OpCartel, A Name Emerges

OpCartel sets it's eyes on Asheville, NC. Close to home!

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.”

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So does that mean ten dead bodies? That is what the cartel promised.
Also.. um why are the using a real name for the guy supposedly running opcartel. If that is a pseudonym , it's unusual.

Do not worry about what the meskins might do in the US.
Why would they ever attack their biggest ally and supporters?

Originally posted by GogoVicMorrow
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So does that mean ten dead bodies? That is what the cartel promised.
Also.. um why are the using a real name for the guy supposedly running opcartel. If that is a pseudonym , it's unusual.

More about that www.theatlanticwire.com... here...

And also this

Brown's back-and-forth raises some red flags for us. As we reported on Thursday, Brown's very public affiliation with Anonymous goes back nearly two-years, but he's often referred to as an official spokesman or former spokesman. He is neither. This is also the second time that Anonymous has cancelled the operation. Brown confidently told us on Thursday that they had changed their mind, and now he says, they've changed their mind again. It seems suspect, but in our experience covering the hacktivists, they tend to be a pretty chaotic bunch. For now, however, Brown's story appears to check out. Anonymous Iberoamerica confirmed the release of the hostage as well as an end to their involvement in the operation on their official blog. We spoke with other Anonymous sources who also corroborated Brown's version of the events, though debate remains amongst the hacktivists. "There's a big debate going on now in the Anon community about how the handle this. Whether we should continue with the op anyways," a hacker who goes by the handle Anarchymous told us. "If anything is released it is completely Barrett's baby now. No longer Anonymous'." Brown's commitment to go after the cartels has so far won him a lot of friends among Mexicans sick of the cartels. A quick Twitter search of Brown's mentions show both gratitude and doubt about his vowing to carry on the operation. But if he keeps his word and does reveal the identities of cartel members and, more importantly, those in the Mexican government who collaborate with them, the implications could be dramatic.