fraud.
Holder said authorities knew about the attack and watching, pointing to a section of computer crimes of the Ministry of justice which may "trace" where attacks are originating.
A lawyer for Julian Assange, the founder of the site WikiLeaks, told ABC News, London, it should U.S. prosecutors would prosecute its client soon for espionage, but the report offered no further details or a comment.
A spokesman for the Ministry of justice of the United States refused to comment on prediction of counsel.
Dutch prosecutors said activists target their Web sites with "denial of service" attacks that it slowed down for several hours and briefly made unavailable. The incident was probably related to the arrest of the young person, they said.
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"We studied it with international authorities and we are working with the FBI, Dutch prosecution service spokesman said Wim de Bruin.".
A Rotterdam court ordered the boy, who was arrested in the Hague on Thursday, passing 13 days in custody while the investigation continues, the Prosecutor's Office said.
The maximum period of imprisonment in the Netherlands for distributed DoS attacks is six years, said de Bruin.
The suspect, whose identity was not disclosed, said investigators, that he was involved in attacks on sites of MasterCard and visa, authorities said.
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