Assange: We Will Release 6,000 Documents on Israel Including Some on Mughniyeh’s Assassination

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange revealed that 6,000 documents on Israel will be released soon, saying that they will shed some light on its confrontation of Iran’s nuclear program and its role in the assassination of prominent Hizbullah official Imad Mughniyeh.

He told Israel’s Yediot Ahronot: “The documents we released in the past few months were the fuel that ignited the Arab revolts.”

He explained that WikiLeaks began publishing the secret U.S. Embassy cables on November 29, 2010, in Arab newspapers, including Lebanon’s Al-Akhbar, which eventually made their way to North Africa, Saudi Arabia, and Lebanon, which led to the eruption of the popular revolts.

The documents expected to be released on Israel, he said, will reveal details and evidence on issues that were only the subject of speculation.

Regarding Mughniyeh’s 2008 assassination, Assange said that an October 18, 2006, cable stated that the United States got word of top secret intelligence that Iran appointed Mughniyeh as Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah’s deputy.

The Israeli newspaper wondered whether this intelligence paved the way to the speeding up of the decision to assassinate him, which the Americans believed Israel executed.