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Clinton Reaches Out to Several Countries about Wikileaks

   VOA News 27 November 2010
   WikiLeaks  founder  Julian Assange speaks during a press conference in
   London, 26 July 2010

Photo: AP

   WikiLeaks  founder  Julian Assange speaks during a press conference in
   London, 26 July 2010

   U.S.  Secretary  of  State  Hillary Clinton has reached out to several
   countries  ahead  of  the  controversial  website  WikiLeaks  imminent
   release  of millions of secret and potentially embarrassing diplomatic
   cables.
   State  Department  spokesman  P.J. Crowley said Friday on Twitter that
   she  reached  out to leaders of Germany, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab
   Emirates, Britain, France and Afghanistan.
   A  senior  Israeli  official  quoted  in  Haaretz  newspaper  said his
   government   was   warned  that  some  of  the  cables  could  include
   confidential reports from the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv.
   Several  news  reports  are  citing London-based newspaper Al-Hayat as
   saying  the  release  will  reveal U.S. support for the PKK, a Turkish
   separatist group listed by the State Department as a terrorist group.
   It  is  not  known  when  WikiLeaks  will  make  the documents public.
   WikiLeaks  announced on its Twitter page Monday that it is planning to
   publish almost three million secret documents.
   The  expected  document  dump  would  be  seven  times larger than the
   400,000 documents the website released on the Iraq war.
   WikiLeaks  was founded by Australian Julian Assange, a former computer
   hacker.  The  highly secretive Assange, who has been criticized by the
   Pentagon for his previous releases of confidential material, is wanted
   in  Sweden  for  questioning  on  a  rape  charge.  He  has denied the
   allegations.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP.