Al-Akhbar and Wikileaks

This I can report to you because many of you have been asking me.  Yes, those documents that are being released by Al-Akhbar are Wikileaks from a larger collection (and more, much more are to follow).  Al-Akhbar has been acting very responsibly toward those documents: handling them with care and caution and showing concern for the lives of people (innocent people) involved.  Al-Akhbar has decided to go over them all again to redact what potentially could pose danger to lives of innocent people.  They will release them today at 3:00PM (Beirut Time).  Al-Akhbar will post a note to readers on Monday to explain their policies on the documents.  The political class of March 14 is stunned and very nervous: the release of the documents has been most embarrassing for them all, and for their masters in UAE and Saudi Arabia.  There political chatter has suddenly softened on the part of Prince Muqrin puppets in Beirut (in one Wikileak document, Fu'ad Sanyurah interrupts a meeting with US officials to take a call from Prince Muqrin and then another one from Prince Bandar).   In the handling of the newspaper, the paper is as independent as it has been since its founding.