Organizations that support the government will also be targeted

Aug 20, 2013 09:39 GMT  ·  By

Anonymous hacktivists have been involved in the campaign against the Bahrain government since February 2011. On Monday, in a video statement published on YouTube, the hackers announced that they were prepared to continue OpBahrain.

“Anonymous will attack various websites of the regime and also of anyone who supports the regime. This may include western pr firms who are paid to white wash the crimes of the dictator in Manama,” the hackers said.

“We call upon everyone outside of Bahrain to use their virtual skills to give Bahrainis their voice back. Bloggers, twitterians, facebookians, artists, hackers,” they stated.

The hackers' plans coincide with the start of a new phase of the rebellion, Tammarrod Bahrain, by the Bahrain Resistance.

Last week, the website of Bahrain’s Ministry of Interior was disrupted after hackers launched a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack against it.

The ministry’s representatives quickly came forward to deny being hacked, despite the fact that no one claimed to have breached anything.