Wikileaks
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Wikileaks in its own words
WikiLeaks is a multi-jurisdictional public service designed to protect whistleblowers, journalists and activists who have sensitive materials to communicate to the public. Since July 2007, we have worked across the globe to obtain, publish and defend such materials, and, also, to fight in the legal and political spheres for the broader principles on which our work is based: the integrity of our common historical record and the rights of all peoples to create new history. [1]
WikiSpooks Comment
Since its launch in 2007, WikiLeaks has released thousands of documents from countries around the world most of which, either governments or others in 'Authority', would prefer remained hidden. Most are easily available on the Wikileaks site, [2] and make it a gold-mine of information for enterprising journalists to investigate and develop stories that are crying out for public scrutiny. It is sad reflection on the Western MSM that the best they can do - as always - is to very reflect the official narrative that goes something like:
"tut-tut, this is dangerous and must be brought under control - or stopped"
The 'Collateral Murder' video
5th April 2010 10:44 EST WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting three airstrikes from a US Apache helicopter on July 12, 2007 in New Baghdad, Iraq. At least eighteen people were killed in the airstrikes, including two journalists working for Reuters, Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen. [3]
The video was recorded by the gunsight camera on the Apache helicopter, identified as Crazyhorse 18, and is accompanied by the radio communications of the helicopter gunmen as they communicate with their commanders and troops on the ground.
The 'Afghan War Diary' reports
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. [4]
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 reports cover most units from the US Army with the exception of most US Special Forces' activities. The reports do not generally cover top secret operations or European and other ISAF Forces operations.
Detailed data-searching and reading guides together with a map pinpointing each reported incident is available on a separate page [5]
References
- ↑ The WikiLeaks 'About' page
- ↑ The Wikileaks main page
- ↑ 'Collateral Murder' video page
- ↑ http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Afghan_War_Diary,_2004-2010 WikiLeaks 'Afghan War Diary' announcement page
- ↑ http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/ Wikileaks 'Afghan War diary detailed guide
