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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Dear Robert,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>A friendly suggestion: you should double check your facts before you send out e-mails like this. The footnotes in any serious document are very important. If someone claims for example that person X has stolen money from person Y, then she or he needs to show some kind of document or evidence to prove that. Now if the accusation is written in English and the proofs are in another language, then how anyone can read and believe those documents? The notes that you have sent some are in Arabic and German! Do you know Arabic and German? My point has nothing to do with Wikileakes or Julian Assange. As I’ve suggested before we should read the actual Cables and don’t waste too much time on other matters that we don’t have all the information. So I hope you understand, this is not about you or Wikileaks. I’m just simply asking everyone to please don’t act like a copy machine on the internet. Research and inform us of the most valuable information that you find which have merit and are not questionable. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I can’t read Arabic or German, so I really don’t see any value in something that is in Arabic from a reporter that claims Assange has met Israeli agents. That is like Fox News type of story.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Massoud<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>* I’m sorry, I hope you don’t get this personally…. we are still friends … right?! … And what’s up with the light yellowish color font that you are using? Are you trying to make us go BLIND! </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>J</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> discuss-bounces@paa-tx.org [mailto:discuss-bounces@paa-tx.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>robert<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 09, 2010 10:15 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'Lee Loe'; 'PAA DiscussHouston'<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [PAA-Discuss] 3 articles on Wikileaks<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><h1><a href="http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=15770" title="WikiLeaks ‘struck a deal with Israel’ over diplomatic cables leaks"><span style='color:#FFD800'>WikiLeaks ‘struck a deal with Israel’ over diplomatic cables leaks</span></a><o:p></o:p></h1><p class=byline><span class=byline-prep>By</span> <span class=author><a href="http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?author=1" title="wmw_admin"><span style='color:#FFD800'>wmw_admin</span></a></span> <span class=byline-prep>on</span> December 9, 2010 <o:p></o:p></p><div><p align=center style='text-align:center'><strong>by LikiWeaks – Indybay.org December 7, 2010</strong><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='color:#FFCC00'>We should obviously all support WikiLeaks and its founder and spokesperson, Julian Assange, who has just been arrested in Britain, in this dirty war by states around the globe against transparency and openness. But in the world of politics, sadly, things are never as innocent as they appear. According to new revelations, Assange had allegedly struck a deal with Israel before the recent ‘cable gate’, which may explain why the leaks “were good for Israel,” as the Israeli prime minister put it.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='color:#FFCC00'>A number of commentators, particularly in Turkey and Russia, have been wondering why the hundreds of thousands of American classified documents leaked by the website last month did not contain anything that may embarrass the Israeli government, like just about every other state referred to in the documents. The answer appears to be a secret deal struck between the WikiLeaks “heart and soul”, as Assange humbly described himself once [1], with Israeli officials, which ensured that all such documents were ‘removed’ before the rest were made public.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='color:#FFCC00'>According to an Arabic investigative journalism website [2], Assange had received money from semi-official Israeli sources and promised them, in a “secret, video-recorded agreement,” not to publish any document that may harm Israeli security or diplomatic interests.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='color:#FFCC00'>The sources of the Al-Haqiqa report are said to be former WikiLeaks volunteers who have left the organisation in the last few months over Assange’s “autocratic leadership” and “lack of transparency.”</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='color:#FFCC00'>In a recent interview with the German daily Die Tageszeitung, former WikiLeaks spokesperson Daniel Domscheit-Berg said he and other WikiLeaks dissidents are planning to launch their own whistleblowers’ platform to fulfil WikiLeaks’s original aim of “limitless file sharing.” [3]</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='color:#FFCC00'>Mr Domscheit-Berg, who is about to publish a book about his days ‘Inside WikiLeaks’, accuses Assange of acting as a “king” against the will of others in the organisation by “making deals” with media organisations that are meant to create an explosive effect, which others in WikiLeaks either know little or nothing about. [4]</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='color:#FFCC00'>Furthermore, Assange’s eagerness for headline-grabbing scoops meant that WikiLeaks had not been able to ‘restructure’ itself to cope with this surge of interest, insiders add. This has meant that smaller leaks, which might be of interest to people at a local level, are now being overlooked for the sake of big stories. [5]</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='color:#FFCC00'>According to the Al-Haqiqa sources, Assange met with Israeli officials in Geneva earlier this year and struck the secret deal. The Israel government, it seems, had somehow found out or expected that the documents to be leaked contained a large number of documents about the Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Gaza in 2006 and 2008-9 respectively. These documents, which are said to have originated mainly from the Israeli embassies in Tel Aviv and Beirut, where removed and possibly destroyed by Assange, who is the only person who knows the password that can open these documents, the sources added.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='color:#FFCC00'>Indeed, the published documents seem to have a ‘gap’ stretching over the period of July – September 2006, during which the 33-day Lebanon war took place. Is it possible that US diplomats and officials did not have any comments or information to exchange about this crucial event but spent their time ‘gossiping’ about every other ‘trivial’ Middle-Eastern matter?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='color:#FFCC00'>Following the leak (and even before), Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a press conference that Israel had “worked in advance” to limit any damage from leaks, adding that “no classified Israeli material was exposed by WikiLeaks.” [6] In an interview with the Time magazine around the same time, Assange praised Netanyahu as a hero of transparency and openness! [7]</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='color:#FFCC00'>According to another report [8], a left-leaning Lebanese newspaper had met with Assange twice and tried to negotiate a deal with him, offering “a big amount of money”, in order to get hold of documents concerning the 2006 war, particularly the minutes of a meeting held at the American embassy in Beirut on 24th July 2006, which is widely considered as a ‘war council’ meeting between American, Israeli and Lebanese parties that played a role in the war again Hizbullah and its allies. The documents the Al-Akhbar editors received, however, all date to 2008 onwards and do not contain “anything of value,” the sources confirm. This only goes to support the Israel deal allegations.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='color:#FFCC00'>Finally, it might be worth pointing out that Assange might have done what he is alleged to have done in order protect himself and ensure that the leaked documents are published so as to expose the American hypocrisy, which he is said to be obsessed with “at the expense of more fundamental aims.”</span><o:p></o:p></p><h6><span style='color:#FFCC00'>Notes:</span><o:p></o:p></h6><h6><span style='color:#FFCC00'>[1] </span><a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/09/wikileaks-revolt/"><span style='color:#FFCC00'>http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/09/wikileaks-revolt/</span></a><o:p></o:p></h6><h6><span style='color:#FFCC00'>[2] </span><a href="http://www.syriatruth.info/content/view/977/36/"><span style='color:#FFCC00'>http://www.syriatruth.info/content/view/977/36/</span></a><o:p></o:p></h6><h6><span style='color:#FFCC00'>[3] </span><a href="http://www.taz.de/1/netz/netzpolitik/artikel/1/vom-hacker-zum-popstar/"><span style='color:#FFCC00'>http://www.taz.de/1/netz/netzpolitik/artikel/1/vom-hacker-zum-popstar/</span></a><o:p></o:p></h6><h6><span style='color:#FFCC00'>[4] </span><a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,732212,00.html"><span style='color:#FFCC00'>http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,732212,00.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></h6><h6><span style='color:#FFCC00'>[5] </span><a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,719619,00.html"><span style='color:#FFCC00'>http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,719619,00.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></h6><h6><span style='color:#FFCC00'>[6] </span><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/netanyahu-wikileaks-revelations-were-good-for-israel-1.327773"><span style='color:#FFCC00'>http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/netanyahu-wikileaks-revelations-were-good-for-israel-1.327773</span></a><o:p></o:p></h6><h6><span style='color:#FFCC00'>[7] </span><a href="http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2034040-2,00.html"><span style='color:#FFCC00'>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2034040-2,00.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></h6><h6><span style='color:#FFCC00'>[8] </span><a href="http://www.syriatruth.info/content/view/986/36/"><span style='color:#FFCC00'>http://www.syriatruth.info/content/view/986/36/</span></a><o:p></o:p></h6><p><a href="http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/12/07/18665978.php"><span style='color:#FFCC00'>Source</span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=3 width="100%" align=center></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Lee Loe [mailto:leeloe@igc.org] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 09, 2010 10:00 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'PAA DiscussHouston'<br><b>Subject:</b> 3 articles on Wikileaks</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><strong>Guardian: Wikileaks under attack: timeline</strong> <br>The Guardian tallies attacks on Wikileaks from governments and corporations.<br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=SK%2BWHhZkebFsCj%2Fx1nk0UuULnma6KDgG" title="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=SK%2BWHhZkebFsCj%2Fx1nk0UuULnma6KDgG"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/07/wikileaks-under-attack-definitive-timeline</span></a><br><br></span><b>CounterSpin: WikiLeaks and the Coup in Honduras</b> <br>One story hasn't received enough media attention: how the U.S. embassy really saw the 2009 coup in Honduras. How did this cable conflict with official U.S. pronouncements and corporate media spin? Counterspin talks to Just Foreign Policy.<br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=xR%2FMX0mlSPS9W4XjHO9Q1eULnma6KDgG" title="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=xR%2FMX0mlSPS9W4XjHO9Q1eULnma6KDgG"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=4208</span></a><br><br></span><b>*Action: Courage to Resist: Support Bradley Manning</b> <br>Army intelligence analyst Manning faces decades in prison, and is being held in solitary confinement, without even visits from family, for allegedly leaking US government documents. Courage to Resist is circulating a statement of support for Bradley Manning.<br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=r%2BBWH0fNy7aX%2FMJvC7lKMuULnma6KDgG" title="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=r%2BBWH0fNy7aX%2FMJvC7lKMuULnma6KDgG"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>http://standwithbrad.org/</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=1 width="100%" noshade style='color:#ACA899' align=center></div><p class=avgcert>No virus found in this message.<br>Checked by AVG - <a href="http://www.avg.com">www.avg.com</a><br>Version: 10.0.1170 / Virus Database: 426/3305 - Release Date: 12/09/10<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>E-mail message checked by Internet Security (6.0.1.441)</span></strong><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Database version: 6.14880</span></strong><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.pctools.com/en/internet-security/">http://www.pctools.com/internet-security/</a></span></strong></span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><br/><br/><FONT face="Tahoma" size="2"><STRONG><br><br>E-mail message checked by Internet Security (6.0.1.441)<br>Database version: 6.14880<br><a href="http://www.pctools.com/en/internet-security/">http://www.pctools.com/internet-security/</a><br></STRONG></FONT>
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