Cyber activists attacking organizations seen as foes of WikiLeaks briefly blocked a Dutch prosecution website on Friday after a 16-year-old boy suspected of involvement in the campaign was arrested in the country.

The campaigners tried to block the website of online payment firm Moneybookers, but denied their attacks were intended to create business turmoil or badly disrupt online Christmas shopping.

Several companies have ended services to WikiLeaks after it published thousands of secret U.S. diplomatic reports that have caused tension between Washington and several of its allies.

The website continued its release of U.S. cables yesterday, with the latest reports including a prediction by the U.S. ambassador to Cairo that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak would “inevitably” win 2011 polls and stay in office for life.

In Washington, a lawyer for Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks website, said she expects U.S. prosecutors will indict her client soon for espionage.

The lawyer, Jennifer Robinson, told ABC News in London that a U.S. indictment of Assange was imminent but the report offered no details about why Robinson believed charges were likely to be filed soon.

The Justice Department has been looking into a range of criminal charges, including violations of the 1917 Espionage Act, that could be filed in the WikiLeaks case involving the release of hundreds of confidential and classified U.S. diplomatic cables.

A Justice Department spokeswoman declined to comment on Robinson’s prediction.

In a documentary by Swedish broadcaster SVT, due to be aired Sunday and obtained in advance by The Associated Press, former WikiLeaks spokesman Daniel Domscheit-Berg said the new website will work as an outlet for anonymous sources.

“Openleaks is a technology project that is aiming to be a service provider for third parties that want to be able to accept material from anonymous sources,” Domscheit-Berg said

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