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Re: Wikileaks releases new documents
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the rest - http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-a...obref=obinsiteMoscow's Bid to Blow Up WikiLeaks
As U.S. officials struggle to control damage from the secret cables, Russia is planning to block a similar dump about the Kremlin. And they will be ruthless, Philip Shenon reports.
American intelligence and law-enforcement agencies, outraged by their inability to stop WikiLeaks and its release this week of hundreds of thousands of sensitive U.S. diplomatic cables, are convinced that the whistleblowing website is about to come up against an adversary that will stop at nothing to shut it down: the Russian government.
National-security officials say that the National Security Agency, the U.S. government’s eavesdropping agency, has already picked up tell-tale electronic evidence that WikiLeaks is under close surveillance by the Russian FSB, that country’s domestic spy network, out of fear in Moscow that WikiLeaks is prepared to release damaging personal information about Kremlin leaders.
“We may not have been able to stop WikiLeaks so far, and it’s been frustrating,” a U.S. law-enforcement official tells The Daily Beast. “The Russians play by different rules.” He said that if WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, follow through on threats to post highly embarrassing information about the Russian government and what is assumed to be massive corruption among its leaders, “the Russians will be ruthless in stopping WikiLeaks.”
A U.S. military official said the U.S. assumed that WikiLeaks had access to sources who could supply the site with detailed, damaging information about Russian leaders; those sources would likely include wealthy Russian expatriates who have had the resources over the years to conduct far-ranging private investigations of graft among Kremlin leaders, including their movement of assets outside Russia.Comment
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List of facilities 'vital to US security' leaked
Ningbo port in south-eastern China, one of the facilities on the US list
A long list of key facilities around the world that the US describes as vital to its national security has been released by Wikileaks.
The US State Department in February 2009 asked all US missions abroad to list all installations whose loss could critically affect US national security.
The list includes pipelines, communication and transport hubs.
Several UK sites are listed, including cable locations, satellite sites and BAE Systems plants.
This is probably the most controversial document yet from the Wikileaks organisation.
The definition of US national security revealed by the cable is broad and all embracing.
There are obvious pieces of strategic infrastructure like communications hubs, gas pipelines and so on. However, other facilities on the list include:
* Cobalt mine in Congo
* Anti-snake venom factory in Australia
* Insulin plant in Denmark
The US missions were asked to list all installations whose loss could critically impact the public health, economic security or national security of the United States.
In Britain, for example, the list ranges from Cornwall to Scotland, including key satellite communications sites and the places where trans-Atlantic cables make landfall.
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A number of BAE Systems plants involved in joint weapons programmes with the Americans are listed, along with a marine engineering firm in Edinburgh which is said to be "critical" for nuclear powered submarines.
'Targets for terror'
The geographical range of the document is extraordinary.
If the US sees itself as waging a "global war on terror" then this represents a global directory of the key installations and facilities - many of them medical or industrial - that are seen as being of vital importance to Washington.
No wonder then that the Times newspaper in London has published the story under the headline "Wikileaks lists 'targets for terror' against the US".
Some locations are given unique billing. The Nadym gas pipeline junction in western Siberia, for example, is described as "the most critical gas facility in the world".
It is a crucial transit point for Russian gas heading for western Europe.
In some cases, specific pharmaceutical plants or those making blood products are highlighted for their crucial importance to the global supply chain.
Of course the critical question is that raised by the Times newspaper's headline: Is this really a listing of potential targets that might be of use to a terrorist?
The cable contains a simple listing. In many cases towns are noted as the location but not actual street addresses.
That, of course, is not going to hinder anyone with access to the internet.
There are also no details of security measures at any of the listed sites.
What the list might do is to prompt potential attackers to look at a broader range of targets, especially given that the US authorities classify them as being so important.
It is not perhaps a major security breach, but many governments may see it as an unhelpful development.
It inevitably prompts the question as to exactly what positive benefit Wikileaks was intending in releasing this document.
Former UK Foreign Secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind condemned the move.
"This is further evidence that they have been generally irresponsible, bordering on criminal," Sir Malcolm said. "This is the kind of information terrorists are interested in knowing."
The Main Leaks So Far
* Fears that terrorists may acquire Pakistani nuclear material
* Several Arab leaders urged attack on Iran over nuclear issue
* US instructs spying on key UN officials
* China's changing ties with North Korea
* Yemen approved US strikes on militants
* Personal and embarrassing comments on world leaders
* Afghan leader Hamid Karzai freed dangerous detainees
* Russia is a "virtual mafia state" with widespread corruption and bribery
* Afghan President Hamid Karzai is "paranoid and weak"
* The extent of corruption in Afghanistan
* Chinese leadership 'hacked Google'
* A list of key global facilities the US says are vital to its national securityLast edited by Muhaha; 12-05-2010, 11:16 PM.Comment
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Scotland Yard has arrest warrant for Assange: Reports
London, Dec 6 (DPA) British police have received a European warrant for the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, media reports said Monday.
However, a spokesman for Scotland Yard in London declined to confirm the receipt of a new arrest warrant for Assange, who is wanted for questioning in Sweden over sexual assault claims.
'We would not discuss the case until someone was arrested,' a Scotland Yard spokesman told DPA.
However, both the BBC and the Press Association (PA) quoted sources as saying that a fresh European arrest warrant had been issued by the authorities in Sweden and that it had reached the British authorities.
Solicitor Mark Stephens, who represents Assange, 39, said he would fight any move to extradite his client, who is reported to live in southeast England.
However, the arrival in Britain of an arrest warrant would mean that there is no longer any legal impediment to holding Assange and requiring him to appear before City of Westminster Magistrates' Court in London.
Stephens has described the accusations made against Assange as a 'political stunt' orchestrated by Sweden -- possibly at the behest of Washington.
WikiLeaks has been condemned by many governments for the ongoing publication of confidential US diplomatic cables which has caused consternation around the world.Comment
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Swiss bank closes WikiLeaks account
Bank account for whistleblowing website is frozen, the latest in a string of setbacks including disconnected servers.
PostFinance says it examined Assange's account because of his growing media profile [File: AFP]
A bank in Switzerland has closed an account set up to gather funds for the legal defence of the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange.
The PostFinance account was shut down on Monday after the banking arm of the country's post office said that Assange had provided incorrect information when applying.
"PostFinance has ended its business relationship with WikiLeaks founder Julian Paul Assange," the bank said in a statement.
"The Australian citizen provided false information regarding his place of residence during the account opening process."
Assange, who is believed to have been living at a secret location in the United Kingdom since the website began publishing hundreds of thousands of US diplomatic cables last week, had apparently given an undisclosed address in the Swiss city of Geneva as his residence.
PostFinance said the checks were made because of Assange's growing media exposure, making him a high profile client under due diligence requirements.
WikiLeaks setbacks
The closure was the latest setback for WikiLeaks, which has been under fire since it began releasing the leaked memos, communications between US missions abroad and the state department in Washington.
US-based online payment service PayPal on Friday blocked financial transfers to WikiLeaks after governments around the world initiated legal action against the website.
That move came after WikiLeaks' domain name provider had cut off the site and servers belonging to Amazon.com had stopped hosting it.
A Swiss website, wikileaks.ch, has been handling much WikiLeaks' traffic since then, but on Monday it apparently came under a distributed denial of service attack.
WikiLeaks, in a tweet to its followers on the social networking site Twitter, confirmed it was having difficulty with its servers but did not elaborate. "We are investigating the cause," it said.
The WikiLeaks site appears to have been subjected to a number of attacks since it began publishing the documents, which reveal details of US officials dealing with foreign governments.
Arrest warrant
Meanwhile, media reports in the UK said that British police had received a revised arrest warrant for Assange, who is wanted in Sweden on sex abuse charges.
"Director of Prosecution Ms. Marianne Ny has supplied the British Police with the requested additional information," the Swedish prosecution authority said in a statement.
"The matter is being dealt with by competent judicial authorities, as defined in the European Arrest Warrant Act."
Assange has denied the allegations of "rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion" and Mark Stephens, his lawyer, said on Sunday that the pursuit of his client has "political motivations".
The United States is also looking into taking legal action in accordance to the US Espionage Act against Assange over the release of the classified documents.
"That is certainly something that might play a role, but there are other statutes, other tools at our disposal," Eric Holder, the US attorney-general, said.
Some legal experts have said it would be difficult for the US to prosecute WikiLeaks or its founder for espionage, but other parts of US law make it easier to prosecute people for unauthorised disclosure of certain classified information.Comment
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And all this time I thought "Democracy" was about transparency and accountability. Fooled again
"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it." ~Malcolm XComment
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The BBC, as befitting a state-controlled media outlet - has been virulently anti-Wikileaks. Last sunday lunchtime, on their main radio news broadcast of the day, listeners were treated to a ten minute tirade by some extremist retired US politician which contained numerous death threats and ill-disguised invitations to murder, all broadcast without comment or objections by the BBC "interviewer".Originally posted by Muhaha View PostPlenipotentiary meow!Comment
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Though, if I were to extrapolate from my experience of dealing with Armenians, I'd say that if you are not getting death threats from idiots or extemists then you are doing it wrong.Originally posted by bell-the-cat View PostPlenipotentiary meow!Comment
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I would not be surprized if they do to this guy what they did to Osama. They will probably kidnap and kill him then they will publish new bs which they themselves fabricate claiming he is doing it and that there is a new cyber terrorist organization which needs to be dealt with via a new cyberwar. Its the same old crap with a slightly different flaver so enjoy.Hayastan or Bust.Comment
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