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August 31st, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange has accused the Gillard government of “ratting out” 23 Australians named as having contact with a Yemeni terror group al-Qa’ida, in a secret US embassy cable.
The cable, details of which were reported by Fairfax newspapers last December and rehashed today, was prepared by the US embassy in Canberra on January 21 last year.
Dated January 2010, it recommended 11 Australian citizens be placed on a no-fly list and 12 on a watch list.
Attorney-General Robert McClelland yesterday broke the government’s long-standing silence on WikiLeaks to condemn the cable’s release, accusing the organisation of “irresponsible” behaviour by not censoring the names of those named in the cable.
On his Twitter account this morning Mr Assange who is on house arrest in the UK pending his possible extradition to Sweden, said Mr McClelland was simply reacting to being “caught out”.
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“Australian Attorney-General Robert McClelland bemoans having his department being publicly caught out, ratting out 23 Australians to the US embassy without due process,” he said.
“If Mr McClelland is unhappy about being caught out, perhaps he should consider cancelling my Australian passport again.
“It has not, after all proven terribly useful to me the last 267 days of my detention without charge. Or, perhaps he could do us all a favor, cancel his own passport and deport himself?”
The group were accused by ASIO as having connections to radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a US citizen implicated in al-Qa’ida terrorist plots against the United States.
The one common element linking all 23 Australians implicated in the cable is the alleged connection to AQAP, now considered to be al-Qa’ida’s most deadly franchise, partly due to its ability to attract radicalised Western Muslims.
Many of the them are also accused of having direct contact with al-Awlaki, who left the US in 2001 and joined al-Qa’ida in Yemen. He has been directly connected to some of the more recent high-profile terror attacks including the 2009 Fort Hood shooting at a military base in Texas and the 2009 attempted airline bombing on Christmas Day by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.
Mr McClelland said in the past, WikiLeaks had decided not to name those mentioned in cables where security operations could be put at risk.
“This has not occurred in this case. The publication of any information that could compromise Australia’s national security – or inhibit the ability of intelligence agencies to monitor potential threats – is incredibly irresponsible,” he said.
Paul Maley and Lanai Vasek
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