May 25, 2011 the shadow of osama bin laden, mastermind of the 911 attacks, hangs heavily over the usled coalitions campaign in afghanistan. Wikileaks release afghan war logs in cooperation with mainstream media from wikinews, the free news source you can write. A compilation of videos from internet archive users about the iraq war and the issues and events surrounding it are collected here. These examples provide an unvarnished, groundlevel picture of the war in afghanistan. Wikileaks founder defends whistleblower website the founder of wikileaks says that angry reactions to his release of tens of. The war logs wikileaks documents interactive feature. Wikileaks releases classified afghanistan war logs. The reports describe the majority of lethal military actions involving the united states military. The credibility of establishment figures has been demolished by technological change and. On 9 september 2008 it unintentionally landed on a village causing 26 civilian casualties.
Afghanistan war logs revealed and mapped flowingdata. 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. Neither the population of iraq nor the population of afghanistan is in any danger of. The documents brought into question the militarys handling of the war in afghanistan. Key incidents from the wikileaks afghanistan war logs. The wikileaks afghanistan war logs contain more than 76000 reports about events and resulting fatalities in the us led afghanistan war, covering the period from january 2004 to december 2009. As expected, the government is extremely pissed off at this. Secret war at the heart of wikileaks the independent. Wikileaks releasing over 90,000 documents in afghan war diary see below for updates on afghan war diary and john kerrys statement. Assange said that his disclosure involved more pages than the pentagon papers and will, through the internet, reach a bigger audience. Text from a selection of the secret dispatches interactive.
Explosive leaks provide image of war from those fighting it. We hope its release will lead to a comprehensive understanding of the war in afghanistan and provide the raw ingredients necessary to change its course. Oct 23, 2010 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. The shadow of osama bin laden, mastermind of the 911 attacks, hangs heavily over the usled coalitions campaign in afghanistan. Wikileaks, afghanistan war logs leaked by hackers archangel amael jul 30. Whats the best way to follow how the news is changing. I am sure they will use this to do some more of this big brother shuts down 73,000 blogs in u. A territory of many glorious conflicts, the graveyard of many an empire. Task force 373 special forces hunting top taliban previously hidden details of usled unit sent to kill top insurgent targets are revealed for the first time. An archive of classified military documents offers views of the wars in iraq and afghanistan.
Following their release, wikileaks founder julian assange has defended his decision to reveal the documents, which are mostly from the relatively low secret classification level. 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 firefoxlike browser available for windows, mac os x and gnulinux and preconfigured to connect using the. The military and intelligence reports provide a realtime history of the afghan war from the vantage point of american troops actually doing the. In this paper we use those reports to build statistical models to help us understand the mortality rates associated with specific circumstances. In this paper we use those reports to build statistical models to help us understand the mortality rates associated with. The afghan war logs consist of 92,201 internal records of actions by the us military in afghanistan between january 2004 and december 2009 threat reports from intelligence agencies, plans and. This is the stable version, checked on 27 september 2015. Wikileaks, afghanistan war logs leaked by hackers marcandre laverdiere jul 30 re. Of 52 articles published on international news sites during reportage on afghan war logs, not one cited the international legal concept of proportionality. The west has to take a critical look at itself and examine the apparent double standards at work that allow it to attack iraq for possessing weapons of mass destruction but not north korea, whose leader shared saddam husseins megalomaniacal qualities. After leaking 200,000 pages of us military war logs onto the internet, wikileaks founder julian assange said the files were not about one single. 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.
Afghanistan war logs afghanistan, interactive, tableau, tableau public, war, wikileaks 1 comment this is the first workbook ive published to tableau public. Jul 26, 2010 the revelation of the 92,000 afghanistan war logs sparked a day of drama in london and washington, as governments and the media scrambled to make sense of the raw data and judge what impact it. Jul 26, 2010 the afghan war logs consist of 92,201 internal records of actions by the us military in afghanistan between january 2004 and december 2009 threat reports from intelligence agencies, plans and. Wikileaks founder says evidence of war crimes in afghan war logs, white house downplays leak, claiming no broad new revelations. Modeling mortality rates in the wikileaks afghanistan war. Jul 26, 2010 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. Afghan war logs, war crimes and media hypocrisy opinion.
Aug 18, 2010 last month, the new york times ran a package of articles called the war logs, based on a trove of military documents made public by the web site wikileaks. The new york times dispatched war correspondent eric schmitt, and spiegel sent reporters john goetz and marcel rosenbach to see what it was wikileaks had provided. After the establishment of the puppet state, this place. Sometimes the hardest part of going to war is coming home by. 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. Also on saturday, assange had taped an interview with channel 4. The files record 66,081 civilian deaths out of 109,000 recorded deaths.
Again and again, the secret watchers of american military intelligence, whose furtive and often confused attempts at information gathering are collated in the 20042009 war logs, glimpse the hidden hand of the alqaida chief or catch a tantalising whiff of his. This unique book, which studies the efforts of the united states in afghanistan, discusses potential corrective measures that can be applied to future irregular warfare and nationbuilding missions in particular and american national security affairs more generally. Jul 25, 2010 the guardian, july 25, 2010 afghanistan war logs. A civil war at the heart of wikileaks has virtually paralysed the whistleblowing website from publishing any new exposes outside of the iraq and afghanistan war logs, say former staffers and. 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. The afghan war documents leak, also called the afghan war diary, is the disclosure of a collection of internal u. Visualizing the wikileaks war logs the new york times. Wikileaks afghan war diary 20042010 download page here. Our daily email, with all the freshest futureofjournalism news. Afghanistan war logs reveal hand of osama bin laden huffpost. You can click just about anywhere and the visualization will update. The leaked war logs show that task force 373 uses at least three bases in afghanistan, in kabul, kandahar and khost. The day before sundays publication, davies learned that on friday assange had given the afghan war logs and a summary of the stories the guardian planned to run to channel 4 a british publicservice national tv station, al jazeera, and cnn.
Julian assange alleges it was a computer hacker who accessed databases via the internet who gave him the afghanistan war logs. 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. This highlights the need for tighter cyber security laws, not only are researchers such as tavis ormandy making irresponsible technical flaw disclosures, anonymous hackers are leaking national security information to. What if we had a news outlet exclusively focused on followup journalism. Key incidents from the wikileaks afghanistan war logs selected by guardian writers. The nato coalition in afghanistan has been using an undisclosed black unit of special forces, task force 373, to hunt down targets for death or. Jul 27, 2010 this past sunday, wellknown whistleblower site wikileaks released over 91,000 secret us military reports, covering the war in afghanistan. The wikileaks afghanistan war logs will fuel political opposition in the u. Wikileaks release afghan war logs in cooperation with. The revelation of the 92,000 afghanistan war logs sparked a day of drama in london and washington, as governments and the media scrambled to make sense of. Like the first release, some 77,000 reports covering six years of the war in afghanistan, the iraq documents provide no earthshaking revelations.
Its pretty obvious that nearly all of the activity is on the afghanistanpakistan border. 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. Below are a selection of the reports from a sixyear archive of classified military documents published by wikileaks. Wikileaks founder defends whistleblower website the founder of wikileaks says that angry reactions to his release of tens of thousands of us military documents on the afghan war. The us also realised very quickly that a polish squad had committed what appeared to have been a possible war crime.
Wikileaks, afghanistan war logs leaked by hackers tim clewlow jul 30 re. Neil sheehan, the former new york times reporter, shares what the leaks say about afghanistan. 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. Each report contains the time, geographic location, and details of an event the us military thought was important enough to put on paper. Jul 26, 2010 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. Wikileaks, afghanistan war logs leaked by hackers lawrence d chavis jr jul 30 re. Wikileaks has obtained a massive set of records about the afghanistan war, dubbed the war logs, that paints a grim picture of the nations longest military engagement.
Wikileaks reports have galvanized opinions of some americans who view the pakistani military with suspicion. This past sunday, wellknown whistleblower site wikileaks released over 91,000 secret us military reports, covering the war in afghanistan. Iraq war logs reveal truth about conflict bbc news. Modeling mortality rates in the wikileaks afghanistan war logs. Wikileaks today released over 75,000 secret us military reports covering the war in afghanistan. The logs consist of over 91,000 afghan war documents, covering the period between january 2004 and december 2009. At the guardian, rusbridger set aside a fourthfloor room for the small team of reporters and tech staff detailed to go through the afghan war logs as they were dubbed. The logs confirm that an entirely truthful official announcement was made regretting the guidance system failure of one smart bomb. Citeseerx document details isaac councill, lee giles, pradeep teregowda.
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