WASHINGTON - WikiLeaks website yesterday revealed a secret list of Washington on infrastructure locations around the world and could threaten the security of the United States (U.S.) in the event of terrorist attack.
All the improvements that involve a number of undersea cables, postal communications, ports, mineral resources of strategic firms, shipping routes and mines in countries from Britain to New Zealand and across the region, Africa, West Asia and China.
The list was started by a hydroelectric power in Quebec, Canada is considered the main power source of the northeast U.S. region, while a Siemens factory in Germany is important because a major chemical supplier to the U.S..
Also considered important by Washington in the list that includes several plant WikiLeaks smallpox vaccine and rabies in Europe, an antidote for the venom factory in Italy and a German firm that produces products for the treatment of plutonium poisoning.
In addition, the U.S. monitoring of submarine cable systems, satellite and defense plants in Britain which is considered to affect the national security powers in the event it is attacked.
Not lagging behind in the list are some of the cobalt mines in Congo, a large electrical transformer Hitachi in South Korea as well as the world's major shipping routes like the Straits of Malacca and the Strait of Gibraltar.
Nobody said the U.S. administrative Gas Nadym in Russia, which is the main gas facilities in the world and the Ras Laffan Industrial Center in Qatar as critical and should not be allowed to fall into the hands of terrorists.
By 2012, Qatar is the largest liquefied petroleum gas import to U.S..
Recent disclosures that are expected to increase political pressure on WikiLeaks and 39 year-old founder, Julian Assange.
On Friday, Assange announced on the Internet that he has increased his security after receiving several death threats.[syokdownload]
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