WikiLeaks editor defends release of classified Iraq docs. The publishing of nearly 400,000 classified military documents aims to reveal hidden truths about the Iraq war, the founder of WikiLeaks said Saturday. "The attack on the truth by war begins long before war starts and continues long after a war ends," WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange told reporters in London, England. "In our release of these 400,000 documents about the Iraq war, the intimate detail of that war from the U.S. perspective, we hope to correct some of that attack on the truth that occurred before the war, during the war and which has continued on since the war officially concluded.
" The whistleblower website published the military documents from the Iraq war on Friday, calling it the largest classified military leak in history. Pentagon officials had warned that it had similar concerns of exposure of Iraqi names. Hrafnsson said the website used new methodology, an electronic redaction method combined with tests done by groups of people. The Iraq Warlogs by Wikileaks - Design by OWNI. I.document » Blog Archive » Wikileaks Diary Dig Mashup Resources.
(Part 1 of 2) Pentagon Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg on Upcoming Iraq War Wikileaks Docs. (Part 2 of 2) Pentagon Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg on Upcoming Iraq War Wikileaks Docs. No end in sight. Frontline Club 10/25/10 Assange/Daniel Ellsberg Video. Iraq: The war logs | World news. Iraq war logs: live reaction and WikiLeaks address | World news. 9.53am: A massive cache of secret US military files passed to the Guardian via the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has revealed the devastating scale of the human rights abuses committed in the wake of the invasion of Iraq.
WikiLeaks has passed almost 400,000 secret US army field reports to the Guardian and a range of other media outlets. The files are believed to have come from the same dissident US army intelligence analyst who earlier this year is alleged to have leaked 90,000 logs chronicling civilian killings and human rights abuses in the Afghan war. Read the Guardian's special report on the Iraq war logs here. The main revelations are: • US authorities failed to investigate hundreds of reports of abuse, torture, rape and even murder by Iraqi police and soldiers whose conduct appears to go unpunished. • A US helicopter gunship involved in a notorious Baghdad incident had previously killed Iraqi insurgents after they tried to surrender. "This disclosure is about the truth. WikiLeaks releases secret Iraq file - Secret Iraq Files. In the biggest leak of military secrets in history, WikiLeaks, the whistleblower website, has released 400,000 secret US files detailing every aspect of the war in Iraq, copies of which have been obtained by Al Jazeera.
The sheer magnitude of data contained in the secret files reveals a graphic narrative of the war that goes far beyond any information about the conflict ever released into the public domain. Using thousands of classified US military reports, Al Jazeera is now able to tell the inside story of a war which left thousands dead and a country fractured along sectarian lines. Working with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in London for the past 10 weeks, Al Jazeera has analysed tens of thousands of documents, finding facts the US has kept hidden from public scrutiny. What has been uncovered often contradicts the official narrative of the conflict. The new material throws light on the day-to-day horrors of the war.
The War Logs - Interactive Feature. The Nixonian henchmen of today: at the NYT - Glenn Greenwald. After Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers, exposing the lies, brutality and inhumanity that drove America’s role in the Vietnam War, President Nixon and Henry Kissinger infamously plotted to smear his reputation and destroy his credibility. As History Commons puts it in its richly documented summary of those events: This weekend, WikiLeaks released over 400,000 classified documents of the Iraq War detailing genuinely horrific facts about massive civilian death, U.S. complicity in widespread Iraqi torture, systematic government deceit over body counts, and the slaughter of civilians by American forces about which Daniel Ellsberg himself said, as the New York Times put it: “many of the civilian deaths there could be counted as murder.” It shouldn’t be surprising that Burns is filling the role played in 1971 by Henry Kissinger and John Ehrichman.
His courageous and high-quality war reporting from Iraq notwithstanding, it’s long been clear from his U.S. NYT v. the world: WikiLeaks coverage - Glenn Greenwald. To supplement my post yesterday about The New York Times‘ government-subservient coverage of the WikiLeaked documents regarding the war that newspaper played such a vital role in enabling, consider — beyond the NYT‘s sleazy, sideshow-smears against Julian Assange — the vast disparity between how newspapers around the world and The New York Times reported on a key revelation from these documents: namely, that the U.S. systematically and pursuant to official policy ignored widespread detainee abuse and torture by Iraqi police and military (up to and including murders).
In fact, American conduct goes beyond mere indifference into active complicity, as The Guardian today reports that “fresh evidence that US soldiers handed over detainees to a notorious Iraqi torture squad has emerged in army logs published by WikiLeaks.” Media outlets around the world prominently highlighted this revelation, but not The New York Times: The Guardian: Al Jazeera: Hindustan Times: Three cheers for the U.S.!
Video Wikileaks defends Iraq logs publication. Clinton condemns publication of classified US military reports. Wikileaks: 'War logs immensely important' BBC iPlayer - World Briefing: 23/10/2010. Iraq War Logs by The Bureau Of Investigative Journalism. Irak : l'horreur ordinaire révélée par Wikileaks. Le Monde, conjointement avec le New York Times, le Guardian, le Bureau of investigative journalism et le Spiegel, a pu consulter en avant-première 400 000 rapports de l'armée américaine en Irak, rendus publics ce vendredi par le site Wikileaks, spécialisé dans la publication de documents confidentiels.
Il s'agit des rapports d'incidents, rédigés par les officiers sur le terrain, qui constituent le fichier SIGACTS ("significant activity") des forces américaines de janvier 2004 à décembre 2009. Une masse de documents qui décrivent, jour à près jour, les attentats, les échanges de tirs, les fouilles de caches d'armes, les arrestations, et les violences contre les civils. Confidentiels, les "rapports d'incidents" ne sont pas classés secret défense. Les documents publiés par Wikileaks ne contiennent pas les rapports des forces spéciales américaines, ni les mémos des services de renseignement. Pour en savoir plus : Systematisk tortyr under kriget. I genomsnitt rapporterades under perioden 2004-2009 ett misstänkt övergrepp eller krigsbrott per dag begånget av de amerikanska soldaterna, deras irakiska allierade eller okända gärningsmän.
Bland de 391.832 krigshändelserna som rapporterades under de sex åren finns flera fall av övergrepp mot barn. Rapporterna om övergrepp under de sex åren kommer från så gott som alla delar av Irak och handlar om våld, tortyr och förräderi både mot fångar och civila. Civila bombröjareI ett dokument rapporteras att en plutonchef hade för vana att använda vanliga civila som bombröjare. De fick rensa vägen från skrot och annat skräp när man misstänkte att det fanns hemmagjorda bomber där soldaterna skulle fram. Och materialet innehåller flera liknande historier. Mer än 2/3 av rapporterna rör irakisk militär eller polis som den USA-ledda koalitionen tränat upp. Trots detta kommer larm om systematisk tortyr på polisstationer och i fängelser.
WikiLeaks: VS hield marteling stil. WikiLeaks Warlogs Diary Dig Honderden gevallen van marteling, verkrachting en moord door Iraakse veiligheidsdiensten zijn met hulp van Amerika in de doofpot gestopt. Dat staat in de bijna 400.000 nieuwe documenten van het Amerikaanse leger die klokkenluiderswebsite WikiLeaks op internet heeft geplaatst. De stukken gaan over de oorlog in Irak tussen 2004 en 2010.
Het gaat om het grootste lek ooit van geheime militaire documenten. In de documenten wordt verder melding gemaakt van het willekeurig doden van Iraakse burgers bij Amerikaanse controleposten kort na de inval in Irak in 2003. Zo zouden er volgens de documenten 109.000 Irakezen zijn omgekomen onder wie bijna 70.000 burgers. Het Amerikaanse ministerie van Defensie zegt dat met de openbaarmaking opnieuw de levens in gevaar worden gebracht van militairen en van Irakezen die voor de coalitietroepen hebben gewerkt.
WikiLeaks bestrijdt dat, omdat alle namen, plaatsen en tijden zijn doorgehaald. Die Irak-Protokolle - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Nachrichten. WikiLeaks: We Want to Fix "Attack on the Truth" Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, speaks at a news conference in London, Oct. 23, 2010. CBS Updated at 6:45 a.m. Eastern Military documents laid bare in the biggest leak of secret information in U.S. history suggest that far more Iraqis died than previously acknowledged during the years of sectarian bloodletting and criminal violence unleashed by the 2003 U.S. -led invasion. The accounts of civilian deaths among nearly 400,000 purported Iraq war logs website include deaths unknown or unreported before now - as many as 15,000 by the count of one independent research group.
"We hope to correct some of that attack on the truth that occurred before the war, during the war, and which has continued on since the war officially concluded," said Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, at a news conference Saturday morning in London. WikiLeaks Documents Detail Rape, Abuse, MurderPentagon: Iraqi Collaborators Now in Danger? Sloboda spoke at the Saturday news conference alongside Assange. Why hasn’t the US government crushed Wikileaks?
So, Wikileaks has done it again. The largest military data leak in history has revealed grisly truths about the Iraq war that the US and Iraqi governments would surely prefer had never been widely known. It was clear that some serious evidence against the US was coming when almost a week ago The Pentagon urged news organisations not to publish the data.
As news organisations around the world that had been analysing the war records for weeks released their reports a few hours ago, the US government condemned Wikileaks, saying they “Threatened national security”. That all seems a little “soft” though, doesn’t it? The US, with all its political and military might, can’t stop a leak that it will have known was coming for days or weeks. In years gone by, wouldn’t Wikileaks founder Julian Assange (pictured) have simply been arrested and silenced, or failing that, “disappeared” in a mysterious incident engineered by the CIA or a similar, secretive organisation? WikiLeaks: Watch this! All you need t... News: The Secret War - Iraq War Logs. “Hi, this is Julian Assange” » Article » OWNI, Digital Journalism. While WikiLeaks relied on the greatest news outlets in the world, Julian Assange entrusted OWNI with the conception, the design and the development of the crowdsourcing application.
Here is the story. Our questions. His answers. On Friday, October 8, an email appeared in our inbox, citing an “urgent request” for the team that developed the Afghanistan warlogs application. It was forwarded to me, as I was the datajournalist behind the project. Although I was almost certain that this was the umpteenth journalist enquiry regarding the warlogs, the sender’s name immediately caught my eye.
It was Sunshine Press. After such excitement, we of course accepted to go to the meeting Assange had proposed, in London, three days later. “We have the same dataset as the one you worked on. “What is the risk that this file encounters the same criticism as the first ones, especially with regards to the names of the informants?” 1. Wikileaks Iraq war logs: key findings. Iraqi PM upset at WikiLeaks. Iraq War Logs Every Death Mapped - From Wikileaks and Guardian MIRROR. Julian Assange Targeted by US. Dispatches. A full-text visualization of the Iraq War Logs.
Update (Apr 2012): the exploratory work described in this post has since blossomed into the Overview Project, an open-source large document set visualization tool for investigative journalists and other curious people, and we’ve now completed several stories with this technique. If you’d like to apply this type of visualization to your own documents, give Overview a try!
Last month, my colleague Julian Burgess and I took a shot a peering into the Iraq War Logs by visualizing them in bulk, as opposed to using keyword searches in an attempt to figure out which of the 391,832 SIGACT reports we should be reading. Other people have created visualizations of this unique document set, such as plots of the incident locations on a map of Iraq, and graphs of monthly casualties. We wanted to go a step further, by designing a visualization based on the the richest part of each report: the free text summary, where a real human describes what happened, in jargon-inflected English. And it works.