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Today, Thursday 5 July 2012, WikiLeaks began publishing the Syria Files – more than two million emails from Syrian political figures, ministries and associated companies, dating from August 2006 to March 2012.
This extraordinary data set derives from 680 Syria-related entities or domain names, including those of the Ministries of Presidential Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Finance, Information, Transport and Culture.
Over the next two months, ground-breaking stories derived from the files will appear in WikiLeaks (global), Al Akhbar (Lebanon), Al Masry Al Youm (Egypt), ARD (Germany), Associated Press (US), L’Espresso (Italy), Owni (France) and Publico.es (Spain). Other publications will announce themselves closer to their publishing date.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said: "The material is embarrassing to Syria, but it is also embarrassing to Syria’s opponents. It helps us not merely to criticise one group or another, but to understand their interests, actions and thoughts. It is only through understanding this conflict that we can hope to resolve it."
At this time Syria is undergoing a violent internal conflict that has killed between 6,000 and 15,000 people in the last 18 months. The Syria Files shine a light on the inner workings of the Syrian government and economy, but they also reveal how the West and Western companies say one thing and do another.
The range of information extends from the intimate correspondence of the most senior Baath party figures to records of financial transfers sent from Syrian ministries to other nations.
The database comprises 2,434,899 emails from the 680 domains. There are 678,752 different email addresses that have sent emails and 1,082,447 different recipients. There are a number of different languages in the set, including around 400,000 emails in Arabic and 68,000 emails in Russian. The data is more than eight times the size of ’Cablegate’ in terms of number of documents, and more than 100 times the size in terms of data. Around 42,000 emails were infected with viruses or trojans. To solve these complexities, WikiLeaks built a general-purpose, multi-language political data-mining system which can handle massive data sets like those represented by the Syria Files.
In such a large collection of information, it is not possible to verify every single email at once; however, WikiLeaks and its co-publishers have done so for all initial stories to be published. We are statistically confident that the vast majority of the data are what they purport to be.
We would like to thank our sources, technical team, donors and defenders without whom this contribution to the historical record would not be possible. [URL]https://wlfriends.org/[/URL]
For more information on the Syria Files, please see: [URL="http://wikileaks.org/syria-files/releases.html"]http://wikileaks.org/syria-files/re...[/URL]
For media enquiries, please see: [URL]http://wikileaks.org/Press[/URL]
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[URL]http://wikileaks.org/syria-files/[/URL]
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This should be very insightful, I wonder how the US will feel about it.
[QUOTE=Thom12255;36632395]This should be very insightful, I wonder how the US will feel about it.[/QUOTE]
What will fox news feel about it.
i just want this god damn insurance file
Holy shit, wikileaks does something that's not seriously endangering innocent civillians for once.
I am eager to see what they sent the other leaders in the world, especially Russia and Turkey.
See, this is why I hate wikileaks. Just dump it all out for the public at once, instead of publishing it one by one like some drama-queen. If they wanted to make a change, that's how they should do it. They're more fuckin' biased and partial than the people they're leaking about.
[QUOTE=Riller;36634222]See, this is why I hate wikileaks. Just dump it all out for the public at once, instead of publishing it one by one like some drama-queen. If they wanted to make a change, that's how they should do it. They're more fuckin' biased and partial than the people they're leaking about.[/QUOTE]
if you don't like the way it's done, do it yourself
[QUOTE=Riller;36634222]See, this is why I hate wikileaks. Just dump it all out for the public at once, instead of publishing it one by one like some drama-queen. If they wanted to make a change, that's how they should do it. They're more fuckin' biased and partial than the people they're leaking about.[/QUOTE]
If you dump 2 million records into the public domain no one is going to read them. It will just be a pile of shit that no one has the time to sort through. If you release them in a slow manner people have the ability to read and understand them.
What is the point of releasing these documents if they are just going to be ignored because no one has the time to read them? By doing it this way they ensure that people actually read them and if there is anything in them that is important, it will be spotted.
[QUOTE=Riller;36634222]See, this is why I hate wikileaks. Just dump it all out for the public at once, instead of publishing it one by one like some drama-queen. If they wanted to make a change, that's how they should do it. They're more fuckin' biased and partial than the people they're leaking about.[/QUOTE]
They have said numerous times that publishing all files at once will cause a lot of important things to get lost in the mess and not get the attention it deserves, thus counter-acting the purpose of the leaks, to bring out hidden corruption to the public.
That and they need to process the mails as well, if you had read the article it stated that a lot of the mails were infected with trojans, and they usually censor sensitive information like names that could put civilians in danger.
[QUOTE=MrTwicks;36632615]i just want this god damn insurance file[/QUOTE]
As far as I'm aware the password for that was released months ago
[QUOTE=Bobie;36634394]if you don't like the way it's done, do it yourself[/QUOTE]
Yeah, because everyone has the ability to leak top secret documents at will.
[QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;36632619]Holy shit, wikileaks does something that's not seriously endangering innocent civillians for once.[/QUOTE]
Do elaborate.
[QUOTE=legolover122;36634967]Do elaborate.[/QUOTE]
Leaking details about how a country like the US will act in case of an enemy attack in terms of defense, civillian evacuation plans and such.
With such at the hands of an opposing nation, they could deal some serious damage to both military forces and civillians.
[QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;36635330]Leaking details about how a country like the US will act in case of an enemy attack in terms of defense, civillian evacuation plans and such.
With such at the hands of an opposing nation, they could deal some serious damage to both military forces and civillians.[/QUOTE]Yeah sure, Al-Qaeda is just going to marshal up an enormous army to wage conventional warfare on the sole remaining world superpower.
No conventional military is going to launch an invasion of US soil you paranoid lunatic, and terrorist attacks aren't going to benefit from information about US military conventional attack response procedures.
[QUOTE=Marbalo;36635888]Name a nation that will launch an attack on the US in the near or far future.[/QUOTE]
Suriname. When's the last time you heard anything out of them? Pretty suspicious if you ask me. It's always the quiet ones you have to look out for.
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