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- itstimefortea
Apparently they're releasing 400,000 more documents tomorrow.
The site's been down for ages too. I wonder is that deliberate or not?
- stewdio0
I found Julian Assange's interview on TED to be illuminating.
http://www.ted.com/talks/julian_…- lol @ dude asleep, 19:18 /youtube commentsilentpost
- He's taking notes.SeriousFreelancing
- Good interview.pillhead
- Assange is trying to suppress burping all the time. Wtf?!popovich
- burping could be stress + he may not be used to public speaking74LEO
- hahaha at dude sleepingMiguex
- stewdio0
(Perhaps a good idea to download that video for safe keeping.)
- stewdio0
(From a recent tweet)
Pentagon says @WikiLeaks does not jeopardize US intel or sensitive military operations. http://www.npr.org/templates/sto…
- ukit0
http://www.nytimes.com/interacti…
Graphic accounts of torture, civilian killings and Iran's hand in the Iraq war are detailed in hundreds of thousands of US military documents made public on the whistleblower website WikiLeaks.
Across nearly 400,000 pages of secret military field reports spanning five years, the largest military leak in history, a grim picture emerges of years of blood and suffering following the 2003 US invasion to oust Saddam Hussein.
- ukit0
"The documents also reveal many previously unreported instances in which American soldiers killed civilians — at checkpoints, from helicopters, in operations. Such killings are a central reason Iraqis turned against the American presence in their country, a situation that is now being repeated in Afghanistan.
According to one particularly painful entry from 2006, an Iraqi wearing a tracksuit was killed by an American sniper who later discovered that the victim was the platoon’s interpreter.
In another case, in February 2007, an Apache helicopter shot and killed two Iraqi men believed to have been firing mortars, even though they made surrendering motions, because, according to a military lawyer cited in the report, “they cannot surrender to aircraft, and are still valid targets.”
- fuck the platoons interpreter?
we need to just get out!74LEO
- fuck the platoons interpreter?
- LordOfAnimalshire0
I am getting a MacBook Air
- georgesIII0
The consequences for the US government will be as high as after the last release of documents, they are probably escaping to congo as I write this, lol
while the frenchs are rioting for a meager 2 years increase of their pension, americans are complaining about conan.......... (you do have the tea party though,)I'm with loas, I'm getting a gizmo so my life will make more sense
- "frenchs"?TheBlueOne
- TheBlueOne feels entitled to spell check all the threads because they have nothing better to do with their life.SeriousFreelancing
- TheScientist0
Whoever is at fault, I hope justice is served.
- justice is rarely served, only paid lip serviceTheBlueOne
- karma though is an erratic bitchTheBlueOne
- I hope justice is served extra rare, with Worchester sauceabettertomorrow
- TheScientist0
BTW, what's the best source of unbiased world news?
- georgeslllTheBlueOne
- lolTheScientist
- Taxi driversmydo
- I'd say Foxnews and oreilly aren't that bad,
follow my advice,
I'm an expertgeorgesIII - fox news? hahaephix
- not fox news. on other hand, FOXY NEWS would be nice. lol.akrokdesign
- is that like naked news?ephix
- bbc is bestHAYZ1LLA
- z communicationsSeriousFreelancing
- kpl0
"A group of human-rights organizations is pressing WikiLeaks to do a better job of redacting names from thousands of war documents it is publishing, joining the list of critics that claim the Web site's actions could jeopardize the safety of Afghans who aided the U.S. military."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB…
hmm, wikileaks is getting reckless...
- BULLSHITThePublics
- if afghans are aiding murderes/us, then isn't that a justifiable accesory to murder?instrmntl
- kpl0
But now, WikiLeaks has been met with new doubts. Amnesty International and Reporters Without Borders have joined the Pentagon in criticizing the organization for risking people’s lives by publishing war logs identifying Afghans working for the Americans or acting as informers.
A Taliban spokesman in Afghanistan using the pseudonym Zabiullah Mujahid said in a telephone interview that the Taliban had formed a nine-member “commission” after the Afghan documents were posted “to find about people who are spying.” He said the Taliban had a “wanted” list of 1,800 Afghans and was comparing that with names WikiLeaks provided.
“After the process is completed, our Taliban court will decide about such people,” he said.
- pseudonym Zabiullah Mujahid
Is that their 'John Smith'?ETM
- pseudonym Zabiullah Mujahid
- ernexbcn0
the rent is still too damn high
- ukit0
That NYTimes article was incredibly negative and one-sided. It basically read like a hit piece on Mr. Assange. I'm sure there's some legitimate concern over the informant issue but the agenda seemed rather obvious.
- agreedinstrmntl
- yeah the Times is looking more like Obama everyday... flipflopperSeriousFreelancing
- ukit0
I guess they didn't fool their readers.
- TheScientist0
the rent is too damn high
- Josev0
More than 100,000 Iraqis were killed in between 2004 and 2009, according to the documents. Much higher than the (Bush) administration was claiming.
- ukit0
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/2…
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, and Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers, lashed out together on Saturday at the Obama administration’s aggressive pursuit of whistle-blowers, including those responsible for the release of secret documents on the Iraq war.
Mr. Assange also said that WikiLeaks, which released the trove of almost 400,000 Iraq war documents on Friday, would shortly be posting an additional 15,000 remaining secret documents on the Afghan war.
- instrmntl0
100,000 dead people is only like an average american city. no one cares about those people i guess?
- instrmntl0
that dots map is pretty alarming.