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Burma Working on Nuclear Weapon in Secret Jungle Site
Burma Working on Nuclear Weapon in Secret Jungle Site
wikileaks reveal
Dec 10, 2010 7:45 AM CST

Burma Working on Nuclear Weapon in Secret Jungle Site

Witnesses say they've seen secret facility, missiles: WikiLeaks reveal

(Newser) - Burma may be building nuclear weapons, according to some of WikiLeaks’ State Department cables. A Burmese officer told US diplomats that he’d seen North Korean technicians helping to build “a concrete-reinforced underground facility,” where surface-to-air missiles were being assembled, the Guardian reports. Another witness said he’d...

UN Rights Chief to World: Play Nice With WikiLeaks

She raises alarm over moves to cut off funding, starve it of server space

(Newser) - Hackers aren't the only ones not happy about companies deciding to stop doing business with WikiLeaks. The United Nation High Commissioner for Human Rights said yesterday that attempts to cut off WikiLeaks' funding and deprive it of server space "could be interpreted as an attempt to censure the...

Assange's Prison Reality: Limited Internet Access, Bad TV

He can't stand daytime TV at prison

(Newser) - WikiLeaks boss Julian Assange has been transferred to a segregation unit at Britain's Victorian Wandsworth prison, where his Internet access will be restricted, reports the Guardian . He's "quite chipper" and seems to be "bearing up," said attorney Mark Stephens. Assange, who's wearing standard-issue gray track-suit prison duds,...

Berkeley May Anoint Army WikiLeaker a 'Hero'

Council will vote on Bradley Manning resolution next week

(Newser) - Bradley Manning is a traitor to some, but he might just be an official American hero to Berkeley. The city council will vote next week on a resolution praising the imprisoned Army private who's accused of delivering classified military documents to WikiLeaks, reports the San Francisco Chronicle . "If he...

Russia: Give Julian Assange a Nobel Prize

It's a change of heart from the Kremlin about WikiLeaks

(Newser) - It wasn't that long ago that Russia was said to be considering dastardly revenge against WikiLeaks. Not any more, apparently. The Guardian quotes a Kremlin insider as saying that "public and non-governmental organizations should think of how to help" Julian Assange. And the quote getting attention: "Maybe, nominate...

Dutch Police Nab 16-Year-Old in Hacking Attacks

He's accused of taking part in the WikiLeaks revenge campaign

(Newser) - The first suspected hacker arrested in the coordinated cyberattacks on MasterCard and Visa is 16 years old. Dutch police say the teen has admitted taking part in so-called Operation Payback, in which hackers worldwide wreaked havoc on the websites of perceived enemies of WikiLeaks. Sarah Palin's website and PayPal also...

Facebook, Twitter Locked in WikiLeaks War

'Operation Payback' accounts suspended

(Newser) - Facebook and Twitter have found themselves stuck in the middle of a furious online battle that shows no sign of stopping any time soon. The social media sites have blocked accounts belonging to a group waging cyber-war on firms that have stopped doing business with WikiLeaks — but the move...

Sarah Palin Cyber-Attacked by WikiLeaks Supporters

It's similar to attacks on MasterCard, Visa, PayPal

(Newser) - The WikiLeaks' revenge brigade has gone after Sarah Palin. The hackers, part of the so-called Operation Payback, tried to shut down her SarahPac website and "disrupted" the credit card accounts of her and husband Todd, reports ABC . Similar cyber-attacks were wreaking havoc on the websites of MasterCard and Visa...

Australia to US: You, Not Assange, to Blame for Leaks

Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd puts the blame on the leakers

(Newser) - As Julian Assange spent the night in a British jail , his home country finally came to his defense. The WikiLeaks founder may have published classified documents, but he got them from somewhere. "Mr. Assange is not himself responsible for the unauthorized release of 250,000 documents from the US...

Glenn Beck's Guide to Julian Assange's Sex Life

Fox News host utilizes chalkboard, Barbies to explain it to you

(Newser) - Having trouble keeping track of what sex crimes, exactly, Julian Assange is accused of ? Allow Glenn Beck and his handy chalkboard to explain it to you. The Fox News host tracked the WikiLeaks founder's sex life last night, using Barbie pictures as stand-ins for Assange, "Woman No. 1,...

WikiLeaks-Loving Hackers Strike MasterCard, PayPal

Companies who shunned site targeted

(Newser) - WikiLeaks' bank accounts have been frozen, a host of companies have stopped doing business with it, and its founder is in custody, but is anybody coming to its defense? Step up, 4chan. "Anonymous," a group linked to the notorious message board, has launched denial-of-service assaults against firms that...

US Pushing to Grab Assange From Whoever's Got HIm

Analysts: Fight for WikiLeaks boss likely to get messy

(Newser) - Julian Assange hasn't been charged with any crime in the US, but the international tug-of-war for the WikiLeaks founder appears to have already begun. Assange is in British custody awaiting extradition proceedings to Sweden, and US officials have held informal talks with their Swedish counterparts over the possibility of having...

Julian Assange: Hey Australia, Why Aren't You Protecting Me?

In essay, he defends mission and worries about threats

(Newser) - Julian Assange himself takes to the pages of the Australian to defend the mission of WikiLeaks—which he defines as "scientific journalism"—to insist that not a single person has been harmed, let alone killed, because of its work, and to complain that his own government is turning...

Julian Assange Denied Bail, Remanded Into Custody

WikiLeaks founder vows to fight extradition to Sweden

(Newser) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was denied bail and remanded into custody today after telling a London court that he intends to fight his extradition to Sweden on sex crime allegations, setting up what could be a drawn-out legal battle. The 39-year-old Australian appeared before City of Westminster Magistrates' Court after...

Brits Bust Julian Asssange
Brits Arrest Julian Assange
on Sex Charges
wikileaks bust
Dec 7, 2010 7:58 AM CST

Brits Arrest Julian Assange on Sex Charges

He surrenders in London

(Newser) - Julian Assange has surrendered to London authorities, who have arrested him on a Swedish warrant for suspicion of sex crimes. His lawyer arranged to deliver the controversial WikiLeaks founder to police for questioning. The 39-year-old Australian is wanted on suspicion of "sex by surprise," sexual molestation, and unlawful...

Columbia to Students: OK, You Can Discuss WikiLeaks

Oh yeah, we are for freedom of speech, school clarifies

(Newser) - Columbia University has apparently remembered it's supposed to be a defender of free speech and has dropped its warning to students not to discuss WikiLeaks on Facebook or Twitter. Following a warning from an alumnus at the State Department, the career counseling office of the university's School of International and...

WikiLeaks: US Failing to Stop Flow of Mideast Arms

Hezbollah now has 50K Syrian-supplied rockets, missiles

(Newser) - American efforts to prevent a buildup of arms in the Middle East have been largely frustrated, according to diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks. In one cable, the State Department accuses Syria of breaking a promise to not provide Hezbollah militants in Lebanon with new missiles, the New York Times reports....

MasterCard Blocks Payments to WikiLeaks

Credit card company won't allow use for 'illegal activity'

(Newser) - The world's stomp on WikiLeaks just hit the jugular: MasterCard is blocking all payments to the muckraking media site. "MasterCard is taking action to ensure that WikiLeaks can no longer accept MasterCard-branded products," said a company spokesman. "MasterCard rules prohibit customers from directly or indirectly engaging in...

WikiLeaks Releases List of Sites Key to US Security

Critics call list 'gift' for terrorists

(Newser) - WikiLeaks has released a State Department cable listing dozens of sites around the world that the US considers vital to its national security, CNN reports. The list springs from a February 2009 cable, in which the State Department asked diplomats to identify key resources, facilities, and installations. Diplomats replied with...

Assange: Kill or Bust Me and I Release Everything

WikiLeaks warns it has 'thermonuclear device' of encrypted files

(Newser) - WikiLeaks' founder has a "thermonuclear device" of unreleased files that he says he'll detonate if he's killed or brought to trial. Julian Assange has widely distributed an encrypted 1.3-gigabyte file containing the full versions of all the US documents the site has received, and his lawyer says the...

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