Lebanese Newspaper Publishes U.S. Cables Not Found on WikiLeaks

[crikkett]

Source: The Atlantic, Max Fisher

Nearly 200 previously unreported U.S. diplomatic cables were posted on Thursday to the website of Lebanese newspaper Al Akhbar. The cables, from eight U.S. embassies across the Middle East and North Africa, have not appeared on Wikileaks' official website or in the Western media outlets working with Wikileaks. Al Akhbar, which defines itself as an "opposition" newspaper, is published in Arabic. It has posted all 183 cables in their original English but promises readers a forthcoming Arabic translation.

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Update: When I asked about the origins of the cables, Al Akhbar executive editor Khaled Saghieh replied, "We are not in a position to disclose information about who we received these documents from, as the source requested strict anonymity. We have reasons to trust this source." But whoever that source was, the mere fact that he, she, or they requested anonymity suggests it was not Wikileaks. After all, the group has openly disclosed and actively promoted its role in every one of it leaks. When I pointed this out to Saghieh, he refused to confirm or deny Wikileaks' involvement.

Read more: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/12/lebanese-newspaper-publishes-us-cables-not-found-on-wikileaks/67430

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I found this through another forum.

The cables are here
http://www.al-akhbar.com/ar/node/216626

[Poll_Blind]

1. Other intelligence sources may be using WikiLeaks as cover to release...

...other documents. They may be real or they may not. Zbigniew Brzezinski accurately predicted this possibility weeks ago.

PB

[crikkett]

4. I don't disagree. n/t

[stray cat]

2. I hope they left in the Social Security numbers?

[aquart]

3. Oh, look. We're bleeding from a thousand cuts.

After what we did to Iraq, I can't say they're not entitled, I just can't.

[caseymoz]

5. Yep, a lot of people around the world are getting pissed at Assange's treatment.

Including perhaps a few in the intelligence community, who are not of one mind about it all.

[Arrowhead2k1]

6. I think there are atleast 3 other newspapers that have access to all of the cables.

They could have came from someone working for them.

[tekisui]

7. knr!~

[earcandle]

8. When a critical mass of monkeys living on one island collectively

begin to wash their potatoes suddenly all monkeys on all
islands are washing potatoes....

Humans also have this capacity to synch up, enmass, and
suddenly be informed to participate in a spontaneous
collective awareness that produce courageous feats designed to
preserve and forward quality of life urges.  To stamp out the
vermin, to wash the rose petals of smirk and yag.  We live...
we live again. 

[molly77]

9. earcandle

The 100th monkey theory is fascinating. May WikiLeaks go all over the world with it's truth. One way or the other.