May 25, 2011 the shadow of osama bin laden, mastermind of the 911 attacks, hangs heavily over the usled coalitions campaign in afghanistan. The wikileaks afghanistan war logs will fuel political opposition in the u. What if we had a news outlet exclusively focused on followup journalism. This past sunday, wellknown whistleblower site wikileaks released over 91,000 secret us military reports, covering the war in afghanistan. Sometimes the hardest part of going to war is coming home by. Wikileaks releasing over 90,000 documents in afghan war diary see below for updates on afghan war diary and john kerrys statement. 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 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.
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. Wikileaks release afghan war logs in cooperation with. Key incidents from the wikileaks afghanistan war logs. Wikileaks afghan war diary 20042010 download page here. 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. Wikileaks founder says evidence of war crimes in afghan war logs, white house downplays leak, claiming no broad new revelations.
Afghan war logs, war crimes and media hypocrisy opinion. 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. Wikileaks, afghanistan war logs leaked by hackers archangel amael jul 30. Neil sheehan, the former new york times reporter, shares what the leaks say about afghanistan. The reports describe the majority of lethal military actions involving the united states military. 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. In this paper we use those reports to build statistical models to help us understand the mortality rates associated with. Modeling mortality rates in the wikileaks afghanistan war logs. An archive of classified military documents offers views of the wars in iraq and afghanistan. You can click just about anywhere and the visualization will update. Wikileaks reports have galvanized opinions of some americans who view the pakistani military with suspicion.
Wikileaks release afghan war logs in cooperation with mainstream media from wikinews, the free news source you can write. Our daily email, with all the freshest futureofjournalism news. 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. Wikileaks today released over 75,000 secret us military reports covering the war in afghanistan. 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. Explosive leaks provide image of war from those fighting it. The afghan war diary is an extraordinary secret compendium of over 91,000 reports covering the war in afghanistan from 2004 to 2010. The military and intelligence reports provide a realtime history of the afghan war from the vantage point of american troops actually doing the. The logs confirm that an entirely truthful official announcement was made regretting the guidance system failure of one smart bomb. Wikileaks, afghanistan war logs leaked by hackers tim clewlow jul 30 re. Jul 27, 2010 this past sunday, wellknown whistleblower site wikileaks released over 91,000 secret us military reports, covering the war in afghanistan. Wikileaks, afghanistan war logs leaked by hackers marcandre laverdiere jul 30 re.
The documents brought into question the militarys handling of the war in afghanistan. Articles tagged afghanistan war logs 1 july 30, 2010. After the establishment of the puppet state, this place. 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 logs consist of over 91,000 afghan war documents, covering the period between january 2004 and december 2009. 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. Wikileaks founder defends whistleblower website the founder of wikileaks says that angry reactions to his release of tens of. 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. Assange said that his disclosure involved more pages than the pentagon papers and will, through the internet, reach a bigger audience. Julian assange alleges it was a computer hacker who accessed databases via the internet who gave him the afghanistan war logs. Visualizing the wikileaks war logs the new york times. 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. 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. Afghanistan war logs reveal hand of osama bin laden huffpost.
These examples provide an unvarnished, groundlevel picture of the war in afghanistan. A territory of many glorious conflicts, the graveyard of many an empire. The us also realised very quickly that a polish squad had committed what appeared to have been a possible war crime. Iraq war logs reveal truth about conflict bbc news. In this paper we use those reports to build statistical models to help us understand the mortality rates associated with specific circumstances. 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.
The war logs wikileaks documents interactive feature. Citeseerx document details isaac councill, lee giles, pradeep teregowda. 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. 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. 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. Afghanistan war logs revealed and mapped flowingdata. Its pretty obvious that nearly all of the activity is on the afghanistanpakistan border. Neither the population of iraq nor the population of afghanistan is in any danger of. 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. Like the first release, some 77,000 reports covering six years of the war in afghanistan, the iraq documents provide no earthshaking revelations. Iran is engaged in an extensive covert campaign to arm, finance, train and equip taliban insurgents, afghan warlords allied to alqaida and suicide bombers fighting to eject british and western forces from afghanistan, according to classified us military intelligence reports contained in the war logs. On 9 september 2008 it unintentionally landed on a village causing 26 civilian casualties. Below are a selection of the reports from a sixyear archive of classified military documents published by wikileaks. 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.
As expected, the government is extremely pissed off at this. Wikileaks, afghanistan war logs leaked by hackers lawrence d chavis jr jul 30 re. Key incidents from the wikileaks afghanistan war logs selected by guardian writers. The afghan war documents leak, also called the afghan war diary, is the disclosure of a collection of internal u. 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. The shadow of osama bin laden, mastermind of the 911 attacks, hangs heavily over the usled coalitions campaign in afghanistan. 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. A compilation of videos from internet archive users about the iraq war and the issues and events surrounding it are collected here. Secret war at the heart of wikileaks the independent. 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. 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. Of 52 articles published on international news sites during reportage on afghan war logs, not one cited the international legal concept of proportionality.
This is the stable version, checked on 27 september 2015. 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. 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. 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. Whats the best way to follow how the news is changing. 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. 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. Text from a selection of the secret dispatches interactive.
The files record 66,081 civilian deaths out of 109,000 recorded deaths. 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. 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. Also on saturday, assange had taped an interview with channel 4. I am sure they will use this to do some more of this big brother shuts down 73,000 blogs in u. The credibility of establishment figures has been demolished by technological change and. Modeling mortality rates in the wikileaks afghanistan war. 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. Afghanistan war logs afghanistan, interactive, tableau, tableau public, war, wikileaks 1 comment this is the first workbook ive published to tableau public. 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.
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