Com­ment: Wikileaks–in the news after pub­lish­ing clas­si­fied U.S. mil­i­tary documents–is con­nected to “Pirate Bay,” the patron of which is the Nazi-affiliated Carl Lund­strom.

Are Nazi ele­ments seek­ing to under­mine [what’s left of] U.S. cred­i­bil­ity and/or assist­ing the Tal­iban. (Unlike the Pen­ta­gon Papers, with which the Wik­ileaks mate­r­ial has been com­pared, the doc­u­ments dis­close hard infor­ma­tion about U.S. mil­i­tary tac­tics and operations.)

The web-hosting com­pany, PRQ, that’s also owned by the Pirate Bay own­ers is host­ing the Wik­ileaks site. It is not clear if this means that PRQ is also going to be rout­ing all the leaked doc­u­ments that peo­ple anony­mously send to Wik­ileaks, but that cer­tainly sounds pos­si­ble.  And if that’s the case, then a neo-Nazi’s com­pany is able to read all the anony­mous sub­mis­sions of clas­si­fied doc­u­ments sent by peo­ple around the world.

In the con­text of the Lundstrom/Wikileaks con­nec­tion, we should bear in mind that Sweden–officially neu­tral in the Sec­ond World War–has a vibrant Nazi and fas­cist com­mu­nity. Fans of Stieg Larsson’s nov­els and the pop­u­lar motion pic­tures being pro­duced from them should note that the events por­trayed by Lars­son actu­ally occurred.

” Swedish Web Host­ing Firm Con­firms Wik­iLeaks Link” by Karl Rit­ter [AP]; msnbc.com; 8/6/2010.

Excerpt: A Swedish Inter­net com­pany linked to file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay says it’s help­ing online whistle-blower Wik­iLeaks release clas­si­fied doc­u­ments from servers located in a Stock­holm suburb.

Mikael Viborg, the owner of the Web host­ing com­pany PRQ, on Fri­day showed The Asso­ci­ated Press the site — the base­ment of a drab office build­ing — in Solna on the con­di­tion that the exact loca­tion was not revealed.

“This is the office. The server room is fur­ther inside,” the 28-year-old Viborg said, with the door to the office cracked open. Desks with com­put­ers, doc­u­ments, and empty pas­try boxes and soda cans could be seen inside before he closed the door.

Wik­iLeaks posted more than 76,900 clas­si­fied mil­i­tary and other doc­u­ments, mostly raw intel­li­gence reports from Afghanistan, on its web­site July 25. The White House angrily denounced the leaks, say­ing they put the lives of Afghan infor­mants and U.S. troops at risk.

The secre­tive web­site gives few details about its setup, but says its “servers are dis­trib­uted over mul­ti­ple inter­na­tional juris­dic­tions and do not keep logs. Hence these logs can­not be seized.” . . .