Public service, or threat to national security?Activists behind a website dedicated to revealing secret documents have complained of harassment by police and intelligence services as they prepare to release a video showing an American attack in which 97 civilians were killed in Afghanistan.
Julian Assange, one of the founders of Wikileaks, has claimed that a restaurant where the group met in Reykjavic, the capital of Iceland, came under surveillance in March and one of the group’s volunteers was detained for 21 hours by police.
Assange, an Australian, says he was followed on a flight from Reykjavik to Copenhagen by two American agents. The group has riled governments by publishing documents leaked by whistleblowers.
Last week it released the cockpit recording from an American Apache helicopter as it killed Iraqi civilians, including a Reuters photographer, in Baghdad in 2007.
Assange claims surveillance has intensified as he and his colleagues prepare to put out their Afghan film. It is said to concern the so-called “Granai massacre”, when American aircraft dropped 500lb and 1,000lb bombs on a suspected militant compound in Farah province on May 4 last year. Several children were among those killed.
In messages on Twitter, the internet social networking site, Assange complained of “covert following and hidden photography” by police and foreign intelligence services. There have been thinly veiled threats, he says, from “an apparent British intelligence agent” in a car park in Luxembourg.
“Computers were also seized,” another member of Wikileaks said on Twitter, raising alarm among supporters with a subsequent post: “If anything happens to us, you know why ... and you know who is responsible.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/w ... 094234.ece
Whitsle down the wind
Whitsle down the wind
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Apparently the video was edited to make it look worse.
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.
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I've been reading that too C-P, I'll see if i can get some back up info.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Assange himself admitted to it on Colbert last night. He also links the raw video but that only gets 10% of the traffic.
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.
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More Wikileaks..
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US forces 'ignored Iraq torture'
The US military said the disclosure could endanger US troops and Iraqis
A new batch of secret US military records being released by Wikileaks shows commanders did not investigate torture by the Iraqi authorities.
The documents also suggest "hundreds" of civilians were killed at US military checkpoints after the invasion in 2003.
And the files appear to show the US kept records of civilian deaths, despite previously denying it.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton criticised the largest leak of classified documents in US history.
Speaking to reporters in Washington earlier, Mrs Clinton said she condemned "in the most clear terms the disclosure of any information by individuals and or organisations which puts the lives of United States and its partners' service members and civilians at risk".
Wikileaks infuriated the US authorities in July by publishing more than 70,000 secret papers about the war in Afghanistan.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11611319
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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And they're complaining of harassment? I'm not sure how they aren't being charged with espionage and exposing state secrets.
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You mean scum boy, who prattles on about the importance to know the "truth" actually altered his supposed evidence?Apparently the video was edited to make it look worse.
I find that shocking. I thought he was such an upstanding fellow.
Yet.I'm not sure how they aren't being charged with espionage and exposing state secrets.
