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 Wikileaks : nouvelles révélations

Wikileaks Server Goes Down, Julian Assange Facing 'hundreds Of Death Threats'

By JOHN HEILPRIN

December 05, 2010 "Huffington Post' -- GENEVA — WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange turned increasingly to Switzerland on Sunday, dodging a barrage of threats online and in the real world to keep access to a trove of U.S. State Department cables under a Swiss Web address.

The elusive founder of the website WikiLeaks said he faced "hundreds of death threats." The site hinged on the Swiss Pirate Party's wikileaks.ch Web address, though the main server in France went offline, leaving the site reachable through a Swedish server.