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[Talisker]

WikiLeaks may show US has helped terrorist group

Several of the documents set to be published by WikiLeaks this weekend are believed to show the US has been helping Turkey's Kurdish separatist movement the PKK, or Kurdistan Workers Party.

The PKK is listed as a terrorist group in Turkey, the US, the European Union and Australia.

The claim is reported in the London Arabic-language newspaper Al-Hayat.

Another document is believed to charge Turkey with providing indirect assistance to al-Qaeda. It is believed the document will say Turkey rendered this assistance by failing to control the movement of people across its border with Iraq.

WikiLeaks is planning to publish up to 400,000 sensitive cables from the past five years that include media reports, talks with politicians, government officials and journalists, and evaluations and various analyses by American diplomats regarding their host countries.

A report in The Jerusalem Post said the US military documents referred to the PKK as ''warriors for freedom and Turkish citizens'' and said the US had set free arrested PKK members in Iraq.
The documents also say US forces in Iraq have given weapons to the PKK.
Another Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, reported that Israeli officials were apprehensive about the WikiLeaks material.

Haaretz reported that the US embassy in Tel Aviv had told Israel's Foreign Ministry of the imminent disclosure of sensitive information by WikiLeaks.

The Americans said they wanted Israel to know so it would not be surprised and would be prepared for publicity that might cause embarrassment.

Haaretz said if cables from the US embassy were published, it could be embarrassing because they involve internal correspondence between US diplomats that might not reflect the position of the White House.

A senior Israeli official familiar with the material, who asked to remain anonymous, said it included diplomatic cables sent to Washington from US embassies throughout the world.

The official said the US embassy said the documents were not highly classified.

''The Americans said they view the leak very seriously,'' the official said. ''They don't know when they will be released on the internet and what exactly they say, but they didn't want us to read about it in the newspapers.''

Kurt Hoyer, spokesman for the US embassy in Tel Aviv, neither confirmed nor denied that the embassy had conveyed a message relating to the matter to the Prime Minister's Bureau and the Foreign Ministry.

In two previous releases of leaked US government documents, in July and October, WikiLeaks provided the documents in advance to The New York Times, The Guardian in London and and Der Spiegel in Germany on condition that they publish their stories simultaneously.

The first leak contained thousands of military field reports on the war in Afghanistan; the second was a similar but larger file on the Iraq war.

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/techno ... 18avu.html

[Get Real!]

The only clear-cut foreign policy the United States ever seems to have is chaos!

[Gasman]

I posted about this in Chat earlier but forgot to add the link. Read it on Al Jazeera this morning.

They say the major focus of this one will be Europe.

The revelations they contain are likely to range from the mundane, in the case of routine reporting on meetings between US and foreign government officials, to the explosive, in the case of candid assessments of foreign officials or the exposure of pressure tactics used by US diplomats.

Others sources told Reuters the documents - which also report on other local controversies beyond allegations of corruption - may result in more international uproar than did the earlier release by WikiLeaks of Pentagon reports on the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

[Get Real!]

...but forgot to add the link.

Yes, that's a very bad habit you seem to have picked up from C44!

[Oracle]

There's plenty of Turkey fodder from their last volume of leaks. For example, one leak implicating Turkey as the source of some Chemical Weapons ...



ATTACK THREAT %%% BY UI GROUP IVO KIRKUK: %%% INJ/DAM
2007-02-02 10:32:00 Expand acronyms:

REF:SPOT-----%%%
DOI:%%% FEB %%%

TITLE: TWO UI %%% MEMBERS %%% A CHEMICAL ATTACK AT THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE PUK, KIRKUK

TWO UNIDENTIFIED (UI) (%%%) MEMBERS %%% A CHEMICAL ATTACK AT THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE PATRIOTIC UNION OF %%% (PUK) (%%%), KIRKUK (%%% ME %%%), IZ AT APPROXIMATELY %%% HOURS ON . (%%% COMMENT-- THE CHEMICAL BEING USED %%% IN A SMALL, ALUMINUM CONTAINER AND IS THE SAME TYPE OF CHEMICAL THAT WAS USED IN RAMADI A FEW DAYS AGO. THE CHEMICAL IS MIXED WITH AN UI TYPE OF GAS THAT CAUSES THE CHEMICAL TO LINGER IN THE AIR FOR A LONG PERIOD OF TIME) (FIELD COMMENT-- %%% IS MAKING REFERENCE RECENT RAMADI CHLORINE-GAS ATTACK, SEE EOD INCIDENT REPORT -; %%% REPORT # %%%; THE %%% COULD PROVIDE NO FURTHER INFORMATION ON HOW THE CHEMICAL %%%). THE CHEMICAL WAS PROVIDED BY AN UI IRAQI IN TURKEY. (%%% COMMENT-- THE UI IRAQI IS CURRENTLY STAYING IN %%%, TURKEY. (%%%)). THE TWO UI %%% MEMBERS %%% AN ORANGE GARBAGE TRUCK; ; %%%; SIX WHEELS; TWO DOORS; KIRKUK LICENSE PLATES; AND HAS THE WORDS, KEEP YOUR CITY CLEAN, WRITTEN IN %%%, ON BOTH SIDES OF THE GARBAGE TRUCK. ONCE THE UI %%% MEMBERS GET TO THEIR TARGET, THE PASSENGER %%% OF THE GARBAGE TRUCK AND THE DRIVER %%% CHEMICAL AS THE PASSENGER WATCHES AND MAKES SURE EVERYTHING GOES TO PLAN. THE DRIVER %%% CONDUCTING THE ATTACK, AFTER THE ATTACK, THE PASSENGER %%% AN UI LOCATION. THE UI %%% MEMBERS %%% WITH TWO UI GRENADES, IN CASE THEY ENCOUNTER ANY RESISTANCE. NFI.

[Oracle]

As if the Turks didn't have enough weapons ...



WEAPONS SMUGGLERS STOPPED BY %%% IVO %%% GATE: DETAINEE (%%%)
2004-06-25 04:30:00 Expand acronyms:

AT , %%% REPORTED STOPPING A TANKER TRUCK ATTEMPTING TO SMUGGLE WEAPONS FROM %%% TO TURKEY. THE WEAPONS CONSISTED OF: 20X AK-%%%, 4X %%% RIFLES, 3X %%% MACHINE GUNS, 1X -%%% INFANTRY RIFLE, 4X %%%, 5000X FLARES, 50X %%%, 2X AT MINES, 4X LARGE BLOCKS OF %%%, AND UNK AMOUNT OF ./.%%% AMMO. NUMBER OF PERSONNEL %%% IS UNKNOWN AT THIS TIME. THERE WERE NO INJURIES TO CF PERSONNEL OR DAMAGE TO EQUIPMENT.

[Lit]

The only clear-cut foreign policy that Turkey ever seems to have is chaos!

[Oracle]

A report in The Jerusalem Post said the US military documents referred to the PKK as ''warriors for freedom and Turkish citizens'' and said the US had set free arrested PKK members in Iraq.

Here's one from their older leaks which seems to say the same thing ...



Local National DETAINED BY Task force LAR WEST OF FALLUJAH: %%% DETAINED
2004-11-17 10:29:00 Expand acronyms: Take care; definitions may be wrong.

AT 1629C, Task force LAR REPORTS DETAINING A TOTAL OF (%%%) INDIVIDUALS %%%.5KM WEST OF FALLUJAH ( ). (%%%) ARE BELIEVED TO BE FREEDOM FIGHTER CITIZENS OF TURKEY AND %%% WHO WERE DETAINED AFTER CROSSING THE . () %%% ARE IRAQI WHO WERE FOUND NEAR A MORTAR Point of Origin. %%% IS CONTINUING TO EXPLOIT.

[Oracle]

Turks blowing up bridges now ....



ARREST BY NOT PROVIDED In the vicinity of BAGHDAD (ZONE %%%) (ROUTE ): %%% AIF DET
2007-05-05 21:00:00 Expand acronyms: Take care; definitions may be wrong.

THE IP Quick Response Force PATROLS WERE ABLE TO CAPTURE %%% OFFICIALS THAT WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR BLOWING UP THE %%% BRIDGE. THEY THEY %%% THEY WERE FINANCED BY TURKEY. DETAINEES: %%% AND . %%% THE WAY BACK TO THE HQ AN Improvised Explosive Device TARGETING THEM DETONATED DAMAGING A %%%.

[Oracle]

Turkey's increasing interest in suicide bombings ...






(THREAT REPORT) Improvised Explosive Device THREAT Report IA : %%% INJ/DAM
2008-07-31 06:00:00 Expand acronyms: Take care; definitions may be wrong.

From: MILITARY MOVEMENT %%%
To: %%%
Who: AIF
Where: Diyala %%%
When: %%% AUG//%%%
What: Threat report /PBIED
Why/How Summary: %%% reported that %%% Turkey ( %%% tribes) is recruiting Female suicide and send them to %%%, by taking the road that is connected between %%% village and %%% factories
%%% Jul %%%