United States warns Turkey about coming WikiLeaks release

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The United States has notified Ankara that the expected new release of classified US documents may contain references to Turkey, a Turkish official said on Friday

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The files potentially contain information about Turkey helping militants in Iraq and America supporting the PKK in Northern Iraq (and Turkey).

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You — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 - 17:16

Wikileaks 'hacked ahead of secret US document release'

Whistle-blowing website Wikileaks says it is under attack from a computer-hacking operation, ahead of a release of secret US documents.

"We are currently under a mass distributed denial of service attack," it says on its Twitter feed.

It adds that several newspapers will go ahead and publish the documents released to them by Wikileaks even if the site goes down.

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You — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 - 17:17

Ofcourse there is the case that the department for Homeland and Seciruty in the US last week forced ICAN to remove some sites from the net entirely - even wiping their ip address, so the question is what has stopped them from doing the same here?