(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Saudi Arabia has urged its citizens not to distribute "documents that might be faked" in an apparent response to WikiLeaks' publication on last Friday of more than 60,000 documents, it says are secret Saudi diplomatic communications.
WikiLeaks said on its website it would release half a million more in the coming weeks.The statement, made by the foreign ministry on its Twitter account on Friday, did not directly deny the documents.But on last Sunday, foreign ministry spokesperson Osama Naqli warned the country not to "allow enemies of the state to achieve their intentions in regards to exchanging or publishing any documents" and said "many of them had been fabricated in a very obvious manner".
WikiLeaks, which began releasing U.S. diplomatic cables in 2010, said it had obtained email communications between Saudi Arabia's foreign ministry and other countries as well as confidential reports from other Saudi ministries.
Friday marks the third anniversary of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange seeking refuge in Ecuador's embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden over alleged sex crimes.
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