DDos Motives? (Score 1)

I was wondering if the motives behind these attacks are not just script kiddies out to have some fun or impress Jodi Foster, but if a foreign government may have sanctioned them. Perhaps for the purpose of sending a message to the US Government or to the world at large that they can shut down the web at will. In the history of human conflict any advancement in science is invariably used at some point to provide an advantage to one government over another. Up to now I have seen very little that would indicate that the web would become a new medium for launching terrorist attacks. Could this be changing? I would be interested to know if any computer security professional have given thought to this possibility.