Wikileaks to release 400,000 Iraq war documents on Saturday

[Kuya]

Via Democracy Now:

JUAN GONZALEZ: The whistleblowing group WikiLeaks plans to release the largest cache of classified US documents in history tomorrow. The group is expected to post up to 400,000 intelligence reports on the Iraq war. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is holding a press conference in London on Saturday morning to make the announcement.

The disclosure of the documents would comprise the biggest leak in US history, far more than the 91,000 Afghanistan war logs WikiLeaks released this summer.
The US government is racing to prepare for the fallout. A team of more than a hundred analysts from the Defense Intelligence Agency have been combing through classified Iraq documents they think will be released.

Wikileaks previously released war documents relating to Afghanistan, and govenrment officials claimed that they might or damaged/hurt American troups/allies:

DEFENSE SECRETARY ROBERT GATES: The battlefield consequences of the release of these documents are potentially severe and dangerous for our troops, our allies and Afghan partners, and may well damage our relationships and reputation in that key part of the world. Intelligence sources and methods, as well as military tactics, techniques and procedures, will become known to our adversaries. This department is conducting a thorough, aggressive investigation to determine how this leak occurred, to identify the person or persons responsible, and to assess the content of the information compromised.

ADM. MIKE MULLEN: Mr. Assange can say whatever he likes about the greater good he thinks he and his source are doing, but the truth is, they might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that of an Afghan family. Disagree with the war all you want, take issue with the policy, challenge me or our ground commanders on the decisions we make to accomplish the mission we’ve been given, but don’t put those who willingly go into harm’s way even further in harm’s way just to satisfy your need to make a point.

But it was found that:

AMY GOODMAN: WikiLeaks sparked condemnation from the US government when it released the 91,000 Afghan war logs in July. The White House and the Pentagon accused the website of irresponsibility. They claimed they were putting people’s lives in danger. But the Associated Press recently obtained a Pentagon letter reporting that no US intelligence sources or practices were compromised by the leak.

Can't wait to see what's still left to find out.

[Indalecia]

Ohhh....this is gonna get ugly.

[Dimmauk]

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Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Whose gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinburg? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago, and you curse the marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to.

[Shalyn]

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UH OH!

[Correction]

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HAY GUISE WATS GOIN ON HERE LOL

[Chun Liroy]

Why can't wikileaks be useful and release classified UFO reports.

[AoE]

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[Mistress Stowastiq]

This was reported for release on Saturday (tomorrow) but I think they intended other time zones because it is out with promises for follow up reports this weekend. It is released to a number of papers including: The Times, the British newspaper The Guardian, the French newspaper Le Monde and the German magazine Der Spiegel. (Anyone know if Chan4 reference below means 4chan?)


Iraqwarlogs.com is slow and sludgey right now from traffic I presume.

Main Site - WARNING NSFW very graphic carnage & torture pics.
http://warlogs.wikileaks.org/


The Iraq Warlogs by Wikileaks - Designed by OWNI -Absolutely genius interactive site where users can register, browse, share, comment and rate the logs for their investigative value. The site holds a profile for you under "My analyzed logs" and allows you to be ranked by others. It has a "Context" tab that references the news media for that day in links. It has popups for the acronym definitions. Essentially, it appears to be a social networking version of the WarLogs.
http://warlogs.owni.fr/

http://warlogs.wikileaks.org/

At 5pm EST Friday 22nd October 2010 WikiLeaks released the largest classified military leak in history. The 391,832 reports ('The Iraq War Logs'), document the war and occupation in Iraq, from 1st January 2004 to 31st December 2009 (except for the months of May 2004 and March 2009) as told by soldiers in the United States Army. Each is a 'SIGACT' or Significant Action in the war. They detail events as seen and heard by the US military troops on the ground in Iraq and are the first real glimpse into the secret history of the war that the United States government has been privy to throughout.

The reports detail 109,032 deaths in Iraq, comprised of 66,081 'civilians'; 23,984 'enemy' (those labeled as insurgents); 15,196 'host nation' (Iraqi government forces) and 3,771 'friendly' (coalition forces). The majority of the deaths (66,000, over 60%) of these are civilian deaths.That is 31 civilians dying every day during the six year period. For comparison, the 'Afghan War Diaries', previously released by WikiLeaks, covering the same period, detail the deaths of some 20,000 people. Iraq during the same period, was five times as lethal with equivallent population size.

WL Twitter
http://twitter.com/wikileaks Interesting WL Tweets for this leak:

Al Jazeera have broken our embargo by 30 minutes. We release everyone from their Iraq War Logs embargoes.

See TBIJ, IBC, Guardian, Spiegel, NYT, Le Monde, Al Jazeera, Chan4, SVT, CNN, BBC and more in the next few hours. We maximise impact.

The Bureau For Investigative Journalism Twitter
http://twitter.com/tbij

Bureau Of Investigative Journalism site WARNING NSFW very graphic carnage & torture pics.
http://www.iraqwarlogs.com/

New York Times (Quoted below)
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/world/war-logs.html

Al Jazeera English's embargo breaking story teaser. Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U-s_S2E2Bo

Democracy Now - features new interview with Daniel Ellsberg who will do press conference for this leak.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/10/..._intel_leak_in

Lemonde -in French
http://www.lemonde.fr/proche-orient/...ens_id=1429641

Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010...military-leaks

Swedish Television feature on the leak
http://svt.se/

New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/world/war-logs.html

The Iraq Archive: The Strands of a War
Published: October 22, 2010

A huge trove of secret field reports from the battlegrounds of Iraq sheds new light on the war, including such fraught subjects as civilian deaths, detainee abuse and the involvement of Iran.

The secret archive is the second such cache obtained by the independent organization WikiLeaks and made available to several news organizations. Like the first release, some 92,000 reports covering six years of the war in Afghanistan, the Iraq documents provide no earthshaking revelations, but they offer insight, texture and context from the people actually fighting the war.

A close analysis of the 391,832 documents helps illuminate several important aspects of this war:

¶ The deaths of Iraqi civilians — at the hands mainly of other Iraqis, but also of the American military — appear to be greater than the numbers made public by the United States during the Bush administration.

¶ While the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by Americans, particularly at the Abu Ghraib prison, shocked the American public and much of the world, the documents paint an even more lurid picture of abuse by America’s Iraqi allies — a brutality from which the Americans at times averted their eyes.

¶ Iran’s military, more than has been generally understood, intervened aggressively in support of Shiite combatants, offering weapons, training and sanctuary and in a few instances directly engaging American troops.

¶ The war in Iraq spawned a reliance on private contractors on a scale not well recognized at the time and previously unknown in American wars. The documents describe an outsourcing of combat and other duties once performed by soldiers that grew and spread to Afghanistan to the point that there are more contractors there than soldiers. [An article on this topic is scheduled to appear in The New York Times on Sunday.]

The Iraqi documents were made available to The Times, the British newspaper The Guardian, the French newspaper Le Monde and the German magazine Der Spiegel on the condition that they be embargoed until now. WikiLeaks has never stated where it obtained the information, although an American Army intelligence analyst, Pfc. Bradley Manning, has been arrested and accused of being a source of classified material.

As it did with the Afghan war logs, The Times has redacted or withheld any documents that would put lives in danger or jeopardize continuing military operations. Names of Iraqi informants, for example, have not been disclosed. WikiLeaks said that it has also employed teams of editors to scrub the material for posting on its Web site.

WikiLeaks has been under strong pressure from the United States and the governments of other countries but is also fraying internally, in part because of a decision to post many of the Afghan documents without removing the names of informants, putting their lives in danger. A profile of WikiLeaks’s contentious founder, Julian Assange, will appear in Sunday’s newspaper.

The New York Times told the Pentagon which specific documents it planned to post and showed how they had been redacted. The Pentagon said it would have preferred that The Times not publish any classified materials but did not propose any cuts. Geoff Morrell, the Defense Department press secretary, strongly condemned both WikiLeaks and the release of the Iraq documents.

“We deplore WikiLeaks for inducing individuals to break the law, leak classified documents and then cavalierly share that secret information with the world, including our enemies,” he said.

“We know terrorist organizations have been mining the leaked Afghan documents for information to use against us and this Iraq leak is more than four times as large. By disclosing such sensitive information, WikiLeaks continues to put at risk the lives of our troops, their coalition partners and those Iraqis and Afghans working with us.”

[Mistress Stowastiq]

Woops...
didn't see this when I searched before I posted my thread in General. Sorry about that kuya.
The Docs are posted now though, I guess the time difference got confused on the US side because I thought it was for Saturday too, until I found them posted @ 5pm today.

Here is link to my post, don't know if you want to merge or delete mine Kuya.
http://www.bluegartr.com/threads/100...ak-Oct-22-2010

[Kuya]

I'm not a mod.

[Elmer the Pointy]

Copied over Mistress Stowastiq's OP from the other thread.

[Khamsin]

Has the government launched an investigation into the source of the leak yet? If they find him/her, could they be charged with treason?

[Rhinox]

They already have the guy responsible. And its not a treasonible offense since he didn't release the info to a foreign nation but to a whistle blower.



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[BerenTebogo]

Maybe if documents keep being released that so endanger the lives of our troops we'll finally have a good excuse to get them out of there!

Nah, who am I kidding. They'll just keep sending more kids to die a more certain death.

[Caiyuo]

Wikileaks Iraq war logs: every death mapped

Many are not single deaths represented but locations where deaths took place; in some instances many people died per marker.

[Zeb]

Didn't this wikileaks guy rape and murder someone back in 1990?

[Jodwahh]

Think that was Glenn Beck.

[Cantih]

woosh?

[Tekki]

Technically there are two wooshes there.

[Jonny]

Wikileaks Iraq war logs: every death mapped

Many are not single deaths represented but locations where deaths took place; in some instances many people died per marker.

zoom out and take a look at how many murders there are in the fucking middle of the desert