Friday, November 26, 2010

AMERICA AND HER LIES....OR SHOULD THAT BE ALLIES

COMMENT: America seems to think 'Crying rape' is the answer to all her prayers, the Smart case just an example but not this time buddy, not this time.


U.S. warns Britain over new WikiLeaks revelations that will 'expose corruption between allies'

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 11:40 AM on 26th November 2010

  • Claims 'serious enough to cause major embarrassment'
  • Allegations 'include U.S. backing of Kurdish terrorists'
  • Files could damage relations with allies, says U.S.
  • Corrupt politicians expected to be named and shamed
Blowing the whistle: Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, is said to be preparing to release more sensitive documents
Blowing the whistle: Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, is said to be preparing to release more secrets
The U.S. is warning allies including Britain to brace themselves for the expected release of more sensitive documents on the WikiLeaks website.
American diplomats are believed to have briefed officials from six countries to prepare for more secrets to be revealed by the whistle-blowing site in the coming days.
Files are expected to include reports from U.S. diplomats on corruption within foreign governments and among world leaders.
The allegations are serious enough to cause major embarrassment, sources say.
The next release is expected to include thousands of diplomatic cables reporting corruption allegations against politicians in Russia, Afghanistan and other Central Asian nations.
But there were no specifics reported as to the nature of the corruption allegations or which governments are involved.
However, according to the UK-based Arabic daily newspaper al-Hayat, the WikiLeaks release includes documents that show Turkey has helped al-Qaeda in Iraq.
They also allege that the U.S. has supported the PKK, a Kurdish rebel organization that has been waging a separatist war against Turkey since 1984, the Washington Post reported.
British soldiers patrol on a street in Kabul.
At risk: British soldiers patrol on a street in Kabul. Officials have complained that the WikiLeaks could be endangering servicemen's lives
Details of the expected leaks are understood to have been revealed to Britain, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Norway and Israel.
The U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv warned the Israeli foreign ministry that some of the cables could concern U.S.-Israel relations, the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz claimed.
‘These revelations are harmful to the U.S. and our interests. They are going to create tension in relationships between our diplomats and our friends around the world’
WikiLeaks said on its Twitter feed earlier this week that its new release would be seven times larger than the nearly 400,000 Pentagon documents related to the Iraq war which it made public in October.
The State Department confirmed it has begun notifying foreign governments and it fears serious diplomatic fallout over the expose, which is expected next week but could arrive sooner.
'These revelations are harmful to the United States and our interests,' spokesman P.J. Crowley said.
'They are going to create tension in relationships between our diplomats and our friends around the world.'
Past releases by WikiLeaks, founded by Julian Assange, an Australian-born computer hacker, contained sensitive information about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which the U.S. government had said compromised national security and put some people at risk.
Generals on both sides of the Atlantic are still furious over the last set of 400,000 classified documents which covered the war in Iraq, the biggest military leak of all time.
They detailed what Wikileaks founder Julian Assange called 'compelling evidence of war crimes' by the U.S. led coalition and the Iraq government and sparked calls for a full inquiry.
Should Wikileaks go ahead with its promise, it will be the third time it has published such information in the face of opposition from military top brass around the world.
Expose: Wikileaks reported on its Twitter page that U.S. allies are being warned
Expose: Wikileaks reported on its Twitter page that U.S. allies are being warned
The first batch was about the war in Afghanistan and gave a grim picture of the day-to-day struggle against the Taliban and the frustrations of trying to train the Afghan police.
The second covered the period in the occupation of Iraq between 2004 and 2009 and contained revelations that America failed to investigate hundreds of reports of abuse, rape, torture and murder by Iraqi police and soldiers.
The information also revealed that more than 15,000 civilians died in previously unknown incidents - U.S. and UK officials have insisted that no official record of civilian casualties exists but the logs record 66,081 non-combatant deaths out of a total of 109,000 fatalities.
In addition, the logs claim that in one incident a British rifleman shot dead an eight-year-old Iraqi girl as she played in the streets.
The information will almost certainly have come from the Bradley Manning, the dissident U.S. army intelligence analyst who earlier this year is alleged to have leaked the first tranche, some 90,000 logs chronicling bloody encounters and civilian killings in Afghanistan.
Adding to the controversy is the international arrest warrant which has been issued for Mr Assange by Swedish prosecutors over allegations of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion.
The allegations, which the 39-year-old Australian has repeatedly denied, relate to two women he met while on a visit to Sweden in August.
Assange’s London lawyer Mark Stephens, has said the claims were 'false and without basis’.


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