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Wikileaks Website

November 28, 2010 by · Comments Off on Wikileaks Website 

Wikileaks Website, (AP) – The online website WikiLeaks says it will go ahead with the release of hundreds of thousands of classified State Department documents in defiance of U.S. demands not to publish the files.

The WikiLeaks website appeared to be inaccessible, and WikiLeaks said in its Twitter feed that it was experiencing a denial of service attack. Nevertheless, WikiLeaks said that publications in the U.S. and Europe would print the leaked diplomatic cables even if it could not.

The group’s founder, Julian Assange, also tells the U.S. ambassador to Britain that WikiLeaks won’t bow to Washington’s demands.

The Obama administration has been bracing for the release for the past week. Top officials have notified allies that the contents of the diplomatic cables could prove embarrassing because they contain candid assessments of foreign leaders.

Copyright © 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Wikileaks Website

October 23, 2010 by · Comments Off on Wikileaks Website 

Wikileaks Website, The web site is believed to be complaining about to release hundreds of thousands of U.S. military records in the Iraq war.

NATO chief, Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the leak could have “very negative security implications.”

A spokesman for U.S. defense said the documents in question “significant activities”, reported by units.

The Pentagon has formed a team of over 100 analysts to prepare for the release of the documents, which were expected later on Friday.
“Snapshots”

A spokesman for the U.S. Department of Defense said that the “theft” of documents should be returned to avoid potentially damaging information being released.

“By revealing such sensitive information, Wikileaks continues to put at risk the lives of our troops, coalition partners and Iraqis and Afghans working with us,” said spokesman Geoff Morrell.

He said the documents were “essentially snapshots of events, both tragic and the mundane, and not tell the whole story.

“That said, the period covered by these reports has been well reported in the news, books and movies and the publication of these reports from the field does not bring a new understanding of Iraq’s past.”

He added: “However, does not expose the secret information that could make our troops more vulnerable to future attacks.”

Wikileaks web site is currently down for “scheduled maintenance”, but promised in his Twitter an “important announcement in Europe” on Saturday morning.

Speaking earlier on Friday, the NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said the “flight can put soldiers and civilians in danger.”

Wikileaks has angered the U.S. government and military to launch in July of more than 70,000 secret documents on the war in Afghanistan.

Military officials warned at the time of the leak could lead to the deaths of U.S. soldiers and Afghan civilians because some of the documents containing the names of locals who had helped the coalition forces.

But the U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said in a letter to the head of the Armed Services Committee Senate that the leak had not revealed any “sensitive intelligence sources or methods.”

There have been fears such leaks can damage U.S. intelligence sharing with other nations as well as intelligence sharing among U.S. agencies.

The investigation into the leak of Afghanistan has focused on Bradley Manning, a U.S. Army intelligence analyst who is in custody and has been responsible for providing Wikileaks classifieds with a video of a U.S. helicopter attack in Iraq in 2007 in which a dozen people were killed.

Wikileaks Afghanistan

July 26, 2010 by · Comments Off on Wikileaks Afghanistan 

 

Wikileaks Afghanistan

Wikileaks Afghanistan

Wikileaks Afghanistan, Wikileaks has published more than 90,000 U.S. military and diplomatic reports about the war in Afghanistan, but they reveal more than we know?

The site “whistle-blower, WikiLeaks.org founder, Julian Assange says the military’s own site contains raw data about the war, including numbers of deaths, injuries and reports of threat.

On Monday, the newspaper said The Beast: The long version of thousands of secret files and unsustainable shows basic contradictions in U.S. policy, said Leslie H. Gelb, and underscores why the administration needs to reconsider its policy of Af-Pak.

Leslie H. Gelb wrote in his opinion column in The Daily Beast: What does the secret documents released by Wikileaks tell us about U.S. politics to Afghanistan and Pakistan? You have to say immediately that tells us nothing important that did not already know. There has been “informed” of years stories detailing how the Pakistani military intelligence has been providing weapons, money and intelligence to the Afghan Taliban, which in turn have been killing American soldiers.

What is Wikileaks?
Wikileaks is a nonprofit site that publishes and comments on leaked documents that support the government and corporate misconduct. Founded in December 2006, Wikileaks has been exposed to information such as internal notes on the dumping of toxic materials from the African coast, and the manual for U.S. troops to operate from its prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The Wikileaks site is in any case, getting a massive amount of attention since the publication of the war in Afghanistan, reports the Sunday.

Task Force 373

July 26, 2010 by · Comments Off on Task Force 373 

Task Force 373Task Force 373, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange told reporters there is “reasonable evidence” of war crimes in the 90,000 leaked documents from the reports of U.S. military camp in Afghanistan between 2004 and 2009.

Assange said: “I can only discuss this issue in general, however, until a court to decide clearly whether there is something in the end a” crime. ”

“Having said that, prima facie, there seems to be evidence of war crimes in this material.

“The example is the Task Force HIMARS 373 missile strike on a house that killed seven children.”

TF 373 – Taliban hunters
The unit of U.S. Special Forces responsible for carrying out assassinations is called Task Force 373.

Reports on the Wikileaks documents show how the special forces of Task Force 373 failed attempt to kill al Qaeda leader Abu Laith al-Libi, which ended in the deaths of seven children. Al-Libi was believed to have been a leading training ground for al-Qaida and the Taliban, and appeared in a series of videos featuring al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri.

The military report of the incident states:
The following information (TF-373 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems) is classified Secret / Not Onpass to foreigners. The knowledge that TF-373 held a strike HIMARS should remain protected. Any other information is classified under Secret / REL ISAF.

Julian Assange

July 26, 2010 by · Comments Off on Julian Assange 

Julian AssangeJulian Assange, [New York Daily News] U.S. fighting forces in Afghanistan could be investigated by “thousands” of possible war crimes allegedly committed when the Bush administration was running the war.

That was the shocking statement on Monday the head of a Web site that has already released a trove of damning documents suggesting Americans were misled about how well the war in Afghanistan is being waged.

“It is for a court to decide if something actually in the end is a crime,” said founder Julian Assange Wikileaks in London.

Assange said that documents leaked so far, dating from January 2004-December 2009, “only an approximation” of what was actually happening.

In particular, Assange said a deadly missile attack ordered by the Working Group 373, a unit allegedly responsible for hunting down and killing senior Taliban targets.

Assange said there was also evidence of concealment when civilians were killed by special forces. He said the suspiciously high numbers of casualties was attributed to rebounds.

The White House condemned the spectacular escape of secret documents and national security adviser, said Gen. Jim Jones says “the lives of Americans and our partners at risk.”

However, the Obama administration has not challenged the authenticity of the documents. And Jones has also noted that the documentation covers the time period was before President Obama announced a new strategy – and sent 30,000 more troops in Afghanistan.

President Bush has been criticized for not completely eradicate the Taliban, Osama Bin Laden gave safe haven to launch the 9 / 11 attacks – and staged a comeback while the U.S. stuck fighting in Iraq.

Wikileaks published documents have also revealed that U.S. officials long suspected their supposed ally – the Pakistani military intelligence – was in collusion with the Afghan insurgents.

The file also includes video Wikileaks fight and the Pentagon, State Department and CIA cables.

It is believed to have been given for the first time the group of complainants in line for Army intelligence specifications. Bradley Manning, 22, of Potomac, Maryland
Manning was arrested by the Criminal Division of the Army for Research in Baghdad in June after bragging online about their exploits.

Wikileaks gave the file to The New York Times, the Guardian of London and the German magazine Der Spiegel weeks before launch online Sunday night.

In his account, the Times said the documents amounted to a daily “diary of a US-led force often starved for resources and attention, as it fought against an insurgency that grew larger, better coordinated and more deadly each year. ”

The American public does not say that the Taliban had also put their hands in the heat-seeking missiles, or about many of the failures and falls in United Nations aircraft, which was supposed to clean surgically open the enemy

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