Tuesday, July 27, 2010



ddchalmers | July 26, 2010
The revelations by... WikiLeaks emerged as Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned of greater NATO casualties in Afghanistan as violence mounts over the summer.

It also came as the Taliban said they were holding captive one of two U.S. servicemen who strayed into insurgent territory, and that the other had been killed. The reported capture will further erode domestic support for America's 9-year-old war.

Contained in more than 90,000 classified documents, the Wikileaks revelations could fuel growing doubts in Congress about U.S. President Barack Obama's war strategy at a time when the U.S. death toll is soaring.....

Pakistan was actively collaborating with the Taliban in Afghanistan while accepting U.S. aid, new U.S. military reports showed, a disclosure likely to increase the pressure on Washington's embattled ally..... http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTR...

The US military has launched an inquiry to find the source of tens of thousands of classified American documents on the war in Afghanistan that were leaked to the media (they're from the US military, duh!) ..... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/world...

Wikileaks reveals Afghan civilian deaths - Thousands of secret military documents have been leaked, revealing details of incidents when civilians were killed by coalition troops in Afghanistan.


The cache contains more than 90,000 US records giving a blow-by-blow account of fighting between January 2004 and December 2009..... http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wor...

Wikileaks documents show Pakistan and Taliban link http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wor...

Datablog + Afghanistan: the war logs http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/databl...

Key findings from the WikiLeaks "Afghan War Diaries" -

•The C.I.A.'s paramilitary operations are expanding in Afghanistan
•The Taliban has used portable, heat-seeking missiles against Western aircraft
•Americans suspect Pakistan's spy service of guiding Afghan insurgency http://www.france24.com/en/20100726-w...

http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/

Mapping US drone and Islamic militant attacks in Pakistan http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/s...

Daily View: WikiLeaks' Afghanistan war logs http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/seealso/20...

Wikileaks Afghanistan files: every IED attack, with co-ordinates http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/datab...

Founded by secretive Australian Julian Assange, Wikileaks was originally based in Sweden and garnered 1.2 million leaked documents in time for its launch in January 2007. It taps in to the world's web users' desire either for justice or revenge on former employers or acquaintances, but its most significant stories have been held up as largely in the public interest..... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/79103...

Wikileaks founder defends war files leak http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/20...

Explosive Leaks Provide Image of War from Those Fighting It http://www.spiegel.de/international/w...

Obituary: Benazir Bhutto - Benazir Bhutto followed her father into politics, and both of them died because of it - he was executed in 1979, she fell victim to an apparent suicide bomb attack.
Her two brothers also suffered violent deaths.

Like the Nehru-Gandhi family in India, the Bhuttos of Pakistan are one of the world's most famous political dynasties. Benazir's father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was prime minister of Pakistan in the early 1970s.

His government was one of the few in the 30 years following independence that was not run by the army..... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia...

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