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Subject: WikiLeaks Scandal
WikiLeaks Reveals That Military Contractors Have Not Lost Their Taste For Child Prostitutes
"Now, courtesy of Wikileaks, DynCorp can look forward to a new round of ridicule and denunciations.
As first reported by the British Guardian newspaper, on June 24, 2009 the U.S. embassy in Afghanistan sent a cable to Washington, under the signature of Karl Eikenberry, U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, regarding a meeting between Assistant Chief of Mission Joseph Mussomeli and Afghan Minister of Interior Hanif Atmar. Among the issues discussed was what diplomats delicately called the "Kunduz DynCorp Problem." Kunduz is a northern province of Afghanistan.
The problem was this:
1. In a May 2009 meeting interior minister Hanif Atmar expresses deep concerns that if lives could be in danger if news leaked that foreign police trainers working for US commercial contractor DynCorp hired "dancing boys" to perform for them."
Ben Johnston recoiled in horror when he heard one of his fellow helicopter mechanics at a U.S. Army base near Tuzla, Bosnia, brag one day in early 2000: "My girl's not a day over 12."
The man who uttered the statement -- a man in his 60s, by Johnston's estimate -- was not talking fondly about his granddaughter or daughter or another relative. He was bragging about the preteen he had purchased from a local brothel. Johnston, who'd gone to work as a civilian contractor mechanic for DynCorp Inc. after a six-year stint in the Army, had worked on helicopters for years, and he'd heard a lot of hangar talk. But never anything like this.
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More and more often in those months, the talk among his co-workers had turned to boasts about owning prostitutes -- how young they were, how good they were in bed, how much they cost. And it wasn't just boasting: Johnston often saw co-workers out on the streets of Dubrave, the closest town to the base, with the young female consorts that inspired their braggadocio. They'd bring them to company functions, and on one occasion, Johnston says, over to his house for dinner. Occasionally he'd see the young girls riding bikes and playing with other children, with their "owners" standing by, watching.
What?? How dare the terrorist website expose this state secret ONLY helpful for terrorists that We hire Child molestors in US Military Contractors and pay them for this?? Kill Assange now! Abusing children in occupied countries is a secret and only helps the terrorists when wikileaks informs us of this!
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"Now, courtesy of Wikileaks, DynCorp can look forward to a new round of ridicule and denunciations.
As first reported by the British Guardian newspaper, on June 24, 2009 the U.S. embassy in Afghanistan sent a cable to Washington, under the signature of Karl Eikenberry, U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, regarding a meeting between Assistant Chief of Mission Joseph Mussomeli and Afghan Minister of Interior Hanif Atmar. Among the issues discussed was what diplomats delicately called the "Kunduz DynCorp Problem." Kunduz is a northern province of Afghanistan.
The problem was this:
1. In a May 2009 meeting interior minister Hanif Atmar expresses deep concerns that if lives could be in danger if news leaked that foreign police trainers working for US commercial contractor DynCorp hired "dancing boys" to perform for them."
Ben Johnston recoiled in horror when he heard one of his fellow helicopter mechanics at a U.S. Army base near Tuzla, Bosnia, brag one day in early 2000: "My girl's not a day over 12."
The man who uttered the statement -- a man in his 60s, by Johnston's estimate -- was not talking fondly about his granddaughter or daughter or another relative. He was bragging about the preteen he had purchased from a local brothel. Johnston, who'd gone to work as a civilian contractor mechanic for DynCorp Inc. after a six-year stint in the Army, had worked on helicopters for years, and he'd heard a lot of hangar talk. But never anything like this.
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More and more often in those months, the talk among his co-workers had turned to boasts about owning prostitutes -- how young they were, how good they were in bed, how much they cost. And it wasn't just boasting: Johnston often saw co-workers out on the streets of Dubrave, the closest town to the base, with the young female consorts that inspired their braggadocio. They'd bring them to company functions, and on one occasion, Johnston says, over to his house for dinner. Occasionally he'd see the young girls riding bikes and playing with other children, with their "owners" standing by, watching.
What?? How dare the terrorist website expose this state secret ONLY helpful for terrorists that We hire Child molestors in US Military Contractors and pay them for this?? Kill Assange now! Abusing children in occupied countries is a secret and only helps the terrorists when wikileaks informs us of this!
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Putin, UN defend WikiLeaks
'Why was Mr. Assange hidden in prison? Is this democracy?' asks Russian PM
Skirmishes raged across cyberspace Thursday between WikiLeaks supporters and the companies they accuse of trying to stifle the whistleblower website, with both sides taking hits.
The UN's top human rights official raised the alarm over officials' and corporations' moves to cut off WikiLeaks funding and deny it server space. Navi Pillay described such actions as "potentially violating WikiLeaks's right to freedom of expression."
She also expressed surprise at the scale of the online attacks by WikiLeaks supporters that have targeted major U.S. financial players such as MasterCard and Visa — in some cases rendering their websites inaccessible for hours at a time.
"It's truly what media would call a cyberwar," Pillay told reporters in Geneva. "It's just astonishing what is happening."
WikiLeaks has been under intense pressure since it began publishing some of the 250,000 leaked U.S. diplomatic cables it obtained. There have been attacks on its website and threats against its co-founder, Julian Assange, who is now in a British jail fighting extradition to Sweden on charges of sexual assault against two women.
The cables date from 1966 to February 2010 and contain confidential communications between 274 embassies in countries throughout the world and the U.S. State Department; 15,652 of the cables are classified as secret.
WikiLeaks has said it intends to release them in stages, and as of Thursday evening, had released about 1,200 of them. The first batch of cables was released in conjunction with several major media outlets, namely, the Guardian, the New York Times, El Pais, Der Spiegel and Le Monde.
Prior to the publication of the cables, journalists at those media organizations advised WikiLeaks on which of the cables should be released and what details and names should be withheld from the published documents.
Brazilian president surprised by lack of outcry
U.S. officials say WikiLeaks's actions have thrown diplomacy into disarray, caused countries to curtail dealings with the U.S. and, in the case of an earlier WikiLeaks release of classified military documents, put the lives of informants at risk.
While U.S. allies have also criticized WikiLeaks, some world leaders have questioned the arrest of Assange.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, questioning the reliability of leaked U.S. cables referring to his nation as undemocratic and corrupt, said the fact that Assange is in custody shows the West has its own problems with democracy.
"Why was Mr. Assange hidden in prison?" Putin asked at a news conference. "Is this democracy?"
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said he was surprised by the lack of outcry against Assange's arrest.
"This WikiLeaks guy was arrested, and I'm not seeing any protest for freedom of expression," Silva said Thursday in Brasilia.
"There is nothing, nothing for freedom of expression and against the imprisonment of this guy who was doing better work than many of the ambassadors."
Many U.S.-based internet companies have cut their ties to WikiLeaks under pressure form the U.S. government. They include MasterCard, Visa, PayPal, EveryDNS and Amazon Web Services, the web hosting arm of Amazon.com.
Those moves have hurt WikiLeaks's ability to accept donations and publishing content and touched off a bout of web-based warfare.
Hundreds of people have set up mirror sites to host WikiLeaks content, and a group of "hacktivists" using the handle "Anonymous" have launched a series of retaliatory attacks — which WikiLeaks says it does not sanction — against the companies that have cut ties with WikiLeaks.
In the Netherlands, a 16-year-old boy suspected of being involved in the digital attacks on PayPal, MasterCard and other sites was arrested Thursday.
www.cbc.ca
Because of the arrest of that Dutch 16-year-old boy the site of the Dutch Public Prosecutor's Department was down. AnonTarget claims this attack on Twitter.
EDIT: the site of the police is also down :P
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'Why was Mr. Assange hidden in prison? Is this democracy?' asks Russian PM
Skirmishes raged across cyberspace Thursday between WikiLeaks supporters and the companies they accuse of trying to stifle the whistleblower website, with both sides taking hits.
The UN's top human rights official raised the alarm over officials' and corporations' moves to cut off WikiLeaks funding and deny it server space. Navi Pillay described such actions as "potentially violating WikiLeaks's right to freedom of expression."
She also expressed surprise at the scale of the online attacks by WikiLeaks supporters that have targeted major U.S. financial players such as MasterCard and Visa — in some cases rendering their websites inaccessible for hours at a time.
"It's truly what media would call a cyberwar," Pillay told reporters in Geneva. "It's just astonishing what is happening."
WikiLeaks has been under intense pressure since it began publishing some of the 250,000 leaked U.S. diplomatic cables it obtained. There have been attacks on its website and threats against its co-founder, Julian Assange, who is now in a British jail fighting extradition to Sweden on charges of sexual assault against two women.
The cables date from 1966 to February 2010 and contain confidential communications between 274 embassies in countries throughout the world and the U.S. State Department; 15,652 of the cables are classified as secret.
WikiLeaks has said it intends to release them in stages, and as of Thursday evening, had released about 1,200 of them. The first batch of cables was released in conjunction with several major media outlets, namely, the Guardian, the New York Times, El Pais, Der Spiegel and Le Monde.
Prior to the publication of the cables, journalists at those media organizations advised WikiLeaks on which of the cables should be released and what details and names should be withheld from the published documents.
Brazilian president surprised by lack of outcry
U.S. officials say WikiLeaks's actions have thrown diplomacy into disarray, caused countries to curtail dealings with the U.S. and, in the case of an earlier WikiLeaks release of classified military documents, put the lives of informants at risk.
While U.S. allies have also criticized WikiLeaks, some world leaders have questioned the arrest of Assange.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, questioning the reliability of leaked U.S. cables referring to his nation as undemocratic and corrupt, said the fact that Assange is in custody shows the West has its own problems with democracy.
"Why was Mr. Assange hidden in prison?" Putin asked at a news conference. "Is this democracy?"
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said he was surprised by the lack of outcry against Assange's arrest.
"This WikiLeaks guy was arrested, and I'm not seeing any protest for freedom of expression," Silva said Thursday in Brasilia.
"There is nothing, nothing for freedom of expression and against the imprisonment of this guy who was doing better work than many of the ambassadors."
Many U.S.-based internet companies have cut their ties to WikiLeaks under pressure form the U.S. government. They include MasterCard, Visa, PayPal, EveryDNS and Amazon Web Services, the web hosting arm of Amazon.com.
Those moves have hurt WikiLeaks's ability to accept donations and publishing content and touched off a bout of web-based warfare.
Hundreds of people have set up mirror sites to host WikiLeaks content, and a group of "hacktivists" using the handle "Anonymous" have launched a series of retaliatory attacks — which WikiLeaks says it does not sanction — against the companies that have cut ties with WikiLeaks.
In the Netherlands, a 16-year-old boy suspected of being involved in the digital attacks on PayPal, MasterCard and other sites was arrested Thursday.
www.cbc.ca
Because of the arrest of that Dutch 16-year-old boy the site of the Dutch Public Prosecutor's Department was down. AnonTarget claims this attack on Twitter.
EDIT: the site of the police is also down :P
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Lula da Silva ( Brazil Prime Minister), defended Assange too
Even the British justice minister Ken Clarke said in a TV interview that some Wikileaks-disclosure were of public interest
http://dailymail.com/News/NationandWorld/201012090933?page=2&build=cache
Justice Secretary Ken Clarke told Britain's Channel 4 News he didn't know much about WikiLeaks and hadn't had any contact with U.S. officials about it. While he condemned the WikiLeaks disclosures, he also struck a sympathetic note.
"I disagree with what WikiLeaks has done,'' Clarke said, citing the damage it had dealt to international diplomacy. But he added: "some of the things it's revealed -- let's be fair -- are of genuine public interest.''
"On balance it's done a great deal of harm, but that's not a criminal offense,'' Clarke said.
"I disagree with what WikiLeaks has done,'' Clarke said, citing the damage it had dealt to international diplomacy. But he added: "some of the things it's revealed -- let's be fair -- are of genuine public interest.''
"On balance it's done a great deal of harm, but that's not a criminal offense,'' Clarke said.
how can support them if they attack VISA and MasterCard because they blocked the account of an illegal site in the States. VISA and MasterCard don't decide which sites are illegal and which aren't ...
Illegal site? Is there a sentences agasnt Wikileaks? Is there even a formal accusation? Why only private companies are acting against Wikileaks due to "ilegal activities"? Or is it "potentially ilegal activities"?
Bad thin is that, due to oligopoly (which is also ilegal, but no one moves a finger about it), I cannot, as a consumer, punish Visa for acting unethically and against my principles. I mean, I would change company, but all I can do is to move to... Mastercard? bleh.
Illegal site? Is there a sentences agasnt Wikileaks? Is there even a formal accusation? Why only private companies are acting against Wikileaks due to "ilegal activities"? Or is it "potentially ilegal activities"?
Bad thin is that, due to oligopoly (which is also ilegal, but no one moves a finger about it), I cannot, as a consumer, punish Visa for acting unethically and against my principles. I mean, I would change company, but all I can do is to move to... Mastercard? bleh.
today on the sunday magazine, in a panel discussion the US ambassador stated that none of the leaks contained any dirt on the US. And secondly, that it is perfectly reasonable (and even to be expected) that companies end the customership of their clients that they suspect 'not being the person they present to be' (ie. supporters of terrorism, in this case). On the question whether this wasn't against the freedom of speech thing the US is so keen about, he gave an evasive response...
