Assange claims Arab officials spy on their own countries for the CIA

Assange: Many Arab Officials Work With CIA
Source: CBS Less than 2,000 of the purported 250,000 diplomatic cables in Wikileaks possession have been made public. There has been plenty of speculation as to what's left, since the revelations thus far have been a broad mix of both gossipy and inflammatory information. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told Al Jazeera network Wednesday that some of things he is holding back could be downright explosive, reports the Emptywheel website. Assange said: "Top Officials in several Arab countries have...

"Many Arab officials are US spies in their own countries"
"... Top Officials in several Arab countries have close links with the CIA, and many officials keep visiting US embassies in their respective countries voluntarily to establish links with this key US intelligence agency, says Julian Assange, founder of the whistle-blowing website, Wikileaks. “These officials are spies for the US in their countries,” Assange told Al Jazeera Arabic channel in an interview yesterday. The interviewer, Ahmed Mansour, said at the start of the interview wh...

Many Arab officials have close CIA links: Assange
DOHA: Top Officials in several Arab countries have close links with the CIA, and many officials keep visiting US embassies in their respective countries voluntarily to establish links with this key US intelligence agency, says Julian Assange, founder of the whistle-blowing website, Wikileaks. “These officials are spies for the US in their countries,” Assange told Al Jazeera Arabic channel in an interview yesterday. The interviewer, Ahmed Mansour, said at the start of the interview whic...

If imprisoned or killed, Assange reportedly prepared to out CIA-linked Arab leaders
Source: Raw Story Middle Eastern leaders who've become friendly with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) could face severe retribution from their local populations if Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is killed or jailed for a lengthy amount of time. That's because, in a recent interview with Arabic news network Al Jazeera, Assange allegedly warned that he had a document which reveals the identities of officials who voluntarily cultivated relationships with the CIA. "These officials are spie...

Just another shocking report
...Polish Air Traffic control in Warsaw confirmed the regular use of the Szymany Air Base by two Aircraft used in the CIA’s extraordinary renditions program, and prosecutors have apparently collected substantial additional evidence that the CIA used the facilities to house and interrogate Prisoners. Public pressure to continue the Criminal Probe is growing. Polish Radio reports that a new billboard has appeared in Poznan featuring a person hooded and bound to a chair with a tattered America...

More Assange
Nick Davies of The Guardian: Jagger also insists that she has a right to know who leaked the file to the Guardian and says that the leak was part of “an obvious effort to conduct a smear campaign” against Assange. Setting aside for a moment the head-splitting hypocrisy that a supporter of Wikileaks wants to hunt down the source of a leak, there are two similar problems with this claim. First, Jagger has no idea who leaked that file (and made no attempt to find out). Second, if she ...

Assange Alerts His Hostages
Remember how I suggested that Obama was establishing a practice of only making deals with people-whether they be Republicans or Democrats-who take hostages? Well, Julian Assange just made it clear who his hostages are: Top Officials in several Arab countries have close links with the CIA, and many officials keep visiting US embassies in their respective countries voluntarily to establish links with this key US intelligence agency, says Julian Assange, founder of the whistle-blowing...

US Refuses to Help Poland Probe Illegal CIA Prisons
The Obama Administration rejected efforts by the Polish government to secure Justice Department help in the Probe of illegal CIA “black sites” operating in Polish territory, and allegations that the sites were used to Torture Detainees. According to officials the US refused to participate in the investigation because they “consider the matter to be closed.” Polish officials denied having any knowledge of the secret CIA site but records show CIA flights heading into a se...

WikiLeaks' Collateral Damage
Source: Wall St Journal Morgan Tsvangirai, the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe and the leader of its democratic opposition, has endured countless indignities at the hands of President Robert Mugabe. In 1997, thugs tried to throw him from the window of his 10th floor office. In 2002 and 2008, he had Elections stolen from him and his party, the Movement for Democratic Change. After that most recent ballot, he had to hide at the Dutch Embassy in Harare for fear of his life. A year later his wife died in...

U.S. frustrated with Egyptian military, WikiLeaks cables show
U.S. Diplomats dismayed that Egyptian Military still views Israel as its chief adversary, 31 years after the Israel-Egypt peace treaty....

U.S. dismayed Egypt still views Israel as chief adversary, WikiLeaks cables show
U.S. Diplomats blame Egyptian Military officials for failure to modernize and adapt to new threats....

WIKILEAKS: EGYPT STILL SEES ISRAEL AS AN ENEMY
What can you expect when Islamofascism is still prevalent? Well, as this confirms, Egypt can still be dangerous: Documents revealed by Wikileaks show that Egypt continues to see Israel as its primary Military threat despite a decades-old peace treaty. Egypt and Israel fought against each other in four wars before signing the treaty in 1979. United States Diplomats have been frustrated as Egyptian leaders focus on being prepared for war with Israel while ...

Sudan withdraws from Darfur peace talks
A Sudanese official says his government has withdrawn from Peace Talks with Darfur rebel groups, but it is still committed to making peace. Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir threatened to call off the talks in Qatar and return negotiations to Sudan if agreement was not reached by Thursday, and he carried out his threat. Chief government negotiator Ghazi Salaheddine says the Sudanese delegation will leave for Khartoum on Friday. Ahmed Hussain Adam, a rebel spokesman, described the move as "a decla...

Sudan Withdraws From Darfur Peace Talks
DOHA, Qatar — A Sudanese official says his government has withdrawn from Peace Talks with Darfur rebel groups, but it is still committed to making peace. Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir threatened to call off the talks in Qatar and return negotiations to Sudan if agreement was not reached by Thursday, and he carried out his threat. Chief government negotiator Ghazi Salaheddine says the Sudanese delegation will leave for Khartoum on Friday. Ahmed Hussain Adam, a rebel spokesman, describe...

Sudan withdraws from Darfur peace talks
DOHA, Qatar - A Sudanese official says his government has withdrawn from Peace Talks with Darfur rebel groups, but it is still committed to making peace. Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir threatened to call off the talks in Qatar and return negotiations to Sudan if agreement was not reached by Thursday, and he carried out his threat. Chief government negotiator Ghazi Salaheddine says the Sudanese delegation will leave for Khartoum on Friday. Ahmed Hussain Adam, a rebel spokesman, described ...

What's in the Manning/Lamo WikiLeaks Chat Logs?
Glenn Greenwald has been warring with Wired over Wired's supposed responsibility to release more of the chat logs between arrested-but-not-convicted alleged WikiLeaker Bradley Manning and Adrian Lamo, the man to whom he supposedly confessed his Crime and who turned him in. Here is Wired explaining why they have released all they ought, and why Greenwald is a hypocrite, a bad Journalist, and any number of other yucky things. Here is Greenwald's response to Wired (including suggestive accusations...

Yemen releases hundreds of Shiite rebels
SANAA, Yemen - Yemen released hundreds of detained Shiite rebels on Thursday as part of a Ceasefire in their yearslong conflict, the government and rebels said. A total of 500 members of the Shiite Hawthi rebel movement are to be freed in the release that began Thursday, mediated by the Arab nation of Qatar, which also brokered the Ceasefire in February. In return, the Embassy said the rebels are expected to "surrender weaponry seized during the armed conflict." Hawthi spokesman Mohammed A...

Round the Water Cooler *Open Thread
The pundits talked, and I typed. Below are some of what I’ve been hearing on the pundit Cable News channels, including one particularly great prospect for Hillary … Gary Berntsen, an expert on the CIA, Special Operations and and Agfghanistan, Pakistan and the AfPak strategy was on Parker Spitzer Thursday night (Berntsen is a good, longtime friend of Larry Johnson‘s) … and DO NOT MISS the appearance of Climate Change skeptic Bjorn Lomborg who has a gift for explaining the...

WikiLeaks backers say Zimbabwe websites shut down
LONDON | Thu Dec 30, 2010 3:10pm EST LONDON (Reuters) - Cyber Activists say they have brought down Zimbabwean government websites after the president's wife sued a newspaper for publishing a Wikileaks cable linking her with illicit diamond trading. President Robert Mugabe's wife Grace is suing a private newspaper for $15 million for publishing details from U.S. cables on Wikileaks saying she gained "tremendous profits" from illicit diamonds. The activists, acting under the name Anonymous, sai...

WikiLeaks backers say Zimbabwe websites shut down
President Robert Mugabe's wife Grace is suing a private newspaper for $15 million for publishing details from U.S. cables on Wikileaks saying she gained "tremendous profits" from illicit diamonds. The Activists, acting under the name Anonymous, said in a statement on their website: "We are targeting Mugabe and his regime in the ZANU-PF who have outlawed the free press and threaten to sue anyone publishing WikiLeaks." The Zimbabwean government web portal www.gta.gov.zw was unreachable on Thursda...

GAZAN YOUTHS MANIFESTO FOR CHANGE
Fuck Hamas. Fuck Israel. Fuck Fatah. Fuck UN. Fuck UNWRA. Fuck USA! We, the youth in Gaza, are so fed up with Israel, Hamas, the occupation, the violations of Human Rights and the indifference of the international community! We want to scream and break this wall of silence, injustice and indifference like the Israeli F16’s breaking the wall of sound; scream with all the power in our souls in order to release this immense frustration that consumes us because of this fucking situation we liv...

US, Venezuela evict ambassadors in diplomatic spat
WASHINGTON—Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez dared the U.S. to expel his ambassador in retaliation for his move to reject the U.S. Envoy to the South American country. On Wednesday, that's just what the Obama Administration did. Chavez issued his dare a day earlier, saying he would not allow the U.S. Diplomat, Larry Palmer, to be ambassador because the U.S. official made what Chavez described as blatantly disrespectful remarks about Venezuela. "If the government is going to expel our amb...

AP source: US revokes Venezuelan envoy's visa
WASHINGTON -- The Obama Administration revoked the visa of the Venezuelan ambassador to the United States on Wednesday in a tit-for-tat diplomatic response to Venezuela's rejection of the U.S. choice to be the next Envoy to the South American country. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Tuesday dared the U.S. government to expel his ambassador, saying he will not allow the U.S. Diplomat, Larry Palmer, to be ambassador because he made what Chavez described as blatantly disrespectful remarks abou...

US, Venezuela evict ambassadors in diplomatic spat
WASHINGTON—Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez dared the U.S. to expel his ambassador in retaliation for his move to reject the U.S. Envoy to the South American country. On Wednesday, that's just what the Obama Administration did. Chavez issued his dare a day earlier, saying he would not allow the U.S. Diplomat, Larry Palmer, to be ambassador because the U.S. official made what Chavez described as blatantly disrespectful remarks about Venezuela. "If the government is going to expel our ambas...

UKs Thatcher appealed to Iran over US hostages
Stumble This! Newly disclosed records show Britain's iconic Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher snubbed aides who questioned Ronald Reagan's credentials as U.S. president. Files released on Thursday under the country's 30-year disclosure rule also show she made a previously unknown effort to intervene in the U.S. Embassy hostage-taking. Notes supplied to Thatcher by aides on the U.S. 1980 election campaign show Diplomats questioned whether Reagan had the "mental vitality and political vision" to b...