Wikileaks publishes more than two million emails Syrian government

Wikileaks Thursday began publishing more than two million emails internal government of Syria from 2006 to 2012, according to its founder Julian Assange highlight the repressive regime in power in Damascus but also their opponents. "WikiLeaks began to publish the files of Syria, more than two million emails from Syrian political figures, ministries and associated companies dating from August 2006 to March 2012," said a spokeswoman for WikiLeaks, Sarah Harrison, in a morning press conference in London. The spokeswoman declined to comment on the overall content of the messages, which broadcasts again with a group of newspapers from different countries, and suggested that because of the breadth of the files - "more than eight times the famous Cablegate" - an examination of all could take some time. But the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, was more explicit in a statement sent from the Embassy of Ecuador, where more than refugee two weeks waiting for a response from the government of Quito on his asylum application. "The material is embarrassing for Syria but also embarrassing for external opponents of Syria," said the Australian of 41 years. "It helps us not just criticize one group or another, but to understand their interests, actions and thoughts. Only through an understanding of this conflict we can think of solving it, "he said. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is facing from March 2011 to a popular revolt bloody repression which caused 500 deaths and 16 000, according to the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, an NGO based in London. The two million 484 thousand 899 emails, written in several languages, including Arabic and Russian, "shed light about the inner workings of the Syrian government and the economy, but also reveal how the West and Western companies say one thing and do another, "said Wikileaks in a text published on the Internet. One of the first revelations affects Italian industrial group sector Finmeccanica's defense, which the specialized Web continued to assist the Syrian regime with its ultra-sophisticated communications system even after the onset of repression. The information was released Thursday by the Italian weekly L'Espresso in an article entitled "Finmeccanica helped the dictator. " The contract of sale of the telecommunications system Selex TETRA Elsag, a subsidiary of Finmeccanica group controlled by the Italian state, is dated 2008 but continued to send engineers Selex and assisting the Damascus regime until a recent period, say L 'Espresso and electronic journal in Spanish Público.es, two of the media associated with this leak WikiLeaks. page created by Assange became known internationally with the release of hundreds of thousands of secret U.S. documents on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which followed 250 000 confidential cables of American diplomacy. The so-called "Cablegate", released with the help of several world-class media, angered Washington. Since then, Julian Assange, threatened with extradition to Sweden on suspicion of four alleged sexual assaults, is declared a victim of political persecution and fears being extradited to the U.S., where he said he could be accused of espionage and sentenced to death. That is the argument that claimed when on June 19 sought political asylum in the Embassy of Ecuador, Quito's government is "seriously considering" making a decision "based", said on Wednesday told reporters in Quito Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño ..