 Wikileaks server is under massive cyber attack as site prepares to release classified US cocuments • Not all 250,000 diplomatic cables to be released are secret but most are confidential and potentially damaging to US foreign relations • Britain prepares for Muslim backlash to embarrassing anti-Islam sentiments, according to advance headlines in Der Spiegel • Israel approves detention facility in the South for illegal infiltrators through Sinai • Large majority of infiltrators are not refugees but job-seekers • International security minister Aharonovitch voted against measure because authorities under-trained, under-budgeted • South Korea rejects China's call for emergency six-power consultation in Beijing early next month • USS carrier George Washington joins South Korea in 4-day naval war game off Korean border • Pyongyang threatens merciless military blow for incursions, stages artillery practice on mainland • South Korea advises journalists to leave island shelled Tuesday as "situation is bad" • Polling begins for 41 million eligible voters in Egypt's parliamentary elections Sunday after crackdown on opposition Muslim Brotherhood • Tens of thousands of police deployed • A cargo plane crashes in Karachi killing 11 Russians and Ukrainians aboard • |
The first batch of WikiLeaks released Sunday, Nov. 28, covered five years of private exchanges from 2005 between US embassy diplomats and Israeli security chiefs on Iran. Defense Minister Ehud Barak is quoted as estimating in 2009 that 18 months remained as a "window of opportunity" for destroying Iran's nuclear sites. Israel is not in a position to underestimate Iran and be surprised like the US was on September 11, 2001," said Military Intelligence Chief Maj.-Gen. Amos Yadlin in May, 2009.
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- Few shockers in WikiLeaks' first batch of classified diplomatic files
- South Korea rejects talks, North threatens merciless blows
- Hariri walks into the Iranian web abandoned
- Brits declared war on Stuxnet. Americans say: Use it on North Korea
- Stuxnet knocks Natanz out for a week, hits Iran's air defense drill
- Washington spurns Tokyo's demand to punish North Korea
- Iran and Hecker's North Korean effect
- Syrian, Hizballah's guided missiles defy Israel's aerial supremacy
DEBKAfile Special Report
According to the advance headlines from the first batch of quarter of a million WikiLeaks confidential US files, mostly diplomatic cables, run by The German Der Spiegel, US officials are quoted as referring to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is "Hitler," French President Nicolas Sarkozy, the emperor who has no clothes, the Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai as "motivated by paranoia"and UK Prime Minster David Cameron as "lightweight." The WikiLeaks site ...
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A Korean showdown edged nearer as the North threatened "a merciless military blow" if the four-day naval war games the US and South Korea launched on the Yellow Sea border Sunday, Nov. 28 encroached on its waters. South Korea next turned down China's call for urgent Six-Power consultations in Beijing early next month – almost certainly in consultation with Washington. Artillery fire echoed from the North Korean mainland - apparently from military practice.
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