WikiLeaks. The #1 unofficial WikiLeaks resource. Welcome to FoWL: Friends of WikiLeaks! WIKILEAKS AUSTRALIAN CITIZENS ALLIANCE. WikiLeaks shows reporter killings in Iraq. Wikileaks strikes again, reveals “failing war effort” in Afghanistan. Published time: August 14, 2010 01:14 Edited time: November 10, 2010 17:41 Image from phawker.com The whistle-blowing website Wikileaks has released a large cache of secret military documents from the War in Afghanistan that draws back the curtain on the drawn-out operation.
The Guardian, the New York Times and Der Spiegel were granted access to over 90,000 documents that paint a grim picture of a failing military operation against the backdrop of disproportionate civilian deaths, stiff Taliban resistance and possible double-dealings on the part of Pakistan’s Intelligence Service (ISI) and the Taliban. “It is a complete history of the Afghan war from 2004 to 2010,” said former hacker Julian Assange, Wikileaks' founder.
The whistle-blowing website first made headlines for Assange, 39, in April when it posted a 2007 video of a US Apache helicopter attack in Iraq that left 12 civilians dead, including two Reuters journalists. Pakistan immediately rejected the claims. Robert Bridge, RT. WikiLeaks reveals civilians are fair game in US war tactics. Ethan McCord, a solider with the unit that is shown in the video, says it was not a one-off experience.
He went as far as to say soldiers in his unit were ordered to kill civilians in certain circumstances. McCord said the message they got from their commander was: “If someone in your line gets hit with an Improved Explosive Device – 360 rotational fire. You kill every motherfucker on the street.” Josh Steiber served in the same unit as Ethan McCord. He refused to talk about the order because of, he claims, the threats and warnings he has received from his former army fellows. But the secret video of helicopter killings seemed nothing unusual to him. “From my experiences, what was shown in that video is not uncommon. Josh says the training they went through did not ingrain much sensitivity either Josh and a group of other former soldiers are now touring the US, telling people of their experiences and their regret.
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Click to enlarge The WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is currently in a British jail fighting extradition to Sweden on sex crime allegations. The US government has presented no charges against Assange, but the absence of solid accusations did not stop American government officials from reportedly putting pressure at the highest level to cut off Wikileaks’ funding supply. The senior executive of America’s money transfer giant, Pay Pal, said the State Department had written to the company, claiming the online whistleblower had illegally leaked documents. The Spy Files: WikiLeaks releases surveillance docs.
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But the fate of the two men has got US journalists worried, that they too could soon find themselves behind bars. Julian Assange’s life resembles a game of chess. He is an Australian citizen in the custody of Britain fighting extradition to Sweden. Ironically, the secret was uncovered earlier this month after five million confidential emails from the global intelligence company Stratfor were published by WikiLeaks. “It’s done frequently when a defendant is outside the US.
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Life of a whistleblower. Most people who decide to be a whistleblower change their mind very quickly.
Photo: Michele Mossop Nestled among the delicious exposé of secretive diplomacy, the WikiLeaks phenomenon has provided us with a glimpse of what life is like for a whistleblower. And it isn’t friendly. The brutal vilification and viciousness inflicted upon Julian Assange’s quest for truth has displayed on a grand scale what employees experience when they reveal the unethical conduct in their organisation. The only difference? Companies in our region lag behind the rest of the world – even Africa. “If there was greater transparency, we probably wouldn’t need whistleblowers in the first place,” says Peter Bennett, the national convenor of the newly-formed Whistleblowers Information Centre and a former national president of Whistleblowers Australia.
The Australian Customs Service employed Bennett for over three decades. Advertisement He’s part of a minority within a minority. And that’s what they do. Australia Needs To Do More In Afghanistan. Continuing our series of blogs about The Stuff They're Not Discussing In The Election Campaign, it's time to mention the war.
Not so much the ''war on terror'', which nobody talks about these days, at least without the inverted commas. But more specifically the war in Afghanistan. There was a time when Tony Abbott publicly committed himself to increasing Australia's military deployment in Afghanistan.