Was LulzSec bust part of a play against Julian Assange?

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http://www.csoonline.com/article/702098/was-lulzsec-bust-part-of-a-play-against-julian-assange-

By Taylor Armerding
CSO
March 13, 2012

Last week's arrests of five LulzSec leaders was major news in the 
hacktivist world, but it looks like that takedown may have been just an 
intermediate step in pursuit of a more prominent fugitive: WikiLeaks 
founder and editor-in-chief Julian Assange.

The first shock to the loose affiliation of political hackers known as 
Anonymous, of which LulzSec is a spinoff, is that those arrested last 
week had been turned in by their leader, Hector Xavier Monsegur, 28, of 
New York, known by his alias "Sabu."

Monsegur reportedly had been cooperating with the FBI since last summer. 
He was arrested in June and pleaded guilty in August to a dozen criminal 
charges.

And, according to multiple sources, Monsegur also provided an FBI-owned 
computer to facilitate the release of five million emails taken by 
LulzSec from the Texas-based, global private intelligence firm Stratfor, 
which are now being published by WikiLeaks.

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