The Wikileaks Situation

[The King]

f*cked.

[The Somalian]

saw it on the news absolutly discusting

[Skola]

jeez i can imagine mate

if it wasnt for cod this video would be alot harder to watch.

damn cod

*fires up ps3*

You're a f*ck*ng idiot man, how can you say that? Do you have no class at all?

f*ck*ng PS3. Get outta here.

you deserve this:

LMAO

[SPEAK NO EVIL]

jeeeez. that video got me fuming. mass murder is nothing to these trigger happy redneck mother f*ckers

[Phil Brooks]

This actually makes me feel sick. I never want to go to america again. Allow going to that waste place.

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They actually fired upon a van collecting the injured guy & let a tank run over a body, that is america for you. SMH

[Jodie]

You should read some of the comments on youtube.

Americans are fully f*ckED!

[Phil Brooks]

You should read some of the comments on youtube.

Americans are fully f*ckED!

Link?

[Jodie]

[Thun]

US embassy cables leak sparks global diplomacy crisis

• More than 250,000 dispatches reveal US foreign strategies

• Diplomats ordered to spy on allies as well as enemies

• Hillary Clinton leads frantic 'damage limitation'

The United States was catapulted into a worldwide diplomatic crisis today, with the leaking to the Guardian and other international media of more than 250,000 classified cables from its embassies, many sent as recently as February this year.

At the start of a series of daily extracts from the US embassy cables - many of which are designated "secret" – the Guardian can disclose that Arab leaders are privately urging an air strike on Iran and that US officials have been instructed to spy on the UN's leadership.

These two revelations alone would be likely to reverberate around the world. But the secret dispatches which were obtained by WikiLeaks, the whistlebowers' website, also reveal Washington's evaluation of many other highly sensitive international issues.

These include a major shift in relations between China and North Korea, Pakistan's growing instability and details of clandestine US efforts to combat al-Qaida in Yemen.

Among scores of other disclosures that are likely to cause uproar, the cables detail:

• Grave fears in Washington and London over the security of Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme

• Alleged links between the Russian government and organised crime.

• Devastating criticism of the UK's military operations in Afghanistan.

• Claims of inappropriate behaviour by a member of the British royal family.

The US has particularly intimate dealings with Britain, and some of the dispatches from the London embassy in Grosvenor Square will make uncomfortable reading in Whitehall and Westminster. They range from serious political criticisms of David Cameron to requests for specific intelligence about individual MPs.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/28/us-embassy-cable-leak-diplomacy-crisis

Wonder what they done and who it was

[Thun]

Please use #cablegate to discuss the pending US Embassy cables release.

less than 5 seconds ago via web

El Pais, Le Monde, Speigel, Guardian & NYT will publish many US embassy cables tonight, even if WikiLeaks goes down

about 1 hour ago via web

We are currently under a mass distributed denial of service attack.

about 1 hour ago via web

Government of Iceland has been contacted by US officials over Embassy leaks according to MBL.

8:58 PM Nov 26th via web

The D-notice is type 1 and type 5.

5:43 PM Nov 26th via web

UK Government has issued a "D-notice" warning to all UK news editors, asking to be briefed on upcoming WikiLeaks stories.

5:13 PM Nov 26th via web

http://twitter.com/wikileaks

Madness

[Guest TimeBomb]

just tried go on wikileaks its down

[Gordon Gekko]

shits about to go down

[Thun]

Here are the "revelations" so far from SKY NEWS

1. Behaviour of a member of the Royal Family deemed inapproriate

2. Saudi Arabia wanted US to invade Iran - this is the one SKY news keep promoting

3. Hillary Clinton told US diplomats to spy on other diplomats at the UN

4. Chinese gov waged war of computer sabotage against the US

5. US in standoff with pakistan over Nuclear fuel

[Grafter]

shits about to go down

this is deep

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In contrast to the Foreign Office's measured tone, Italy's foreign minister, Franco Frattini, has rather colourfully described the embassy cables as "the September 11th of world diplomacy".

ahhhh

[Thun]

Cables Shine Light Into Secret Diplomatic Channels

WASHINGTON — A cache of a quarter-million confidential American diplomatic cables, most of them from the past three years, provides an unprecedented look at backroom bargaining by embassies around the world, brutally candid views of foreign leaders and frank assessments of nuclear and terrorist threats.

Some of the cables, made available to The New York Times and several other news organizations, were written as recently as late February, revealing the Obama administration’s exchanges over crises and conflicts. The material was originally obtained by WikiLeaks, an organization devoted to revealing secret documents. WikiLeaks intends to make the archive public on its Web site in batches, beginning Sunday.

The anticipated disclosure of the cables is already sending shudders through the diplomatic establishment, and could conceivably strain relations with some countries, influencing international affairs in ways that are impossible to predict.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and American ambassadors around the world have been contacting foreign officials in recent days to alert them to the expected disclosures. On Saturday, the State Department’s legal adviser, Harold Hongju Koh, wrote to a lawyer for WikiLeaks informing the organization that the distribution of the cables was illegal and could endanger lives, disrupt military and counterterrorism operations and undermine international cooperation against nuclear proliferation and other threats.

The cables, a huge sampling of the daily traffic between the State Department and some 270 embassies and consulates, amount to a secret chronicle of the United States’ relations with the world in an age of war and terrorism. Among their revelations, to be detailed in The Times in coming days:

¶ A dangerous standoff with Pakistan over nuclear fuel: Since 2007, the United States has mounted a highly secret effort, so far unsuccessful, to remove from a Pakistani research reactor highly enriched uranium that American officials fear could be diverted for use in an illicit nuclear device. In May 2009, Ambassador Anne W. Patterson reported that Pakistan was refusing to schedule a visit by American technical experts because, as a Pakistani official said, “if the local media got word of the fuel removal, ‘they certainly would portray it as the United States taking Pakistan’s nuclear weapons,’ he argued.”

¶ Gaming out an eventual collapse of North Korea: American and South Korean officials have discussed the prospects for a unified Korea, should the North’s economic troubles and political transition lead the state to implode. The South Koreans even considered commercial inducements to China, according to the American ambassador to Seoul. She told Washington in February that South Korean officials believe that the right business deals would “help salve” China’s “concerns about living with a reunified Korea” that is in a “benign alliance” with the United States.

¶ Bargaining to empty the Guantánamo Bay prison: When American diplomats pressed other countries to resettle detainees, they became reluctant players in a State Department version of “Let’s Make a Deal.” Slovenia was told to take a prisoner if it wanted to meet with President Obama, while the island nation of Kiribati was offered incentives worth millions of dollars to take in a group of detainees, cables from diplomats recounted. The Americans, meanwhile, suggested that accepting more prisoners would be “a low-cost way for Belgium to attain prominence in Europe.”

¶ Suspicions of corruption in the Afghan government: When Afghanistan’s vice president visited the United Arab Emirates last year, local authorities working with the Drug Enforcement Administration discovered that he was carrying $52 million in cash. With wry understatement, a cable from the American Embassy in Kabul called the money “a significant amount” that the official, Ahmed Zia Massoud, “was ultimately allowed to keep without revealing the money’s origin or destination.” (Mr. Massoud denies taking any money out of Afghanistan.)

¶ A global computer hacking effort: China’s Politburo directed the intrusion into Google’s computer systems in that country, a Chinese contact told the American Embassy in Beijing in January, one cable reported. The Google hacking was part of a coordinated campaign of computer sabotage carried out by government operatives, private security experts and Internet outlaws recruited by the Chinese government. They have broken into American government computers and those of Western allies, the Dalai Lama and American businesses since 2002, cables said.

¶ Mixed records against terrorism: Saudi donors remain the chief financiers of Sunni militant groups like Al Qaeda, and the tiny Persian Gulf state of Qatar, a generous host to the American military for years, was the “worst in the region” in counterterrorism efforts, according to a State Department cable last December. Qatar’s security service was “hesitant to act against known terrorists out of concern for appearing to be aligned with the U.S. and provoking reprisals,” the cable said.

¶ An intriguing alliance: American diplomats in Rome reported in 2009 on what their Italian contacts described as an extraordinarily close relationship between Vladimir V. Putin, the Russian prime minister, and Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister and business magnate, including “lavish gifts,” lucrative energy contracts and a “shadowy” Russian-speaking Italian go-between. They wrote that Mr. Berlusconi “appears increasingly to be the mouthpiece of Putin” in Europe. The diplomats also noted that while Mr. Putin enjoys supremacy over all other public figures in Russia, he is undermined by an unmanageable bureaucracy that often ignores his edicts.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/29/world/29cables.html?_r=1&hp

[Natty]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2010/nov/28/us-embassy-cables-wikileaks

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/nov/29/wikileaks-cables-data

[Supermalt]

f*ck off

this is some deep sh*t

history

[Grafter]

Bargaining to empty the Guantánamo Bay prison: When American diplomats pressed other countries to resettle detainees, they became reluctant players in a State Department version of “Let’s Make a Deal.” Slovenia was told to take a prisoner if it wanted to meet with President Obama, while the island nation of Kiribati was offered incentives worth millions of dollars to take in a group of detainees, cables from diplomats recounted. The Americans, meanwhile, suggested that accepting more prisoners would be “a low-cost way for Belgium to attain prominence in Europe.

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interesting

LOL

[Supermalt]

f*ck this d notice sh*t

[Flojo]

The people behind wikileaks are BAWSE.

Imagine how many agencies are gunning for these man right now.

[Bardissimo]

f*ckeries

suprised this sh*t ain't been SHUT DOWN

[Guest TimeBomb]

f*ckin hell the afghan vice president went to UAE carrying 52 million dollars thats insane

[Guest WAVESURFER]

This is wild.

[Bardissimo]

wanna see actual files on the russo govt. and O.C

that's been common knowledge from early

[Guest Waka Flocka Dave]

ahh didnt know this was the wikileaks topic

ite

need to keep an eye on this

gonna be over long doe, jus glad the news n sh*t are gonna condense it