December, 2010

• 4 December

  Cable reveals US behind airstrike that killed 21 children in Yemen By Eric W. Dolan

  

  A diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks shows that the US military covered up the killing of dozens of civilians during a cruise missile strike in south Yemen in December 2009. The secret cable from January 2010 corroborated images released earlier this year by Amnesty International, implicating the US in the use of cluster bombs. The cable was sent by Yemen's …

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• 4 December

  US Takes Cut of Donations by Allies to Afghanistan By Ian Traynor

  THE US military has been charging its allies a 15 per cent handling fee on hundreds of millions of dollars raised internationally to build up the Afghan army, according to US diplomatic cables. Details of the fee are just one of a series of embarrassing revelations regarding Afghanistan that have come to light from documents released by the website WikiLeaks …

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• 4 December

  WikiLeaks cables: Seven key things we’ve learned so far

  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 …

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• 4 December

  Iran: Timeline to crisis

  

  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 …

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• 4 December

  WikiLeaks cables: Don’t trust Israel on Iran

  

  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 …

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• 3 December

  WikiLeaks switches to Swiss domain amid cyberattack

  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 …

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• 2 December

  Deceits, Plots, Insults: America Laid Bare

  

  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 …

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