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What does the US embassy in Baghdad export to Finland and dozens of other countries?
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More than a million kilograms of cargo were shipped from Baghdad to different parts of the world, reveals US embassies procurement documents.

Mysterious cargo shipments from the US Embassy in Baghdad to other American embassies and consulates around the world have been revealed on a Wikileaks’ database. Procurement orders of US embassies are public documents, but #Wikileaks put them in a searchable database making it easier to analyse.

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According to Wikileaks’ database, orders to ship more than 540 tonnes of cargo to the US were made in May 2018. The same document shows other main delivery destinations included 120 tonnes of freight to Europe, and 24 tonnes to South Africa, South America and Central Africa respectively. In comparison, only two and a half tonnes of freight were moved within Iraq between Baghdad, Basra and Erbil International Airports. So, the export of items from Iraq appears to be the primary activity.

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The Wikileaks’ database findings coincide with the discovery of a previously undisclosed US Embassy warehouse near Malmi Airport, a storage facility suitable for receiving large truckloads of incoming freight. Documents also show that the US Embassy in Finland ordered a new security perimeter fence for the warehouse compound in April 2018. The purpose for the warehouse remains unknown.
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Guarded warehouse near airport and mysterious cargos from Baghdad; what is the US embassy in Helsinki up to? 

 
This latest uncovering of unusual US embassy activity follows the 2017 exposure of the US Consulate in Frankfurt being used for surveillance operations and as a buying and postal dispatch centre of spying equipment for other US consulates. These latest Wikileaks revelations raise concerns that the US Embassy in Baghdad may also serve as a hub for secret operations worldwide.

Some U.S. diplomats in Cuba diagnosed with serious health conditions, medical records show
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A source familiar with these incidents says officials are investigating whether the diplomats were targets of a type of sonic attack directed at their homes

@intempestive #le_son_comme_arme #sonic_attack

From #Bedford to Baltimore, families demand justice

A solidarity vigil at the US Embassy last week made links between the policing of black communities in the US and UK.
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Libyan national pleads not guilty in #US embassy attack case
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An alleged Libyan militia leader pleaded not guilty in a US federal court on Saturday to a terrorism charge in the 2012 attack on the US diplomatic compound in #Benghazi that killed four Americans. Ahmad Abu Khatallah was transferred to the US District Court in Washington on Saturday morning from a Navy warship where he had been held since his June 15 capture by US special operations forces in #Libya. read more

#Snowden worked at US embassy in India | News24
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Fugitive intelligence contractor Edward Snowden worked briefly at the US embassy in India almost three years before revealing the scale of his country’s surveillance programmes, according to a report on Monday.

The former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor arrived in New Delhi in September 2010 “to assist as a technical expert” at the US embassy, according to Foreign Policy magazine.

The American magazine, citing an unnamed source, did not say what Snowden was working on at the embassy during his short stay in the Indian capital.

The embassy in New Delhi did not immediately respond to an AFP request for comment or confirmation.

Conflit israélo-arabe. Télégramme diplomatique américain diffusé par WikiLeaks.

Intéressante reprise de commentaires faits par Kissinger en 1975. Depuis l’Arabie saoudite, il y fait montre de compréhension à l’égard des positions arabes et critique la direction israélienne – Rabin est alors premier ministre – qui reste sourde aux évolutions des pays arabes et à leur désir de paix. Kissinger parle d’arrangement pacifique (peaceful accomodation) qu’Israël aurait pu aisément accepté si le pays ne souffrait pas des « complexes de Massada et de Samson ».

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WikiLeaks: US blamed Israel for holding back peace in 1975
By ARIEL BEN SOLOMON

10/04/2013

“The ’Post’ uncovers WikiLeak’s ’Kissinger cables’ from US Embassy in Saudi Arabia analyzing Israeli-Arab conflict, sympathizing with Arab position; Israel depicted as panicky and suffering from a Samson complex.

WikiLeaks has published 1.7 million US diplomatic documents ranging from 1973-1976 online. It is their largest release to date and it is named after the former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger because many of the documents were addressed to or written by him.

The Jerusalem Post has uncovered a cable sent from the US Embassy in Saudi Arabia on January 9, 1975, which analyzed the Israeli-Arab conflict. It was concluded that it was Israel’s stubborn position that was holding back peace.

At one point the cable stated, “Nevertheless, viewed from here, the Israeli pessimism seems largely if not entirely unwarranted. It seems based on an extraordinary lack of understanding of what happened in the Arab world in the last year and a half. Rather than girding their loins for the fifth, sixth, seventh Israeli-Arab wars. The Israelis might examine more carefully than they seem to have done so far the alternative of a peaceful accommodation with the Arabs.” (…) The report goes on to make stinging criticism against the Israeli position.

“Before talking about extermination, and before allowing either the Masada or the Samson complex to progress to obsession, the Israelis might usefully examine their own position and that of the Arabs,” the report stated, adding that Cairo and Damascus strongly yearn for peace.

“All reports we have heard and read from Egypt and Syria lead us to believe that those two countries strongly yearn for peace and that they would like to devote their energies to reconstruction of their countries.” Then-prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, the cables continued, was not helping the Arab leaders who sought peace.
“The advocates of this approach, however, have not been helped by statements of Rabin and others in Israel that the next withdrawal will be the last for several years.” The report concluded with a policy prediction reminiscent of contemporary arguments.

“The Palestinians might consider a demilitarized state as humiliating or detracting from their sovereignty, but it is unlikely they would get much sympathy or help from the Saudis if they tried to spoil a settlement. If they agreed they could expect massive Saudi financial support to make their tiny new state viable. Jordan and Israel would benefit vicariously.”