Wikileaks is at it again, this time releasing more than 2 million “embarrassing” emails from Syrian government and business officials.
The emails, which date from August 2006 to March 2012, are coming to light as Syria remains embroiled in 16-month violent rebellion.
Continue Reading“The material is embarrassing to Syria, but it is also embarrassing to Syria’s opponents. It helps us not merely to criticize one group or another, but to understand their interests, actions and thoughts. It is only through understanding this conflict that we can hope to resolve it,” Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said in a statement on the group’s website.
Assange is holed up at the Ecuadorean embassy in London fighting extradition to Sweden on rape charges.
The hacked emails, dubbed “The Syria Files, are “more than eight times the size of ’Cablegate’ in terms of number of documents, and more than 100 times the size in terms of data,” he said, referring to the 250,000 confidential U.S. diplomatic cables that Wikileaks released in 2010.
“The Syria Files shine a light on the inner workings of the Syrian government and economy, but they also reveal how the West and Western companies say one thing and do another,” Assange said. “The range of information extends from the intimate correspondence of the most senior Baath party figures to records of financial transfers sent from Syrian ministries to other nations.”
To read The Syria Files, click here.
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