Assange: More Than 120 Pentagon Employees Assinged to Destroy Wikileaks!

Stockholm - Moussa Milahi

Wikileaks whistleblower website, owned by its Australian founder Julian Assange, is one of the organizations that defend human rights. Not only human rights organizations participate in this foundation, but also journalists from Australia, home country of Assange as well as from other countries.

The organization encourages leaking secret information in order to fight corruption in governments and corporations. Earlier, Wikileaks had gradually published batches of secret documents and videos on the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, exposing the war crimes committed in the US war-hit countries.

Wikileaks published more than 70 thousand military secret files on Afghanistan in a step that US officials described as one of the major and most serious security violations in the history of American Army.

Q: For what purpose was Wikileaks launched?

Assange: Many people want to know the truth, and since there are different means to conceal it, then it is our duty to uncover the truth in order to fight ignorance. We have to uncover the truth to those who want to know it, and so that they understand what is going on. It is the responsibility of the fourth authority (the media) to maintain the other authorities. Therefore, we are entitled to publishing any leaks we receive, especially if these are sensitive and top secret. It is time for the fourth authority to disclose its mission.

Q: The US doubted the credibility of these documents, yet the Pentagon ordered the recovery of almost 15,000 documents. What is your say about that? And is that possible?

Assange: Back in the year 2008, we considered that the US intelligence tried to reveal the ways we run Wikileaks, and back then we had published 23 documents that included very important information. 

Later, they infamously described us especially through skepticism, and sometimes attempted to destroy us. The Pentagon recruited 120 employees so they would defend the FBI and the CIA through confronting us and trying to discover the way we run the website.
The United States want to destroy us as publishers for Wikileaks, and they are pressuring Sweden, Australia, Britain and Germany to spy on us, in addition to seeking ways to put me in prison, and there are many who are recruited to spy on me.

The leaks we published about Afghanistan had a great impact on the USA, and that was clear through the many conferences conducted in response to us; overall these were 25 press conferences. The Pentagon is monitoring all my moves and what I'm doing, which caused confused reactions.

Q: There was a lawsuit raised against you in Sweden, under charge of committing unethical actions, the Swedish Judiciary then cleared all charges against you. In what context do you consider this case?

Assange: This lawsuit could be in context of targeting us, to pressure us so that we stop publishing any further documents.

Q: Some Swedish newspapers said that your website suffers from technical and regulatory chaos, and that principle individuals in the website presented their resignation after the documents were pub;ished. What's the truth of the current situation?

Assange: The website is doing fine, and we are getting prepared for publishing a new batch of secret documents.

Q: Where there any attempts by US cyber attacks to close out your website?

Assange: They are trying as I already mentioned, for there are more than 120 employees in the Pentagon trying to discover the way I run the website. Yet all their attempts will fail because I have developed my own way in receiving documents, and no one will discover it.

Q: What are the results that you achieved through publishing the documents?

Assange: We destroyed the Pentagon's credibility regarding the Afghanistan issue. We destroyed the future of documents published by the US army and the CIA. We encouraged more US army troops and US intelligence to send us more documents, therefore the US intends to stop us from publishing.

Q: Why do you think the documents published about US troops committing war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan didn't push the international judiciary into prosecuting Washington?

Assange: Relations in the world are complicated. There are a lot of interacting interests between the world's poles, which do not allow any international attempt or prosecution against war crimes.

Q: Are there any documents related to the Arab issue?

Assange: We have a lot of documents from the US intelligence, and a big percentage of these documents are related to the Arab world. However, we are working on collecting everything related to these documents, and we haven't so far published any Arabic-written documents, so we aim at purchasing Arab-written documents to publish them on the website.

We have documents related to the United Arab Emirates, and we don't have a lot so far, but we are working on collecting everything and publishing them. 

If Arab readers have any secret documents they would like to publish, they can send them to us, under the condition that these were not published previously, and that they would be secret official documents.