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Mandela,
Karzai, Gaddafi among WikiLeaks' new releases
Sunday November 28, 2010 07:10:57 PM , IANS
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London:
Whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks will release a whole cache of
secret diplomatic messages to the US related to former South
African president Nelson Mandela, Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai and
Libya's Colonel Gaddafi, a media report said here Sunday.
Around three million secret US diplomatic messages obtained by
WikiLeaks would expose the "no-holds-barred" private cables to the
White House from scores of US embassies, the Daily Mail reported.
Mandela, who stepped down as president in 1999, condemned George
Bush over the Iraq war, saying the US president had ignored the
UN's calls for restraint because the then secretary-general Kofi
Annan was black.
He also called Tony Blair the "foreign minister of the US" for
supporting Bush over the Iraq war.
Around 800 messages are from the US embassy in London and some
reportedly feature "negative and hostile comments" about Gordon
Brown and the then Labour government.
These are reportedly related to the British-US dispute after
Britain freed Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi
from a Scottish jail to a hero's welcome in Libya last year.
The messages also reportedly include US assessments of Brown's
personality and prospects of staying in power.
The secret messages, due to be published online Sunday, are
believed to be from January 2006 to December 2009.
WikiLeaks earlier this year released secret details - 70,000 files
- of military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The revelations
of American brutality in Iraq and Afghanistan led to its founder
Julian Assange - an Australian-born computer hacker - being
targeted by governments around the world. He is now wanted for
alleged rape in Sweden.
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