Belfast Telegraph

Saturday 12 July 2014

WikiLeaks moves site to Switzerland

Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks



The 39-year-old Australian former computer hacker, who is understood to be in the UK, answered questions on The Guardian's website, and hailed as "an unparalleled hero" the soldier suspected of passing 250,000 secret US diplomatic papers to WikiLeaks.

Mr Assange praised US Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning, 23, without confirming he was the source of the leaks which have deeply embarrassed Washington and its allies.

The latest tranche of confidential documents to appear on the website included cables from the US embassy in Afghanistan reporting criticisms of Britain's military operations in the country by President Hamid Karzai and a top Nato commander.

And cables from the London embassy showed that former US ambassador Robert Tuttle had written Gordon Brown's premiership off as "abysmal" within a year of him becoming Prime Minister.

The website moved to the Swiss address after the American company providing its domain name,, cut off service because cyber attacks were threatening the rest of its network.


Mr Assange said WikiLeaks' activities had been dictated since April by "the moves of abusive elements of the United States Government against us".


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