30-03-2010, 05:51 PM
Couldn't this be a classic case of killing several penguins with one icicle? I mean they could harrass wikileaks and try to stop the video being released, while ruining the Althing initiative to make Iceland a center for investigative journalism and internet freedom by demonstrating that Icelandic officials took part in the caper, which they did.
The spin now is the wikileaks volunteer, the minor who was arrested, was arrested for breaking into a restaurant, and when asked about the laptop in tow, said it belonged to wikileaks.
This is obvious obfuscation in order to discredit the story, to make it appear the volunteer was at fault and tried to escape responsibility by creating an international incident. This can then be used to discredit wikileaks, which is what the Pentagon report on wikileaks originally called for.
Thanks for the Norwegian translation, I already had most of it more or less translated correctly using google and peeking back at the original.
There is another item at either grapevine.is or icenews.is about private surveillance data released to the foreign media concerning the foreign minister. I'm not certain but I think he's the same FM who made Iceland the first, and for a long time only, country to recognize the Lithuanian parliament's declaration of independence in 1990. You know, back when Bush Sr and the pundits were bucking 50 years of US policy and refusing to recognize it, saying "The Lithuanians have put themselves naked out on a ledge and expect us to save them" and so on. If so, the FM has real character and might be the target of some UK-US insider smear campaign under way currently.
In the same vein there is a private Dutch army renting the former NATO air base outside Reykjavik, and Icelanders famously have no guns. Checkmate?
The spin now is the wikileaks volunteer, the minor who was arrested, was arrested for breaking into a restaurant, and when asked about the laptop in tow, said it belonged to wikileaks.
This is obvious obfuscation in order to discredit the story, to make it appear the volunteer was at fault and tried to escape responsibility by creating an international incident. This can then be used to discredit wikileaks, which is what the Pentagon report on wikileaks originally called for.
Thanks for the Norwegian translation, I already had most of it more or less translated correctly using google and peeking back at the original.
There is another item at either grapevine.is or icenews.is about private surveillance data released to the foreign media concerning the foreign minister. I'm not certain but I think he's the same FM who made Iceland the first, and for a long time only, country to recognize the Lithuanian parliament's declaration of independence in 1990. You know, back when Bush Sr and the pundits were bucking 50 years of US policy and refusing to recognize it, saying "The Lithuanians have put themselves naked out on a ledge and expect us to save them" and so on. If so, the FM has real character and might be the target of some UK-US insider smear campaign under way currently.
In the same vein there is a private Dutch army renting the former NATO air base outside Reykjavik, and Icelanders famously have no guns. Checkmate?