WikiLeaks suffers denial of service attack

The whistle-blower site WikiLeaks is experiencing a distributed denial of service attack, according to the @wikileaks Twitter account.  

The entire site has been made unavailable to internet users. When surfing to wikileaks.org, users are being presented with the following message.


 












Some of the American Embassy documents leaked contained nicknames for a number of world leaders. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is referred to as "Hitler," French President Nicolas Sarkozy as a "naked emperor," the German Chancellor is called Angela "Teflon" Merkel.

One of the documents refers to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddhafi's full-time nurse as a "hot blond," and another states that Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi loves "wild parties."