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WikiLeaks Archive - Haggling Over Guantánamo Detainees - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • American diplomats went looking for countries that were not only willing to take in former prisoners but also could be trusted to keep them under close watch. In a global bazaar of sorts, the American officials sweet-talked and haggled with their foreign counterparts in an effort to resettle the detainees who had been cleared for release but could not be repatriated for fear of mistreatment, the cables show.
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      Duncan Gillespie on 20 Mar 11
       
      Wikileaks cables show US deperately trying to get rid of the remaining prisoners in Guantanamo.
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Wikileaks: Saudi King Proposed Micro-Chip Implants for Gitmo Detainees - ABC News - 0 views

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  • Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah proposed that the Obama administration implant electronic micro-chips into the bodies of Guantanamo Bay detainees to track their movements when they are released, a leaked State Department cable shows.
  • Brennan responded politely, explaining that "horses don't have good lawyers" and the idea would likely face stiff opposition from civil libertarians in the U.S.
  • A recent Pentagon analysis found that around 20 percent of former Guantanamo detainees have returned to the fight against the U.S. and continues to climb.
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Saudi Arabia's King Suggests Tracking Prisoners with Microchips - 0 views

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  • Saudi King Abdullah welcomed White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan, S/WCI Ambassador Williamson, and Ambassador Fraker to his private palace March 15 for a 90-minute discussion focused on U.S. Saudi-relations, counterterrorism cooperation, the Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainees, Iran, and Iraq.
  • HOW TO TRACK DETAINEES: “I’ve just thought of something,” the King added, and proposed implanting detainees with an electronic chip containing information about them and allowing their movements to be tracked with Bluetooth. This was done with horses and falcons, the King said.
    • Duncan Gillespie
      Duncan Gillespie on 20 Mar 11
       
      A very odd suggestion from the King of Saudi Arabia.
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    Released Wikileaks Cable from 09
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Top 10 revelations from WikiLeaks cables - Yahoo! News - 0 views

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  • On Sunday, five international news outlets published a selection of more than 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables, provided by the website WikiLeaks.
    • Duncan Gillespie
      Duncan Gillespie on 20 Mar 11
       
      The scope of "calbegate" is massive. It would be interesting to learn how a news agency would pour through such a enourmous repository of documents.
  • According to one cable, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has repeatedly asked the U.S. to "cut off the head of the snake"
  • 3. The Obama administration offered sweeteners to try to get other countries to take Guantanamo detainees, as part of its (as yet unsuccessful) effort to close the prison. Slovenia, for instance, was offered a meeting with President Obama, while the island nation of Kiribati was offered incentives worth millions.
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  • 7. The State Department labeled Qatar the worst country in the region for counterterrorism efforts. The country's security services were "hesitant to act against known terrorists out of concern for appearing to be aligned with the U.S. and provoking reprisals," according to one cable.
  • Duncan Gillespie on 20 Mar 11
     
    Helpful to get a breakdown of the overall takeaways from some of the Wikileaks documents that an individual wouldn't be able to do on one's own.
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Julian Assange - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • The judge said "there is just no evidence that there was anything other than sort of intelligent inquisitiveness and the pleasure of being able to—what's the expression—surf through these various computers"[2] and stated that Assange would have gone to jail for up to 10 years if he had not had such a disrupted childhood.[27]
    • Duncan Gillespie
      Duncan Gillespie on 19 Mar 11
       
      It is interesting to see the effect Assange's troubled childhood had on his world views.
  • The fact that his fellow students were doing research for Pentagon's DARPA was reportedly a factor in motivating him to drop out and start WikiLeaks
  • Readers' Choice for Time magazine's 2010 Person of the Year.[
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  • Readers' Choice for Time magazine's 2010 Person of the Year.
  • Readers' Choice for Time magazine's 2010 Person of the Year.
  • Readers' Choice for Time magazine's 2010 Person of the Year.
  • Readers' Choice for Time magazine's 2010 Person of the Year.
  • Readers' Choice for Time magazine's 2010 Person of the Year.
  • Readers' Choice for Time magazine's 2010 Person of the Year.
  • Readers' Choice for Time magazine's 2010 Person of the Year.
  • Readers' Choice for Time magazine's 2010 Person of the Year
  • Readers' Choice for Time magazine's 2010 Person of the Year.
  • awards and nominations
  • Readers' Choice for Time magazine's 2010 Person of the Year.
  • ] Assange has received a number of awards and nominations, including the 2009 Amnesty
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  • Readers' Choice for Time magazine's 2010 Person of the Year
  • Assange has received a number of awards and nominations, including the 2009 Amnesty International Media Award for publishing material about extrajudicial killings in Kenya and Readers' Choice for Time magazine's 2010 Person of the Year.[14] Assange has appealed a February 2011 decision by English courts to extradite him to Sweden for questioning in relation to a sexual assault investigation.[15][16][17][18] He has said the allegations of wrongdoing are "without basis".[19] Contents [hide]
  • Readers' Choice for Time magazine's 2010 Person of the Year
  • Readers' Choice for Time magazine's 2010 Person of the Year
  • awards and nominations
  • 2009 Amnesty International Media Award for publishing material about extrajudicial killings in Kenya and Readers' Choice for Time magazine's 2010 Person of the Year.
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Collateral Murder - 0 views

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  • WikiLeaks wants to ensure that all the leaked information it receives gets the attention it deserves. In this particular case, some of the people killed were journalists that were simply doing their jobs: putting their lives at risk in order to report on war.
    • Duncan Gillespie
      Duncan Gillespie on 16 Mar 11
       
      Wikileaks emphasizes its overall mission
  • Update: On July 6, 2010, Private Bradley Manning, a 22 year old intelligence analyst with the United States Army in Baghdad, was charged with disclosing this video (after allegedly speaking to an unfaithful journalist)
    • Duncan Gillespie
      Duncan Gillespie on 16 Mar 11
       
      One of the most famous and graphic files released by wikileaks.
  • The Apache crew and those behind the cover up depicted in the video have yet to be charged.
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  • He is currently imprisoned in Kuwait.
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