Muslim Issues

Some in the media glibly dismissed the US embassy cables at first, but such WikiScepticism is on the wane Richard Adams It's a sad fact that many journalists who have been scooped or cut out of a breaking news story react by knocking it down. "That's old news," they say, "we knew that already." Sometimes it's true. But mostly it's …

Iran hawks are crowing after the latest WikiLeaks dump, but they've been playing this game for two decades now BY JUSTIN ELLIOTT With the release of the first round of WikiLeaks State Department documents this week, Iran hawks in the United States have embraced a new line: Look at the number of Arab leaders who privately urged the U.S. to …

Officials gently mock the Israeli habit of making bogus predictions about when Iran will obtain a nuclear bomb BY JUSTIN ELLIOTT   A couple of items from the WikiLeaks trove suggest that State Depatment officials do not take particularly seriously Israeli predictions about when Iran will obtain a nuclear weapon.   That's because those predictions are so often wrong.   There's …

In a game of cyber cat and mouse, WikiLeaks has resurfaced with a Swiss domain address after being dropped by its U.S. hosting service last night amid a massive computer attack. The site's previous domain name, wikileaks.org, has been superseded by wikileaks.ch. Two companies now host the Swiss domain name, one in France, where the government is seeking to ban …

Diplomatic communiqués released by Wikileaks shine unprecedented light on the US and how it sees the world By Jerome Taylor, Cahal Milmo and David Usborne, US Editor The doors to a previously hidden world of diplomatic intrigue and insults were dramatically thrown open last night as the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks published its vast tranche of secret American diplomatic communiqués. The …

United Nations lost its soul and justice collapsed. At the turn of the last century Palestine, now turned into Israel, was part of the Turkish Ottoman Empire. About 95 percent of the population in 1896 were Arabs who owned ninety percent of the land. It was such a peaceful place that there was hardly anyone spoke loud and using a …