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WikiLeaks cables: Live Q&A with Julian Assange

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Julian Assange, wikileaks founder. Photograph: Guardian

Update: Thank you for all your questions. We have now closed comments on this article. Read Julian Assange's answers here.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is at the centre of intense media speculation and a hate campaign against him in America, following the leak of 250,000 US diplomatic cables.

He will be live online to answer Guardian readers' questions at 1pm today, subject to his access to an internet connection - which is very much a live issue. His online interview comes at the end of a week of shocking revelations from the cables and on a day when WikiLeaks has been fighting US attempts to take its website down.

Assange will answer your questions in the comments section below. From 1pm you will need to navigate to the latest comments for his replies.

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