US warns India on fallout of fresh WikiLeaks' release

The US has warned India and key governments across the world that the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks was likely to release fresh set of classified documents containing potentially embarrassing material that might harm US interests and create tension in its ties with 'friends'.

Though WikiLeaks has not specified the documents' contents or when they would be uploaded on the site, according to the Pentagon, officials were expecting a release "late this week or early next week."

"We have reached out to India to warn them about a possible release of documents," state department spokesman P J Crowley said.

"We do not know precisely what WikiLeaks has or what it plans to do. We have made our position clear. These documents should not be released," Crowley said, as the US administration braces for the expected release by the website of millions of sensitive diplomatic cables.

However, what the releases contain about India-related issues is still not known.

According to WikiLeaks, there would be "seven times' as the number of secret documents as the 400,000 Iraq war logs it published last month.