Rogue elements of the Mahdi Army are ignoring Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's seven-month-old ceasefire order.
Sheik Salah al-Obaydi, head of Sadr's media committee, says they have dealt with the rogue elements.
Anonymous's informal structure increases the chances that rogue elements can initiate action without widespread support, said Graham Cluley, of security firm Sophos.
After all, it was rogue elements in al-Aqsa, rather than in tighter-controlled Hamas, that have so far been responsible for the cracks in the truce.
Mr Nasheed's Maldives Democratic Party (MDP) said the president's resignation had been engineered by "rogue elements" of the police and military, along with supporters of former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom.
The responsibility could lie with rogue elements within the Indonesian army and police, who feel they have invested so much in East Timor that they are not prepared to give it up.
"The concern I have is about illegal leaks coming from apparently rogue elements within the Secret Service of privacy-protected information, " said attorney Lawrence Berger, general counsel for the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association which represents Secret Service agents and other said.
The Clinton administration wants desperately to believe that President Yeltsin does not know anything about this activity -- that it is the product of "rogue elements" and bureaucratic inertia, not a breakdown of civilian control or, worse yet, a sign of a dangerous new direction in Russian foreign policy.
On Thursday, the U.S. military made clear that it is unwilling to say the cease-fire is over, with a spokesman saying the military still believes only rogue Shiite elements are responsible.
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was personally overseeing operations in the southern city against what government officials called "rogue" or "outlaw" militia elements, most loyal to al-Sadr.
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