assange. then anonymous crashed the website of a swiss bank that closed a wikileaks bank account. this morning it attacked mastercard.com crashing the website in retaliation for mastercard worldwide stated intent to deny transaction with wikileaks. anonymous tweeting saying there are some things wikileaks can't do. for everything else there's operation payback. mastercard says its customers, transactions were not affected. visa europe this week began suspending payments to wikileaks extending a payment to whether they intervene rules. twitrer, anonymous turned its guns on visa. in an hour gets your weapons ready. an hour later fire, fire, fire. weapons. both mastercard and visa's web sites back up now. the operation payback twitter feed and facebook account have since been suspended. this afternoon wikileaks released a cable that may or may not be related to all this according to the guardian citing state department cables. "the u.s. lobbied russia on behalf of visa and mastercard to insure the payment card companies were not adversely affected by legislation