London: British Muslims are sending their "problem children" to Islamic schools in PoK where they are at risk of being recruited by terror outfit al-Qaeda, according to secret US diplomatic cables leaked by WikiLeaks. In a communique dated July 18, 2008, Laura Hickey, a senior British official, told the Americans that "stabilising Kashmir is also important for UK domestic security reasons," the whistle-blower website said. According to a report in...
07:55 PM, Feb 05, 2011
London: In a damning assessment, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has been described by British officials as "highly corrupt" and a "numbskull". The assessment of Zardari was made by officials and military leaders in the months after his election as president in September 2008, The Daily Telegraph reported citing documents leaked by whistle-blower website WikiLeaks. Sir Jock Stirrup, then Chief of the Defence staff, told American diplomats that Pakistan was...
04:40 PM, Feb 05, 2011
London: Britain faces the risk of a wave of terror attacks by British-born "suicide operatives" who are not on the intelligence services' radar, secret US cables leaked by WikiLeaks have revealed. British spy agency MI6 has warned that the country faces a "unique" threat from a generation of home-grown terrorists, the Telegraph reported, citing the secret embassy documents it obtained from the whistle-blower website. Radicals who undergo terrorist training and...
05:31 PM, Feb 04, 2011
London: British Muslims are travelling to Somalia for "jehadi tourism" to get training for terrorist attacks in Britain, secret US diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks have revealed. The UN special envoy to Somalia was so worried about rebels linked to the al Qaeda that he urged the US to launch targeted strikes against extremists in the region, the Daily Telegraph reported on Friday. According to a cable of January 2010,...
05:29 PM, Feb 04, 2011
Washington: In its effort to improve its ties with Pakistan, India played down the spurt in infiltration from the neighbouring country in 2008 - the year in which Pak-based terrorists carried out the Mumbai terror attack, according to a secret US cable released by WikiLeaks. During his meeting with the visiting US Senators Russ Feingold and Bob Casey on May 30, 2008 in New Delhi, the then National Security Advisor,...
06:13 PM, Feb 03, 2011
Oslo, Norway: A Norwegian lawmaker has nominated WikiLeaks for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, saying that its disclosures of classified documents promote world peace by holding governments accountable for their actions. The Norwegian Nobel Committee keeps candidates secret for 50 years, but those with nomination rights sometimes make their picks known. Snorre Valen, a 26-year-old legislator from Norway's Socialist Left Party, told The Associated Press he handed in his nomination...
11:38 AM, Feb 03, 2011
London: A group of Al Qaeda operatives suspected of conducting surveillance on the targets of 9/11 were preparing for a fifth terror attack on the same day in the US but aborted their plan at the last moment, according to a diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks. According to secret documents published in 'The Daily Telegraph', the men flew from London to New York on a British Airways flight three weeks...
07:10 PM, Feb 02, 2011
New York: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has warned of releasing "encrypted keys" containing large amount of secret information, if the whistleblower website is permanently shut down. Assange, was speaking to CBS News's "60 Minutes" at a country house in England where he is under house arrest waiting for an extradition hearing, which will determine whether he is sent to Sweden to be questioned on sexual assault charges. "There are backups...
02:23 PM, Jan 31, 2011
New York: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he enjoys making banks squirm thinking they might be the next targets of his website which has published US diplomatic and military secrets. "I think it's great. We have all these banks squirming, thinking maybe it's them," Assange told the CBS television program "60 Minutes" in an interview. CBS released a partial transcript on Friday ahead of Sunday's broadcast of the full segment....
07:39 AM, Jan 29, 2011
Davos: A former member of the group that created WikiLeaks has launched a rival website with the aim of giving whistleblowers more control over the secrets they spill. Daniel Domscheit-Berg says the new platform called OpenLeaks will allow sources to choose specifically who they want to submit documents to anonymously, such as to a particular news outlet. He told reporters today that the site will begin testing in several weeks...
08:47 PM, Jan 28, 2011
London: British police arrested five young men on Thursday as they and US authorities conducted searches as part of a probe into Internet activists who carried out cyber attacks against groups they viewed as enemies of the WikiLeaks website. "The arrests were related to recent 'distributed denial of service' (DDoS) attacks by an online group calling themselves Anonymous," London police said in a statement. In the United States, the Federal...
09:24 AM, Jan 28, 2011
London: WikiLeaks hopes to enlist as many as 60 news organisations from around the world in a bid to help speed the publication of its massive trove of secret US diplomatic memos, the site's founder says. Julian Assange told The Associated Press that he was making an effort to reach beyond the major newspapers - such as The New York Times and The Guardian - that worked with him on...
08:11 PM, Jan 26, 2011
Los Angeles: Hollywood is planning a movie about WikiLeaks' founder after producers Barry Josephson and Michelle Krum snapped up the rights to the forthcoming biography of Julian Assange. The book, called "The Most Dangerous Man in the World", by Australian journalist Andrew Fowler, follows Assange's life from childhood to the present, including the founding of WikiLeaks in 2006 and the recent controversies concerning the disclosure of secret US government diplomatic...
11:51 AM, Jan 22, 2011
Zurich: Former Swiss banker Rudolf Elmer admitted on Wednesday he sent private client data to tax authorities as he went on trial for breaching bank secrecy, but denied blackmail and a bomb threat against Julius Baer. Elmer, 55, helped bring WikiLeaks to prominence three years ago when he went to the website with secret client information after Swiss authorities failed to act on data he said showed Baer, his former...
08:49 AM, Jan 20, 2011
New Delhi: BJP on Tuesday asked the Centre to immediately declare names of the Indians who had stashed black money in Swiss Banks. "UPA Government should, without any hesitation, make public names of all those who have stashed black money in Swiss Bank accounts," BJP President, Nitin Gadkari said. Claiming that about Rs 21 lakh thousand crore had been deposited in Swiss banks, Gadkari said instead of trying to suppress...
09:28 AM, Jan 18, 2011
A former Swiss banker hands over banking secrets of the rich and famous to whistleblowing website WikiLeaks. He says he wants the world to know about the secret money. ...
08:33 AM, Jan 18, 2011
London: A former Swiss private banker handed over data on hundreds of offshore bank account holders to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Monday, saying he wanted to draw attention to financial abuses. Rudolf Elmer, 55, headed the office of Julius Baer in the Cayman Islands until he was fired by the bank in 2002. He is scheduled to go on trial in Switzerland on Wednesday for breaching bank secrecy. Swiss...
08:15 AM, Jan 18, 2011
London: China is the "technological enemy" of WikiLeaks and not the United States, according to Julian Assange, the founder of the whistle-blower website which is fighting a running battle to penetrate the aggressive and sophisticated Chinese censorship. "China is the worst offender," when it comes to censorship, says the controversial Australian hacker, now on bail in Britain fighting attempts to extradite him to Sweden over claims of sexual assaults. The...
11:45 AM, Jan 14, 2011
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, wanted in Sweden over claims he sexually assaulted two women, appeared in a court on Tuesday and expressed his readiness to fight extradition from the UK. The defence team of the 39-year-old Australian, who denies the charges, was ready for a two-day extradition case, which was set for February 7 and 8 during a hearing at a court here, his lawyer Geoffrey Robertson said. District...
06:29 PM, Jan 11, 2011
Washington: Iceland called in the US ambassador in Reykjavik on Monday to register its displeasure at a US court's demand for details of an Icelandic lawmaker's Twitter account, the US State Department said. A US court has ordered the social networking website to give up details of the accounts of WikiLeaks and of several supporters as part of a criminal investigation into WikiLeaks' release of hundreds of thousands of US...
12:02 PM, Jan 11, 2011
