MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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US documents reportedly refer to Assange, WikiLeaks as 'enemy'
By ocean-kat on Thu, 09/27/2012 - 2:31am |The U.S. Defense Department has formally declared WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange an enemy on par with al-Qaida, according to documents that an Australian newspaper said Wednesday it had obtained under freedom of information laws.
The Sydney Morning Herald, the flagship of the Fairfax Media chain, reported that the declassified Air Force counterintelligence documents declare that military personnel who make contact with WikiLeaks or "WikiLeaks supporters" are at risk of being charged with "communicating with the enemy" — an article of the Uniform Code of Military Justice that carries the death penalty.
Fairfax has been investigating whether the Australian government has been informed that Assange, an Australian national, could face U.S. extradition.
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http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/26/14115231-us-documents-reportedly-refer-to-assange-wikileaks-as-enemy?lite
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