Category Archives: WikiLeaks

Absurd Hiking Adventure

The verdict in the more and more absurd case of Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, the two American hikers, who were kidnapped by Iranian border patrol had inadvertently crossed the Kurdish-Iraqi Iranian border more than two years ago into Iran … Continue reading

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Chat Logs

  After more than a year, Wired has now published the original chat logs of PFC Bradley Manning and Adrian Lamo, the former hacker who betrayed the young soldier, who has probably been the main source for WikiLeaks the previous … Continue reading

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Shi’ites in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Provinces

Posting American Embassies’ diplomatic cables on the WikiLeaks page has accelerated lately. Nevertheless, so far, not more than a meager 6% of more than 250,000 cables have been published there. And, public interest seem to decline. In an analysis of some … Continue reading

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When Has Obama been Briefed on Osama’s Whereabouts?

Update May 6, 2011 below. The day after the surprise news that World’s enemy number one, Osama bin Laden, had been killed in Abbottabad in northern Pakistan by U.S. Navy’s SEAL, WikiLeaks had twittered that the Gitmo Files contain hints about Osama’s … Continue reading

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Too Important for Childish Power Struggles

Abrupt and unexpected publication of the “Gitmo Files” by WikiLeaks on Easter holidays in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Spanish newspaper El Pais, German magazine Der Spiegel and elsewhere was most probably due to ongoing power … Continue reading

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