Clipmarks | Vietnam ClipsWikiLeaks Founder Breaks Cover, But Avoids USclipped by: saharaclippers remarks: In April WikiLeaks released the Baghdad video, prompting considerable criticism of the Pentagon. The film was edited and produced in Iceland where Assange spends a lot of his time and which last week prepared the most radical and liberal freedom of information legislation anywhere in the world. Birgitta Jonsdottir, an Iceland MP and anti-war activist who led the drive for the new laws, co-produced the WikiLeaks version of the Baghdad video. "I worked on it 18 hours a day through the Easter holidays," she said. Jonsdottir, a close associate of Assange, said the WikiLeaks founder "went into hiding when the story of Mannings arrest was published".  The elusive founder of WikiLeaks, who is at the centre of a potential US national security sensation, has surfaced from almost a month in hiding to tell the Guardian he does not fear for his safety but is on permanent alert. Julian Assange, a renowned Australian hacker who founded the electronic whistleblowers platform WikiLeaks, vanished when a young US intelligence analyst in Baghdad was arrested. The analyst, Bradley Manning, had bragged he had sent 260,000 incendiary US state department cables on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to WikiLeaks. Assange appeared in public in Brussels for the first time in almost a month to speak at a seminar on freedom of information at the European parliament. Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers ? a top secret study about the Vietnam war ? in 1973, spoke to the Daily Beast. He said: "I would think that [Assange] is in some danger. Granted, I would think that his notoriety now would provide him some degree of protection." Blogging behind Vietnams bamboo cyberwallclipped by: finn_gclippers remarks: See the CNN video at website! Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (CNN) -- Helmet under her arm, Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quyn arrives after traveling 450 kilometers by motorbike, evading the security police, to tell CNN the story of her imprisonment for blogging in Vietnam. "The first three days I was scared for myself," she said about her 10 days in prison, during which officers repeatedly asked her about her writing and if she received cash from anti-government groups outside the country. Her blog includes writings about her daily life and pictures of her young daughter, but she also expresses her outspoken views against Chinas intervention in her country When I first got in touch with Nguyen nearly a year later, her phone and movements were still being monitored. E-mail, I had been told, was the best way to get in touch. "I am willing to tell my story to you," she wrote to me, saying she would travel from Nha Trang to Ho Chi Minh City to meet us. I dont want to see anymore "body-bags" returning to Australiaclipped by: leevardiclippers remarks: I love Oz...BUT....FUNDAMENTALLY...this will be another Vietnam !..read full post to get a REALITY CHECK ! Why the Taliban is winning in Afghanistan As Washington and London struggle to prop up a puppet government over which Hamid Karzai has no control, they risk repeating the blood-soaked 19th-century history of Britain?s imperial defeat. In 1843, shortly after his return from Afghanistan, an army chaplain, Reverend G R Gleig, wrote a memoir about the First Anglo-Afghan War, of which he was one of the very few survivors. It was, he wrote, "a war begun for no wise purpose, carried on with a strange mixture of rashness and timidity, brought to a close after suffering and disaster, without much glory attached either to the government which directed, or the great body of troops which waged it. Not one benefit, political or military, has Britain acquired with this war. Our eventual evacuation of the country resembled the retreat of an army defeated." Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. Wenn Sie Feedback an EasyRSS senden wollen, nutzen Sie bitte das Feedback Forumlar. Wenn Sie sich von EasyRSS abmelden wollen, gehen Sie bitte auf den Menüpunkt "Meine Daten". Ihr EasyRSS Team http://www.easyrss.de |
2010/06/27
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