WikiLeaks Releasing ‘Syria Files’ — Over 2.4 Million Emails

[JackLuis]

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It's cyber revolution! Wiki leaks leaks all over Syria.

WikiLeaks Releasing ‘Syria Files’ — Over 2.4 Million Emails

WikiLeaks on Thursday announced that it was releasing 2,434,899 emails from Syrian political figures, ministries, and associated companies, sent between August 2006 and March 2012.

According to WikiLeaks, the emails come from “680 Syria-related entities or domain names, including those of the Ministries of Presidential Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Finance, Information, Transport and Culture,” and the documents include 678,752 different email addresses and 1,082,447 different recipients. The emails were sent in several languages: approximately 400,000 are in Arabic and approximately 68,000 are in Russian. 42,000 of the emails were infected with viruses or trojans.

Now Julian pisses off the other third of the world.

 

[JackLuis]

Syria’s Assad emailed sexist jokes: WikiLeaks

Oh they really stuck it to Assad, yup.

The emails shed little new information on the deadly crackdown but give a glimpse into Assad’s puerile and slightly misogynistic mindset.

“Wife: I wish I was a newspaper, so I’d be in your hands all day,” begins one of the jokes in an email dated December 23, 2010.

“Husband: I too wish that you were a newspaper, so I could have a new one everyday.”

The messages were sent to close associates, his female translator or his father-in-law. Some are jokes that had already been circulated online, others are related to the news or world leaders.

Another joke contained in the same email starts with a woman asking her husband what he would give her if she climbed Mt. Everest.

“A lovely push…!” is the punchline.

 

[TE999]

Assad's a regular laugh riot. His all time favorite joke is:

Q. What's brown and black and red all over?

A. Half of the Syrian populace.