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Afghanistan war logs: Massive leak of secret files exposes truth of occupation + Interviews with Julian Assange

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Afghan War Diary, 2004-2010

WikiLeaks
25th July 2010 5:00 PM EST

Summary

WikiLeaks has released a document set called the Afghan War Diary AWD, an extraordinary compendium of over 91,000 reports covering the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010.

The reports, while written by soldiers and intelligence officers mainly describing lethal military actions involving the United States military, also include intelligence information, reports of meetings with political figures, and related detail.

The document collection will shortly be available on a dedicated webpage.

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via Afghan War Diary, 2004-2010 – WikiLeaks

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Afghanistan war logs: Massive leak of secret files exposes truth of occupation

by Nick Davies and David Leigh
guardian.co.uk
Sunday 25 July 2010 22.03 BST

A huge cache of secret US military files today provides a devastating portrait of the failing war in Afghanistan, revealing how coalition forces have killed hundreds of civilians in unreported incidents, Taliban attacks have soared and Nato commanders fear neighbouring Pakistan and Iran are fuelling the insurgency.

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Afghanistan war logs: Massive leak of secret files exposes truth of occupation | The Guardian

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Afghanistan war logs: How the Guardian got the story

Secret military files have been opened up by Wikileaks in a joint venture with the Guardian, the New York Times and Der Spiegel

David Leigh, the Guardian’s investigations editor, explains the online tools we have created to help you understand the secret US military files on the war in Afghanistan

The Afghanistan war logs series of reports on the war in Afghanistan published by the Guardian is based on the US military‘s internal logs of the conflict between January 2004 and December 2009. The material, largely classified by the US as secret, was obtained by the whistleblower website Wikileaks, which has published the full archive. The Guardian, along with the New York Times and the German weekly Der Spiegel, was given access to the logs before publication to verify their authenticity and assess their significance.

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via Afghanistan war logs: How the Guardian got the story | The Guardian

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Julian Assange on the Afghanistan war logs: ‘They show the true nature of this war’

Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, explains why he decided to publish thousands of secret US military files on the war in Afghanistan

via: Julian Assange on the Afghanistan war logs: ‘They show the true nature of this war’ | guardian.co.uk

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Afghan leak: Wikileaks Julian Assange tells all

Channel 4 News speaks exclusively to founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange about the Afghan war logs

Transcript: via http://therealnews.com

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Secret files: Wikileaks reveals ‘unseen war’

Major security breach reveals alleged “execution squads”, an apparent plot to kill the Afghan president

Transcript: via http://therealnews.com

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