Friday, December 3, 2010

Lebanese Newspaper Al Akhbar Publishes U.S. Cables Not Found on WikiLeaks

Nearly 200 previously unreported U.S. diplomatic cables were posted on Thursday to the website of Lebanese newspaper Al Akhbar. The cables, from eight U.S. embassies across the Middle East and North Africa, have not appeared on Wikileaks' official website or in the Western media outlets working with Wikileaks. Al Akhbar, which defines itself as an "opposition" newspaper, is published in Arabic. It has posted all 183 cables in their original English but promises readers a forthcoming Arabic translation.
Read more
Posted by at

3 comments:

  1. vzaDecember 3, 2010 at 7:37 PM

    SAO PAULO -- Brazil says it has recognized the state of Palestine based on borders at the time of Israel's 1967 conquest of the West Bank.


    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/03/AR2010120303134.html

    ReplyDelete
  2. vzaDecember 3, 2010 at 9:23 PM

    Off topic, but this is really neat!

    <span>Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC Four </span>


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo&feature=youtube_gdata_player

    ReplyDelete
  3. thankgodimatheistDecember 5, 2010 at 1:43 AM

    A great video..Thanks.

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)