Hackers And Activists Gear-Up For War on "Wikileaks Phenomena"

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Fighting lines between supporters
of the whistle blowing web site
WikiLeaks and its critics began
to form on Sunday. Supporters
raised numerous copies of the
site on the Internet. The United
States put pressure on Switzerland
not to offer a haven to the site's
founder, Julian Assange.

Major Internet companies stopped
services to WikiLeaks. Activists
created hundreds of like sites that
host exact copies of another site's
content, making censorship difficult.

An informal group of hackers and
activists declared war on Sunday
against enemies of Mr. Assange. They
called on supporters to attack
sites/companies that don't support
WikiLeaks and to spread the leaked
material online.

The American ambassador to Switzerland,
Donald S. Beyer Jr., responded in the
weekly magazine NZZ am Sonntag that the
Swiss should carefully consider whether
to provide shelter to someone who is on
the run from the law.

On Friday, WikiLeaks looked for refuge in
a diffuse web of financial and Internet
infrastructure spread across Europe
especially in Switzerland.

Source: http://newsblaze.com/story/20101206100112writ.nb/topstory.html

Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange: Living In Fear

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Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange is
living in fear of being arrested,
and has been running since the release
of secret United States military documents
related to the Iraq war via his web site.

Assange checks into hotels with false names,
dyes his hair, sleeps on sofas/floors. He uses
cash instead of credit cards, often borrowed
from friends, a United States daily, which
interviewed him last week, pointed-out.

"They called me the James Bond of journalism...
it got me a lot of fans, and some of them ended
up causing me a bit of trouble," he shared, feared
that the UK may act against him if the United
States decides to prosecute. This course of
action is being looked at.

"When it comes to the point where you occasionally
look forward to being in prison on the basis that
you might be able to spend a day reading a book,
the realization dawns that perhaps the situation
has become a little more stressful than you would
like."

On Friday, his online whistle blower web site leaked
nearly 400,000 secret United States documents on the
Iraq war. They gave graphic accounts of torture,
killing of over 66,000 civilians and Iran's role in
the conflict.

Source: http://newsblaze.com/story/20101025063306writ.nb/topstory.html

U.S. Killed 181 Insurgents- WikiLeaks Founder

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Julian Assange's, WikiLeaks founder,
web site stirred up debates about
classified information the public
should/shouldn't know.

"WikiLeaks aims to achieve political
reforms by getting out information
that has been suppressed to the public,"
Assange explained to Voice of America.

WikiLeaks web site posted classified military
documents spelling-out U. S. failures in
Afghanistan.

The documents were first released to The New
York Times, British daily, The Guardian and
German magazine Der Spiegel. They point to
a worse picture of the Afghan war than the
official public account, and include information
that Pakistan's intelligence services have been
helping the Taliban kill U.S. troops. Both ideas
have been discussed in the past.

The report could put U. S. citizens in harm's way,
and hurt national security.

"We have with-held approximately 15,000 reports
for further harm minimization process," he informed.
"We don't see anything here that is of tactical
significance. What we see is a lot of reports of
evidentiary significance that describe the cut/thrust
of the entire war over the last six years."

President Obama found out about the posting of the
documents last week, Robert Gibbs commented Monday-
White House Press Secretary.

The public release of the information was "a breach
of federal law," Gibbs said.

"We authenticate everything," Assange made-clear.
"To our knowledge, we've never been wrong. There
are no allegations by the rest of the press that
we've been wrong. We've never lost a source through
the process we go through."

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