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Norwegian daily says it has obtained WikiLeaks documents
By Per Nyberg, CNN
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
* Aftenposten is one of Norway's largest dailies
* The managing editor wouldn't say how the paper got the documents
* The staff is poring through the cables and will produce many stories
(CNN) -- A Norwegian daily newspaper has been given access to the 250,000 or so
classified diplomatic cables held by WikiLeaks, the publication's managing
editor told CNN on Thursday.
Ole Erik Almlid, managing editor of Aftenposten, one of the country's biggest
dailies, wouldn't say how the paper got the material or if indeed WikiLeaks had
been in touch with the publication.
But the documents will provide Almlid and Aftenposten a lot of material for
news stories.
"It will take months for us to go through all this material, but we are looking
to write and publish a lot of journalistic articles," he said.
The website -- which facilitates the disclosure of secret information -- began
releasing a cache of more than 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables from around the
world in November.
Aftenposten is not one of the media partners of WikiLeaks. Newspapers -- such
as The New York Times, The Guardian in Britain and Germany's Der Spiegel --
have worked with the site to release the material.
The website previously released hundreds of thousands of military documents
from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"We were at first surprised when we got all the documents, but now we have put
a lot of resources into going through all these documents and we have published
several articles already," Almlid said.
"We can publish this material when and how we want. But we have no intention of
publishing all the documents just to publish them. We will only publish the
actual documents for the articles that we publish."
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