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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc has stopped hosting WikiLeaks'
website after an inquiry by the U.S. Senate Homeland Security Committee amid
anger about the release of classified U.S. government documents on the site.
WikiLeaks turned to Amazon to keep its site available after hackers tried to
flood it and thus prevent users from accessing the classified information
posted. WikiLeaks said Wednesday it was now being hosted by servers in
Europe.
Staff for Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman had
questioned Amazon about its relationship with WikiLeaks Tuesday and called
on other companies that provide web-hosting services to boycott WikiLeaks.
"I wish that Amazon had taken this action earlier based on WikiLeaks'
previous publication of classified material," Lieberman, an independent,
said in a statement. "I call on any other company or organization that is
hosting WikiLeaks to immediately terminate its relationship with them."
WikiLeaks has said since Sunday, when the first of its latest cache of U.S.
government documents were published by media outlets, that its site was the
target of a "distributed denial of service" attack, which is a computer
attack meant to overwhelm a website and render it unavailable. | p******u
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