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[ In May 2010 US army analyst
Private Manning was arrested
in Iraq on suspicion of having
online publisher WikiLeaks. ]
[ Private Manning was accused of
leaking hundreds of thousands of
diplomatic and military documents. ]
[ Location:
Central Asia ]
A month or a year passes by and people kept saying:
you are in Guantanamo, Cuba,
...but I refused to believe them.
No, they said, you can take it for granted,
this is Guantanamo, Cuba.
Even the books we were given were stamped
"Guantanamo Library", but I still refused to believe it.
There was no way to check:
you are locked up in a cage,
...you see nothing but water:
how can you be sure where you are?
We weren't supposed to know anything,
or do anything.
Just sit quietly and not make
any trouble. That's all.
If you wish we could tell you why
the Americans kept you there, what they wanted from you.
Here is your secret file from Guantanamo,
it's supposed to be declassified in 2033...
This part is called -
"Reasons for Transfer to Guantanamo".
[ MEHRABON ODINAEV,
recently released from US Guantanamo Bay prison ]
To provide information on the following:
[ MEHRABON ODINAEV,
recently released from US Guantanamo Bay prison ]
To provide information
about Tadjik refugees in Afghanistan...
The refugees?
And to provide information
about a school in Karachi...
- What could I tell them about it?
They go to Pakistan themselves...
These were the reasons why they decided
to take you to Guantanamo,
they wanted information on
refugees in Tadjikistan...
...and a school in Karachi.
That's absurd, 5 years for that!
-They could have asked then, on the spot...
while I was in Kandahar.
I mean, if they would at least have had
some serious questions, I'd understand...
about the Tadjik refugees,
...there were a hundred thousand of them.
Maybe more...
Interrogation, huh!
I'm surprised that they didn't come up
with anything more serious.
I mean they could have at least asked you how
a Soviet tank is constructed
...but no they even wrote officially
that they were interested in a madrasah.
You must be angry with them?
I mean I would be pissed off if I had to spend
five years in Guantanamo for such bullshit.
All for nothing!
[ Location:
Norfolk,
England ]
[ JULIAN ASSANGE,
founder of WikiLeaks under house arrest ]
Take a look at this poor bastard.
Five years in Guantanamo...
...to find out about some refugees in Tadjikistan.
It's not just this detainee...
...there are revelations throughout Central Asia
about what's happening there.
An extreemly interesting region...
...between China and Russia.
This is the State Department's brain...
...the empire of the 21st century.
Bildt is already in correspondence with Karl Rove...
[ In 2011 a small group
of journalists made their
interviewing editors. ]
[ Their real goal:
to find local media outlets to publish
the secret US diplomatic cables. ]
[ Mediastan ]
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...animeDB...
This is the summary of the cables from Tadjikistan.
The first cable that we have is a scene setter
for some important person who visited Tadjikistan:
[ Location:
Tadjikistan ]
for some important person who visited Tadjikistan:
Regardless of our efforts there is a limit to what Tadjikistan can offer.
That's to the United States.
It produces very little, it is poor
it's Government has minimal capacity.
The Tadjiks have some unrealistic ideas of what we can offer them:
mainly large infrastructure projects.
Including questionable power plants
Tunnels to Pakistan and bridges to nowhere.
There is some truth to the quip that Tadjikistan's real contribution
to our efforts in Afghanistan is to be stable and
allow unfettered overflight and transit to our forces
- which the Tadjiks have done unfailingly.
Ok, so we have another one which is also kind of fun.
It's about how the United States is trying to...
...make the local media more pro-American.
And how do they want to do that? Here goes:
In addition to overt public diplomacy
other complimentary efforts could be authorised, such as:
Aggressive media campaign through the Russian Media
as well as placements of articles in the major Russian Newspapers
read in central Asia
ensure that editors see the positive material from Russian media
and pay them if necessary to reprint it.
To reprint it?
Yes, they will publish positive material about the United States
in Gazeta.ru, Echo Moskvy and Interfax
and then they will pay the local editors
in Tadjikistan, so they re-print those articles.
Do they name some media
which they wanted to pay for re-printing?
It would be interesting to know who they regard as natural partners.
Well, we'll have to look at that in the full documents.
This is just a summary.
so, are we going through the tunnel or around the tunnel?
Through I think...
It doesn't look like it's finished.
I'm not sure this tunnel is finished.
I'm not sure either but there there are people here...
Hi! We are heading to Dushanbe,
is this the way?
- No.
When will the tunnel be opened?
No idea.
All the way back...
Maybe we should turn around...
I wonder if we would have been able to go through anyway?
Those guys were wearing masks
maybe the car would go through, but not us.
Hi! Could you tell us how to get to the capital, to Dushanbe?
Just go straight, and then take a left.
At the foot of the mountain?
Yes, as soon as the road ends, take a left up the mountain.
Thank you!
Good luck on your journey!
We're on our way to the Asia-Plus news agency
here in Tadjikistan.
That's our first destination.
Here is the team:
That's me, Johannes.
This is Dmitri, the Russian journalist from the magazine
that we have been working with.
This is Alina, who is also a journalist.
And Katya, a film-maker from Kazakhstan.
And this is Theo who will be filming our journey.
Look, we have to be careful...
Yes, I understand but...
Hello, my name is Marat Mamadshoev.
Who is responsible for being late?
Not us!
It's ok, I'm also always late.
Everywhere media observe
some red lines that can't be crossed.
What are your red lines?
Surely we have taboo as well.
But if we were to talk too frankly
about our taboo...
...what kind of taboo would that be?
[ MARAT MAMADSHOEV,
Editor in Chief "Asia-Plus" ]
This interview is only one of the reasons why we are here.
...and thank you a lot for that.
But there is another reason why
we are here, that may interest you...
...it has to do with WikiLeaks.
I worked with the Russian cables
Johannes worked with the Swedish material.
There are also cables on Tadjikistan.
We propose to give you free access to the secret cables.
What you choose to publish, how you publish,
if you publish in your newspaper is entirely up to you.
But we demand that you redact the names
of those who need to be protected.
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