Wikileaks
Releases Half A Million Diplomatic Cables From "Year Zero" Of The
Modern Era
Nov 28, 2016 12:53 PM
Coming on the sixth
year anniversary of the infamous "Cablegate", when on this day in
2010 Wikileaks made global headlines when it unveiled classified cables sent to
the US State Department, revealing assessments of countries and details of
eavesdropping, this morning WikiLeaks released more than half a million US
diplomatic cables from 1979, covering various diplomatic events and incidents
such as the Iranian revolution, Osama bin Ladin's departure of his native Saudi
Arabia for Pakistan to support the Mujahideen, the siege of Mecca, Saddam
Hussein becoming president of Iraq and much more.
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