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| Iraq |
| More Wikileaks "collateral damage" |
| 2011-11-28 |
| There was a shocking story on BBC Radio 4 this morning about Wikileaks and the last remaining Jews of Baghdad (you can listen to it here). Some more background here : BAGHDAD -- An Anglican priest here says he's working with the U.S. Embassy to persuade the handful of Jews who still live in Baghdad to leave because their names have appeared in cables published last month by WikiLeaks. The Rev. Canon Andrew White said he first approached members of the Jewish community about what he felt was the danger they faced after a news story was published last month that made reference to the cables. What has Wikileaks to say about it all ? Well according to this, one of the 215,287 unredacted cables published by WikiLeaks (The site says it only published the cables after an encryption code for the complete archive was leaked by a journalist from the Guardian) provides biographical sketches of the 9 remaining Jews in Baghdad. In total, only 35 Jews remain of a community that dates back to 721 B.C. Yes its all the fault of the Guardian! That would be the same Guardian that was allegedly part of a "Jewish conspiracy" to discredit Wikileaks. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #3 Federal Marshals are patient men. And a half second after Assange trods on anything owned by the US: “An' one time a little girl 'ud allus laugh an' grin, An' make fun of ever' one, an' all her blood-an'-kin; An' wunst, when they was "company," an' ole folks wuz there, She mocked 'em an' shocked 'em, an' said she didn't care! An' thist as she kicked her heels, an' turn't to run an' hide, They wuz two great big Black Things a-standin' by her side, An' they snatched her through the ceilin' 'for she knowed what she's about! An' the Gobble-uns 'll git you Ef you Don't Watch Out!” |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-11-28 18:28 |
| #2 If Assange got what he truly deserved, they'd have buried his rotting corpse by now. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2011-11-28 11:50 |
| #1 Meanwhile in Australia, Julian Assange won the Walkeley Award for the Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism today. |
| Posted by: Grunter 2011-11-28 10:16 |