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Syria files: Wikileaks releases 2m ‘embarrassing’ emails
Posted by Xeno on July 5, 2012
The whistle-blowing website Wikileaks says it is releasing more than two million emails from Syrian political figures, ministries and corporations.
“Ground-breaking” news stories derived from the “Syria files” will be published over the next two months, Wikileaks said.
Its founder Julian Assange was quoted as saying the material was embarrassing – not only to Syria but its opponents.
The emails are said to date from August 2006 to March 2012.
Syrian authorities have been fighting an internal rebellion for some 16 months. Some 15,800 people have died, activists say.
… Some of the 2,434,899 emails would reveal, Wikileaks promises, “how the West and Western companies say one thing and do another”.
News stories based on the emails will be published by news providers including US news agency Associated Press, Spain’s Publico.es and Egypt’s al-Masry al-Youm.
Some stories which have already appeared seem to concern communications between Syrian representatives and Western suppliers of equipment that could be used for military purposes.
via BBC News – Syria files: Wikileaks releases 2m ‘embarrassing’ emails.
