wikileaks afganistan

[Danzig]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38405052..._central_asia/


White House: Afghan war leaks put lives 'at risk'
90,000 military records are disclosed online

WASHINGTON — Some 90,000 leaked U.S. military records posted online Sunday amount to a blow-by-blow account of six years of the Afghanistan war, including unreported incidents of Afghan civilian killings as well as covert operations against Taliban figures.

The online whistle-blower WikiLeaks posted the documents on its website Sunday. The New York Times, London's Guardian newspaper and the German weekly Der Spiegel were given early access to the documents.

The White House responded immediately with a strong condemnation of the disclosures, saying they could threaten national security and "put the lives of Americans and our partners at risk."

The leaked records include detailed descriptions of raids carried out by a secretive U.S. special operations unit called Task Force 373 against what U.S. officials considered high-value insurgent and terrorist targets. Some of the raids resulted in unintended killings of Afghan civilians, according to the documentation.

Among those listed as being killed by the secretive unit was Shah Agha, described by the Guardian as an intelligence officer for an IED cell, who was killed with four other men in June 2009. Another was a Libyan fighter, Abu Laith al-Libi, described in the documents as a senior al-Qaida military commander. Al-Libi was said to be based across the border in Mir Ali, Pakistan, and was running al-Qaida training camps in North Waziristan, a region along the Afghan border where U.S. officials have said numerous senior al-Qaida leaders were believed to be hiding.

[joeydb]

OK, let's prosecute the responsible parties for treason and sentence them to death. That will prevent this from happening again.

[Riot]

If they are as good as the Pentagon Papers, they need to be leaked.

[ateamstupid]

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/104226/

"It's not our policies, it's people finding out about them!"

[clyde]

HOLY MOTHER OF GOD!!!!




Don't you people ever give up??

Steven H. Crist already.

[GPK]

They are now saying the person that supplied the leak was a 22yo PFC?

[Nascar1966]

Originally Posted by joeydb

OK, let's prosecute the responsible parties for treason and sentence them to death. That will prevent this from happening again.

I agree with you %1000 on this. Its a shame we have traitors in the miltary who could care less about thier comrades.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by ateamstupid

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/104226/

"It's not our policies, it's people finding out about them!"

discussing policy is one thing-leaking thousands of papers with the potential of lengthening this war, or more importantly, putting u.s. servicemember lives at stake is quite another. the jury it seems is still out on how damaging this could be...then there's wikileaks threatening to release another 10k papers.

[joeydb]

Originally Posted by Nascar1966

I agree with you %1000 on this. Its a shame we have traitors in the miltary who could care less about thier comrades.

Well, in fairness, 99.99% of the military personnel are patriots. I guess you get one or two in any crowd. Law of large numbers...

[Danzig]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38429961...ch_and_gadgets

WASHINGTON — Operatives inside Afghanistan and Pakistan who have worked for the U.S. against the Taliban or al-Qaida may be at risk following the disclosure of thousands of once-secret U.S. military documents, former and current officials said.

As the Obama administration scrambles to repair any political damage to the war effort in Congress and among the American public by the WikiLeaks revelations, there are also growing concerns that some U.S. allies abroad may ask whether they can trust America to keep secrets, officials said.




on a far less serious note, this comment below the article cracked me up:


'America voted for the devil and look what is happening. It is all on the Bilbe'

hey, thanks for that, 'joe'. you sound like one smart fellow.

Haaaaay

This fresh-faced soldier could be responsible for leaking a massive file of secret military documents revealing chilling details of the Afghanistan war and civilian deaths.

The leak is said to be U.S. Army intelligence expert Bradley Manning, 22, who boasted he had downloaded hundreds of thousands of documents, according to computer hacker Adrian Lamo.

The 22-year-old, pictured above, is said to have contacted Lamo out of the blue and then claimed he had saved high-security files onto CDs, ready to hand to Wikileaks, while pretending to listen to Lady Gaga.

'Hillary Clinton and several thousand diplomats around the world are going to have a heart attack when they wake up one morning and find an entire repository of classified foreign policy is available, in searchable format, to the public,' he apparently told Mr Lamo.

The hacker got in touch with the U.S. military and later met with them in Starbucks to hand over a printout of his conversations with Manning.

Manning has already been charged over a separate leak of a classified helicopter cockpit video earlier this month.

It showed U.S. soldiers laughing as they gunned down Afghan civilians and two journalists in a firefight in Baghdad in 2007.

He was picked up in Iraq, where he was working.

Manning is said to be locked up in a military prison after being shipped across the border to Kuwait.

He faces trial by court martial and, if found guilty, a heavy jail sentence.

Mr Lamo believes Manning did not work alone, saying he did not have ‘the technological expertise’ to carry out the gathering and leaking of the documents.

'I believe somebody would have had to have been of assistance to him,’ he said.

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