Now there' a Wikileaks surprise

[torchthebitch]

They are afraid the CIA are after them.

Whistleblowers on US ‘massacre’ fear CIA stalkers
Two men in the streets of the New Baghdad district of eastern Baghdad after being fired upon by the helicopter

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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.”

Their apprehension is perhaps understandable. America’s defence establishment has made clear that it would like to silence the site. In 2008, the Pentagon produced a report on how to undermine and neutralise Wikileaks. This, too, emerged on the website.

Assange, who is believed to be 37, founded Wikileaks three years ago with a group of like-minded computer programmers, academics and activists. The site says it has had more scoops since then than The Washington Post in three decades and has become a global clearing house for sensitive documents. It has exposed crimes from toxic dumping and tax evasion to extrajudicial murders in Kenya.
Assange says the 38-minute Iraqi video broadcast by the group is evidence of “collateral murder” by American forces. It shows a group of Iraqi men being killed by gunfire from the helicopter. A helicopter then shoots at a van arriving to take the bodies away.

A crew member is heard saying: “Nice shooting.” When it emerges that two children in the van have been injured, someone else says: “Serves them right for bringing their children into a battle.”

The film, in which American forces kill with the seeming detachment of video gamers, has been seen by millions on the internet since it was first aired on Monday. The website, which claims to exist on a shoestring budget, says it has since received more than £100,000 in donations.

America’s military defended the killings, saying no disciplinary action had been taken at the time of the incident. However, Reuters has striven in vain since 2007 to obtain access to the video under freedom of information laws.

Broadcasting such a film could expose Wikileaks to prosecution in America but the organisation appears to have put itself beyond the reach of court injunctions by existing only in the digital sphere.

There has been speculation that Wikileaks might be part of a sophisticated “psy-ops” campaign by the CIA. If that is the case, says Assange, “I only wish they would step forward with a cheque.”

Net Pimpernel leaks it here, leaks it there, Profile, page 19

If anything happens it will obviously be a Kenyan using an apparent British passport.

 

[Shamanskiss]

They are afraid the CIA are after them.






If anything happens it will obviously be a Kenyan using an apparent British passport.

Don't be so naive.
Deep in your heart you know it will be a British passport using a Kenyan that is to blame. Paper cuts are under rated.

Made me smile when he was threatened in a car-park by an ' apparen British intelligence agent'

Wonder if his Oxbridge/BBC accent gave him away . Or maybe it was the bowler and brolly.
Perhaps he shouldn't have jabbed him just under the solar plexus with a tightly rolled copy of the Times.
Don't tell me he was waving a Webley Fosbery .455 about.
Stupid Boy.


You donated yet ?
Did the surprise inheritance clear to your account ?
Is their company registered in Nigeria ?

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

I saw Wikileaks and thought, "Hmmm, a LeTrouve tribute thread..."

 

[Mike_Yates]

Not surprising. I wouldn't be surprised if the people who run wikileaks don't start dying off under mysterious circumstances, or of course, committing "suicide".

 

[torchthebitch]

Not surprising. I wouldn't be surprised if the people who run wikileaks don't start dying off under mysterious circumstances, or of course, committing "suicide".

Personally, I'd cut them down in a hail of 30mm fire from an Apache.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Not surprising. I wouldn't be surprised if the people who run wikileaks don't start dying off under mysterious circumstances, or of course, committing "suicide".

Castrated and sneakers all lined up nice in a row?

 

[Mike_Yates]

Castrated and sneakers all lined up nice in a row?

After that happens, the website will suddenly, completely, and inexplicably vanish from the internet.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

After that happens, the website will suddenly, completely, and inexplicably vanish from the internet.

Thanks to Google's love of cooperation with the Chinese government...

 

[Mike_Yates]

Thanks to Google's love of cooperation with the Chinese government...

The Chinese government skins dogs and cats alive.

Why isn't wikileaks censored in China, and not the rest of the world, because of China?

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Monkeys too...

 

[Mike_Yates]

Monkeys too...

I wonder if they do the same to political dissenters. Or some poor Chinese guy who walked in front of one of the Billions of effigies of Mao spread throughout China, in an incorrect manner.

They are the most mass-murdering political regime in all of human history, after all.

 

[where]

why do you support censorship of the press?

 

[Mike_Yates]

why do you support censorship of the press?

I don't. I just don't understand why the media here, as well as elsewhere in the world, should be censored because of China.

 

[where]

I don't. I just don't understand why the media here, as well as elsewhere in the world, should be censored because of China.

I wasn't talking to you.

 

[torchthebitch]

why do you support censorship of the press?

Can you actually show me where I have advocated censorship?

 

[where]

Can you actually show me where I have advocated censorship?

who said I was talking to you?

but yes, I was. and shamen, because you are both bitching about wikileaks. which is fine because you both have that old school military mindset that says if the military do it, then it's ok.

given the kind of stuff they release, I'm not surprised they have people in power trying to put the frightners on them. But until we are actually living in a military state, then such things should be fought against. I want to know what is being done in my name, without the bullshit government spin that surrounds it.

 

[torchthebitch]

but yes, I was. and shamen, because you are both bitching about wikileaks. which is fine because you both have that old school military mindset that says if the military do it, then it's ok.

.

Yeah. You are right.

http://forum.literotica.com/showpost.php?p=33788070&postcount=31

And if I could be bothered trying to find it you would see I was critical of the way the military covered up over Abu Grahib.

But you only remember the bits that paint us as a rabid fascist militarists, because that is how you see anyone who strays from the ideals of your socialist utopia.

Kinda like the distorted propaganda of Wikileaks. But then since you have quite literally bought into it, you dare not admit you might have been wrong.

Just like all those dumb "Oirish" Americans who fed money into Noraid, and are now bitching that giving money to Islamic charities is financing Islamic terrorists.