WikiLeaks about to hit the fan

No, they're not.

I trust that Bush, Cheney and the rest of the neocon war criminals are on the list.

They're lining up to fellate Uncle Sam.

I know that none of those war criminals are on the list.

And earlier I was reading crikey.com..
catchy name.
Some of this seems hilarious. The bit about lack of condoms meaning non consensual, which I first read (where, probably crikey) and then a later bit in one of your quotes, that the sex turned non consensual (mmm, the condom broke? or, other?)

Anyway, much ado, there was a play written on that.

I like the guy. I have my very personal biases that may color this.

WikiLeaks US embassy cables: live updates

• Afghan contempt for British in Helmand exposed in cables
• Rampant corruption in Afghanistan laid bare
• US diplomats wrote off Gordon Brown as 'abysmal'
• Full coverage of the WikiLeaks cables


Gordon Brown in Afghanistan The latest US embassy cables released by WikiLeaks reveal Afghan contempt for the failure of British troops in Helmand province, while US diplomats had written off Gordon Brown. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

7.42am: The WikiLeaks website is down again, after its domain name system, EveryDNS.net, pulled the plug on it.


But the Guardian is up and running and packed with more revelations from the leaked cables. Today the main focus is Afghanistan.


The dispatches expose a devastating contempt for the British failure to impose security and connect with ordinary Afghans, our lead story says.

The Ministry of Defence has been swift to rebut the cables. A spokesman said:

Quote:

UK forces did an excellent job in Sangin, an area which has always been and continues to be uniquely challenging, delivering progress by increasing security and taking the fight to the insurgency.

That work is now being continued by the US Marines as part of a hugely increased Isaf presence across the whole of Helmand Province.

Both Afghan leaders, including the Governor of Sangin, and the US Marines have publicly recognised and paid tribute to the sacrifice and achievements of the UK forces in that area.


Criticism of UK troops in the cables has prompted a furious reaction on the Army Rumour Service, the online chatroom popular with British troops. "It's utterly ridiculous how little they appreciate the effort our troops have made," wrote Bloodloss, while Oddjob, who says he has a son currently serving in Afghanistan, tells the Afgans where to go.


Here's a round up of the other stories from the leaked cables today:

• CIA drew up UN spying wishlist for diplomats

• Afghan vice-president 'landed in Dubai with $52m in cash'

• Afghan MPs and religious scholars 'on Iran payroll'

• Germany accuses US over 'missing' Afghan funds

• Cables portray Hamid Karzai as corrupt and erratic

• Americans believed Gordon Brown was an 'abysmal' prime minister

• Gordon Brown's potential successors, as viewed by Washington

• Gordon Brown's global moves dismissed by US

• UK overruled on Lebanon spy flights from Cyprus

• U2 spy flights targetting Hizbullah fuels tensions

• Berlusconi 'profited from secret deals' with Putin

• Silvio Berlusconi's health hit by party lifestyle

• Cables vindicate Litvinenko murder claim, says widow

• Chávez and Uribe 'almost came to blows' at summit

• US has lost faith in Mexico's ability to win drugs war

You can follow all of yesterday's disclosures and reaction on Thursday's live blog. And for the full coverage go to our US embassy cables page or follow our US embassy cable Twitter feed @GdnCables.


7.56am: Connecting to WikiLeaks is presently not possible until it gets a new DNS service, writes our technology editor Charles Arthur. <cont>

7.42am:The WikiLeaks website is down again, after its domain name system, EveryDNS.net, pulled the plug on it.


But the Guardian is up and running and packed with more revelations from the leaked cables. Today the main focus is Afghanistan.

Palin wants Julian Assange hunted down like a criminal, as does the US Congress, and the only act this man has committed is to have revealed the truth.

Has the Guardian been down, ever, since this started, MsO?

By that I mean, are there other organizations/newspapers/news sources who are in possession of the same leaked material who have been attacked by these denial of service overloads?

Have these organizations had their internet service terminated by their internet service providers?

Have these organizations been threatened with arrest?

Have these organizations been threatened with arrest?

If none of these things has happened, why haven't they?

How would their possession of this info be any different that WikiLeaks' possession of the same info? WikiLeaks didn't hack into government computers and steal it.

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