[p2p-research] Fwd: [Announce] WikiLeaks may be under attack

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: WikiLeaks <wl-office at sunshinepress.org>
Date: Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 1:56 PM
Subject: [Announce] WikiLeaks may be under attack
To: announce at immi.is



WikiLeaks may be under attack.

You were generous enough to write to us, but we have not had the labor
resources to respond.

Your support is important to us. Please read all of this email to understand
what is going on. We apologize for not getting back to you before. It is not
through any lack of interest on our part, but an enforced lack of resources.

One of our alleged sources, a young US intelligence analyst, Bradley
Manning, has been detained and shipped to a US military prison in Kuwait,
where he is being held without trail. Mr. Manning is alleged to have acted
according to his conscious and leaked to us the Collateral Murder video and
the video of a massacre that took place in Afghanistan last year at Garani.

The Garani massacre, which we are still working on, killed over 100 people,
mostly children.

Mr. Manning allegedly also sent us 260,000 classified US Department cables,
reporting on the actions of US Embassy's engaging in abusive actions all
over the world. We have denied the allegation, but the US government is
acting as if the allegation is true and we do have a lot of other material
that exposes human rights abuses by the United States government.

Mr. Manning was allegedly exposed after talking to an unrelated "journalist"
who then worked with the US government to detain him.

Some background on the Manning case:

http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2010/06/11/transcript-daniel-ellsberg-says-he-fears-us-might-assasinate-wikileaks-founder/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Manning
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/leak/
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/wikileaks-chat/
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/state-department-anxious/
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2010/06/143011.htm

[ note that there are some questions about the Wired reportage, see:
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/13/video-wikileaks-foun.html#comment-809677]

WikiLeaks a small organization going through enormous growth and operating
in an adverserial, high-security environment which can make communication
time consuming and the acquisition of new staff and volunteers, also
difficult since they require high levels of trust.

To try and deal with our growth and the current difficult situation, we want
to get you to work together with our other supporters to set up a "Friends
of WikiLeaks" group in your area. We have multiple supporters in most
countries and would like to see them be a strong and independent force.

Please write to friends at sunshinepress.org if you are interested in helping
with Friends of WikiLeaks in your area. You will receive further
instructions.

We also have significant unexpected legal costs (for example flying a legal
team to Kuwait, video production. Collateral Murder production costs were
$50,000 all up).

Any financial contributions will be of IMMEDIATE assistance.

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Special:Support

Please donate and tell the world that you have done so. Encourage all your
friends to follow the example you set, after all, courage is contagious.

Julian Assange
Editor in Chief
WIKILEAKS


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