Showing posts with label Wikileaks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wikileaks. Show all posts

Sunday, October 24, 2010

WIKILEAKS FOUNDER "JULIAN ASSANGE" IS A MIRROR OF REALITY



Go ahead Julian Assange 


Julian Assange born in 1971 is an Australian internet activist and journalist best known for his involvement with Wikileaks, a whistle-blower website. Assange was a physics and mathematics student, a hacker and a computer programmer, before taking on his current role as spokesperson and editor in chief for Wikileaks. Julian Assange has said that "you can’t publish a paper on physics without the full experimental data and results; that should be the standard in journalism".


Wikileaks founder “Julian Assange always try to a hunted real fact. Julian Assange pitches his voice barely above a whisper to foil the Western intelligence agencies he fears.
Julian Assange demands that his fewer in number of loyalists use expensive encrypted cell phones and swaps his own as other men change shirts. He checks into hotels under false names, dyes his hair, sleeps on sofas and floors, and uses cash instead of credit cards, often borrowed from friends.
In his remarkable journey to notoriety, Assange, founder of the WikiLeaks whistle-blowers' Web site, sees the next few weeks as his most hazardous. Now Assange is making his most brazen disclosure yet: 391,832 secret documents on the Iraq war. He held a news conference in London on Saturday, saying that the release "constituted the most comprehensive and detailed account of any war ever to have entered the public record."
About three months ago, Assange posted on his organization's Web site some 77,000 classified Pentagon documents on the Afghan conflict.
Much has changed since 2006, when Assange, a 39-year-old Australian, used years of computer hacking and what friends call a near genius IQ to establish WikiLeaks, redefining whistle-blowing by gathering secrets in bulk, storing them beyond the reach of governments and others determined to retrieve them, then releasing them instantly, and globally.
Now it is not just governments that denounce him: some of his own comrades are abandoning him for what they see as erratic and imperious behaviour, and a nearly delusional grandeur unmatched by an awareness that the digital secrets he reveals can have a price in flesh and blood.
Assange is also being investigated in connection with accusations of rape and molestation involving two Swedish women. Assange has denied the allegations, saying the relations were consensual. But prosecutors in Sweden have yet to formally approve charges or dismiss the case eight weeks after the complaints against Mr. Assange were filed, damaging his quest for a secure base for himself and WikiLeaks. Though he characterizes the claims as "a smear campaign," the scandal has compounded the pressures of his cloaked life.
In early October, Assange left Stockholm for Berlin. A bag he checked on the almost empty flight disappeared, with three encrypted laptops. It has not resurfaced; Assange suspects it was intercepted. From Germany, he travelled to London, wary at being detained on arrival. Iceland, a country with generous press freedoms, has also lost its appeal, with Assange concluding that its government is too easily influenced by Washington.
After the Sweden scandal, strains within WikiLeaks reached a breaking point, with some of Assange's closest collaborators publicly defecting. The New York Times spoke with dozens of people who have worked with and supported him in Iceland, Sweden, Germany, Britain and the United States. What emerged was a picture of the founder of WikiLeaks as its prime innovator and charismatic force but as someone whose growing celebrity has been matched by an increasingly dictatorial, eccentric and capricious style.
However, Assange activities showed that, the truth never dies. We will have inspired him for his praise-worthy works.

Saturday, October 23, 2010

LEAKED IRAQ WAR FILES BY WIKILEAKS, DETAIL CIVILIAN KILLINGS AND TORTURE BY US MILITARY

LEAKED IRAQ WAR DOCUMENTS BY WIKILEAKS

As of late, in the biggest leak of military secrets in history, WikiLeaks, the whistleblower website, has released 400,000 secret US files detailing every aspect of the war in Iraq, copies of which have been obtained by newsall-vision BlogSpot.

The 391,832 reports ('The Iraq War Logs'), document the war and occupation in Iraq, from 1st January 2004 to 31st December 2009 (except for the months of May 2004 and March 2009) as told by soldiers in the United States Army. Each is a 'SIGACT' or Significant Action in the war. They detail events as seen and heard by the US military troops on the ground in Iraq and are the first real glimpse into the secret history of the war that the United States government has been privy to throughout.

The reports detail 109,032 deaths in Iraq, comprised of 66,081 'civilians'; 23,984 'enemy' (those labeled as insurgents); 15,196 'host nation' (Iraqi government forces) and 3,771 'friendly' (coalition forces). The majority of the deaths (66,000, over 60%) of these are civilian deaths.That is 31 civilians dying every day during the six year period. For comparison, the 'Afghan War Diaries', previously released by WikiLeaks, covering the same period, detail the deaths of some 20,000 people. Iraq during the same period, was five times as lethal with equivallent population size.

However, Pentagon strongly condemned the unauthorized disclosure of classified information contained in 392,000 documents.