THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Julian Assange, founder of the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks, is leading the race to become Time magazine's Person of the Year in 2010.Mr Assange, the Australian-born former hacker and computer programmer, currently tops a list which includes Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Steve Jobs, the Chilean miners, Lady Gaga and "The Unemployed American" in its top 10.
David Cameron, is in 13th place, one spot behind Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
Last month Wikileaks published nearly 400,000 field reports by American soldiers in Iraq, That followed the publication in July of 77,000 secret US documents on the war in Afghanistan.
The website, which styles itself "the first intelligence agency of the people," was founded in Dec 2006. >>> Nick Allen in Los Angeles | Friday, November 12, 2010
