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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
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 30 2016, @12:04AM
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No, the Russians have been offering a safe haven to Ed Snowden, not Assange. Assange, the fellow you're frothing about, was granted safe haven by Ecuador, not Russia, because the US desperately wants to kidnap and punish him for his having revealed evil deeds committed by them that they tried to cover up.
Assuming you're still confusing Assange with Snowden, nobody is plying Snowden with documents. Ed himself had some documents several years ago, but he handed them over to responsible agents to assess and responsibly inform the public about the contents of. He, himself, never revealed anything of the documents, despite many wingnuts continually claiming that he did. He doesn't have those documents and the Russians certainly aren't plying him with fresh ones.
He stays in the news because his government refuses to acknowledge the tremendous good deed done for the world in general and for the citizens of the US in particular. If they would admit that they screwed up, not only in the disservice they did to the public, but also in their witch hunt for Ed and for the continuation and expansion of the dirty deeds that got them in trouble in the first place, there would be no reason for a spotlight to stay on him.
But you were ranting about Assange, and that's not relevant to him. If the US would stop trying to kidnap a foreigner for not violating any US laws because he wasn't in the US and isn't a USian, the spotlight might fall off him, too. And it would help their case if they would stop torturing Chelsea Manning because they can't get their hands on Assange to torture him.
There are too many massive, bruised egos involved, so that's not likely to happen in our lifetimes.