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		<title>WikiLeaks Collaborated With Mainstream Media on Afghan Leaks After Previous Scoops Failed to Win Enough Attention</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I mentioned Julian Assange's TED interview previously. It's about 20 minutes long, so grab a cup of coffee if you're up for it (the last few minutes are the most intriguing, so if pressed for time, scroll ahead toward the end). By now it's no longer a mystery the kind of agenda Mr. Assange is working. Interesting is that he sees himself as a "journalist," although clearly not of the old school "objective" kind (if there ever was one). The boys and girls on JournoList would no doubt welcome the likes of Assange into their ranks. Also, at Wall Street Journal , " WikiLeaks Rolled Dice to Raise Its Profile ": WikiLeaks, frustrated at the lack of splash of recent leaks on its whistle-blowing website, has rolled the dice to try to raise its profile by teaming up with news organizations in its latest dump of classified documents. The site's secretive founder Julian Assange surfaced in London on Monday to give a rare news conference as part of that new strategy. The white-haired Australian computer hacker schooled a packed room of reporters on how to navigate the 76,000 documents just released, arguing they contained evidence of war crimes and could work as "deterrents" to further abuses. WikiLeaks was launched in 2007 by self-described Chinese dissidents and Internet hackers as a warehouse of leaked documents. Through its bare-bones site Wikileaks.org, it has landed big scoops, including its most infamous disclosure—video footage of American soldiers shooting down a group of people in Iraq in 2007. Representatives for the site have repeatedly declined to say how they obtain their material and their activities have prompted investigations by federal authorities People familiar with the matter say Mr. Assange is frustrated that some of the site's other disclosures, such as a database of military procurements in Iraq and Afghanistan, didn't garner more attention. Some senior members of the group also want to combat the perception that the site is veering into the realm of opinion, one of the people said. The site took flak from some commentators for editing the 2007 Iraq video and for dubbing the video "Collateral Murder." Mr. Assange launched a new plan this summer in a Brussels cafe. He offered a U.K. newspaper, the Guardian, advance access to documents the site planned to release about the war in Afghanistan, according to the Guardian's account. They came up with a password for accessing the trove based on the logo on the cafe's napkins. Monday, the Guardian, along with the New York Times and German weekly Der Spiegel, published a flood of stories based on mostly raw field reports, citing WikiLeaks as the source. They say they weren't told how the site obtained them but tried to verify them independently. A spokesman for WikiLeaks said the group didn't pay for the leaked documents. Mr. Assange told reporters on Monday that he limited his outreach to these three organizations out of expediency and that more collaborations with traditional media are on the horizon. "We had hoped to partner with a network to do a more significant investigation, but limited time and resources eclipsed that," he said. "We do hope to do that next time." RTWT. Readers know my position. Assange and his media cohorts are way past any "good government" or "transparency" motives. These actions put lives at risk, no matter what your thoughts are on the continuing rationale for our fight against the Taliban. RELATED : At Sister Toldjah, " The Definitive Smack Down of WikiLeaker Julian Assange " (via Memeorandum ). BONUS EXTRA : Boston Globe , " Pentagon Studies Possible Risks to Afghans From Leaked Documents ." ]]></description>
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		<title>Julian Assange Alleges U.S. War Crimes in Afghanistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>supercop</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ At WSJ , " WikiLeaks Founder: Documents Suggest Evidence of War Crimes ": The Afghan war documents published by WikiLeaks appear to contain evidence of war crimes, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told a news conference in London Monday. "There does appear to be evidence of war crimes in this material," he said, adding that it would be "up to a court" to make judgements on any crimes. He cited in particular Task Force 373, which he described as a U.S. military "assassination unit" that he said killed seven children in a "botched raid." He strongly suggested a coverup of civilian deaths during the war, pointing to U.S. military reports on the number of people wounded or killed during specific incidents. In some of these, a high number of those killed or wounded are classified as "enemy" while very few are classified as "civilians," which Mr. Assange called "suspicious." Asked how many incidents could potentially be investigated for possible war crimes or other reasons, he said "thousands," adding that the U.S. military would probably be forced to investigate some. "You need enough investigated to create deterrents" against similar behaviour in the future, he said. Mr. Assange added that the information in the documents "really doesn't paint a flattering picture of the Taliban, either," noting that there are many reports of Taliban-planted explosive devices resulting in "significant loss of human life." He said the documents don't just "reveal abuses" but paint a detailed picture of "the last six years of war," including the kinds of weapons used and the progress or setbacks experienced. There's more at the link . Noteworthy is Assange's claim that "he doesn't 'really have an opinion about whether the war should stop'." Actually, he does care if the war stops, because his whole agenda is to stop the United States, and he's backed by the global transnational network of neo - communist activists who're gunning for America . That said, lots of folks are unimpressed (and hence it's a media hayride mostly). See Jawa Report, " Noted Liar and Conspiracy Theorist Leaks Documents Which Shock and Awe No One ." And at Abu Muqawama, " Scoop! ": Here are the things I have learned thus far from the documents released via Wikileaks: Elements within Pakistan's Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) support the Taliban. The United States integrates direct action special operations into its counterinsurgency efforts in Afghanistan, targeting insurgent leaders through capture/kill missions. Civilians have died in Afghanistan, often as the result of coalition combat operations. I'm going to bed, but if I were to stay up late reading more, here is what I suspect I would discover: "Afghanistan" has four syllables. LeBron is going to the Heat. D'Angelo Barksdale didn't actually commit suicide in prison. Stringer Bell had him killed. Although a document dated 17 October 2004 claims the Red Sox were down 3-0 in a seven-game series with the Yankees, they actually went on to win 4-3. Liberace was gay. The Pathan remains wily. Julian Assange is a clown. But more seriously, see this piece at Mother Jones (of all places): The other interesting data are notes from what the military calls KLEs—key leader engagements. Military officers, as well as officials from State, USAID, and other agencies regularly meet with important players in a war zone to get their take on the situation. Often they're dull and tell the interviewers little they didn't already know; sometimes, though, they give insight to "atmospherics"—how Afghan locals feel about US forces or the Taliban. Many of these key leaders take their lives into their hands; from my experience in Iraq, I know that numerous Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds with high standing among their tribes—and among our enemies—took time to brief US officials, often to dish dirt on crooked or violent elements in their vicinity. If they were ever outed as collaborators with American forces, they'd be as good as dead. And Wikileaks has 16 pages of secret military KLEs with individuals and groups in Afghanistan, spanning six years. No names are redacted. In this case, what retired general James Jones, the White House national security adviser, said yesterday is correct: WL is putting some lives at serious risk with that particular data dump. ]]></description>
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		<title>Harry Reid, Running on His Record, Just Not His Recent Record</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>If Bush Did It</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Nevada Sen. Harry Reid, to David Brody : Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid: ]]></description>
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		<title>WikiLeaks and the Afghanistan War Logs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ It's strange, since I was just listening to a 20 minute interview with Julian Assange yesterday at TED. I had planned to write about that as soon as this latest breaking news cycle winds down (JournoList, Shirley Sherrod, etc.), and now we've got the release of the Afghanistan war logs, which had been expected. Yeah, since the Iraq Apache video smear (and the detailed coverage at Jawa Report , et al., and my own), I've been gaining a sharper understanding of Assange and his hard-left enablers worldwide. It's simply more clear by the day that America's enemies are not just on the battlefield, but also among the global transnational issue networks working to bring down the United States and its Western allies. I need to research the war logs and find out more on this, so expect updates. Below is a clip featuring Julian Assange for The Guardian . There's also a big exposé at The Guardian as well, so it's clear that the newspaper's coordinating its coverage with WikiLeaks. See, " Afghanistan war logs: Massive leak of secret files exposes truth of occupation ." And of course, the New York Times is on the case, seemingly as deeply involved as is The Guardian . See, " Inside the Fog of War: Reports From the Ground in Afghanistan ."Also at NYT (FWIW), " Piecing Together the Reports, and Deciding What to Publish ": The articles published today are based on thousands of United States military incident and intelligence reports — records of engagements, mishaps, intelligence on enemy activity and other events from the war in Afghanistan — that were made public on Sunday on the Internet. The New York Times, The Guardian newspaper in London, and the German magazine Der Spiegel were given access to the material several weeks ago. These reports are used by desk officers in the Pentagon and troops in the field when they make operational plans and prepare briefings on the situation in the war zone. Most of the reports are routine, even mundane, but many add insights, texture and context to a war that has been waged for nearly nine years. Over all these documents amount to a real-time history of the war reported from one important vantage point — that of the soldiers and officers actually doing the fighting and reconstruction. The Source of the Material The documents — some 92,000 individual reports in all — were made available to The Times and the European news organizations by WikiLeaks, an organization devoted to exposing secrets of all kinds, on the condition that the papers not report on the data until July 25, when WikiLeaks said it intended to post the material on the Internet. WikiLeaks did not reveal where it obtained the material. WikiLeaks was not involved in the news organizations’ research, reporting, analysis and writing. The Times spent about a month mining the data for disclosures and patterns, verifying and cross-checking with other information sources, and preparing the articles that are published today. The three news organizations agreed to publish their articles simultaneously, but each prepared its own articles. Classified Information Deciding whether to publish secret information is always difficult, and after weighing the risks and public interest, we sometimes chose not to publish. But there are times when the information is of significant public interest, and this is one of those times. The documents illuminate the extraordinary difficulty of what the United States and its allies have undertaken in a way that other accounts have not. Most of the incident reports are marked “secret,” a relatively low level of classification. The Times has taken care not to publish information that would harm national security interests ... There's more at the link , but I stopped at this line. " The Times has taken care not to publish information that would harm national security interests "? Don't believe it for a second. The New York Times has been the radical left's institutional organ working to bring about an American defeat in Iraq and the War on Terror, and now in Afghanistan. Recall Heather MacDonald's piece from 2006, on the Times ' reporting that helped killed the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program. See, " National Security Be Damned ": BY NOW IT'S UNDENIABLE: The New York Times is a national security threat. So drunk is it on its own power and so antagonistic to the Bush administration that it will expose every classified antiterror program it finds out about, no matter how legal the program, how carefully crafted to safeguard civil liberties, or how vital to protecting American lives. The Times's latest revelation of a national security secret appeared on last Friday's front page--where no al Qaeda operative could possibly miss it. Under the deliberately sensational headline, "Bank Data Sifted in Secret by U.S. to Block Terror," the Times blows the cover on a highly targeted program to locate terrorist financing networks. According to the report, since 9/11, the Bush administration has obtained information about terror suspects' international financial transactions from a Belgian clearinghouse of international money transfers. RTWT . See also, Michelle Malkin, " NY Times Blabbermouths Strike Again ." I'll have more later after I read and research a bit. Meanwhile, readers can check WikiLeaks directly: " Afghan War Diary, 2004-2010 ." And the Der Spiegel piece is here: " Explosive Leaks Provide Image of War from Those Fighting It " (via Memeorandum ). ]]></description>
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		<title>The Secular Inquisition</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ From Chapter 4 in Melanie Phillips, The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power: What have the issues of anthropogenic global warming, the war in Iraq, Israel and scientism got in common? Not a lot, you might think. But in fact a number of threads link them all. Most fundamentally, they involve the promotion of beliefs that purport to be unchallengeable truths but are in fact ideologies in which evidence is manipulated, twisted and distorted to support or "prove" their governing idea. All are therefore based on false or unsupported beliefs that are presented as axiomatically true. Moreover, because each assumes itself to be proclaiming the sole and exclusive truth, it cannot permit any challenge to itself. It has to maintain at all costs the integrity of the falsehood. So all challenges have to be resisted through coercive means. Knowledge is thus forced to give way to power. Reason is replaced by bullying, intimidation and the suppression of debate. This makes them all deeply regressive movements of thought, which corrode the most fundamental concept of the Western world. The principle characteristic of Western modernity is freedom of thought and expression and the ability to express dissent. The eighteenth-century Enlightenment ushered in the modern age by breaking the power of the church to control the terms of debate and punish heresy. Church and state were separated, and a space was created for individual freedom and the toleration of differences --- the essence of liberal society. ]]></description>
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		<title>UK: Scotland Yard Chooses Known Islamist Who Justifies Killing American and British Troops as “Main Link” Between Met Police and Muslim…</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the UK, where FAIL is an everyday part of life&#8230; (Telegraph) - An Islamic extremist who has described al-Qaeda as a &#8220;myth&#8221; and justified the killing of British troops in Iraq has been chosen as the main link between the Metropolitan Police and the Muslim community. Scotland Yard will now face pressure to renounce Azad Ali, the new chair of the Muslim Safety Forum, which is recognised by the Met under a formal written agreement as &#8220;the principal body in relation to Muslim community safety and security&#8221;. The deal says that the Met will &#8220;use the MSF as a consultation body to help formulate policy or practice&#8221;. Mr Ali was the founding chair of the MSF in 2006, but left that job in 2008 and resigned entirely from the group last year after publicity over his extremist comments. Last week, he was quietly reappointed as its chairman. Mr Ali is a senior official of the fundamentalist Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE), which works, in its own words, to create an Islamic state under sharia law in Europe. The IFE and the MSF share the same offices. He has previously praised a key mentor of Osama bin Laden. Earlier this year, he was filmed by an undercover reporter from Channel 4&#8217;s Dispatches stating: &#8220;Democracy, if it means not implementing the sharia, of course nobody agrees with that.&#8221; When the documentary was aired, Mr Ali attacked the reporter on the IFE&#8217;s official radio station, saying: &#8220;We&#8217;ve got a picture of you and a lot more than you thought we had. We&#8217;ve tracked you down to different places. And if people are gonna turn what I&#8217;ve just said into a threat, that&#8217;s their fault, innit?&#8221; Mr Ali&#8217;s comments about terrorism were made on his official blog on the IFE website. Earlier this year, he lost a libel action against a newspaper which reported them . The judge, Mr Justice Eady, said that Mr Ali &#8220;was indeed taking the position that the killing of American and British troops in Iraq would be justified&#8221;, describing his claim as &#8220;bound to fail&#8221; and having an &#8220;absence of reality&#8221;. Rest here> > > H/T: Spencer]]></description>
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		<title>Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran: Better Safe Than Sorry</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 02:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Reuel Marc Gerecht, at Weekly Standard , " Should Israel Bomb Iran? ": There is only one thing that terrifies Washington’s foreign policy establishment more than the prospect of an American airstrike against Iran’s nuclear-weapons facilities: an Israeli airstrike. Left, right, and center, “sensible” people view the idea with alarm. Such an attack would, they say, do great damage to the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan, where Tehran would counterattack, punishing “the Great Satan” (America) for the sins of “the Little Satan” (Israel). An Israeli strike could lead to the closing of the world’s oil passageway, the Strait of Hormuz; prompt Muslims throughout the world to rise up in outrage; and spark a Middle Eastern war that might drag in the United States. Barack Obama’s “New Beginning” with Muslims, such as it is, would be over the moment Israeli bunker-busting bombs hit. An Israeli “preventive” attack, we are further told, couldn’t possibly stop the Islamic Republic from developing a nuke, and would actually make it more likely that the virulently anti-Zionist supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, would strike Israel with a nuclear weapon. It would also provoke Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps to deploy its terrorist assets against Israel and the United States. Hezbollah, the Islamic Revolution’s one true Arab child, would unleash all the missiles it has imported from Tehran and Damascus since 2006, the last time the Party of God and the Jewish state collided. An Israeli preemptive strike unauthorized by Washington (and President Barack Obama is unlikely to authorize one) could also severely damage Israel’s standing with the American public, as well as America’s relations with Europe, since the “diplomacy first, diplomacy only” Europeans would go ballistic, demanding a more severe punishment of Israel than Washington could countenance. The Jewish state’s relations with the European Union—Israel’s major trading partner—could collapse. And, last but not least, an Israeli strike could fatally compromise the pro-democracy Green Movement in Iran, which is the only hope the West has for an end to the nuclear menace by means of regime change. This concern was expressed halfheartedly before the tumultuous Iranian elections of June 12, 2009, but it is now voiced with urgency by those who truly care about the Green Movement spawned by those elections and don’t want any American or Israeli action to harm it. These fears are mostly overblown. Some of the alarmist scenarios are the opposite of what would more likely unfold after an Israeli attack. Although dangerous for Israel, a preventive strike remains the most effective answer to the possibility of Khamenei and the Revolutionary Guards having nuclear weapons. Provided the Israeli air force is capable of executing it, and assuming no U.S. military action, an Israeli bombardment remains the only conceivable means of derailing or seriously delaying Iran’s nuclear program and—equally important—traumatizing Tehran. Since 1999, when the supreme leader quashed student demonstrations and put paid to any chance that the Islamic Republic would peacefully evolve under the reformist president Mohammad Khatami, Iran has calcified into an ever-nastier autocracy. An Israeli strike now—after the rise of the Green Movement and the crackdown on it—is more likely to shake the regime than would have a massive American attack in 2002, when Tehran’s clandestine nuclear program was first revealed. And if anything can jolt the pro-democracy movement forward, contrary to the now passionately accepted conventional wisdom, an Israeli strike against the nuclear sites is it. There are many voices out there—“realists” in America, Kantians in Europe—who believe this discussion is unnecessary since Iran doesn’t really pose an existential threat to Israel, America, or anyone else, and whatever threat it does pose can be countered with “strategic patience” and the threat of Israeli nuclear retaliation. Tehran may support anti-Israeli terrorist groups, but there is no need to overreact: The regime is as scared of Israel’s military power as Israel is scared of mullahs with nukes. America’s preeminent job should therefore be to calm the Israelis down—or, failing that, arm-twist them into inaction. RTWT . RELATED : At Israel Matsav, " Iran's representative in the US cries 'the sky is falling' ." And at PuffHo, " Resolution Green-Lighting Israeli Strikes on Iran Introduced by House Republicans " (via Memeorandum ). ]]></description>
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		<title>Obama presses Iraqi leaders to end deadlock 
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 02:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Reuters - President Barack Obama pressed Iraqi leaders on Thursday to end a post-election deadlock and form a new government without further delay as the top U.S. commander in Iraq told him a troop drawdown was running ahead of schedule. ]]></description>
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		<title>Obama voices concerns over rocket attack in Iraq 
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 02:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>If Bush Did It</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AP - The White House says President Barack Obama has expressed concerns about a rocket attack Thursday on the Green Zone in Baghdad, a fortified area that houses the U.S. embassy and the Iraqi government.]]></description>
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		<title>Obama: time to form Iraqi government &#8216;without delay&#8217; 
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ AFP - US President Barack Obama said Thursday it was time for rival Iraqi parties to form a government "without delay," cranking up US pressure for an end to the political deadlock in Baghdad. ]]></description>
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