Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Is Wikileaks About To Unveil Russian Secrets?

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrives for a press conference Oct. 23 at the Park Plaza hotel in central London to release previously secret files on the Iraq war. Mr. Assange said WikiLeaks will release information on Russia soon. Leon Neal/AFP Photo/Newscom

WikiLeaks: Is Russia The Next Target? -- Time Magazine

Say what you will about Julian Assange, founder of the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, but his work has shown him to be pretty fearless. After his site published the biggest cache of secret files in U.S. history on Oct. 22, detailing some of the ugly truths about the war in Iraq, he continued to travel around Europe despite U.S. reprimands and warnings. He even told the global media that new leaks will expose more secrets not only about the U.S. military but about other "repressive regimes," such as Russia and China. The signals coming from Moscow, however, suggest that the Russian reaction will not be as reserved as America's. So is WikiLeaks really ready to take on the world's more callous states?

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More News On Wikileaks And Russia

Russia's FSB to WikiLeaks: We could destroy you -- Passport/Foreign Policy
Wikileaks vs. the FSB -- Moscow News
WikiLeaks ready to drop a bombshell on Russia. But will Russians get to read about it? -- Christian Science Monitor
WikiLeaks to release secret Russia, China logs - paper -- RIA Novosti
WikiLeaks Has Something to Tell the World About Russia -- Russia IC

My Comment: Julian Assange and Wikileaks are now playing with fire. Many have died in Russia for revealing far less, and I would not be surprised if such "discussions" have already been made in Moscow on what to do with Wikileaks if the information that they claim that they have is real.

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