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posted by n1 on Tuesday November 29 2016, @03:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the great-game-to-grand-chessboard dept.

On the sixth anniversary of the first infamous "Cablegate" by WikiLeaks, when it releases its first batch of sensitive US files, on November 28 2010, it has expanded its Public Library of US Diplomacy (PLUSD) with 531,525 new diplomatic cables from 1979.

In a statement to coincide with the release of the cables, known as "Carter Cables III", Mr Assange explained how events which unfolded in 1979, had begun a series of events that led to the rise of ISIS.

He said: "If any year could be said to be the "year zero" of our modern era, 1979 is it."

Mr Assange said a decision by the CIA, together with Saudi Arabia, to plough billions of dollars into arming the Mujahideen fighters in Afghanistan to tackle the Soviet Union, had led to the creation of terror group al-Qaeda.

This, in turn, he said led to the 9/11 terror strikes, the invasion of Afghanhistan and Iraq by the US, and the creation of ISIS.

Source: Express.co.uk


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by ikanreed on Tuesday November 29 2016, @06:56PM

    by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday November 29 2016, @06:56PM (#434614) Journal

    I honestly don't know what he's after, as an individual. Not a clue what his agenda is. And that's okay. Unknown bias is an okay thing to have in your discourse in moderate quantities.

    But I really can't stand anyone, who, for any reason, willfully misconstrues something harmless as implying a gigantic and terrible conspiracy. There's too much of that now. Conspiracy theorists, as far as I can tell, have won the internet. Of the people who generally seem to care about things, they make up the majority.

    Almost everyone else who should be engaged and fighting for sanity likes to play the "above it all" game thinking that if they position themselves as the unconcerned polite middle between the absolutely insane people and those who look equally angry and enraged over said insanity.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by edIII on Tuesday November 29 2016, @08:48PM

    by edIII (791) on Tuesday November 29 2016, @08:48PM (#434681)

    I have to agree. Guess it was a slow conspiracy day at Wikileaks and they had very few submissions in the queue.....

    There are actual fucking conspiracies in our midst, and a well known fuckup of US diplomacy isn't one of them. It's so ridiculously logical for the U.S to arm Afghan rebels in an invasion of their own fucking country by the "Red Menace" at the height of the cold war. Not just one movie either like another poster pointed out, but I think people forget Rambo and how he was working with the Afghan rebels to fire a rocket into a Soviet general's ass. If it was a Hollywood movie, where is the secret?

    Talk about a huge fucking stretch. The CIA is as responsible for ISIS as the administrations of the time, and technically, the American people. Although on that last one I've always contended we were never represented in the first place, or ever. That being said, what American would have said no to arming rebels defending an invasion of their country? Did we forget the French and British in WWII? :)

    We *always* knew that we had a hand in creating Osama Bin Laden as a military leader, and the cluster fuck in the Middle East produced ISIS. Fucking Duh.

    Where are all the documents that showed how much we've fucked with South America? There is some scandalous shit there and Assange needs to work on situations that Americans know nothing about.

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    • (Score: 2) by jimshatt on Wednesday November 30 2016, @12:17AM

      by jimshatt (978) on Wednesday November 30 2016, @12:17AM (#434743) Journal
      But then Russia can't point fingers. This is Putin saying "you should've let us have Afghanistan then, and you should let us have Syria now or you know what will happen".
      /puts on tinfoil hat
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 30 2016, @04:21AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 30 2016, @04:21AM (#434805)

      If it was a Hollywood movie, where is the secret?

      The secret is in the data that was previous to today- 'secret'. Assange is probably not thinking he revealed that narrative, but rather what he did reveal were government documentation of the minute details of that narrative. I'm guessing there are real historians and journalists that are thankful for the access to the information. If you want to jump on someone for sensationalization, you can start your search a littler closer to home with whoever crafted the soylent headline. Perhaps it wouldn't bait as many clicks if it was just "Wikileaks Releases 500k more US Cables".