And For His Next Trick...

Julian Assange is going to master the mysterious art of disappearing from Earth.  The best part of the trick is he's not going to be the one performing the magic act.

WikiLeaks will release top secret American files concerning Israel in the next six months, its founder Julian Assange disclosed yesterday.

In an excusive interview with Al Jazeera, Assange said only a meagre number of files related to Israel had been published so far, because the newspapers in the West that were given exclusive rights to publish the secret documents were reluctant to publish many sensitive information about Israel.

“There are 3,700 files related to Israel and the source of 2,700 files is Israel. In the next six months we intend to publish more files depending on our sources,” said Assange in the nearly one-hour interview telecast live from the UK.

Asked if Israel had tried to contact him though mediators, Assange said, “No, no contacts with Israel but I am sure Mossad is following our activities closely like Australia, Sweden and the CIA.

“The Guardian, El-Pais and Le Monde have published only two percent of the files related to Israel due to the sensitive relations between Germany, France and Israel. Even New York Times could not publish more due to the sensitivities related to the Jewish community in the US,” he added.

And you thought screwing with Bank of America was a bad idea?  Now he wants to air Israel's dirty laundry?  Well, if you thought the calls to assassinate Assange were loud before, you've not seen anything yet.  You have to hand it to the guy, if he's trying to become a martyr in the digital age, he's well on his way to ending up in a pine box.  Already he's being blamed for the end of corporate e-mail.

Balls of polycarbonate steel, that one.  Odds on him and WikiLeaks seeing 2012 just got a whole hell of a lot shorter, however.  Personally?  Yeah, I wouldn't want to be pissing on the Mossad right now, if they feel it would be better for Israel to zap the guy, they will end him.