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WikiLeaks | Timeline | The Cables
WikiLeaks Haiti: Country's Elite Used Police as Private Army A secret US Embassy cable describes how Haiti's business elite armed and deployed police units in pro-Aristide strongholds like Bel Air and Cite Soleil after the 2004 coup.Mevs "defended the idea of the private sector arming the police in general, but he lamented the haphazard manner in which many of his colleagues seemed to be handing out weapons with little control," the cable says. Mevs also worried "that funneling the arms secretly would only serve to reinforce rumors that the elite were creating private armies," which in fact was happening.

Wikileaks: no bloodshed inside Tiananmen Square, cables claim Secret cables from the United States embassy in Beijing have shown there was no bloodshed inside Tiananmen Square when China put down student pro-democracy demonstrations 22 years ago.

U.S. court may be concealing secret demands for WikiLeaks-related records

WikiLeaks Documents Hint of Slick Plans for Arctic Oil

WikiLeaks cables show oil a major focus of US diplomats

Arcadia (trading firm) may have rigged Yemen exports: cable Oil trading firm Arcadia Petroleum, sued by regulators last week for allegedly manipulating U.S. oil prices, used hardball tactics in Yemen to buy the country's oil exports at below market prices, until authorities revamped their sales process to break the trading house's "long-standing monopoly", according to a confidential State Department cable.

5 WikiLeaks Revelations Exposing the Rapidly Growing Corporatism Dominating American Diplomacy Abroad S officials work as salespeople for Boeing. The merger of state and corporate power is striking in a slew of cables detailing US State Department officials acting as marketing agents on behalf of one lucky corporation. Earlier this year the New York Times revealed details about how US diplomats have actively promoted the sale of commercial jets built by the US company Boeing.

Prosecutor general refused to investigate corruption: WikiLeaks  Osorio agreed with a U.S. demand to polygraph officials from his unit but refused to create an anti-corruption unit on the grounds that he could not assign this important jurisdiction to an entirely new unit. The role therefore, he suggested, would have to come from an ad-hoc unit. Osorio also adamantly denied having any personal contact with illegal groups though the then-U.S. Ambassador William B. Wood expressed his reservation over the handling of some cases, with those who zealously pursued the conviction of drug traffickers or former paramilitary soldiers ultimately being dismissed before the investigation produced results.

RIOT POLICE AT BRADLEY MANNING RALLY; ELLSBERG SAYS OF QUANTICO

Police BRUTALITY Against Col. Ann Wright and Daniel Ellsberg at FREE BRADLEY MANNING Protest

WikiLeaks Cables Cause Uproar In India Over Nuke Deal With U.S. Indian politicians are in a stew over cables released by WikiLeaks suggesting that Indian lawmakers were paid millions of dollars to vote in favor of a civil nuclear deal with the U.S.

New round of Wikileaks cables on Romania: energy sector, political

US sought foreign treatment for Guantanamo detainees, cable shows

Haaretz WikiLeaks exclusive / Chinese company selling nuclear equipment to Iran

WikiLeaks cables seek to tear Australia's 'race' mask In the cables, US embassy officials quote Australian high commissioner to India Peter Varghese, an ethnic Malayali, and Bob Birrell, Australia’s preeminent scholar on population and migration studies. “... the Australian high commissioner in Delhi did acknowledge race has likely played a role in some of the attacks,” notes Dan Clune, deputy chief of mission of the US embassy in Canberra, in a cable dated January 2009.

Bradley Manning Threatened Stepmother With Knife, 911 Call ...

Nepal: WikiLeaks reveals US intervention against peace process

WikiLeaks cables describe H-1B fraud attempts A cable sent from the U.S. embassy in Mexico City, written two years ago this month, said that Mexico presents "persistent fraud problems" for the H-1B and L-1 visa programs as applicants "overstate experience, education, or future job responsibilities in efforts to bolster their applications."

US nuclear regulator a policeman or salesman? The Nuclear Regulatory Commission exists to police, not promote, the domestic nuclear industry--but diplomatic cables show that it is sometimes used as a sales tool to help push American technology to foreign government

WikiLeaks Suspect Being Moved Out of Quantico

Leaked cables: US helped Israel contain UN Gaza war probe The United States worked behind the scenes to help Israel contain UN probes into possible war crimes. The United States worked behind the scenes to help Israel contain UN probes into possible war crimes committed during the 2008-2009 Gaza war, Foreign Policy reported Tuesday. The online foreign affairs magazine cited exclusive WikiLeaks cables detailing moves by the US ambassador to the UN Susan Rice to prevent a more thorough UN investigation of alleged abuses during the conflict.   Some 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed during the three-week-long Israeli offensive in December 2008 and January 2009, which was aimed at halting Palestinian rocket attacks.

Leavenworth gets WikiLeaks suspect

WikiLeaks files detail U.S. unease over Turks and charter schools ...Classified documents recently released by WikiLeaks recount U.S. officials' growing concern over large numbers of Turkish men seeking visas to work at American charter schools founded by followers of Fethullah Gulen, a powerful Turkish Muslim political figure who lives in the Poconos.

Army: Manning Snuck 'Data-Mining' Software Onto Secret Network

Wikileaks Release Shows US Secretly Backed Syrian Opposition

WikiLeaks secret about Hariri plan to overthrow Assad: never a secret

Assange ambushes Australian Prime Minister on live TV

"Anonymous" Hackers Release Bank of America Emails, Allegedly Showing "Corruption and Fraud" Balboa deals in so-called force-placed insurance coverage on mortgages. The e-mail messages concern the removal of information linking loans to other documentation...The e-mails dating from November 2010 concern correspondence among Balboa employees in which they discuss taking steps to alter the record about certain documents “that went out in error.” The documents were related to loans by GMAC, a Bank of America client, according to the e-mails. Anonymous has posted the emails to the website BankofAmericaSuck.com, which was experiencing intermittent outages this morning (likely due to high traffic). The documents are also available for direct download here. The leak was announced on Twitter with the hashtag #BlackMonday. Bank Of America Anonymous Leak Alleges 'Corruption And Fraud' The claims of the person purporting to be a former employee appear to begin with so-called "forced-place insurance," in which a mortgage borrower who doesn't maintain an insurance policy on their home has a policy "placed" for them by their insurer. The problem with forced-place insurance, as Felix Salmon noted in November, comes when a mortgage servicer owns an insurer. This can allow for highly inflated premiums and inadequate policies forced upon borrowers without their knowledge.

Cambridge students removed from Assange talk for alleged recording

Wikileaks controversy forces US ambassador to Mexico to resign

Interrogator in Assange Case Friend With Woman Accusing WikiLeaks Founder

WikiLeaks: Cable identified 23 in Australia with al-Qaida links

Stripped naked every night, Bradley Manning tells of prison ordeal

US targeted EU on GM foods: WikiLeaks The then U.S. ambassador to France, Craig Stapleton, asked the government to penalize the EU and particularly countries that banned the use of genetically modified (GM) crops.

WikiLeaks reveals disturbing business practices of Buffett's BYD Reuters, though, citing documents it received by a third party from WikiLeaks, charges that BYD's battery tech may not be all its cracked up to be, and that sales of its EVs are painfully slow. Further, officials such as Guanzhou Consul-General Brian Goldbeck reportedly said two years ago that BYD's vehicles may pass China's lax copyright laws, but aren't likely to in other countries.

Wikileaks Tie Indonesia's President to Corruption, but There Is The accusations, part of a swath of US diplomatic cables published Friday by Australian newspaper The Age, which obtained them exclusively from Wikileaks, are ambiguous about Yudhoyono's involvement in corruption. But they do say he paid off judges not to press charges against political allies and hired intelligence forces to spy on his opponents.

Cable Leaked by WikiLeaks Shows Details of BAE Saudi Arms Deal Britain's Serious Fraud Office began its investigation of possible bribes in the 1980s, but finally dropped it in December 2006, at the insistence of then-Prime Minister Tony Blair. Government officials said at the time that the safety of British citizens was at stake because the Saudis had threatened to withhold intelligence information about terrorists. [see CC cover story, December 2008] The leaked diplomatic cable, sent from Paris and written four months after the bribe probe collapsed, says an SFO official told a private group meeting in Paris in 2007 that it had evidence that BAE paid more than $113 million to a Saudi prince with influence over a series of contracts for fighter jets with Saudi Arabia. The accusations, part of a swath of US diplomatic cables published Friday by Australian newspaper The Age, which obtained them exclusively from Wikileaks, are ambiguous about Yudhoyono's involvement in corruption. But they do say he paid off judges not to press charges against political allies and hired intelligence forces to spy on his opponents.

Twitter must give user info in Wikileaks probe

U.S. Files 22 Charges Against Alleged WikiLeaks Source The U.S. military has filed 22 charges against alleged WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning. According to NBC News, Manning is facing a charge of "aiding the enemy," which can carry the death sentence.

PFC Manning Forced to Strip Naked (& stand at front of his cell-for seven hours)Last night, PFC Manning was inexplicably stripped of all clothing by the Quantico Brig.  He remained in his cell, naked, for the next seven hours.  At 5:00 a.m., the Brig sounded the wake-up call for the detainees.  At this point, PFC Manning was forced to stand naked at the front of his cell. 

Missile shield 'blind to nuclear weapons' Wikileaks: Radar used in US missile shield inadequate.

WikiLeaks: Israel's secret hotline to the man tipped to replace Mubarak

Air Force legal office: All our members can be prosecuted

for reading WikiLeaks... military families especially

BoA Vile 2     BoA Full WL Attack Document via Wikileaks 

Security firms planned to target Greenwald
Companies plot against WikiLeaks involved targeting Salon columnist.

Air Force Rescinds New Guidance on WikiLeaks Secrecy News reported Monday on strange new guidance from the Air Force Materiel Command declaring that Air Force employees and even their family members could be prosecuted under the Espionage Act for accessing the WikiLeaks web site. On Monday night that new guidance was abruptly withdrawn.

 

PayPal cuts off Bradley Manning support group "We’ve been in discussions with PayPal for weeks, and by their own admission there’s no legal obligation for them to close down our account," said Loraine Reitman of the Bradley Manning Support Network. "This was an internal policy decision by PayPal."Online payment provider PayPal has apparently frozen the account of Courage to Resist, a group raising funds to support US Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, the whistleblower accused of passing classified documents to WikiLeaks.paypal-evil.htm   Evil PayPal Restores Service for Manning Support

WikiLeaks: Bahrain opposition 'received training from Hizbollah'

Anonymous speaks: The inside story of the HBGary hack HBGary Federal CEO Aaron Barr hit with brutal cyber attacks after claiming to have unmasked Anonymous.

WikiLeaks plans to sue former associate Former spokesman who decried Assange's style accused of sabotage.

HBGary CEO Also Suggested Tracking, Intimidating WikiLeaks’ DONORS ("We Will Come After Them")

Intel firm apologizes for role in plot against WikiLeaks

US Chamber’s Lobbyists Solicited Hackers To Sabotage Unions, Smear Chamber’s Political Opponents

WikiLeaks: 'Lord Dannatt wrong on troop numbers'  Senior civil servant secretly told US that Britain’s top general was wrong after he called for more troops.

 

WikiLeaks points to US meddling in Haiti Minustah's commander, Brazilian Army General Urano Teixeira da Matta Bacellar, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 2005. In January 2006, Bacellar was found shot dead on his balcony, after what his government described first as a 'firearm accident' and then as 'suicide'. Bacellar had earlier resisted calls to use his UN peacekeeping force to crack down on pro-Aristide rebels

PA's foreknowledge of the Gaza war? Did the PA know about the Gaza war in advance? That's a question raised by several exchanges in The Palestine Papers

PA stonewalled the Goldstone vote PA, with US encouragement, delayed a UN vote on the Goldstone Report into war crimes committed during Israel's Gaza war.

Germany And U.S. Building Secret Spy Project Germany's aerospace center denied Monday that it is working with the U.S. on a $270 million high-tech secret spy program, insisting that its plans for a high-resolution optical satellite have purely scientific and security uses.

World condemns UK control orders Human rights groups attack one of the 'most serious violations' of justice in developed democracies Campaigners from the Middle East, North and South America, Africa and Europe – including the UK human rights group Liberty – have signed a statement condemning punishment without charge or trial as an affront to democratic values.

US urged allies to boost cell phone service to target terrorists The Pakistanis also agreed to "install cell phone towers in the tribal areas [to] disrupt cross-border attacks and improve our intelligence capabilities."

Wikileaks: Iranian president slapped by top Revolutionary Guard

Report: FBI seizes server in probe of WikiLeaks attacks The FBI has seized a server in Texas as part of its hunt for the groups behind the pro-WikiLeaks denial-of-service attacks

‘Anonymous’ defaces Zimbabwe gov't sites    The websites were hit with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks after Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's wife, Grace Mugabe, sued a newspaper for publishing a WikiLeaks cable that alleged she was connected with illicit diamond trade.

Wikileaks: Israeli blockade targeted Gaza economy A U.S. diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks says Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip was meant to push the area's economy "to the brink of collapse."

Karzai Keeps Minister Considered Corrupt by US

WikiLeaks' Assange: 2,000 sites now have all documents

Wikileaks Releases Oft-Discussed April Glaspie 1990 Cable from Iraq Before Kuwait Invasiont

WikiLeaks: U.S. Diplomats Acted As Boeing Salespeople

U.S. Tells Twitter to Hand Over WikiLeaks Supporter's Messages

WikiLeaks Cables Cited in Lawsuit Over $500-Million Sunken Treasure

U.S. Warns Hundreds Could Be At Risk Due To WikiLeaks

allegedly punched Vietnamese official Christian Marchant allegedly shoved and punched a local official in the face after being after being "roughed up"

US DOJ has demanded information on all Twitter followers

In WikiLeaks fight, U.S. journalists take a pass Just three years after a major court confrontation that saw many of America's most important journalism organizations file briefs on WikiLeaks' behalf, much of the U.S. journalistic community has shunned founder Julian Assange — even as reporters write scores, if not hundreds, of stories based on WikiLeaks' trove of leaked State Department cables. » read more

Assange: WikiLeaks Has Dirt On Murdoch

Swiss Whistleblower Plans to Hand Over Offshore Banking Secrets of Rich and Famous  The offshore bank account details of 2,000 "high net worth individuals" and corporations – detailing massive potential tax evasion – will be handed over to the WikiLeaks organisation in London tomorrow by the most important and boldest whistleblower in Swiss banking history, Rudolf Elmer, two days before he goes on trial in his native Switzerland.

WikiLeaks subpoenas spill out into public realmInvestigative documents in the WikiLeaks probe spilled out into the public domain Saturday for the first time, pointing to the Obama administration's determination to assemble a criminal case no matter how long it takes and how far afield authorities have to go. Backed by a magistrate judge's court order from Dec. 14, the newly disclosed documents sent to Twitter Inc. by the U.S. attorney's office in Alexandria, Va., demand details about the accounts of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and Pfc. Bradley Manning, the Army intelligence analyst who's in custody and suspected of supplying WikiLeaks with classified information. The others whose Twitter accounts are targeted in the prosecutors' demand are Birgitta Jonsdottir, an Icelandic parliamentarian and one-time WikiLeaks collaborator; Dutch hacker Rop Gonggrijp; and U.S. programmer Jacob Appelbaum. Gonggrijp and Appelbaum have worked with WikiLeaks in the past.

WikiLeaks Contributes $15,000 to Bradley Manning’s Defense

Israelis ‘demanded bribes at Gaza crossing,’ WikiLeaks reveals US firms complained in 2006 of corruption by Israeli officials at the Karni crossing into Gaza, then the Palestinian territory's main commercial transit point, a leaked US diplomatic cable showed Thursday.

Wikileaks claims Irishman gunned down in Bolivia was set up The diplomatic cable from La Paz released by Wikileaks says Dwyer was hired by disguised Bolivian intelligence agents and set up to mount a phony terrorist campaign. The cable says this campaign would have given President Evo Morales an excuse to go after right wing critics of his.

WikiLeaks' Most Terrifying Revelation: Just How Much Our Government Lies to Us

Amnesty International to Sec. Gates: Manning's Detention "Unnecessarily Harsh & Punitive"

Introducing The Palestine Papers Israel rejected Palestinian offer of almost all Jerusalem: leaked docs

mp-spy-ops.pdf  Covert US Army Spy Operations Manual FOUO 

wajac-spy.zip  Covert US Army Spying Dossier 

ja-spy-twice.htm   A confidential 1525 page file of correspondence [Dead link. Cryptome mirror: http://cryptome.org/0003/wajac-spy.zip 57MB)] released to the public by WikiLeaks provides insights into the privatization of intelligence operations in the United States and the movement of such individuals into domestic intelligence "fusion" centers.  Such intelligence "fusion" centers, which combine the military, the FBI, state police, and others, have been internally promoted by the US Army as means to avoid restrictions preventing the military from spying on the domestic population. [Dead link. Cryptome mirror: http://cryptome.org/dodi/mp-spy-ops.pdf

MI6 drew up plan for Hamas crackdown

Mosques and radio stations in secret MI6 strategy

Israel asked Palestinian Authority to kill commander

U.S. can't link accused Army private to Assange Military also denies allegations that Bradley M The officials say that while investigators have determined that Manning had allegedly unlawfully downloaded tens of thousands of documents onto his own computer and passed them to an unauthorized person, there is apparently no evidence he passed the files directly to Assange, or had any direct contact with the controversial WikiLeaks figure.

Marines change commander at facility where WikiLeaks suspect (Bradley Manning) held

Five arrested over 'Anonymous' web attacks

Visa-funded inquiry finds no WikiLeaks crimes Norway-based company Teller AS, hired by Visa, reports no evidence found that site violated Icelandic law

Mass FBI raids target 'Operation Payback' Following the arrest of five people in Britain in connection with the "Operation Payback" cyber-attacks in support of WikiLeaks, the FBI announced mass raids across the United States in connection with the case.FBI Issues 40 Warrants Seeking WikiLeaks 'Hacktivists'

WikiLeaks ISP anonymizes traffic to dodge data retention laws The Internet service provider (ISP) hosting WikiLeaks' servers is fighting back against the European Data Retention Directive by running all customer traffic through an encrypted virtual private network (VPN) service before logging it.

WikiLeaks probe: Army commanders were told not to send Manning to Iraq

US cable claims Swiss linked Iran, Gitmo to UBS -- A leaked U.S. diplomatic cable claims the Swiss government linked economic sanctions against Iran and the resettlement of Guantanamo detainees to the tax evasion case against UBS AG in the United States.

Confidential US diplomatic cables from 2005 and 2006 released this week by WikiLeaks reveal Washington's well-known obsession to keep exiled former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide out of Haiti and Haitian affairs. (On Thursday, Aristide issued a public letter in which he reiterated "my readiness to leave today, tomorrow, at any time" from South Africa for Haiti, because the Haitian people "have never stopped calling for my return" and "for medical reasons", concerning his eyes.)

Sealed Court Order to Twitter, requesting to hand over records of Wikileaks volunteers to US DOJ, 14 Dec 2010

WikiLeaks memo belies Hu's glossy pitch to U.S. Chinese President Hu Jintao this week restated pledges to crack down on illegal business practices and painted a rosy picture for foreign investors, but confidential U.S. diplomatic cables tell a far different story for U.S. businesses. » read more Don't have translation on all this yet but apparently this Aftenposten piece today reveals that the U.S. tried to prevent "Baby Doc" Duvalier from returning to Haiti in 2006, according to cables. 

Turkey Allowed US 'Extraordinary Rendition': WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks: Iran developing nuclear bomb with help of more than 30 countries Aftenposten said that according to the cables, obtained by WikiLeaks, more than 350 Iranian companies and organizations were involved in the pursuit of nuclear and missile technology between 2006 and 2010

Anti Wikileaks government praises Ellsberg While excoriating Julian Assange, the State Department lauds Pentagon Papers film

The Gazprom Cables: 'Not a Competitive Global Company'

U.S. Treasury: We Can't Blacklist WikiLeaks

Assange Fears 'Guantanamo' Or 'Death Penalty' If Extradited To U.S.

US suspected Stanford long before ECB deal  More than two years before he touched down in a helicopter at Lord's cricket ground bearing $20m, US diplomats were so concerned about rumours of "bribery, money-laundering and political manipulation" surrounding Allen Stanford that they avoided contacting him or being photographed with him.

Assange Once Again Threatens a U.S. Bank (enough material to make bosses of a major US bank resign)

Bradley Manning Speaks About His Conditions

WikiLeaks Cables Reveal U.S. Sought to Retaliate Against Europe over Monsanto GM Crops U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks reveal the Bush administration drew up ways to retaliate against Europe for refusing to use genetically modified seeds

(Australian) Journalists' union shows support for Assange

WikiLeaks: Chasing loose nuke material Two cables from 2007 detailed the discovery of uranium in "multiple containers" in the Democratic Republic of Congo. "All items have marking and labels indicating that they were produced in Belgium," one says.

McDonald's used US to put pressure on El Salvador McDonald's tried to delay the US government's implementation of a free-trade agreement in order to put pressure on El Salvador to appoint neutral judges in a $24m (£15.5m) lawsuit it was fighting in the country. The revelation of the McDonald's strategy to ensure a fair hearing for a long-running legal battle against a former franchisee comes from a leaked US embassy cable dated 15 February 2006.

Fatah asked Israel to help attack Hamas during Gaza coup, WikiLeaks cable shows

Larry Flynt gives $50K to Wikileaks defense

Tanzania official investigating BAE 'fears for his life' The Tanzanian prosecutor investigating worldwide misconduct by BAE, Britain's biggest arms company, confided to US diplomats that "his life may be in danger" and senior politicians in his small African country were "untouchable".

In advising Sweden's prime minister, Rove may have hand in Assange prosecution: sources Speaking to Legal Schnauzer's Robert Shuler, an unnamed source suggested that Rove is likely "playing a leading role in the effort to prosecute" Assange. The founder of the secrets website was arrested Dec. 7 in London after Sweden issued a warrant for alleged sex crimes. After Assange's release on bail, Guardian obtained and published leaked details of the allegations against him. A WikiLeaks source told The Australian that the leaked police reports were "a selective smear through the disclosure of material." And there's no coincidence that the charges against Assange originate in Sweden, Shuler's source said. For at least 10 years, Rove has been connected to Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik. More recently, Fredrik, who is known as "the Ronald Reagan of Europe," has contracted Rove to help with his 2010 re-election campaign.

New WikiLeaks Africa Revelations

Wikileaks Reveals U.S. Role in June 12 Crisis (news)

WikiLeaks Reveals Candid Description's of Continent's Leaders (news)

WikiLeaks cables: Don't trust Israel on Iran    Officials gently mock the Israeli habit of making bogus predictions about when Iran will obtain a nuclear bomb

Cables Describe Scale of Afghan Corruption as Overwhelming

Lieberman Strikes Again Against Wikileaks' Web Wikileaks had been using Tableau's hosted charting software to display visualization of the State Department cables. The company now says that it removed the charts in response to Senator Joe Lieberman's public request.

Afghan contempt for British exposed President Hamid Karzai, Helmand governor and US commander criticise British failure to impose security and engage with Afghans

Germany accuses US over 'missing' Afghan funds, WikiLeaks cables show The US military has been charging its allies a 15% handling fee on hundreds of millions of dollars being raised internationally to build up the Afghan army. Germany has threatened to cancel contributions.In protests in Berlin, Brussels, and Washington last February the German government demanded to know what was happening to the money, why earmarked projects were not going ahead and why the US military was taking 15%.

Afghan vice-president 'landed in Dubai with $52m in cash' Couriers are said to usually carry the money on Pamir Airlines, which is jointly owned by Kabul Bank and influential Afghans such as Mahmood Karzai, one of the president's brothers, and Mohammad Fahim, a Tajik warlord who was Hamid Karzai's vice-presidential running mate in the August 2009 election.Other high-profile Afghans involved in amassing extraordinary wealth in Dubai include Sher Khan Farnood, the chairman of Kabul Bank who was disgraced this summer after corrupt loans at the bank almost brought down Afghanistan's fragile financial system.

Lebanese Newspaper Publishes U.S. Cables Not Found on WikiLeaks One series of cables from Baghdad reports that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki replaced hundreds of his most experienced intelligence and security officials with under-qualified "political officers" in advance of the 2010 Iraq elections.  Another series from Beirut in 2008 shows Lebanese Defense Minister Elias al-Murr telling U.S. diplomats, in a message he implied they should pass on to Israeli officials, that the Lebanese military would not resist an Israeli invasion so long as the Israeli forces abided by certain conditions. Murr, apparently hoping that an Israeli invasion would destroy much of the Hezbollah insurgency and the communities in Lebanon's south that support it, promised an Israeli invasion would go unchallenged as long as it did not pass certain physical boundaries and did not bomb Christian communities

STATE DEPT. OFFICIAL TELLS STUDENTS: DON'T DISCUSS WIKILEAKS ON FACEBOOK OR TWITTER...OR ELSE

SVT reports the US had illegal cooperation with Swedish security services According to Swedish television SVT, Wikileaks documents reveal that Swedish authorities have had a cooperation with the US Government that the public did not know about. For years, Sweden have been handing over information about Swedish citizens to America - and had known about American surveillance of Swedish citizens. The goal was to identify people who might be associated with terrorism.

US fears on Taliban cash revealed    Leaked US cables show Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states as key sources for funds for al-Qaeda and Taliban.

Wikileaks: Hezbollah Rockets Cover All of Israel Gareth Porter: Balance of forces in Middle East has changed with Hezbollah able to "cover entire territory of Israel" with rockets

WikiLeaks Cables Reveal How US Manipulated Climate Accord

Military Tries To Intimidate Soldiers Into Not Reading Wikileaks

PAYPAL drops Wikileaks from money flow.

Facebook and Twitter not removing WikiLeaks, yet

The Bolivian government is now hosting WikiLeaks Cablegate documents on its official servers

PayPal Admits U.S. Pressure Caused It To Stop WikiLeaks Payments

Australia blames US for cable leaks Australia says US is legally responsible for loss of its secret documents, not detained WikiLeaks founder.

Kremlin Suggests WikiLeaks Founder For Nobel Prize

US may investigate media outlets for reporting on WikiLeaks, Sen. Lieberman tells Fox News   WikiLeaks has pledged to continue releasing confidential documents after Julian Assange, the website's founder and chief, arrived at court for an extradition hearing. Mr Assange handed himself over to police in central London on Tuesday morning after a warrant was issued for his arrest on rape charges. But ahead of his first court appearance a spokesman for the website insisted the arrest would not prevent the planned release of further cables on Tuesday

Threats Made to Son of Founder

Wikileaks defended by Anonymous hacktivists

Hackers take down site of bank that froze WikiLeaks funds

Payments firm Xipline now taking WikiLeaks donations
MASTERCARD, VISA CUT OFF WIKILEAKS

Assange invokes Murdoch in editorial defending leaks Julian Assange, the founder of the website WikiLeaks, released an editorial in an Australian newspaper just as he was arrested in Britain, in which he passionately defends his release of secret US embassy cables. Soldiers in Iraq attempting to read the leaked cables -- or even read articles about them -- get a redirect notice on their government network saying they’re on the verge of breaking the law.

WikiLeaks: Cables reveal U.S. military role in Muslim world From the Saudi-Yemen border to lawless Somalia and the north-central African desert, the U.S. military is more engaged in armed conflicts in the Muslim world than the U.S. government openly acknowledges, according to cables released by the WikiLeaks website. » read more

Pro-WikiLeaks cyber army gains strength; thousands join DDoS attacks

Pfizer used dirty tricks to avoid clinical trial payout Cables say drug giant hired investigators to find evidence of corruption on Nigerian attorney general to persuade him to drop legal action

Julian Assange put in segregation unit as lawyers aim for bail (being given limited internet access)

UN Rapporteur says Assange Shouldn't Be Prosecuted (Also UN Commissioner for Human Rights Concerned)

Newspaper Website Shutdown Over WikiLeaks A Lebanese newspaper, Al-Akhbar, is saying that it was attacked by a hacker after publishing U.S. diplomatic cables after receiving advance files from WikiLeaks.

New cables shine a light on Burma's "haphazard" nuclear program being built deep in the jungle, reports the Guardian. North Korea is allegedly helping the military-junta ruled nation to develop nuclear weapons capability, although both nations have denied those allegations. You can find more information here.

WikiLeaks Congressional Hearing Set for Dec. 16

Ron Paul Vigorously Defends WikiLeaks

Assange accuser flees to Middle East

Shell's grip on Nigerian state revealed US embassy cables reveal top executive's claims that company 'knows everything' about key decisions in oil-rich Niger Delta The oil giant Shell claimed it has inserted its staff into all key ministries of the Nigerian government,

TWITTER CUTS OFF OPERATION PAYBACK

U.S. Military Contractors In Afghanistan Hired Child Prostitutes

Rape Case Against WikiLeaks Founder Falling Apart? The rape accusations against Julian Assange may be falling apart as one of his accusers leaves Sweden. Anna Ardin, one of two women behind the rape charges against the WIkiLeaks founder, may no longer be cooperating with prosecutors, the Australian website Crikey reports.

Russia's Putin raps West over Assange arrest Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange showed the West was hypocritical in its criticism of Russia's record on democracy

16-year old arrested in Netherlands for hacker attacks on Mastercard, Visa and Paypal

As Cyber War Heats Up, Hacktivists Post MasterCard Numbers Online

09ISLAMABAD1152 U.S. REMOVAL OF PAKISTAN RESEARCH REACTOR FUEL ON

British judge grants bail to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

Relatives of Spanish cameraman killed in Baghdad use WikiLeaks (as evidence) to press for justice  In what could be the first legal case to use filtered WikiLeaks documents as evidence, the family of a Spanish cameraman killed in 2003 by a US tank shell during the battle for Baghdad filed a complaint Monday. They seek to open an investigation into whether high-ranking officials here colluded with the US Embassy to stop charges being filed against three American soldiers, including a colonel.

WikiLeaks cables show US public-private conflict over Uzbekistan

WikiLeaks cables paint bleak picture of Tajikistan, central Asia's poorest state

WikiLeaks cables name UK banker as middleman in Kazakh corruption ring

Visa, Mastercard, PostFinance under investigation The Icelandic Parliamentary General Committee met yesterday to discuss the ban that Visa and Mastercard placed on donations to WikiLeaks, reports The Reykjavik Grapevine. In attendance were representatives of Icelandic electronic payment companies Valitor and Borgun, which work with Visa and Mastercard, The Consumers' Alliance, Amnesty International, and WikiLeaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson, who joined via video link.

Dutch Arrest Man for Attack on Prosecutor's Website

Julian Assange like a high-tech terrorist, says Joe Biden

Cable: Yemen nuclear material went unsecured

SWEDISH claims about Assange leaked.

How WikiLeaks killed Spain's file-share law
Cables revealed US pressure on Spain to toughen rules on file-sharing

WikiLeaks cables: US intervened in Michael Moore NZ screening

WikiLeaks cables: Iraq security firms operate 'mafia' to inflate prices

Norwegian Newpaper gets its hands on WikiLeaks cables (All 250,000)

UN looking into WikiLeaks suspect's (Pfc. Bradley Manning) treatment

Pentagon bars own journalists from reading Wikileaks

Soldier Accused Of Leaking WikiLeaks Docs Endures Shocking Imprisonment Detained U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning's supporters went public with their concerns about the harsh conditions of his imprisonment — he has no access to exercise or even a pillow and bedsheets during his solitary confinement — only after their complaints to the military over several months went unheeded.

WikiLeaks cables: India accused of systematic use of torture in Kashmir US officials had evidence of widespread torture by Indian police and security forces and were secretly briefed by Red Cross staff about the systematic abuse of detainees in Kashmir, according to leaked diplomatic cables released tonight.

WikiLeaks Cables Show Ireland Caved To Vatican Pressure To Protect Officials In Sex Abuse Scandal

US rejected Polish call for help in alleged CIA prison probe

Treason charges against Tsvangirai dismissed (WikiLeaks cables)

U.S. long concerned by Khodorkovsky trial, cables on WikiLeaks show

Treason charges against Tsvangirai dismissed (WikiLeaks cables)

WikiLeaks writers in Kenya were 'assassinated' in '09

US declined to help UAE probe suspected Mossad
assassination, then lied about request, leaked cable reveals

Cable: Aussie police compiled 'hit lists' of Afghan drug traffickers, despite ban from military ops

Bangladeshi 'death squad' trained by UK government The British government has been training a Bangladeshi paramilitary force condemned by human rights organisations as a "government death squad", leaked US embassy cables have revealed.

US State Dept. republished WikiLeaks document from Feb 2009

WikiLeaks cables: 'Taliban treats heroin stocks like savings accounts'

Wikileaks Julian Assange lost tooth, was stuck with child molestors in prison, he claims

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CIA drew up UN spying wishlist for diplomats

Afghanistan war logs: WikiLeaks urged to remove thousands of names The WikiLeaks editor, Julian Assange, replied to the letter by asking the groups concerned to help WikiLeaks redact the names. He also threatened to expose Amnesty International if it refused to provide staff to help with the task, according to the Wall Street Journal.Much of the controversy over Wikileaks’ Afghanistan War document dump centered on the inclusion of informants’ names, a move that the Pentagon and other critics said would encourage killings of people aiding U.S. forces. Although the Taliban vowed to do just that, there have been no reports yet of Wilileaks-enabled killings.   Why won't the Pentagon help WikiLeaks redact documents? Once Assange decides that the people whose names he redacted are “innocent,” isn’t he, in effect, endorsing the position of the Pentagon and the justice of the war? After all, one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter, and one man’s patriotic informant is another man’s snitch

U.S. denies trying to kill WikiLeaks U.S. officials at the Pentagon and State Department denied Friday knowing of any efforts to take down the WikiLeaks website or asking companies to do so.

Cables show U.S. concern with Mexico Diplomatic cables exposed by WikiLeaks reveal U.S. doubts about how Mexico was handling its war on drug traffickers.

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'First serious infowar is now engaged': EFF co-founder
WikiLeaks domains repeatedly taken down amid 'mass attacks'

Wikileaks: UK allowed US to use cluster bomb 'loophole' (Cable written by "CLINTON" last year)

Cable shows US torture photos inspired hundreds to jihad

Cable reveals US behind airstrike that killed 21 children in Yemen

Putin Suspected Of Approving Plans To Murder Alexander Litvinenko

WikiLeaks cables condemn Russia as 'mafia state'

Wikileaks Cable: Obama Admin Worked With GOP To Kill Bush Torture Probe

edia Pushes Narrative That Arabs Want War With Iran, Ignores Cables That Show Arabs Urging Restraint

WikiLeaks: Obama change on visa for kidnapper was an accident A Brazilian who helped kidnap the U.S. ambassador to his country in 1969 should never have received a tourist visa from the State Department last year, according to a U.S. State Department cable made public by Wikileaks. » read more

US State Department tells employees not to read WikiLeaks US State Department tells employees not to read WikiLeaks The US State Department has pushed employees toward "digital diplomacy" with Twitter and iPhone apps, but the department has banned all employees from using WikiLeaks.

Aid worker Linda Norgrove was killed by US grenade

Ron Paul: 'What we need are more WikiLeaks'

RIAA, MPAA lobbied for French Internet disconnection law, cable reveals

Apple attacks WikiLeaks, pulls iPhone leak app from store

Library Of Congress is Latest Government Institution to Block WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks chief: Expect UFO talk in future files

250,000 US Embassy Diplomatic Cables

US CONTRACTOR BOUGHT DRUGS, BOYS FOR AFGHAN POLICE: CABLES

Pablo Solón Responds to Secret U.S. Manipulation of Climate Talks Revealed in WikiLeaks Cable Secret diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks have revealed new details about how the United States manipulated last year’s climate talks in Copenhagen. The cables show how the United States sought dirt on nations opposed to its approach to tackling global warming, how financial and other aid was used to gain political backing, and how the United States mounted a secret global diplomatic offensive to overwhelm opposition to the "Copenhagen Accord." We speak to Bolivia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Pablo Solón. Several of the cables addressed Bolivia’s opposition to the U.S.-backed accord.

Assange Accuser Worked with US-Funded, CIA-Tied Anti-Castro Group

List of facilities vital to US security leaked

Al Jazeera denies claims in US leaks
News network says it is no 'bargaining chip' in foreign policy negotiations.

Hiccup to WikiLeaks' snail mail amid all the fuss Australia Post insists its sudden decision to close the University of Melbourne Post Office has nothing to do with the fact that Box 4080 is the Australian postal address for submissions to the whistleblower website. But an announcement last Friday said the branch would close on December 17. Coincidence? Or has the ever-closing security net around WikiLeaks been tightened a notch further?

WikiLeaks Turns to Swiss Party for Help With Web Address

Major Defense Contractor Blocks Anything With 'WikiLeaks' In URL

Saudi Arabia rated a bigger threat to Iraqi stability than Iran

WikiLeaks cables reveal fears over Chinese cyber warfare

WikiLeaks Head To Appear In Court

Congressional Researchers Blocked From WikiLeaks

Cable details Saddam Hussein execution

Assange accuser linked to notorious CIA operative One of the women that is accusing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of sex crimes appears to have worked with a group that has connections to the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

The Word NBC And AP Will No Longer Use To Describe WikiLeaks Colford didn't say whether the AP considers "whistle-blower" to be inaccurate. He simply said that "we think we have a better, clearer description, and that's what we're using." NBC News spokeswoman Lauren Kapp also told The Cutline that the network was retiring "whistle-blower" in its WikiLeaks reports, even though it called WikiLeaks a "whistle-blower" on last Monday's "Nightly News With Brian Williams." Reuters, which has used "whistleblower" since the State Department leak, no longer uses it either. "Our style guidelines ask that reporters not describe WikiLeaks as a whistle-blower,"  Reuters spokeswoman Erin Kurtz said. "Wikileaks is not a whistle-blowing organization," said White House spokesman Tommy Vietor. "It's a group with an anti-U.S. government agenda that has recklessly released stolen documents that put at risk diplomats, intelligence professionals, and people working to advance the cause of human rights and democracy around the world."

Swiss bank freezes WikiLeaks founder’s legal defense fund

North Korea Sees Itself Surrounded by Enemies Lawrence Wilkerson: Wikileaks cables may show that China no longer needs North Korea as a buffer state

Oil deal weighed heavy in Lockerbie bomber's release: cables While the Scottish government claims Abdelbaset Mohmed Ali al-Megrahi, known as the Lockerbie bomber, was freed on compassionate grounds because he was suffering from terminal cancer, many have speculated that BP pressured Britain to free him to protect a 2007 oil exploration deal with Libya valued at $900 million. Libya Made Threats Over Lockerbie Bomber - WikiLeaks

Now Hackers Have Taken Down Mastercard.com as Revenge for Julian Assange

WikiLeaks hasn't met pledge for soldier's legal aid, group says(wiki says payment being processed )

'Suitcases full of cash' from Venezuela to Ortega, leaked cables say

Saudis proposed Arab force to fight Hezbollah Foreign minister wanted US, Nato and UN backing for offensive to end Iranian-backed Hezbollah's siege of Lebanese government

Swedish Prosecutor's Website Under Cyber Attack

Sex and drugs in Saudi palaces Cables reveal Saudi royals may not practice what country preaches.

Net freedom 'at stake' on WikiLeaks Internet service providers are cutting access to the whistleblower site, raising broader concerns about online freedom.

Obama admin secretly fueled conflict in Yemen The U.S. was shipping arms to Saudi Arabia for use in northern Yemen even as it denied any role in the conflict

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WikiLeaks cables cast Hosni Mubarak as Egypt's ruler for life

Pakistan's Terror Camps, The Vatican And Iran

Russia 'was tracking killers of Alexander Litvinenko but UK warned it off'

WikiLeaks Cable Predicts Insolvent Cuba In '2-3 Years'

Tiny Iceland takes on credit card giants in Wikileaks flap     Tiny Iceland takes on credit card giants in Wikileaks flap Dec 12 2010 Representatives from Mastercard and Visa were called before a parliamentary committee to explain the credit companies’ refusal to process donations to the whistle-blowing

Swiss bank investigated after freezing WikiLeaks account

Intel strongarmed Russia into concession: WikiLeaks US computer chip maker Intel won a vital concession from the Russian government by threatening to pull its operations from the country, a leaked diplomatic cable claimed Tuesday.

Obama DOJ flailing on Assange prosecution theories An administration official says WikiLeaks leader could be prosecuted -- if only facts of the case were different

Obama tells Turkey he regrets 'deplorable' WikiLeaks exposures

Senior Turkey official says Israel behind WikiLeaks release

Air Force Reportedly Blocks New York Times, Other Sites Printing WikiLeaks

Belarus leader as 'bizarre' and 'disturbed'  Leaked cables report Alexander Lukashenko, who is set to win Sunday's election, intends to 'stay in power indefinitely'

Spielberg target of Arab League ban  Leaked dispatch reveals diplomats from 14 Arab states voted to ban the director's films in response to his donation to Israel

WikiLeaks cables: Sudanese president 'stashed $9bn in UK banks'

US criticises court that may decide on Julian Assange extradition, WikiLeaks cables show

Bank of America Says It Won't Process Payments Intended for WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks: Tying Assange to Manning won't be easy Even as some government officials contend that the release of thousands of classified documents by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange jeopardizes U.S. national security, legal experts, Pentagon officials and Justice Department lawyers concede any effort to prosecute him faces numerous hurdles. Among them: Prosecutors have had difficulty finding evidence that Assange ever communicated directly with Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, 23, an intelligence specialist who's widely thought to be the source of the documents. » read more

WikiLeaks sheds light on U.S. bid to sell jet fighters to Brazil

Wikileaks did not commit a crime, House Judiciary chairman says

Chevron 'discussed oil with Tehran' Embassy cable reveals Nouri al-Maliki believed US energy firm negotiated with Iran about cross-border oilfield despite sanctions

WIKILEAKS REVEALS BP blowout in Azerbaijan. According to cables released Wednesday by WikiLeaks and obtained by the Guardian, BP experienced a blowout in Azerbaijan in September, 2008, that had "striking resemblances" to the Gulf oil spill. Eighteen months before the Deepwater Horizon exploded, killing 11 workers and sending millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, BP scrambled to keep a similar explosion at an Azerbaijan oil field a secret.Other cables leaked tonight claim that the president of Azerbaijan accused BP of stealing $10bn of oil from his country and using "mild blackmail" to secure the rights to develop vast gas reserves in the Caspian Sea region.

CNN unsure whether Assange is a 'journalist or terrorist'

WikiLeaks: Here's an Ahmad Chalabi story you haven't heard

Report: Grand jury meeting in Assange case Panel reportedly considering charges against WikiLeaks, a major escalation by the Obama administration

Columbia Journalism School Letter to AG/Obama: WikiLeaks Prosecution ‘Will Set Dangerous Precedent’