[2010] The Wikileaks war logs
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16,000 improvised explosive devices are recorded in the Afghanistan war logs, rising from 308 in 2004 to 7,155 in 2009. Press start on the map below, or drag the date along the bar, to see where and who they hit over these five years (Updated August 6 to show insurgent fatalities and cleared devices)
Infography : IED attacks on civilians, coalition and Afghan troops | World news | guardian.co.uk
Wikileaks' Afghanistan War Logs and Its Visualization - information aesthetics
The Guardian's Datablog just released an interesting run-through of how they had to deal with the raw data from the recent Afghanistan War Logs , a 6-year archive of classified military documents. The New York Times also released a view behind the verification and the data formatting process.US authorities have known for weeks that they have suffered a haemorrhage of secret information on a scale which makes even the leaking of the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam war look limited by comparison.
Story behind biggest leak in intelligence history | World news | The Guardian
The unvarnished picture | Editorial | Comment is free | The Guardian
The fog of war is unusually dense in Afghanistan .Un étrange brouillard recouvre la guerre en Afghanistan.
Des documents confidentiels qui laissent apparaître horreur et confusion | Courrier international
The battle to justify this as a war worth fighting just got a lot harder - Commentators, Opinion - The Independent
And they will make it still harder in future for the US and British governments to explain why they are fighting to preserve an Afghan government so rotten with corruption and brutally uncaring towards its own people. Much of what is now documented from official sources had already been exposed by journalists.
A history of folly, from the Trojan horse to Afghanistan | Simon Jenkins | Comment is free | The Guardian
Is it the death of war?
The War Logs - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com
The Iraq Documents The archive is the second cache obtained by the independent organization WikiLeaks and made available to several news organizations. The Iraq documents shed new light on the war.
View Is Bleaker Than Official Portrayal of War in Afghanistan - NYTimes.com
A six-year archive of classified military documents made public on Sunday offers an unvarnished, ground-level picture of the war in Afghanistan that is in many respects more grim than the official portrayal. The secret documents, released on the Internet by an organization called WikiLeaks, are a daily diary of an American-led force often starved for resources and attention as it struggled against an insurgency that grew larger, better coordinated and more deadly each year.
Behind ‘War Logs,’ A New Kind of Alliance - Media Decoder Blog - NYTimes.com
It is perhaps fitting that the war in Afghanistan, a conflict rife with asymmetrical information — who is the enemy, who are the allies — has helped produce a new kind of asymmetrical journalism.Explosive Leaks Provide Image of War from Those Fighting It - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
In an unprecedented development, close to 92,000 classified documents pertaining to the war in Afghanistan have been leaked. SPIEGEL, the New York Times and the Guardian have analyzed the raft of mostly classified documents.Infography : Deadly toll
"Deaths as a result of insurgent bomb attacks" by Jul 28
Infography : No peaceful end in sight
"The war by allied and Afghan forces against the insurgents" by Jul 28
US media reactions
US government & Taliban reactions
The second batch : 15 000 more documents
In the french medias
Afghan War Diary, 2004-2010 - WikiLeaks
25th July 2010 5:00 PM EST WikiLeaks has released a document set called the Afghan War Diary, an extraordinary compendium of over 91,000 reports covering the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010. The reports, while written by soldiers and intelligence officers, and mainly describing lethal military actions involving the United States military, also include intelligence information, reports of meetings with political figures, and related details. The document collection is available on a dedicated webpage .NATO speak
Combined Joint Task Force-82: HQ of US Forces in ISAF and Regional Command East; March 2007-April 2008 Je suis persuadé de la nécessité de cette trad --- add : la CJTF82 fait partie intégrante de l'ISAF (défn°149) HQ (=quartier général) US forces (=forces américaines)....[July 2010] WikiLeaks and the Afghan "war logs"
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