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| Wikileaks publishes over 60,000 Saudi diplomatic cables |
| 2015-06-22 |
| [EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] WikiLeaks is in the process of publishing more than 500,000 Saudi diplomatic documents to the Internet, the transparency website said Friday, a move that echoes its famous release of US State Department cables in 2010, AP reported. WikiLeaks said in a statement that it has already posted roughly 60,000 files. Most of them appear to be in Arabic. There was no immediate way to verify the authenticity of the documents, although WikiLeaks has a long track record of hosting large-scale leaks of government material. Many of the documents carried green letterhead marked "Kingdom of Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... " or "Ministry of Foreign Affairs." Some were marked "urgent" or "classified." At least one appeared to be from the Saudi Embassy in Washington. If genuine, the documents would offer a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the notoriously opaque kingdom. They might also shed light on Riyadh's longstanding regional rivalry with Iran, its support for Syrian rebels and Egypt's military-backed government, and its opposition to an emerging international agreement on Tehran's nuclear program, AP said. One of the documents, dated to 2012, appears to highlight Saudi Arabia's well-known skepticism about the Iranian nuclear talks. A message from the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Tehran to the Foreign Ministry in Riyadh describes "flirting American messages" being carried to Iran via an unnamed Turkish mediator. Another 2012 missive, this time sent from the Saudi Embassy in Abu Dhabi, said the United Arab Emirates was putting "heavy pressure" on the Egyptian government not to try former president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... , who had been tossed in a popular uprising the year before. According to AP, It is not clear how WikiLeaks got the documents, although in its statement the website referred to a recent electronic attack on the Saudi Foreign Ministry by a group calling itself the Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... Cyber Army. Hrafnsson declined to elaborate on the statement or say whether the hackers subsequently passed documents on to WikiLeaks. "As a matter of policy we're not going to discuss the source of the material," he said. In its statement, WikiLeaks said the release coincided with the three-year anniversary of its founder, Julian Assange, who sought asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Zaman al-Wasl will publish all cabels related toi the Syrian conflict. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #8 Not much in there that rantburgers would not recognize as normal Saudi behavior. The leaks are mild in a sense, but the rest of the sand in the privates part world may get antsy, as they always do for any perceived slight. Not as earth shattering as all of OUR SF-86's being sub-contracted to China for example. |
| Posted by: newc 2015-06-22 23:49 |
| #7 Where were they when Hilarity had an open email server? Not even Wikileaks would go up against Grandma Cackles! |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2015-06-22 10:36 |
| #6 I look forward to reading them. |
| Posted by: BernardZ 2015-06-22 10:20 |
| #5 ;-) |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2015-06-22 09:53 |
| #4 ^^^ snark of the day? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-06-22 08:53 |
| #3 60,000 cables. How many lashes? |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2015-06-22 06:30 |
| #2 Lists of payoffs to US/EU politicians by any chance? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-06-22 04:03 |
| #1 Where were they when Hilarity had an open email server? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2015-06-22 00:18 |