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06/12/2010
Further Leaks 'Critically Impact' US Security
A secret list of key infrastructure sites around the world, whose loss or attack by terrorists could "critically impact" US security, has be unveiled by WikiLeaks.
The whistleblowing website's latest release of US embassy cables includes documentation including hundreds of pipelines, and sites around the world deemed imperative to securing its interests.
The location leak, described as "irresponsible" and a threat to US national security by the State Department, highlights many British areas.
Sir Malcolm Rifkind, a former British Foreign and Defence Secretary told The Times: "This is the kind of information terrorists are interested in knowing.
"This is further evidence that they (WikiLeaks) have been generally irresponsible, bordering on criminal.
The cable instructed US embassies to update a list of key sites in their countries that would "critically impact the public health, economic security and/or national and homeland security of the United States" if they were lost.
Other documents state the US believes donors from Saudi Arabia are "the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide".
Last December the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent a confidential memo referring to the kingdom as a "cash machine" for al Qaeda.
According to the New York Times, other countries came under fire in the cable.
The United Arab Emirates is described as having a "strategic gap" that terrorists could exploit, Qatar is seen as "the worst in the region" on counter-terrorism and Kuwait is labelled "a key transit point".
The Times also listed a memo which claims militants used the annual Hajj pilgrimage for laundering money - and that cash from pilgrims was used to finance the Mumbai bombings.
(BMcN)
The whistleblowing website's latest release of US embassy cables includes documentation including hundreds of pipelines, and sites around the world deemed imperative to securing its interests.
The location leak, described as "irresponsible" and a threat to US national security by the State Department, highlights many British areas.
Sir Malcolm Rifkind, a former British Foreign and Defence Secretary told The Times: "This is the kind of information terrorists are interested in knowing.
"This is further evidence that they (WikiLeaks) have been generally irresponsible, bordering on criminal.
The cable instructed US embassies to update a list of key sites in their countries that would "critically impact the public health, economic security and/or national and homeland security of the United States" if they were lost.
Other documents state the US believes donors from Saudi Arabia are "the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide".
Last December the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent a confidential memo referring to the kingdom as a "cash machine" for al Qaeda.
According to the New York Times, other countries came under fire in the cable.
The United Arab Emirates is described as having a "strategic gap" that terrorists could exploit, Qatar is seen as "the worst in the region" on counter-terrorism and Kuwait is labelled "a key transit point".
The Times also listed a memo which claims militants used the annual Hajj pilgrimage for laundering money - and that cash from pilgrims was used to finance the Mumbai bombings.
(BMcN)
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