Wikileaks under mass distributed denial of service attacks

DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service)

In short: Distributed Denial of Service, or DDoS. A group of computer users or an organization distributed across multiple systems floods the host's servers with spurious requests for access, Is showed in the below graph,  traffic to one of Wikileak’s primary hosting provider> At approximately 10:05am EST, traffic abruptly jumps by 2-4 Gbps as the attack begins.

The attack was "exceeding 10 Gigabits a second" 
Another way to think of it is that someone, somewhere is demanding that the WikiLeaks cablegate site deliver the equivalent of 114 movies per second
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DNS too (Dynamic Network Services Inc.)
On 2 December 2010 American owned EveryDNS dropped WikiLeaks from its entries, citing DDoS attacks that "threatened the stability of its infrastructure".The site's 'info' DNS lookup remained operational at alternative addresses for direct access respectively to the Wikileaks and Cablegate websites


The Hacker who took it down (The Jester)
th3j35t3r
So who is this hacker?
The hacker, who calls himself The Jester and goes by the name th3j35t3r on Twitter, said he was motivated to take down WikiLeaks for patriotic reasons. He also said his other targets include Web sites used by Al Qaeda and other terrorists groups for recruiting purposes.
What he used? - XerXeS
He apparently developed a multi-thread, thin-client denial of service attack application that effectively allows him to launch a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack on a website from a single linux server.
The everal interviews with The Jester, along with two videos he made for Infosec Island that demonst