Wikileaks diplomatic cables release 'attack on world'

Wakati ule tukiwa JAMBO FORUM tulikuwa tunaelekea kwenye mrengo huo huo wa weakleaks. JF ilikuwa inaogopewa na serikali. Lakini siku hizi naona tume surrender
 
Rungu said:
PayPal Permanently Restricts WikiLeaks Account:-(

The list of organizations banning WikiLeaks is growing; now PayPal has made it clear that the whistleblower website is no longer welcome through its virtual doors.

The move closes the primary online channel for donations to the controversial organization, which has been facing increased pressure from world governments.

"PayPal has permanently restricted the account used by WikiLeaks (Wikileaks) due to a violation of the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy, which states that our payment service cannot be used for any activities that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity," the company said in a statement on its blog. "We've notified the account holder of this action."

WikiLeaks has had recent difficulty keeping the donations channels open. Donations through Moneybookers (Moneybookers) was blocked in October after the U.S. and Australia (Australia) put the organization on its watch lists, and earlier this year PayPal suspended the WikiLeaks account temporarily.

WikiLeaks has been attracting a great deal of attention this week after it released 250,000+ sensitive U.S. diplomatic wires. Since then, the company has been under attack from hackers and the U.S. government alike. Amazon recently kicked WikiLeaks off of its servers, as did its DNS service provider.

Yetu macho!
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The noose is tightening. Ila semeni yote kwenye hizi secret cables jamaa wamechemsha big time, kuanika siri na kuanika uozo unaofichwa ni vitu viwili tofauti.
 
nmzange said:
Kwani Iran ikiwa na nuclera Saudi watapata hasara gani wote si Waislam na adui yao ni mmoja?
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Iran ni Shia, Saudi ni Sunni, big difference when coupled with geopolitics za Marekani hapo.
 
Leo State Department wamebandika Tangazo katika website ya Columbia University Of International and Public Affairs linalosema :

"Do not Discuss Wikileaks on facebook or Twitter,To do so could endanger your job prospects"

Jamaa wanajaribu kila njia kui-attack website ya Wikileaks,suala zima la Wikileaks linawaumiza vichwa watu wa State Department na Pentagon.
 
VIPI leaks za TZ kama zipo zimwageni hapa tuone vigogo wa EPA,madawa ya kulevya na mizee ya vijisenti inavyozungumziwa
 
Sinema bado inaendelea. Sasa inaanza kutisha. Yaani akaunti za madikteta Switzerland poa lakini ngawira za Assange tayari zimekua noma, eti sio raia, khaa!

More Problems for WikiLeaks: Switzerland Cuts Off Founder's Bank Account
By Ben Parr

Switzerland has taken new action against WikiLeaks by shutting down founder Julian Assange's bank account.

PostFinance - which is owned by the Swiss Post, itself a public company owned by the Swiss Confederation - said in a statement earlier today that it has closed Julian Assange's account for failing to provide proof of Swiss citizenship.

Here is PostFinance's statement on its decision:

"Finance has ended its business relationship with WikiLeaks founder Julian Paul Assange. The Australian citizen provided false information regarding his place of residence during the account opening process. Assange entered Geneva as his domicile. Upon inspection, this information was found to be incorrect. Assange cannot provide proof of residence in Switzerland and thus does not meet the criteria for a customer relationship with PostFinance. For this reason, PostFinance is entitled to close his account. If there is any indication that the information provided by an account holder may not comply with the detailed valid provisions, PostFinance investigates the circumstances in detail and draws the appropriate conclusions."

WikiLeaks and its founder have been under constant fire since it released 250,000+ sensitive U.S. diplomatic cables. Assange is wanted by Interpol for sex crimes he allegedly committed during a trip to Sweden earlier this year. The U.S. State Department has taken action against the organization, and several companies including Amazon, PayPal and EveryDNS have banned the site from using their services.

Multiple governments are now targeting the organization. While each action may have been taken for different reasons, the result is an enormous amount of pressure designed to take WikiLeaks down. Despite hundreds of mirrors replicating the site, the organization is definitely in trouble. Whether it will survive or grow stronger than ever after recent events remains to be seen.

Source: Mashable
 
Wanajamvi hii story chini ni defu lakini inaoneysha pamoja na mapungufu aliyonayo Gaddafi anawzidi viongozi wengi wa afrika akili na uzalendo na kujiamini
Lockerbie bomber freed after Gaddafi's 'thuggish' threats

The British government's deep fears that Libya would take "harsh and immediate" action against UK interests if the convicted Lockerbie bomber died in a Scottish prison are revealed in secret US embassy cables which show London's full support for the early release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi.


Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, made explicit and "thuggish" threats to halt all trade deals with Britain and harass embassy staff if Megrahi remained in jail, the cables show. At the same time "a parade of treats" was offered by Libya to the Scottish devolved administration if it agreed to let him go, though the cable says they were turned down.


Britain at the time was "in an awkward position" and "between a rock and a hard place". The London charge d'affaires, Richard LeBaron, wrote in a cable to Washington in October 2008. "The Libyans have told HMG [Her Majesty's Government] flat out that there will be 'enormous repercussions' for the UK-Libya bilateral relationship if Megrahi's early release is not handled properly."


This intelligence, the cable said, was confided to the US embassy by two British officials: Ben Lyons, in charge of north Africa for Downing Street, and Rob Dixon, his counterpart at the Foreign Office.
Details of the Megrahi manoeuvrings come in the latest batch of leaked US dispatches which also detail:
• Deep distrust of Gaddafi among other African leaders; Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni, for example, feared a Libyan attack on his aircraft.
• Gaddafi's many eccentricities, including phobias about flying over water and staying above ground floor level.
• Saudi calls for an Arab-led force, backed by US air and sea power, to fight Iranian-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon.


The Megrahi cables may do much to explain why he was released in August 2009, supposedly because he was on the brink of death from prostate cancer. The decision incurred American wrath. More than a year on Megrahi is still alive, having been feted when he was escorted back to Tripoli by Gaddafi's son.


Public congressional hearings in September were told by a US prostate specialist that the official reason for the compassionate release – that Megrahi was within three months of death – was "ridiculous".


Anger with the British persists in some American circles, and UK ministers, Labour and Tory, have attempted to distance London from the release insisting it was purely a Scottish decision.


In January 2009, six months before Megrahi's release, the US ambassador to Libya, Gene Cretz, confirmed that "dire" reprisals had been threatened against the UK, and the British were braced to take "dramatic" steps for self-protection.


The Libyans "convinced UK embassy officers that the consequences if Megrahi were to die in prison … would be harsh, immediate and not easily remedied … specific threats have included the immediate cessation of all UK commercial activity in Libya, a diminishment or severing of political ties, and demonstrations against official UK facilities.


"[Libyan] officials also implied, but did not directly state, that the welfare of UK diplomats and citizens in Libya would be at risk."
The British ambassador in Tripoli, Vincent Fean, "expressed relief" when Megrahi was released, the US reported.


"He noted that a refusal of Megrahi's request could have had disastrous implications for British interests in Libya. 'They could have cut us off at the knees,' Fean bluntly said."
Cretz cabled that "the regime remains essentially thuggish in its approach". He warned the US itself should keep quiet: "If the [US government] publicly opposes al-Megrahi's release or is perceived to be complicit in a decision to keep al-Megrahi in prison, [America's Libyan diplomatic] post judges that US interests could face similar consequences."


In the light of the repeated, politically unacceptable demands for Megrahi's release from Gaddafi, the illness at first seemed providential for Britain.


The cables reveal how the Scottish Nationalist first minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond, was edged into taking the political heat for releasing Megrahi, who had been diagnosed with cancer in September 2008. The message US diplomats received from Jack Straw, then justice minister, was that although Megrahi might survive up to five years, Labour's rivals in Scotland – Salmond and his SNP – were nonetheless inclined to release him.
A cable said: "Megrahi could have as long as five years to live but the average life expectancy of someone of his age with his condition is 18 months to two years. Doctors are not sure where he is on the time scale."


The Libyans have not yet made a formal application for compassionate release … but HMG believes that the Scottish may be inclined to grant the request, when it comes, based on conversations between … Alex Salmond and UK justice secretary Jack Straw. Although the general practice is to grant compassionate release within three months of end of life, this is not codified in the law, so the release, if granted, could occur sooner."
The American diplomats were worried "Salmond and the SNP will look for opportunities to exploit the Megrahi case for their own advantage". But when the Scottish justice minister finally announced a "compassionate release" to a storm of protest the following August, the US ambassador said the Scots had got out of their depth.


"The Scottish government severely underestimated both US government and UK public reaction to its decision … Alex Salmond has privately indicated that he was 'shocked'."
Salmond had told the US consul in Edinburgh on 21 August that "he and his government had played straight with both the US and the UK government, but implied the UK had not … he said the Libyan government had offered the Scottish government a parade of treats, 'all of which were turned down'."


Three days later Robin Naysmith, who served as the SNP's representative in Washington, said Salmond was shocked by the US outcry. "Naysmith underscored that Scotland received 'nothing' for releasing Megrahi, while the UK government has gotten everything – a chance to stick it to Salmond's SNP and good relations with Libya."
SNP "comments were designed to blame the UK government for putting the Scots in a position to have to make a decision", according to civil servant Rob Dixon, talking to the Americans.
Washington's ambassador to London, Louis Susman, observed unsympathetically: "It is clear that the Scottish government underestimated the blowback it would receive in response to Megrahi's release and is now trying to paint itself as the victim."
US officials were suspicious, going so far as privately to accuse the wealthy Gulf state of Qatar of bribing the Scots by dangling the possibility of Middle East loans.
In October 2009 the US ambassador in Doha confronted Khalid al-Attiyah, a Qatari minister who had lobbied SNP politicians at the time.
The US had "strong objections" to what had happened, he said. "The ambassador raised strong US government concerns about Qatar's role in the release … Al-Attiyah explained the Arab League had asked Qatar, in its capacity as the current chair … to seek Megrahi's release on humanitarian grounds; second, Megrahi had sent a personal letter to [the Qatar ruler] pleading for humanitarian intervention.
"On the basis of these two factors … he was dispatched to Scotland to meet the minister of justice there.
"Ambassador pressed the issue of whether Qatar had offered any financial or trade incentives to induce al-Megrahi's release. Al-Attiyah strongly dismissed such speculation, saying: 'That is ridiculous. It was not necessary to offer money. It was all done within Scottish law. We offered no money, investment, or payment of any kind.'"
The other object of US suspicion was Tony Blair's 2007 visit to Libya as British prime minister. The trip was linked to oil and gas. The US embassy in Tripoli noted on 23 August 2009: "Rumours that Blair made linkages between Megrahi's release and trade deals have been longstanding among embassy contacts … the UK ambassador in Tripoli categorically denied the claims."In February this year UK diplomats told the US they were fretting about the prospect of an eventual hero's funeral for Megrahi. The new Foreign Office north Africa director, Philippa Saunders, "explained that fear over how Tripoli will handle Megrahi's eventual funeral remains a major concern".
She added: "The UK embassy is currently engaged in an effort to identify all possible UK 'levers of influence' with Tripoli. Unfortunately 'there aren't too many', although she mentioned Tony Blair and a private doctor who had a personal relationship with the Gaddafi family.
"There will be maybe a 48-hour window if we're lucky between Megrahi's eventual death and a funeral."
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For summarised leaks nyingine tembelea The US embassy cables | World news | guardian.co.uk
 
Two faces of USA sababu Saudi arabia ana mafuta wana deal naye softly lakini ingekuwa ni pakistan au Afghanistan mhhhhh.

Je tanzania Foreign policy yetu ikoje
WikiLeaks cables portray Saudi Arabia as a cash machine for terrorists


Saudi Arabia is the world's largest source of funds for Islamist militant groups such as the Afghan Taliban and Lashkar-e-Taiba – but the Saudi government is reluctant to stem the flow of money, according to Hillary Clinton.


"Donors in Saudi Arabia constitute the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide," she said.
Three other Arab countries are listed as sources of militant money: Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.
The cables highlight an often ignored factor in the Pakistani and Afghan conflicts: that the violence is partly bankrolled by rich, conservative donors across the Arabian Sea whose governments do little to stop them.


The problem is particularly acute in Saudi Arabia, where militants soliciting funds slip into the country disguised as holy pilgrims, set up front companies to launder funds and receive money from government-sanctioned charities.
One cable details how the Pakistani militant outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, which carried out the 2008 Mumbai attacks, used a Saudi-based front company to fund its activities in 2005.


Meanwhile officials with the LeT's charity wing, Jamaat-ud-Dawa, travelled to Saudi Arabia seeking donations for new schools at vastly inflated costs – then siphoned off the excess money to fund militant operations.


Militants seeking donations often come during the hajj pilgrimage – "a major security loophole since pilgrims often travel with large amounts of cash and the Saudis cannot refuse them entry into Saudi Arabia". Even a small donation can go far: LeT operates on a budget of just $5.25m (£3.25m) a year, according to American estimates.

Saudi officials are often painted as reluctant partners. Clinton complained of the "ongoing challenge to persuade Saudi officials to treat terrorist funds emanating from Saudi Arabia as a strategic priority".
Washington is critical of the Saudi refusal to ban three charities classified as terrorist entities in the US. "Intelligence suggests that these groups continue to send money overseas and, at times, fund extremism overseas," she said.


There has been some progress. This year US officials reported that al-Qaida's fundraising ability had "deteriorated substantially" since a government crackdown. As a result Bin Laden's group was "in its weakest state since 9/11" in Saudi Arabia.


Any criticisms are generally offered in private. The cables show that when it comes to powerful oil-rich allies US diplomats save their concerns for closed-door talks, in stark contrast to the often pointed criticism meted out to allies in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Instead, officials at the Riyadh embassy worry about protecting Saudi oilfields from al-Qaida attacks.
The other major headache for the US in the Gulf region is the United Arab Emirates. The Afghan Taliban and their militant partners the Haqqani network earn "significant funds" through UAE-based businesses, according to one report. The Taliban extort money from the large Pashtun community in the UAE, which is home to 1 million Pakistanis and 150,000 Afghans. They also fundraise by kidnapping Pashtun businessmen based in Dubai or their relatives.
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Soma zaidi WikiLeaks cables portray Saudi Arabia as a cash machine for terrorists | World news | The Guardian
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Saudi princes throw parties boasting drink, drugs and sex

soma WikiLeaks cables: Saudi princes throw parties boasting drink, drugs and sex | World news | The Guardian

Saudis proposed Arab force to invade Lebanon


WikiLeaks cables: Saudis proposed Arab force to invade Lebanon | World news | guardian.co.uk

secret Nato plans to defend Baltics from Russia

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Muammar Gaddafi and the 'voluptuous blonde'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/07/wikileaks-cables-gaddafi-voluptuous-blonde

Jihad? Sorry, I don't want to miss Desperate Housewives

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/07/wikileaks-cables-letterman-housewives-saudi
 
Kinachonifurahisha kwenye hizi diplomatic cables and info. ni kwamba hakuna anayepinga kuwa si kweli. Sasa sikilizia ingekuwa bongo akina Makamba, Chiligati hata muungwana mwenyewe wangekuwa tayari wameshakurupuka kusema ni UONGO NA UZUSHI MTUPU. Na immediately personal attacks kwa ASANGE zingeanza. These dudes should b learning something here!!!!!
 
Endeleaaa said:
Wakati ule tukiwa JAMBO FORUM tulikuwa tunaelekea kwenye mrengo huo huo wa weakleaks. JF ilikuwa inaogopewa na serikali. Lakini siku hizi naona tume surrender
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cha ajabu the West walitu-support ila cha kushangaza zaidi ndio wao wao wanamkandamiza jamaa! sasa where is our Mtetezi?
 
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