WikiLeaks: These documents relate all major subjects of modern world

28 November 2010

The documents have been put online by organization WikiLeaks relate to "all major subjects" in all countries of the world, the founder of the Internet project, Australian Julian Assange, announced on Sunday.

He added his organization has made public secret and confidential documents from more than 100 countries over the past four years. According to WikiLeaks founder, these documents cover a wide range of issues, "from assassinations in East Timor to the behavior of some of the biggest United States private banks".

WikiLeaks Founder told this speaking by a video link to participants of the conference held in the Jordanian capital Amman, organized by the Arab Organization for reporters dealing with investigative journalism.

It was unclear in which country was Assange at the time of the teleconference. He said his visit to Amman was impossible as "Jordan's not the best place to be with the CIA on your tail".

"Over this last month much of my energy and activities have been spent preparing for the upcoming release of a diplomatic history of the United States", Assange said. - Over 250,000 classified cables from US embassies all around the world, and we can see already in the past week or so that the United States has made movements to try to disarm the effect that this could have".

Washington had "contacted the governments of almost every nation on earth to brief them about what some of these embarrassing revelations will do", said WikiLeaks founder.

"They're in a rather unusual difficult position where it is not sure precisely what is going to be revealed. So it has been treading this rather thin line on briefing its allies on what it thinks we are going to reveal", Assange believed.

Julian Assange rejected US State Department's accusations that WikiLeaks actions would endanger the lives of "countless innocent individuals". "This is an organization with a four-year publication history. As far as we are aware, and as far as anyone has ever alleged in any credible manner whatsoever, no single individual has even come to harm as a result of anything that we have ever published", said the project founder.

Late on Sunday site WikiLeaks posted 250 thousand secret diplomatic cables of the United States.

However, the site has undergone a massive DOS attacks and is not accessible.

Meanwhile, five leading publications - The New York Times (USA), Le Monde (France), El Pais (Spain), Spiegel (Germany) and The Guardian (UK) - posted on their web sites materials provided to them by the organization Wikileaks.

Western newspapers have published more than 250 thousand documents. It is clear from them that the US had spied on UN leaders, including Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

Classified directives to this were issued in the name of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. In particular, as the Guardian wrote, Wikileaks' documents tell about the Russian government's links to organized crime, inappropriate remarks by a member of the British royal family, Pakistan's growing instability, US covert operations against al-Qaeda in Yemen, as well as the efforts of Saudi Arabia to persuade the US to attack Iran in order to destroy its nuclear weapons program.

According to documents, other Arab countries also secretly urged the US to intervene militarily in Iran's affairs.

The materials of Wikileaks also, according to Guardian, contain very unflattering comments by US embassy staff of their host governments around the world, from Caribbean to Russia.

For example, according to British newspaper, Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin in these cables is called "alpha-dog", the Afghan president Hamad Karzai - "driven by paranoia", and German Chancellor Angela Merkel - " risk avoiding and rarely creative".

In one of the cables is a direct comparison between Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Adolf Hitler, and a Russian president Medvedev as "afraid, hesitant".

Here are some excerpts from published classified materials of American diplomacy.

U.S. interests in movements of Kadyrov

U.S. diplomats are interested in movements of Ramzan Kadyrov. This conclusion can be drawn from an analysis of internal documents of the U.S. government.

American diplomats had witnessed the visits of Kadyrov of a wedding of representatives of influential clans in Dagestan. "After the dancing, Ramzan and his army drove off back to Chechnya", says one of these documents.

Diplomats are also interested for what reason Kadyrov did not stay in Makhachkala, a document relating to 2006 says.

Weddings in Dagestan struck U.S. diplomats

U.S. diplomats were surprised by a scale of Dagestani weddings, which is reflected in the internal documents of the U.S. government. The New York Times presents them.

The diplomat tells of drunken guests throwing $100 bills at child dancers, and nighttime water-scooter jaunts on the Caspian Sea.

"The dancers probably picked upwards of USD 5000 off the cobblestones," Americans noted.

"The dancers may have collected up to $5 thousand" - note the Americans.

U.S. believes Russia's bureaucracy ignores Putin

Russian bureaucrats often ignore Putin's edicts, such an opinion has U.S. diplomats.

In their conception of the Russian reality, Putin is the most powerful man in Russia. Thus specifically in this document, Putin is not compared with president Dmitry Medvedev. Nevertheless, according to U.S. diplomats, Putin's power is undermined by an unmanageable Russian bureaucracy that often ignores his edicts.

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Meanwhile, the administration of U.S. president issued a statement on Sunday in which it attempted to justify the content of internal government documents that were published by website Wikileaks.

The world media, which have access to this leak before the others, noted that the document referred to possible links of the Russian government to the organized crime.

According to the Associated Press, the White House emphasized that the estimates, which were publicized in a leak from Wikileaks, are "often incomplete, and it is not an expression of policy, nor does it always shape final foreign policy decisions of the US".

Department of Monitoring
Kavkaz Center

Source: Kavkaz Center.
Link: http://kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2010/11/28/13000.shtml.