vIndianz.com (26 Nov, 2009) — A website has published what it claims are 573,000 intercepted pager messages sent all through the 9/11 attacks in the United States. Wikileaks says it will not disclose who gave it the messages – a few of which are from federal agencies in addition to common people. Internet analysts state they consider the messages are authentic however federal authorities have refused to remark. The attacks on 11 September 2001 left almost 3,000 people dead.
The messages are being in print over a 24-hour period, ending at 0800GMT on Thursday. They are being released at the same time on Wikileaks and social networking site Twitter.
The website is broadcasting every message at the time it was sent formerly in 2001. The first message was from 0300 local time (0800 GMT), five hours previous to the first attack in New York and the last 24 hours later. The messages are not all in relation to the attacks. Some are ordinary questions about what people are having for lunch.
However, several are about the fatal plane attacks and range from citizens trying to find out if their dear ones are safe and sound, to government messages, to computer server errors.
They include messages for example
- This is Myrna, I will not rest until you get home, the second tower is down, I don’t want to have to keep calling you after every event. Pls just go home
- President has been rerouted won’t be returning to Washington but not sure where he will go
- Bomb detonated in World Trade Ctr. Pls get back to Mike Brady w/a quick assessment of your areas and contact us if anything is needed
New York’s fire and police departments said they could not remark on whether messages supposedly sent from them were authentic while the US Secret Service refused to remark.
Pager Company USA Mobility said it was concerned by the suspected interceptions, the Associated Press news agency reported. Wikileaks allows people to secretly post documents on the web, saying its plan is to encourage transparency.
It was produced in 2006 by dissidents, journalists, mathematicians and technologists from the US, Taiwan, Europe, Australia and South Africa. Wikileaks spokesman Daniel Schmitt said the messages were submitted secretly to the site some weeks ago.
He told Associated Press: “From the situation information that the source provided we have strong reasons to consider that this is legitimate data.” He said the messages would assist offer a fuller picture of what happened that day.
Further Reading- Companies Beware of WikiLeaks! – Hard OCP
- Turkey plays down US diplomatic messages on WikiLeaks – Financial Times
- Cuban site puts Wikileaks online – BBC News
- Norwegian Paper Obtains WikiLeaks Cable Haul – Wall Street Journal
- Bank of America cuts off WikiLeaks payments – Financial Times
- WikiLeaks’ resilience shows strength of Internet-age lifelines – Washington Post
- Hackers Give Web Companies a Test of Free Speech – New York Times
- PayPal cuts WikiLeaks from money flow – The Associated Press
- WikiLeaks opens the floodgates for critics of the Obama administration – Washington Post
- Visa suspends Wikileaks payments – BBC News
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1 Comment
You can go to the bank on the fact that the end is very nigh for 911 liars, stalkers, slanderers.
As for those who say that it’s not appropriate to release personal messages that were texted on 911…. People deserve the truth… What is not right [much less appropriate] is the continual lies and slander that has gone on for years.
Karma can be a b!tch. Justice is coming and those who deserve their “just desserts” will be finally getting them.