Hackers crash Panama web site
p2pnet news | Politics:- Four months after the Panama legislature elected Pedro Miguel Gonzalez as its leader, hackers crashed the country’s National Assembly, posting an American flag there.
He was named president of Panama’s legislature in September, "despite being wanted in the United States for the 1992 murder of U.S. Army Sgt. Zac Hernandez," says Reuters, going on:
"His candidature was strongly opposed by Washington, which warned the move would hurt relations between the two countries.
"Prominent U.S. Congressional figures including Sen. Hillary Clinton have vowed not to ratify a pending free trade deal with Panama unless Gonzalez is removed from his post."
The site went down on "Martyrs’ Day" in Panama, "when the country commemorates the deaths of around 20 people in 1964 during clashes between anti-U.S. protesters and soldiers stationed in the Panama Canal Zone, then under U.S. control," adds Reuters.
Says the US Department of State site:
"The United States is deeply disappointed that the Panamanian National Assembly elected Pedro Miguel Gonzalez-Pinzon from among all its members to be Assembly President.
"Gonzalez and others have been indicted in the United States on charges including first degree murder, conspiracy to murder, and attempted murder of a U.S. national in the killing of U.S. Army Sergeant Zak Hernandez-Laporte and the attempted murder of U.S. Army Sergeant Ronald T. Marshall in an assault near Chilibre on June 10, 1992. There is an outstanding arrest warrant for Gonzalez.
"The United States wants those responsible for the murder of Sergeant Zak Hernandez-Laporte and the attempted murder of Sergeant Ronald Marshall to face justice."
Also See:-
Reuters – Hackers bring down Panama assembly’s Web site, January 22, 2008
Use free p2pnet newsfeeds for your site. It’s really easy!
Subscribe to p2pnet.net | | rss feed: http://p2pnet.net/p2p.rss | | Mobile – http://p2pnet.net/index-wml.php
Net access blocked by government restrictions? Use Psiphon from the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto. Go here for details. Download here.
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Unfortunatly this is not the first time that an elected official is actually a criminal, as if it seem to be a prequesite to be in power. The smartest criminal that can get away with crime win the election!
January 22nd, 2008 at 11:38 pm
“Prominent U.S. Congressional figures including Sen. Hillary Clinton have vowed not to ratify a pending free trade deal with Panama unless Gonzalez is removed from his post.”
Well Hillary Clinton is a part of the bilderberg secret society.
She and they want criminals to run the world, they have murdered people, committed countless genocidal incidents (sometimes under planned parenthood), and have hurt, and wanted to torture poor people, and the Al-Queda rebellions.
Clinton, Bush, Cheney, John Mccain, them all are Traitors.
when will people ever learn every country is runned by a bunch of crooks, it’s happened in Rome, they killed Jesus.
Criminals will continue to run the world until god snaps back at them like a snapping turtle.
January 23rd, 2008 at 1:36 am
There are many documented cases of the US harboring and protecting international terrorist and murders with no regard for international law. Crap, the whole war in Iraq was illegal by international law, so doesn’t that make Bush a mass murderer? But I guess I forgot the American slogan “Do as I say, not as I do.”
Why should Panama be made an example for just following their international trend? This guy killed only one person ….’supposedly’.
Its probably for the better however. Losing a free trade agreement with the US will at least allow Panama to retain it’s soul as an independant and sovereign nation.