More Iraqi Prison Abuses Exposed on WikiLeaks

The publication of a mother lode of secret field reports from the Iraq War is shining a bright light on heretofore unknown or underreported suspicions about the power of private security contractors and the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by their fellow Iraqis, often with...

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Frago 242

The biggest US security breach in our history, carried off by WikiLeaks, reveals a wealth of information – hundreds of thousands of field reports, the raw material collected by the US military on the ground in Iraq. It will be quite a while before the...

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An Award for WikiLeaks

You are not likely to learn this from the “mainstream media," but WikiLeaks and its leader Julian Assange have received the 2010 Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence (SAAII) award for their resourcefulness in making available secret U.S. military...

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Sunday: 6 Iraqis Killed, 21 Wounded

The Iraqi Supreme Court ordered parliament to reconvene despite the failure of party leaders to form the new government. Meanwhile, six Iraqis were killed and 21 more were wounded in and near Mosul. Oddly, no other reports surfaced.
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Saturday: 10 Iraqis Killed, 33 Wounded

Updated at 10:41 p.m. EDT, Oct. 23, 2010 At least 10 Iraqis were killed and 33 more were wounded in new violence. The worst attack occurred outside of Baghdad in the suburb of Abu Ghraib. Meanwhile, the Wikileaks Iraq logs could undermine the prime minister’s attempt to retain his seat.
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Friday: 5 Iraqis Killed, 15 Wounded

Wikileaks released almost 400,000 documents related to the Iraq occupation today. In those reports, the U.S. military had chronicled over 100,000 deaths, mostly civilians. About 15,000 of the civilian deaths had gone unreported outside the military. Violence continued today with at least five Iraqis dying in new violence. Another 15 were wounded.
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The Possible Prosecution of WikiLeaks

The U.S. Justice Department is apparently considering prosecuting Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, which is a Web site that publishes classified documents from governments, under the rarely used Espionage Act of 1917. Such a prosecution would have adverse...

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Dirty Tricks

The smear campaign targeting Julian Assange and WikiLeaks isn't very subtle, nor is it very effective. First the Pentagon refuses Assange's request to vet the tens of thousands of secret files WikiLeaks put online, expunging material that might cost American or Afghan...

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