[Peace-discuss] Pentagon murder coverup?

[Stuart Levy]

On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 03:57:18AM -0500, John W. wrote:
> WikiLeaks.com is based in Iceland, then?

It seems that some of their people are from there, but they take care to
be obscure -- and to have mirror sites around the world.   They expose
things that powerful people and governments don't want exposed.
The story of surveillance on the front page of wikileaks.org makes
interesting reading.

> On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 7:14 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> > [On News from Neptune on UPTV Friday night (soon online at FB News from
> > Neptune and <www.newsfromneptune.com>), you may have heard about the
> > whistleblower web site WikiLeaks' plan to release a video that reveals what
> > it's calling a Pentagon cover-up of an incident in which numerous civilians
> > and journalists were murdered in an airstrike. The video is scheduled to be
> > released tomorrow morning (4/5) at 9am EDT at the National Press Club in DC.
> > --CGE]
> >
> >    Wikileaks to Unveil Secret Video
> >    * By Nathan Hodge
> >    * April 2, 2010
> >
> > On Monday, Wikileaks plans to show classified video of a 2009 U.S. military
> > air strike in Afghanistan that reportedly claimed the lives of dozens of
> > civilians.
> >
> > Existence of the video is no secret. In May 2009, Gen. David Petraeus, the
> > head of U.S. Central Command, told National Public Radio that the military
> > planned to show part of it in a press briefing. The footage, military
> > officials said, would prove that the Taliban deliberately tried to draw U.S.
> > fire onto buildings crowded with innocent civilians.
> >
> > That video was never shown. Now Wikileaks claims it has “cracked the
> > encryption” of a copy it obtained. And it says the video will show proof of
> > a “Pentagon murder-coverup.”
> >
> > We haven’t seen the video, but it’s sure to touch off a major debate about
> > press freedom and government secrecy. Wikileaks claims that it’s the target
> > of a deliberate campaign of surveillance and harassment by *Icelandic
> > authorities and U.S. spooks*. And it’s released an ominous series of
> > tweets that simultaneously hype the release of the video, and suggest a
> > government conspiracy to block its release...
> >
> > Read More
> > http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/04/hype-conspiracy-or-must-see-tv-wikileaks-to-unveil-drone-video/#ixzz0kBBxpj43
> >
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