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December 30, 2010 9:42 AM

Assange: Many Arab Officials Work With CIA

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Joshua Norman
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WikiLeaks founder Assange told Al Jazeera network that he is prepared to release all the explosive information in his possession to the public after "he has been done away with."

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Less than 2,000 of the purported 250,000 diplomatic cables in WikiLeaks possession have been made public. There has been plenty of speculation as to what's left, since the revelations thus far have been a broad mix of both gossipy and inflammatory information.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told Al Jazeera network Wednesday that some of things he is holding back could be downright explosive, reports the Emptywheel website. Assange said:

"Top officials in several Arab countries have close links with the CIA, and many officials keep visiting US embassies in their respective countries voluntarily to establish links with this key US intelligence agency. These officials are spies for the U.S. in their countries."

The Qatar-based Peninsula newspaper reports that Assange also said the CIA-Arab officials link went deeper than just information-sharing.

Some Arab countries even have torture houses where Washington regularly sends "suspects" for "interrogation and torture," he said.

Assange hinted in the interview that he is letting the link between the CIA and Arab officials be known without naming any specific names in case his upcoming trial in Britain does not go his way, or, worse, should he be assassinated.

"If I am forced we could go to the extreme and expose each and every file that we have access to," Assange said, adding that there were 2,000 websites that were ready to publish the remaining files that are in possession of WikiLeaks after "he has been done away with."


  • Joshua Norman

    Joshua Norman is an associate editor at CBSNews.com.

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by satinsun December 31, 2010 7:08 PM EST
It amazes me that people still think that Assange intends good. How blind can people be?
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by YrWrongAgain December 31, 2010 1:36 PM EST
Let the healing light of the people's revolutionary gulag re-educate us all.
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by Rynedrop December 31, 2010 10:42 AM EST
*+ * Keep the light coming! Let it shine on all! Be healed and made whole!
***
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by ToolMangler1 December 30, 2010 6:28 PM EST
"Assange hinted in the interview that he is letting the link between the CIA and Arab officials be known without naming any specific names in case his upcoming trial in Britain does not go his way, or, worse, should he be assassinated."
"If I am forced we could go to the extreme and expose each and every file that we have access to,"



Now the extortion begins in earnest.. That Info is all but published.
Does anybody believe that 'ALL' of those hackers have the same supposed set of values that Assange claims to have and that "ONE" of them won't see "MONEY" in the files he/she has!!!!
"A fool and his money are soon parted". Assange is a 'fool' and his 'money' is in the hands of thousands of hackers.
I hope that it 'all' is published so that we can do to this @$$ the same thing he wanted for the USA.
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by ToolMangler1 December 30, 2010 6:49 PM EST
"Assange said, adding that there were 2,000 websites that were ready to publish the remaining files that are in possession of WikiLeaks after "he has been done away with."


"Assange singing"

Remember when you ran away and I got on my knees and begged you not to
leave because I'd go berserk?? Well...
You left me anyhow and then the days got worse and worse and now you see
I've gone completely out of my mind.. And..
They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!
They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa
To the funny farm. Where life is beautiful all the time and I'll be
happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats and they're
coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!!!!
by bradkt1 December 30, 2010 4:50 PM EST
This is the type of revelation that can mean a death sentence for an Arab leader who is trying to be accommodating to the interests of the United States in a region full of crazies. We need friends like this in this region. What WikiLeaks is doing is totally irresponsible journalism. Julian Assange is no friend of the United States. He is an enemy and should be treated as such.
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by ToolMangler1 December 30, 2010 6:51 PM EST
I agree 100%
by RatPackSixGun December 31, 2010 12:56 PM EST
Exactly. If Assange were truly only interested in 'open dialogue' he would not be threatening material that could only destroy the chances of that as well as endanger people's lives.

This guy is nothing more than a narcissistic sociopath who's using his "network" of evangelical underlings to exert control out into the world without consenting first with any of the people that could literally end up dead by his antics. Despite being a card-carrying Libertarian, I'd like to see this guy get hit by a truck and go away. He's no friend of freedom.
by YrWrongAgain December 30, 2010 2:11 PM EST
There was this American politician, RFK, and even though his father was an ambassador who reported on how powerful the Nazis were, the Arabs shot RFK at the Ambassador Hotel. So serve your masters well, maybe they appreciate it. But maybe not.
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by wyodutch December 30, 2010 6:19 PM EST
Are you still wearing a corrective hat?
by YrWrongAgain December 30, 2010 6:23 PM EST
That Depends? I mean what you're wearing. lol
by infantryman1968 December 30, 2010 1:41 PM EST
by brianbwb2015 December 30, 2010 1:17 PM EST
infantryman1968

First point, yes, I am begging for any evidence against ANY of our elected officials, but unlike baggers, I make no distinction because of political affiliation, if Mr. Obama's hands are dirty, then let us see the proof, and hold his just as responsible for his crimes as we hold Bush and Cheney for theirs.

As for Bush and Cheney, no frther proof is needed, Bush has already confessed to some of his crimes, the rest are public record.

Second, it is quite funny how you baggers posit as truth, ignorant assumptions about that of which you have no knowledge, or proof.

It is proof that I ask of Mr. Assange, and it wuld ake a typical bagger to infer in your post that you would oppose his furnishing said proof.


LOL!


I like the way you always use the term "we" during your rants. I'm sure the voices in your head are telling you that.

The fact of the matter is there is no definitive proof, only spculation that connects Bush and Cheney to a deliberate Genocide in Iraq and Afghanistan or that 9-11 was an inside job to get there.

The sad irony of this the one man that was supposed to be your Captain Ahab and bring Bush to justice for the crimes in your head, is the one pulling the strings to take you and Assange out.
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by YrWrongAgain December 30, 2010 1:13 PM EST
Dr. Aribert Heim, an SS doctor who worked at the Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen and Mauthausen concentration camps, eluded investigators for decades while living "a quiet life" in Cairo as the Muslim convert Tarek Hussein Farid.

Not much to change in his philosophy, and the weather's better.
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by infantryman1968 December 30, 2010 1:01 PM EST
by wyodutch December 30, 2010 12:02 PM EST
If you want to read unbiased news from the Mideast... go to http://english.aljazeera.net/


LOL!


yea......."The Amercian Infadels will never set one foot into Baghdad!"

as the tanks rolling down the street behind the aljazeera reporter.............
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by YrWrongAgain December 30, 2010 12:51 PM EST
Wyodutch, you refer many times in your rants to the USS Liberty. Care to discuss another ship, the St. Louis? How about the America First movement and our old buddy Charles Lindbergh? Yeah. Miserable P.O.S. don't change much over the decades, do they?
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by YrWrongAgain December 30, 2010 1:43 PM EST
He was your back door man? The agitprop queen knows, but the agitprop queen understands.
by YrWrongAgain December 30, 2010 2:15 PM EST
My uncle was a medic on Normandy Beach. Didn't talk about it until the 1980s. He knew something about the Germans too. There is no common ground between a police state and a republic. Not even the best police state and the worst republic. There is my opinion on the Near East and on America as well.
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