murdoch tabloid under fire after hacking into murder victims phones

even families of 7/7 victims 'were targets of phone hacking'*

from guardian: Police officers investigating phone hacking by the News of the World are turning their attention to examine every high-profile case involving the murder, abduction or attack on any child since 2001 in response to the revelation that journalists from the tabloid newspaper hacked into the voicemail messages of the murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler. The move is a direct response to the Guardian's exclusive story on Monday that a private investigator working for the News International tabloid, Glenn Mulcaire, caused Milly's parents to wrongly believe she was still alive – and interfered with police inquiries into her disappearance – by hacking into the teenager's mobile phone and deleting messages. News of the impending police action capped a dramatic day of unfolding developments in the News of the World phone-hacking scandal.

update: no more news of the world -
murdoch journalists stunned by paper's closure

gareth williams was poisoned

Trowbridge H Ford writes in, "Gareth Williams And Gudrun Loftus Murdered To Avoid Their Becoming More George Blakes", an interesting tale about international spying. Gareth Williams and Gudrun Loftus were apparently working together to expose unflattering activities of the British and German governments. Williams, a British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) employee, who worked with MI6 and the NSA, and Loftus, an Oxford University lecturer, paid for their efforts with their lives.

Trowbridge's analysis is worth reading to explore alternative views of current events. Williams, in the picture at left, appears sick. Trowbridge believes Williams was the victim of poisonous mushrooms. It's concluded by Trowbridge, both, knew too much and could embarass the British government, leaving only murder as an alternative to reign in the spys! Williams also crosses paths with the Russian spy Anna Chapman. Trowbridge enlightens how perpetrators may link up behind the scenes. It's an interesting read and some of the damaging evidence secreted by Williams and Loftus was turned over to Wikileaks!

US soldier linked to wikileaks 'collateral murder' video is charged

from washington post: An Army intelligence analyst has been charged in connection with the leak of a controversial video of a U.S. helicopter strike and the transfer of more than 50 classified State Department cables, the military said Tuesday.

Pfc. Bradley Manning, 22, was detained in Kuwait in May after Wikileaks, a whistleblower Web site, released the video, which it titled "Collateral Murder." The footage, taken by cameras on U.S. Apache helicopters, shows several civilians, including two Reuters news agency employees, being killed in a U.S. strike in July 2007.

Manning faces two charges under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. The first encompasses four counts of violating Army regulations by transferring classified information to his personal computer between November and May and adding unauthorized software to a classified computer system. The second comprises eight counts of violating federal laws governing the handling of classified information.

Among the materials Manning is accused of transmitting to "a person not entitled to receive them" are the video and more than 50 classified diplomatic cables. According to the charge sheet, he allegedly downloaded more than 150,000 cables in all.

wikileaks founder hunted by pentagon over massive leak

from philip shenon: Anxious that Wikileaks may be on the verge of publishing a batch of secret State Department cables, investigators are desperately searching for founder Julian Assange. Philip Shenon reports. Plus, Daniel Ellsberg tells The Daily Beast: "Assange is in Some Danger." (This story has been updated to reflect new developments on Assange's whereabouts, including the cancelation of a scheduled appearance in Las Vegas.)

Pentagon investigators are trying to determine the whereabouts of the Australian-born founder of the secretive website Wikileaks for fear that he may be about to publish a huge cache of classified State Department cables that, if made public, could do serious damage to national security, government officials tell The Daily Beast.

The officials acknowledge that even if they found the website founder, Julian Assange, it is not clear what they could do to block publication of the cables on Wikileaks, which is nominally based on a server in Sweden and bills itself as a champion of whistleblowers.

“We’d like to know where he is; we’d like his cooperation in this,” one U.S. official said of Assange.

American officials said Pentagon investigators are convinced that Assange is in possession of at least some classified State Department cables leaked by a 22-year-old Army intelligence specialist, Bradley Manning of Potomac, Maryland, who is now in custody in Kuwait.

And given the contents of the cables, the feds have good reason to be concerned.

updates: wikileaks founder has afghan massacre video*
wikileaks 'confirms' it has video of US massacre in afghanistan*
wikileaks inspired 'new media haven' proposal passes in icelandic parliament*
3 weeks after manning arrest, still no charges in wikileaks probe*

decrypted video from wikileaks shows collateral murder

wikileaks releases video of civilians killed by US in baghdad
from sunshine press: Wikileaks has obtained and decrypted this previously unreleased video footage from a US Apache helicopter in 2007. It shows Reuters journalist Namir Noor-Eldeen, driver Saeed Chmagh, and several others as the Apache shoots and kills them in a public square in Eastern Baghdad. They are apparently assumed to be insurgents. After the initial shooting, an unarmed group of adults and children in a minivan arrives on the scene and attempts to transport the wounded. They are fired upon as well. The official statement on this incident initially listed all adults as insurgents and claimed the US military did not know how the deaths ocurred. Wikileaks released this video with transcripts and a package of supporting documents on April 5th 2010 on http://collateralmurder.com

leaked video of collateral murder - long version

wikileaks under surveillance over forthcoming military murder video

dutch translation: US authorities deal with wikileaks
from nu.nl: Employees of whistleblower site Wikileaks claim to be monitored and maintained by employees of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Icelandic authorities. The occasion would be a video, which an air of Americans to see.

On April 5 to Wikileaks at a meeting of the National Press Club in Washington a video showing an attack by the U.S. Air Force. It would involve a murder carried out by the Pentagon. The staff of the site also draw on information from CIA aircraft have as supporting evidence.

Wikileaks claims on Twitter regarding the upcoming screening to be at work. Employees would be monitored by the U.S. and Icelandic authorities. These are photos and videos taken of the employees, an employee is 22 hours would be arrested and tried to get the video.

Employees express on Twitter concern: "If anything happens to us, it is the video of April 5.

The Web site Wikileaks is very controversial, because the documents of governments and companies with scandals reveals. Last year the site was ordered by a U.S. court concluded ten days, because the Swiss bank Julius Baer about his money laundering in the Cayman Islands did not read back online.

That Iceland is involved in the story has to do with the fact that the site is trying to go to escape. Currently there working on a number of legislative amendments, which should provide legal protection for journalists and whistleblowers. This Icelandic Modern Media Initiative, the country attractive to the establishment of data centers to lure.

Wikileaks currently faces major financial problems and trying to secure the continued existence by asking donations.