ZA Bhutto rejected Indira Gandhis nuclear technology offer WikiLeaks
Posted by admin on Apr 10, 2013 | Leave a Comment
NEW DELHI: One of US embassy cables released by WikiLeaks says that in 1974 the late former prime minister of India, Indira Gandhi, had offered her then Pakistani counterpart, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, to share nuclear technology but the latter turned it down.
According to WikiLeaks, as reported in media, in the wake of India’s first nuclear test in Poharan, Gandhi proposed that India could share its atomic expertise...
Osama Bin Laden raid member can be WikiLeaks witness
Posted by admin on Apr 10, 2013 | Leave a Comment
FORT MEADE: A military judge cleared the way Wednesday for a member of the team that raided Osama bin Laden’s compound to testify at the trial of an Army private charged in a massive leak of US secrets to the Wikileaks website.
Col. Denise Lind ruled for the prosecution during a court-martial pretrial hearing for Pfc. Bradley Manning at Fort Meade, near Baltimore.
Prosecutors say the witness, presumably a Navy...
WikiLeaks Indira had offered to share Ntech with Pakistan in 1974
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NEW DELHI: They are hostile neighbours widely seen by many as competing to have a bigger nuclear arsenal. However, after its first nuclear test in 1974, India offered to share nuclear technology with Pakistan. In her statement to Indian Parliament after the tests on July 22, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi said she had told her Pakistani counterpart, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, that New Delhi would be ready to share the relevant...
Revelation contained in Kissingerera documents obtained by WikiLeaks
Posted by admin on Apr 08, 2013 | Leave a Comment
NEW DELHI: Much before he became Prime Minister, during his years as an Indian Airlines pilot, Rajiv Gandhi may have been a middleman for the Swedish company Saab-Scania, when it was trying to sell its Viggen fighter aircraft to India in the 1970s.
The astonishing revelation that he was the “main Indian negotiator†for a massive aircraft deal for which his “family†connections were seen as valuable,...
WikiLeaks to release more US diplomatic records
Posted by admin on Apr 08, 2013 | Leave a Comment
LONDON: Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks was on Monday to publish more than 1.7 million US diplomatic and intelligence documents from the 1970s, founder Julian Assange revealed.
The website has collated a variety of records including cables, intelligence reports and congressional correspondence and is releasing them in a searchable form.
Assange has carried out much of the work from his refuge in Ecuador’s embassy...
WikiLeaks to release 1 million new documents Julian Assange
Posted by admin on Dec 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment
LONDON: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who continues to be confined to the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for six months now, made an appearance on the embassy’s balcony.
The 41-year-old addressed the public promising more high-powered exposes in the near future. Assange said that WikiLeaks will release one million documents next year affecting every country in the world.
He has been at the embassy ever since...
US withheld email evidence in WikiLeaks case defense
Posted by admin on Aug 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment
FORT MEADE: Lawyers for the US soldier charged with passing a trove of classified documents to WikiLeaks accused the military Tuesday of withholding hundreds of emails over fears of a publicity nightmare.
The defense team for Private Bradley Manning, who could be jailed for life for “aiding the enemy” over the massive security breach, alleged that more than 1,300 messages were ignored by prosecutors for at...
Assange tells Obama to end WikiLeaks witchhunt
Posted by admin on Aug 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment
LONDON: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange urged President Barack Obama to end the US “witchhunt” against his whistleblowing website, in a speech Sunday from the balcony of Ecuador’s London embassy.
“I ask President Obama to do the right thing, the United States must renounce its witchhunt against WikiLeaks,” said Assange, making his first public statement since being granted political asylum...
Ecuador grants asylum to Wikileaks Assange
Posted by admin on Aug 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment
QUITO: Ecuador has granted political asylum to WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange, Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino said on Thursday, a day after the British government threatened to storm the Ecuadorean embassy in London to arrest Assange.
Britain has said it is determined to extradite the former computer hacker, who enraged Washington in 2010 when his WikiLeaks website published secret U.S. diplomatic cables, to...
Syrias Assad emailed sexist jokes WikiLeaks
Posted by admin on Jul 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment
PARIS: Hundreds of emails purportedly written by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad show he sent several sexist or irreverant messages in the months before the ongoing Syrian uprising began.
The French website owni.fr on Thursday published extracts from the latest cache of Syrian documents made avaiable by WikiLeaks, which on July 5 started releasing some 2.5 million emails it said were from Syrian political figures.
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