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Title: WikiLeaks Iraq Cache, As Yet Unreleased, More Than Three Times As Big
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Newsweek
URL Source: http://www.newsweek.com/blogs/decla ... -cache-three-times-bigger.html
Published: Jul 27, 2010
Author: Newsweek
Post Date: 2010-07-27 17:31:50 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 5854
Comments: 6
The cache of classified U.S. military reports on the Iraq War as yet unreleased by WikiLeaks may be more than three times as large as the set of roughly 76,000 similar reports on the war in Afghanistan made public by the whistle-blower Web site earlier this week, Declassified has learned. Three sources familiar with the Iraq material in WikiLeaks hands, requesting anonymity to discuss what they described as highly sensitive information, say it’s similar to this week’s Afghanistan material, consisting largely of field reports from U.S. military personnel and classified no higher than the "secret" level. According to one of the sources, the Iraq material portrays U.S. forces being involved in a "bloodbath," but some of the most disturbing material relates to the abusive treatment of detainees not by Americans but by Iraqi security forces, the source says. Although WikiLeaks founder and principal operative, Julian Assange, provided three news organizations—The New York Times, London newspaper The Guardian, and the German weekly magazine Der Spiegel—with weeks of advance access to the Afghan War material before making it public himself, he’s apparently being more coy in his handling of the Iraq War material, the source indicates. Assange is keeping tighter personal control over the Iraq material than he maintained over the Afghan material, the source says, adding that it’s not clear whether any media organizations have had advance access to it or when it might be made public. A second source says there are indications that WikiLeaks has been receiving leaked material from sources besides Bradley Manning, a U.S. Army private who recently was charged by military authorities with illegally handling classified information. Among other offenses, Manning has been charged with improperly downloading more than 150,000 U.S. diplomatic cables. The Obama administration and many members of Congress have strongly condemned the leaking of U.S. secrets to WikiLeaks, although many experts have said the newly published Afghan material reveals little that was not already known about U.S. conduct of the war or about the perfidy of such parties as Pakistan's Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI. WikiLeaks is said to have an additional 15,000 unreleased reports in its Afghan trove, for a total of more than 91,000 documents. It remains to be seen whether the unpublished material will bring any greater understanding to the war. Assange did not immediately reply to e-mails from Declassified seeking comment on what further revelations might be forthcoming.
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
Bradley, you should have known better, but you proved once again that idiots do slip through the cracks just like the whackjob major at Ft. Hood.
Looks like this traitor might be spending a long time behind bars. http://abcnews.go.com/WN/wikileaks-case-pvt-bradley-manningss-alleged-role- leaking/story?id=11254454
He's an Israel Firster?
"See in my line of work, you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." --- George W. Bush (Rochester NY, 5-24-2005)
You're a pedophile firster. Notice not question mark.
Just another branch of the same religious family tree you expouse. Remember...Jews don't believe in Hell
"See in my line of work, you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." --- George W. Bush (Rochester NY, 5-24-2005)
I'm sorry I shouldn't have said that. But I do disagree with you or anyone calling people Israeli firsters just because they prefer Israel to people who worship a pedophile. I myself think we have more in common with the jews then the muslims. So I prefer Israel. I don't support foreign aid to any nation. Just from the sidelines I prefer Isarel. Then you go and call me an Israel firster. I know this comment here wasn't directed at me but in the past you have said that to me.
A second source says there are indications that WikiLeaks has been receiving leaked material from sources besides Bradley Manning, a U.S. Army private who recently was charged by military authorities with illegally handling classified information. Among other offenses, Manning has been charged with improperly downloading more than 150,000 U.S. diplomatic cables.
#2. To: Brian S (#0)
#3. To: Ibluafartsky (#2)
Looks like this traitor might be spending a long time behind bars.
#4. To: mininggold (#3)
He's an Israel Firster?
#5. To: A K A Stone (#4)
You're a pedophile firster. Notice not question mark.
#6. To: mininggold (#5)
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