anti-american operative with blood on his hands. also overnight, the swedish government had a website crash as a result of these attacks. the swedish government is in the process of trying to get assange extradited from the uk to sweden to face suspicion on sexual assault and rape charges. this morning on british radio, a 22-year-old computer engineer said in an interview that he s a member of the group anonymous and that essentially what they re doing is recruiting volunteers to download what is called a, this allows their computer to automatically target websites with so many page requests that they re forced to shut down. he says they continue to get volunteers and that all of this is in the name of freedom of speech. as well as these attacks on particular governments and businesses, they are also trying to support wikileaks the website setting up mirror sites to combat the efforts