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WikiLeaks: No Release Date Set for Iraqi Documents

(Oct. 19) -- The head of WikiLeaks says that the release of tens of thousands of documents related to the U.S. war in Iraq has not been delayed, insisting instead there never was a release date to begin with. In an unusual departure from the short -- and often enigmatic -- Twitter messages that WikiLeaks typically issues to provide news and...

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WikiLeaks: Iraq War Documents Dump Not Coming Today, But 'Soon'

(Oct. 18) -- Contrary to commonly held rumors, WikiLeaks will not be releasing 400,000 secret military documents relating to the war in Iraq, Agence France-Presse is reporting. But that doesn't mean the Pentagon can breathe a sigh of a relief quite yet. Kristinn Hrafnsson, a spokesman for the whistle-blower group, said documents would be released...

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WikiLeaks' Biggest Document Dump Yet Coming Monday: What to Expect

(Oct. 15) -- It's happening again ... only bigger. On Monday, the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks will release nearly 400,000 pages worth of classified U.S. Army documents on the war in Iraq, making it the single largest military leak in U.S. history. The number of documents will dwarf the 77,000 pages of sensitive material on the war in...

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Waiting on WikiLeaks: What Will It Release Next?

(Oct. 4) -- WikiLeaks, the online transparency organization, may still be getting lots of publicity, but for all the wrong reasons. Rather than releasing new documents, the organization appears enmeshed in controversy. Its chief editor, Julian Assange, has been accused of rape in Sweden; a prominent spokesman has quit (after being suspended); and...

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WikiLeaks' Woes Grow as Spokesman Quits Site

(Sept. 28) -- It turns out WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange isn't only unpopular with Pentagon employees. He's also under attack from members of his own organization, who are accusing him of running the controversial whistle-blowing website like an autocrat. WikiLeaks' German representative, Daniel Domscheit-Berg -- who was known as Daniel...

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10/20/10 Iraq documents: Pentagon asks media to ignore Wikileaks Source: Kashmir News The Pentagon scoured through an Iraq war database overnight to prepare for potential fallout from the expected release of the reports.
10/19/10 Four guilty in plot to blow up synagogues Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press - St. Paul MN Four men snared last year in an FBI sting were convicted Monday of plotting to blow up New York City synagogues and shoot down military planes with the help of a paid informant who convinced them he was a terror operative.
10/16/10 Why not a Nobel for Western dissidents? Source: Corrente This year Nobel awarded the economics prize to Peter Diamond, thus making Richard Shelby look like a dumb hillbilly.
10/15/10 Bahraini Blogger Tortured: This Week in Online Tyranny Source: Original Signal This month Iran arrested several more bloggers.
10/15/10 Wikileaks Loses Funding, Claims Government Blacklist... Source: Original Signal The Guardian article quotes an email supplied by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, saying that Moneybookers , the site that had been collecting Wikileaks' donations, terminated the business relationship due to external pressures.