WikiLeaks releases secret US cables

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange says he will release more US documents, this time from the 1970s. Picture: Leon Neal/AFP Source: AFP

WIKILEAKS has published 1.7 million US documents from 1973 to 1976, including many written by Henry Kissinger.

The release on Monday, also known as the "Public Library of US Diplomacy" or "Plus D", include classified and declassified documents from US diplomatic history, Al Jazeera and The Guardian report.

The new records, dating from 1973 to 1976, include many communications which were sent by or to former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger and have also been dubbed as ''The Kissinger cables''.

The website's Australian founder, Julian Assange, warned about the release earlier today.

The website has collated a variety of records including cables, intelligence reports and congressional correspondence and is releasing them in a searchable form, he said.

Assange has carried out much of the work from his refuge in Ecuador's embassy in London and told the Press Association that the records highlighted the "vast range and scope" of US influence around the world.

The Australian has been holed up in the tiny diplomatic mission for nine months as he seeks to avoid extradition to Sweden over allegations of rape and sexual assault, which he denies.

WikiLeaks sent shockwaves around the diplomatic world in 2010 when it released a set of more than 250,000 leaked US cables.

Many of the documents, which WikiLeaks has called the Public Library of US Diplomacy (PlusD), are marked NODIS (no distribution) or Eyes Only, while others were originally marked as secret.

Assange said WikiLeaks had undertaken a detailed analysis of the communications, adding that the information eclipsed Cablegate, a set of more than 250,000 US diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks from November 2010 and over the following year.

Assange fled to the Ecuadorian embassy in June after losing his battle in the British courts against extradition to Sweden.

Ecuador granted him asylum in August but Britain has refused to allow him safe passage out of the country, sparking a diplomatic stalemate.

Assange founded the WikiLeaks website that enraged Washington by releasing cables and war logs relating to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in one of the biggest security breach in US history.

- with AFP

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Scuba divers cut internet cables

Three men arrested by the Egyptian navy for cutting undersea internet cables said they were salvaging shipwrecks and cut the cables by mistake. Source: Supplied

THE Egyptian military has arrested three scuba divers accused of cutting an undersea Internet cable off the coast of the northern city of Alexandria, it said on Thursday.

The three had been spotted on board a small boat and attempted to flee ashore, but the navy gave chase and eventually caught up and arrested them, the military said on its Facebook page.

Pictures of three men with their hands bound were posted on the website, but there were no other details about their identity or about possible motives for the act of sabotage.

Three oxygen tanks were found aboard the boat but the divers' wetsuits were thought to have been thrown into the sea, the statement said.

Under questioning, the captured men claimed they had cut the cable by mistake, said Alexandria's security director Amin Ezz al-Din, quoted by the official MENA news agency.

The men said they were salvaging shipwrecks to sell when they spotted the cable and tried to take it, he said.

The navy had been acting on information from Telecom Egypt which reported that the SMW-4 undersea cable which provides broadband Internet to the country had been cut.

The arrests come after many internet users in Egypt reported service disruptions during the past few days.

In 2008, severed underwater cables disrupted Internet access in Egypt and several other countries.
 

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Scuba divers 'cut internet cables'

Three men arrested by the Egyptian navy for cutting undersea internet cables said they were salvaging shipwrecks and cut the cables by mistake. Source: Supplied

THE Egyptian military has arrested three scuba divers accused of cutting an undersea Internet cable off the coast of the northern city of Alexandria, it said on Thursday.

The three had been spotted on board a small boat and attempted to flee ashore, but the navy gave chase and eventually caught up and arrested them, the military said on its Facebook page.

Pictures of three men with their hands bound were posted on the website, but there were no other details about their identity or about possible motives for the act of sabotage.

Three oxygen tanks were found aboard the boat but the divers' wetsuits were thought to have been thrown into the sea, the statement said.

Under questioning, the captured men claimed they had cut the cable by mistake, said Alexandria's security director Amin Ezz al-Din, quoted by the official MENA news agency.

The men said they were salvaging shipwrecks to sell when they spotted the cable and tried to take it, he said.

The navy had been acting on information from Telecom Egypt which reported that the SMW-4 undersea cable which provides broadband Internet to the country had been cut.

The arrests come after many internet users in Egypt reported service disruptions during the past few days.

In 2008, severed underwater cables disrupted Internet access in Egypt and several other countries.
 

View the original article here

Scuba divers cut internet cables

Three men arrested by the Egyptian navy for cutting undersea internet cables said they were salvaging shipwrecks and cut the cables by mistake. Source: Supplied

THE Egyptian military has arrested three scuba divers accused of cutting an undersea Internet cable off the coast of the northern city of Alexandria, it said on Thursday.

The three had been spotted on board a small boat and attempted to flee ashore, but the navy gave chase and eventually caught up and arrested them, the military said on its Facebook page.

Pictures of three men with their hands bound were posted on the website, but there were no other details about their identity or about possible motives for the act of sabotage.

Three oxygen tanks were found aboard the boat but the divers' wetsuits were thought to have been thrown into the sea, the statement said.

Under questioning, the captured men claimed they had cut the cable by mistake, said Alexandria's security director Amin Ezz al-Din, quoted by the official MENA news agency.

The men said they were salvaging shipwrecks to sell when they spotted the cable and tried to take it, he said.

The navy had been acting on information from Telecom Egypt which reported that the SMW-4 undersea cable which provides broadband Internet to the country had been cut.

The arrests come after many internet users in Egypt reported service disruptions during the past few days.

In 2008, severed underwater cables disrupted Internet access in Egypt and several other countries.
 

View the original article here

Scuba divers 'cut internet cables'

Three men arrested by the Egyptian navy for cutting undersea internet cables said they were salvaging shipwrecks and cut the cables by mistake. Source: Supplied

THE Egyptian military has arrested three scuba divers accused of cutting an undersea Internet cable off the coast of the northern city of Alexandria, it said on Thursday.

The three had been spotted on board a small boat and attempted to flee ashore, but the navy gave chase and eventually caught up and arrested them, the military said on its Facebook page.

Pictures of three men with their hands bound were posted on the website, but there were no other details about their identity or about possible motives for the act of sabotage.

Three oxygen tanks were found aboard the boat but the divers' wetsuits were thought to have been thrown into the sea, the statement said.

Under questioning, the captured men claimed they had cut the cable by mistake, said Alexandria's security director Amin Ezz al-Din, quoted by the official MENA news agency.

The men said they were salvaging shipwrecks to sell when they spotted the cable and tried to take it, he said.

The navy had been acting on information from Telecom Egypt which reported that the SMW-4 undersea cable which provides broadband Internet to the country had been cut.

The arrests come after many internet users in Egypt reported service disruptions during the past few days.

In 2008, severed underwater cables disrupted Internet access in Egypt and several other countries.
 

View the original article here