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Correctedupdate 3iraq war logs in manning case hit us in the face u. The question of the moment, framed by the prowar camp, goes like this. The afghan war documents leak, also called the afghan war diary, is the disclosure of a collection of internal u. The documents brought into question the militarys handling of the war in afghanistan a group students and programmers from columbia engineering, new york university and princeton have used the same set to create the. This past sunday, wellknown whistleblower site wikileaks released over 91,000 secret us military reports, covering the war in afghanistan. The iraq war logs released by wikileaks, which are a version of the sigacts significant activities reports compiled from 20042009 by the united states military, 1 is not the first release of us military data on iraqi casualties. To ease the load and for a quicker download, cryptome offers mirrors of the now digitallyhashed compressed file packages. They had hoped it would lead to a deep consideration of whether the war should continue. The ones that hit us in the face were the iraq logs, retired brigadier general robert carr said in a. When chelsea manning gave her first interview, to abc, after her release last month, we saw a young pretty woman and, for the first time, heard her selfconfident and determined voice. The cables cover from 28th december 1966 to 28th february 2010 and originate from. Huge leak of military logs exposes serial abuse of detainees, 15,000 previously unknown deaths and full toll of iraqs years of carnage. Other releases in 2010 included the afghan war diary and the iraq war logs. The logs consist of over 91,000 afghan war documents, covering the period between january 2004 and december 2009.
Key incidents from the wikileaks afghanistan war logs selected by guardian writers. The end quote suggests that war is not the solution. Its pretty obvious that nearly all of the activity is on the afghanistanpakistan border. Wikileaks releases classified afghanistan war logs. Afghanistan war logs afghanistan, interactive, tableau, tableau public, war, wikileaks 1 comment this is the first workbook ive published to tableau public. Reflecting on the afghanistan war logs released by. In this sense, afghanistan is a classic proxy war, with the main protagonists here in the united states. Wikileaks hoped the war logs would promote a deep understanding and scrutiny of the war in afghanistan and as a result changes in policy about the prosecution of the war. The game offers 60 awards, one machine coop for up to four, steam cloud, leaderboards and trading cards. Politics blog colonial papers and the ugly legacy of empire.
No deaths linked to manning war logs leak witness rt. The iraq war documents leak is the disclosure to wikileaks of 391,832 united states army field reports, also called the iraq war logs, of the iraq war from 2004 to 2009 and published on the internet on 22 october 2010. These examples provide an unvarnished, groundlevel picture of the war in afghanistan. Devastating picture of war in iraq and afghanistan from wikileaks. A big writing endeavor, work projects, travel, and a vacation are the culprits. Yet with the war in its ninth year, the passions raised by the debate over how to proceed there are serious indeed. Assange said that his disclosure involved more pages than the pentagon papers and will, through the internet, reach a bigger audience. Checkpoint washington wikileaks afghanistan war log vs. The war logs wikileaks documents interactive feature.
Awardwinning news and culture, features breaking news, indepth reporting and criticism on politics, business, entertainment and technology. You can click just about anywhere and the visualization will update. Afghanistan war logs revealed and mapped flowingdata. Correctedupdate 3iraq war logs in manning case hit us. The documents are a set of over 391,000 reports which cover the war in iraq from 2004 to 2009 and afghanistan from 2004 to 2009. Wikileaks founder julian assange says the release of almost 400,000 classified iraq war documents is an attempt to tell the truth about the war. Wikileaks, afghanistan war logs leaked by hackers lawrence d chavis jr re. Never claimed it does, iraq and afghanistan started off as popular wars until people began to see the ugly side of brutal occupations, abuse of human rights and murder that approached genocidal scale. Afghanistan elicits such passions because people understand that in rendering his decision on afghanistan, president. Although it works alongside special forces from afghanistan and other coalition nations, it appears to be drawing its own troops from the 7th special forces group at fort bragg, north carolina and to travel on missions in chinook. Devastating picture of war in iraq and afghanistan from. The afghan war documents leak, also called the afghan war diary, is the disclosure of a.
The credibility of establishment figures has been demolished by technological change and. The afghanistan war logs released by wikileaks, the worlds first stateless news organization in media history up to now, the press is free to report on what the powerful wish to keep secret because the laws of a given nation protect it. The leak resulted in the iraq body count project adding 15,000 civilian deaths to their count, bringing. Tor is an encrypted anonymising network that makes it harder to intercept internet communications, or see where communications are coming from or going to in order to use the wikileaks public submission system as detailed above you can download the tor browser bundle, which is a firefox like browser available for windows, mac os x and gnulinux and preconfigured to connect using the. Tor is an encrypted anonymising network that makes it harder to intercept internet communications, or see where communications are coming from or going to in order to use the wikileaks public submission system as detailed above you can download the tor browser bundle, which is a firefox like browser available for windows, mac os x and gnulinux and preconfigured to.
The war logs are said to constitute the biggest leak in the history of the american military, and just as when wikileaks released a similar series of documents about afghanistan in july, people. Text from a selection of the secret dispatches below are a selection of the reports from a sixyear archive of classified military documents published by wikileaks. Through programs from sed to firefox, open source software is a thriving. Why the public and the military cant count on those battle logs echo company got into a gunfight in august 2009 in afghanistans helmand province. The senate armed services committee held a hearing on military operations in iraq, afghanistan and efforts to combat terrorism. No deaths have been connected to the leak of us war logs by pfc.
Wikileaks has released a document set called the afghan war diary, an extraordinary. A huge trove of secret field reports from the battlegrounds of iraq sheds new light on the war, including such fraught subjects as civilian deaths, detainee abuse and the involvement of iran. Wikileaks today released over 75,000 secret us military reports covering the war in afghanistan. The files record 66,081 civilian deaths out of 109,000 recorded deaths. Wikileaks is an international nonprofit organisation that publishes news leaks and classified.
The video ends with a quote by gandhi explaining the detriment of violence to the political goal of shared prosperity articulated by obama in his cairo speech. Wikileaks, afghanistan war logs leaked by hackers ansgar wiechers re. In order to use the wikileaks public submission system as detailed above you can download the tor browser bundle, which is a firefox like browser available for windows, mac os x and gnulinux and preconfigured to connect using the anonymising system tor. Military forces and civilians a 2012 report from the congressional research service. Full guardian coverage of the iraq and afghanistan war logs released by wikileaks in 2010 april 2012. The iraq war logs recently released by wikileaks are contained in a. No serious person thinks that afghanistan remote, impoverished, barely qualifying as a nationstate seriously matters to the united states. Visualizing the wikileaks war logs the new york times. The afghan war blog will be taking a pause in activity. The full set consists of 251,287 documents, comprising 261,276,536 words seven times the size of the iraq war logs, the worlds previously largest classified information release. For the immediate future there will be no posts and the afghan war blog weekly newsletter will not be sent out.
Each report contains the time, geographic location, and details of an event the us military thought was important enough to put on paper. The guantanamo files released april 24, 2011 andy worthington. The general, who ran special operations in iraq before going on to command american forces in afghanistan, has deplored the leaks. Neither the population of iraq nor the population of afghanistan is in any danger of. The reports describe the majority of lethal military actions involving the united states military. Among the major revelations were many instances of the u. The afghan war diary is an extraordinary secret compendium of over 91,000 reports covering the war in afghanistan from 2004 to 2010. The war in afghanistan is currently defying and has the potential in the future to further diminish the conventional concept of warfare. Ive tried to go in and manually delete all recommended videos, put in parental controls, everything including blocking the app but shes finding ways to log. Wikileaks reveals secret files on all guantanamo prisoners in its latest release of classified us documents, wikileaks is shining the light of truth on a notorious icon of the bush administrations war on terror the prison at guantanamo bay, cuba, which opened on january 11, 2002, and remains open under president.