WikiLeaks: List of crucial installations

The latest revelations to emerge from the WikiLeaks dossier of US diplomatic messages has been described as a potential list of terrorist targets. The catalog contains hundreds of sensitive facilities around the world that the US considers vital to its national security or public health. WikiLeaks: List of crucial installations It ranges from defense contractors, like Britain’s BAE Systems, to gas pipelines and communications installations. The list includes plants that produce vaccines in Denmark, Italy, Germany and Australia. And the French company Sanofi-Aventis is one of several pharmaceutical and industrial giants on the list. In 2009 the State Department in Washington asked for all of its foreign missions to identify all installations whose loss could be critical to US security. Former British Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind said the revelations bordered on the criminal. (Beta/AP) "Game" gets serious Belgrade-based military analyst Aleksandar Radic says the latest WikiLeaks revelation can be seen as a move that is "tipping off terrorists". "WikiLeaks is clearly playing a serious game. They are attacking America's essential interests right now. This is not about the unpredictability of what the most important and most vulnerable installations are - any expert in a given field can appraise this. But this is, as it were, a tip-off to terrorists, because their ability to appraise the weakest points of the western civilization should not be overestimated," said Radic. "And in this way, terrorists have a unique document with a wish-list of targets that they could endanger in the future, because they have been told: Washington would worry the most if you hit there," believes Radic. The publishing of the list of vital U.S. security installations is deemed to be "the most controversial WikiLeaks move to date", and a serious slap in the face of Washington. "If one read carefully all that has been published by WikiLeaks - and I think many are at this point trying not to talk about this - there is an entire construction (revealed) of the functioning of the American diplomatic (and) intelligence network," according to this analyst, who believes that the public release of this information has dealt the most serious blow to American interests. "But the list that is the subject of debate today is such an open provocation, that Washington cannot remain indifferent," says Radic. In another development related to the ongoing controversy surrounding the so-called Cablegate, WikiLeaks announced today that a Swiss bank account set up to collect funds for the defense of founder Julian Assange had been frozen.

WikiLeaks: List of crucial installations

It ranges from defense contractors, like Britain’s BAE Systems, to gas pipelines and communications installations.

The list includes plants that produce vaccines in Denmark, Italy, Germany and Australia.

And the French company Sanofi-Aventis is one of several pharmaceutical and industrial giants on the list.

In 2009 the State Department in Washington asked for all of its foreign missions to identify all installations whose loss could be critical to US security.

Former British Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind said the revelations bordered on the criminal.

"Game" gets serious

Belgrade-based military analyst Aleksandar Radić says the latest WikiLeaks revelation can be seen as a move that is "tipping off terrorists".

"WikiLeaks is clearly playing a serious game. They are attacking America's essential interests right now. This is not about the unpredictability of what the most important and most vulnerable installations are - any expert in a given field can appraise this. But this is, as it were, a tip-off to terrorists, because their ability to appraise the weakest points of the western civilization should not be overestimated," said Radić.

"And in this way, terrorists have a unique document with a wish-list of targets that they could endanger in the future, because they have been told: Washington would worry the most if you hit there," believes Radić.

The publishing of the list of vital U.S. security installations is deemed to be "the most controversial WikiLeaks move to date", and a serious slap in the face of Washington.

"If one read carefully all that has been published by WikiLeaks - and I think many are at this point trying not to talk about this - there is an entire construction (revealed) of the functioning of the American diplomatic (and) intelligence network," according to this analyst, who believes that the public release of this information has dealt the most serious blow to American interests.

"But the list that is the subject of debate today is such an open provocation, that Washington cannot remain indifferent," says Radić.

In another development related to the ongoing controversy surrounding the so-called Cablegate, WikiLeaks announced today that a Swiss bank account set up to collect funds for the defense of founder Julian Assange had been frozen.