[Reader-list] Fwd: Are WikiLeaks Being Exploited by the Neighbouring States for Propaganda? (Story in Guardian.UK)

[Patrice Riemens]

It is amazing to see how worldwide, 'Cablegate' is put to work
_nationally_ to settle scores with the enemy within or next door. As one
can paraphrase Clausewitz: "foreign war is the continuation of domestic
politics by other means".
Cheers, p+3D!




> "..They read like the most extraordinary revelations. Citing the
> WikiLeaks<http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/wikileaks>cables, major
> Pakistani
> newspapers <http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/newspapers> this morning
> carried
> stories that purported to detail eye-popping American assessments of
> India<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/india>'s
> military and civilian leaders...
>
> "Enough evidence of Indian involvement in Waziristan, Balochistan," read
> the
> front-page story in the
> News<http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=2549&Cat=13>;
> an almost identical story appeared in the Urdu-language Jang, Pakistan's
> bestselling daily.If accurate, the disclosures would confirm the worst
> fears
> of Pakistani nationalist hawks and threaten relations between Washington
> and
> New Delhi. But they are not accurate.
>    An extensive search of the WikiLeaks database by the Guardian by date,
> name and keyword failed to locate any of the incendiary allegations. It
> suggests this is the first case of WikiLeaks being exploited for
> propaganda
> purposes.."
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/09/pakistani-newspaper-fake-leaks-india
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> a
> nation, you cannot build up a morality. Anything that you will build on
> the
> foundations of caste will crack and will never be a whole.
> -AMBEDKAR
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