According to the Daily Mail, Craig Murray, who is the former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan and associate of Julian Assange,
“flew to Washington, D.C. for emails….He claims he had a clandestine hand-off … near American University with one of the email sources. Murray said the leakers’ motivation was ‘disgust at the corruption of the Clinton Foundation and the ’tilting of the primary election playing field against Bernie Sanders’…
Murray says: ‘The source had legal access to the information. The documents came from inside leaks, not hacks’. ‘Regardless of whether the Russians hacked into the DNC, the documents Wikileaks published did not come from that,’ Murray insists.” ….
SOURCE: http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/16/ah-so-putin-didnt-hack-those-emails-after-all/
There are probably no more than 5-10,000 in the remaining 8sqkm of East-Aleppo in the hands of the Islamists, mostly their Harem and children which they seem always to sling along. Most of them are from the countryside squatting the city when it was invade by the insurgents. Around 30,000 Combatants and non-combatants evacuated the city when most populated parts in the North fell. The Guardian had it right when it estimated the city's Eastern part had around 50k in total, however 250k sounded nice propaganda wise.
According to the Daily Mail, Craig Murray, who is the former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan and associate of Julian Assange,
“flew to Washington, D.C. for emails….He claims he had a clandestine hand-off … near American University with one of the email sources. Murray said the leakers’ motivation was ‘disgust at the corruption of the Clinton Foundation and the ’tilting of the primary election playing field against Bernie Sanders’…
Murray says: ‘The source had legal access to the information. The documents came from inside leaks, not hacks’. ‘Regardless of whether the Russians hacked into the DNC, the documents Wikileaks published did not come from that,’ Murray insists.” ….
SOURCE:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/16/ah-so-putin-didnt-hack-those-emails-after-all/
There are probably no more than 5-10,000 in the remaining 8sqkm of East-Aleppo in the hands of the Islamists, mostly their Harem and children which they seem always to sling along. Most of them are from the countryside squatting the city when it was invade by the insurgents. Around 30,000 Combatants and non-combatants evacuated the city when most populated parts in the North fell. The Guardian had it right when it estimated the city's Eastern part had around 50k in total, however 250k sounded nice propaganda wise.
Read Oborne's good story on Aleppo
Today East aleppo is largely controlled by Jabhat El-Nusra the main affiliate of Al Qaeda in Syria
http://www.middleeasteye.net/essays/journey-aleppo-how-war-ripped-syrias-biggest-city-apart-1376989223