FYI: Wikileaks sucht Unterstützung in lokalen Gruppen
Sascha Wüstemann
der folgende Text ist in Englisch und Leser, die dieser Fremdsprache
nicht mächtig sind, können Übersetzungsdienste, wie
http://babelfish.altavista.com
http://translate.google.de
dafür nutzen.
Es gibt bereits einige Treffer, die man in Suchmaschinen für "Friends of
WikiLeaks" group erhält. Falls das jemand für spam hält, dem kann ich
versichern, dass die Email bei mir über wikileaks Mailserver eingegangen
ist.
Vielleicht findet sich ja über dieses wenig genutzte Medium jemand, der
Wikileaks unterstützen möchte.
Nun zur Information:
#quote on
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 fri...@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
# quote of