A number of news sources, including the New York Times, have reported that the “online feud” between Anonymous and Los Zetas has ended. But as of the writing of this post, in a public chat hosted at Tinychat.com, Barrett Brown has said that while “ the Zeta names were called off,” he is “still going forward against targets of opportunity elsewhere.” One of those targets appears to be Ashville, North Carolina District Attorney, Ron Moore. In a tweet posted this morning, Brown wrote, “Those in Asheville, NC should watch movements of District Attorney Ron Moore at this time.”

For the last two days, Brown, who has taken the lead on what has been called OpCartel, has been claiming that a trove of emails obtained by Anonymous shows that a district attorney in the United States has been cooperating with Mexican drug cartels. Asked today by a questioner on Tinychat if Ron Moore is the district attorney to whom he has been alluding, Brown said, “Yes.” In another Tinychat-hosted question and answer session yesterday, Brown said that he is working with cartel experts and other journalists, including a reporter from CNN that he refused to name, to analyze the information in those emails.

He said that Anonymous in Mexico obtained the trove of over a thousand emails by way of hacking. He has also received a wealth of information that has been submitted to a Hushmail email account set up to allow people to submit information about the cartels. An April 2010 National Drug Intelligence Center report [PDF] about Mexican Drug Cartel activity inside the United States indicates that several cartels are active in North Carolina, including Gulf, Los Zetas, and Sinaloa. When asked, “so the opcartel is cancelled?” Brown replied clearly, “No, Opcartel is not cancelled.”