WikiLeaks publishes 2 million Syria emails
From: AAP July 05, 2012 10:10PM
THE AUSTRALIAN
WikiLeaks says it is publishing over two million emails from Syrian political figures dating back to 2006 but also covering the period of the crackdown on dissent by Syria's regime.
"JUST now ... 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," said spokeswoman Sarah Harrison on Thursday.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said in a written statement: "The material is embarrassing to Syria but it is also embarrassing to Syria's external 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." The news came a day after Russia denied having discussed with Washington offering exile to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad.
WikiLeaks' release also comes ahead of a meeting on Friday in Paris of the so-called "Friends of Syria," which supports Assad's ouster.
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the 16 months of bloodshed in Syria has claimed more than 16,500 lives.
WikiLeaks said on its website the files would shed light on the workings of the Syrian government but also "reveal how the West and Western companies say one thing and do another".
It said the 2,434,899 emails came from Syrian ministries including foreign affairs, finance and presidential affairs. There are about 400,000 emails in Arabic but also 68,000 in Russian.
Harrison said WikiLeaks could not comment on the full contents of the release, which is being organised in collaboration with media partners in Lebanon, Egypt, Germany, France, Italy and Spain.
She said it would take time for all the stories to come out.
It is unclear what exactly is in the documents. WikiLeaks only posted a handful to its website Thursday but the disclosure - whose source WikiLeaks has not made clear - wouldn't be the first major leak of Syrian emails.
In February, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz published excerpts of what it said were emails hacked from Syrian servers by Anonymous, the shadowy internet activist group. In March, Britain's Guardian newspaper published emails it sourced to Syrian opposition activists.
The messages appeared to catch the glamorous wife of Syrian President Bashar Assad shopping for pricey shoes while her country slipped toward civil war.
Harrison said the WikiLeaks emails dated from August 2006 to March 2012 and originated from hundreds of different domains, including Syria's ministry of presidential affairs.
Harrison said her group was "statistically confident" the body of material was genuine.
Assange meanwhile is holed up in Ecuador's embassy in London as he seeks political asylum in a bid to avoid extradition to Sweden over allegations he sexually assaulted two former WikiLeaks volunteers.
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