Wikileaks: list of crucial installations published

The latest revelations to emerge from the Wikileaks dossier of US diplomatic messages has been described as a potential list of terrorist targets.

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The catalogue contains hundreds of sensitive facilities around the world that the US considers vital to its national security or public health.

It ranges from defence contractors, like Britain’s BAE Systems, to gas pipelines and communications installations.

The list includes plants that produce vaccines in Denmark, Italy, Germany and Australia.

And the French company Sanofi-Aventis is one of several pharmaceutical and industrial giants on the list.

In 2009 the State Department in Washington asked for all of its foreign missions to identify all installations whose loss could be critical to US security.

Former British Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind said the revelations bordered on the criminal.

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