A screen shot of a WikiLeaks App developed by a third-party firm
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — As pressure continues to mount against WikiLeaks, supporters of the whistle-blower website have been distributing its controversial leaked cables through other means.
Two Jordanian news websites, AmmanNet.net and 7iber.com (which means ink in Arabic), said on Tuesday they have begun translating into Arabic WikiLeaks-released cables issued by the US embassy in Amman regarding Jordan and the Arab region.
In a joint statement, the news websites said they “began this week posting… full translations of these cables.”
AmmanNet manager Mohammad Ersan said the project “aims to keep the Jordanian public in particular and the Arab audience in general up-to-date with leaks of these secret cables.”
Ersan hoped this would help create a sort of “Jordanian WikiLeaks, by encouraging anyone who has important documents to publish them… especially with the lack of transparency regarding some issues in Jordan.”
“AmmanNet and 7iber.com call on experienced and skilled translators to join the project…” the statement said.
In related news, Apple has put an end to third-party developer Hint Solutions’ attempt to sell a WikiLeaks App via the Apple store just three days after it launched.
On Monday, Apple removed the the $1.99 WikiLeaks App, which directed users to the whistleblower site as well as the @wikileaks Twitter stream.
A Techcrunch report said that it obtained a Google cached version of the site which described the App as offering “instant access to the world’s most documented leakage of top secret memos and other confidential government documents.”
The developer’s general manager, Igor Barinov, said on his Twitter feed and in an email to TechCrunch that Apple took down the WikiLeaks app from the App Store without providing a reason for the decision.
Meanwhile, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was released on bail from his London prison cell last Thursday following his arrest two weeks ago.
Assange is wanted for questioning by Swedish authorities over allegations of sex-crimes.
WikiLeaks angered many US politicians after it published thousands of sensitive US State Department and Pentagon documents last month, prompting its hosting provider Amazon EC2 to remove the site from its servers.
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