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Assange is 'force-feeding truth to a world that has no stomach for it'
- guardian.co.uk, Friday October 29 2010
- Roy Greenslade
Here's an interesting assessment of the Wikileaks phenomenon and its prime mover, Julian Assange, that makes a lot of sense. Alex Moore argues that Assange's countercultural mission is having a hard time finding a home in a world without counterculture. He points up the differences between the way in which Daniel Ellsberg's leak of Vietnam war secrets, known as the Pentagon P Here's an interesting assessment of the Wikileaks phenomenon and its prime mover, Julian Assange, that makes a lot (...)
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Today's media stories from the papers
- guardian.co.uk, Thursday October 28 2010
Top stories on MediaGuardian.co.ukChris Evans loses more than 1m R2 listeners Rajars: R2 breakfast show sheds audience it gained after Terry Wogan's departure, as R1's Chris Moyles is down 600,000 listeners on previous quarter YouView chairman looks to 2012 Olympics and local TV news services Kip Meek also reveals BBC-backed video-on-demand service is in talks with major US st
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Iraq war logs: Prisoner beaten to death days after British handover to police
- guardian.co.uk, Thursday October 28 2010
- David Leigh
An Iraqi criminal prisoner was tortured and beaten to death within three days of being turned over to police in Basra by British troops. This latest detailed evidence of previously covered-up Iraq atrocities has emerged following the leak of a vast number of Iraq war logs compiled by the US army and containing hour-by-hour military field reports. The 391,832 previously secret (...)passed to the Guardian and other newspapers by the online whistleblowing group WikiLeaks, has already shown that US authorities failed to investigate hundreds of (...)
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Iraq war logs: 'The US was part of the Wolf Brigade operation against us'
- guardian.co.uk, Thursday October 28 2010
- Martin Chulov in Baghdad
During the foreboding months of 2005, one police unit struck more fear into Iraqis than the entire occupying US army. They were known as the Wolf Brigade. Brutal even by Iraqi standards, their soldiers and officers seemingly answered to no one. They were seen as indiscriminate and predatory. The unit's reputation had been known Iraq-wide and results of their numerous raids are (...)co-operation with the US army remained in the shadows until the WikiLeaks disclosures showcased them in stark detail. A visit from the unit (...)
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Iran may regret promoting WikiLeaks now they have been implicated
- guardian.co.uk, Thursday October 28 2010
- Meir Javedanfar
The previous editions of WikiLeaks were a gift for Iran. Documents and videos, such as the one showing the killing of journalists in Iraq were useful evidence for Iran's campaign to discredit US policies and activities in the Middle East. So, when the news broke out that a new set of revelations had been released by WikiLeaks, Iranian press outlets such as PressTV covered its The previous editions of WikiLeaks were a gift for Iran. Documents and videos, such as the (...)
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Iraq war logs: media reaction around the world
- guardian.co.uk, Thursday October 28 2010
- Martin Chulov in Baghdad, Chris McGreal in Washington, Lars Eriksen in Copenhagen and Tom Kington in Rome
IraqIraq's media continues to probe two key themes from the WikiLeaks disclosures. Newspapers and television networks have focused heavily on the claim that prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, directed a counter-terrorism unit answerable only to him, which targeted predominantly Sunni areas. They have also examined disclosures that the numbers of civilian deaths throughout the (...) IraqIraq's media continues to probe two key themes from the WikiLeaks disclosures. Newspapers and television networks have focused heavily on the claim (...)
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Iraq war logs: experts' views
- guardian.co.uk, Thursday October 28 2010
- Toby Dodge, Philippe Sands, Anthony Cordesman and Ken Gude
The Guardian asked four experts in international law, Iraqi politics, military affairs and national security to assess the importance of the 400,000 Pentagon documents made public via the WikiLeaks website at the weekend. The experts argue that the documents do more than just reveal a casual attitude towards torture and civilian deaths during the years after the US-led (...) (...)the importance of the 400,000 Pentagon documents made public via the WikiLeaks website at the weekend. The experts argue that the documents do (...)
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Today's media stories from the papers
- guardian.co.uk, Wednesday October 27 2010
Top stories on MediaGuardian.co.ukLabour calls for inquiry into BBC licence fee deal Shadow culture secretary writes to Commons culture committee chair, asking for investigation into last-minute settlement Virgin Media revenue rises as it rolls out superfast broadband Company's revenue up 6.4% year on year in third quarter to £978m, as it announces launch of 100Mb service in D (...)newspaper I. P3 Wall Street Journal Europe Cryptome website shines spotlight on WikiLeaks leaks. P13Google hits travel deal turbulence. P20Low prices deter software pirates. (...)
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How British forces fired on Afghan civilians
- guardian.co.uk, Tuesday October 26 2010
Leaks of classified war documents by the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks accuse British troops of carrying out attacks on Afghan civilians. The Ministry of Defence today disclosed its version of the incidents after a freedom of information request by the Guardian. Although an incomplete picture, the details provide a rare and compelling account of British errors in the (...) Leaks of classified war documents by the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks accuse British troops of carrying out attacks on Afghan civilians. The (...)
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- guardian.co.uk, Tuesday October 26 2010
- Jemima Kiss
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Television & radio
TV review: Spooks and Horizon
- guardian.co.uk, Tuesday October 26 2010
- Sam Wollaston
You may be interested to hear what happens when someone experiences technological difficulties here at the Guardian. A frozen screen, lost file, that kind of thing. So you call the IT department. And one of the nice people will ask some questions in order to diagnose the problem, then they'll say they're going to take control of the computer remotely from wherever they are (...) (...)just left (you'll soon be able to read about it on WikiLeaks). This was due to discrepancies in the American and British operating (...)
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Welcome to the 29 October edition
- Guardian Weekly, Tuesday October 26 2010
- Natalie Bennett
There was not much question over what would lead this week's paper - the outstanding story of the week was clearly the Wikileaks Iraq war logs, on which the Guardian also has extensive multimedia reports online. But I suspect a couple of other stories will also attract a great deal of attention. The first is about the 20-year-old undergraduate who's taken over as police chief (...)week's paper - the outstanding story of the week was clearly the Wikileaks Iraq war logs, on which the Guardian also has extensive multimedia (...)
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WikiLeaks should be declared 'enemy combatants', says Fox News contributor
- guardian.co.uk, Tuesday October 26 2010
- Sam Jones
A Fox News contributor and former state department adviser has accused WikiLeaks of conducting "political warfare against the US" and called for those behind the whistleblowing website to be declared "enemy combatants" so they can be subjected to "non-judicial actions". In an opinion piece on the Fox News site, Christian Whiton lambasts Congress and the White House for failing A Fox News contributor and former state department adviser has accused WikiLeaks of conducting "political warfare against the US" and called for those (...)
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Iran is buying political influence in Afghanistan
- guardian.co.uk, Tuesday October 26 2010
- Massoumeh Torfeh
It must have been embarrassing for President Karzai of Afghanistan to have to admit in front of a fellow president, Emomali Rahmon of Tajikistan – that he receives "bags of money" in donations from Iran. "This is a relationship between neighbours," he said, making it sound as though it is customary for neighbours to walk around carrying bags of handouts. A few aspects are intr (...)anti-US operations in Iraq were described in documents recently published by WikiLeaks. We have also seen over the past two weeks how Iran (...)
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WikiLeaks war logs: British forces exposed over Afghan attacks
- guardian.co.uk, Tuesday October 26 2010
- Rob Evans, Richard Norton-Taylor and David Leigh
The conduct of three British military units in Afghanistan has come under serious question after the Ministry of Defence released unprecedented details of incidents in which troops attacked Afghan civilians. The disclosure, in response to a request under the Freedom of Information Act made by the Guardian, revealed that of the casualties caused by British forces, two-thirds in (...)incidents mentioned in US army logs posted by the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks in the summer. Today's release came after the Guardian pressed (...)
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Tariq Aziz sentenced to death
- guardian.co.uk, Tuesday October 26 2010
- Martin Chulov in Baghdad
Iraq's former face to the world, Tariq Aziz, has been sentenced to death by hanging after the country's highest court condemned him for being personally involved in the persecution of Islamic opposition parties for more than 20 years. Aziz was sentenced to death by Iraq's high criminal court, along with four other stalwarts of the Ba'athist regime deposed by the US invasion in (...)the 80s. "This is just [prime minister] Maliki trying to avenge the WikiLeaks allegations." Tonight the Vatican urged Iraq not to carry out the (...)
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Iraq war logs: When torture becomes routine
- guardian.co.uk, Tuesday October 26 2010
- Editorial
Every time WikiLeaks puts facts into the public domain, first about the war in Afghanistan and now about Iraq, it is accused of partisanship and irresponsibility. The US defence secretary, Robert Gates, said on 29 July that the release of 90,000 classified documents about the war in Afghanistan endangered Afghan lives. Little more than two weeks later, Gates admitted in a (...) Every time WikiLeaks puts facts into the public domain, first about the war in (...)
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WikiLeaks reveals the stark reality of Iraq
- guardian.co.uk, Monday October 25 2010
Winston Churchill once said: "When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise." It is common practice in conflicts that governments ignore and cover up potential war crimes committed by their troops, which otherwise could reduce support for the war both on the ground and at home. Therefore, the recent release of classified document (...)ground and at home. Therefore, the recent release of classified documents by WikiLeaks is not a reckless endangerment of troops as advocated by the (...)
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- guardian.co.uk, Monday October 25 2010
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Like my Pentagon papers, these Iraq war logs can't be buried
- guardian.co.uk, Monday October 25 2010
- Daniel Ellsberg
Nearly 40 years ago I leaked the Pentagon papers – a top secret 7,000-page study of US decision-making during the Vietnam war which revealed repeated lies and cover-ups by the administration. The Iraq war logs, published this weekend by Wikileaks, could be even more significant. As with Vietnam, we have again seen evidence of a massive cover-up over a number of years (...)by the administration. The Iraq war logs, published this weekend by Wikileaks, could be even more significant. As with Vietnam, we have (...)
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Iraq war logs: who did the killing?
- guardian.co.uk, Monday October 25 2010
- Michael White
Of all the extraordinary and chilling details about the Iraq war logs which have tumbled out of Wikileaks' files into the pages of the Guardian this weekend, two strike me as being insufficiently commented upon. One is about the scale of the killing, the other concerns who exactly was doing most of it – which was not Americans. Here's David Leigh's summary. Here's James (...) (...)chilling details about the Iraq war logs which have tumbled out of Wikileaks' files into the pages of the Guardian this weekend, two strike (...)
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Wikileaks Iraq: what's wrong with the data?
- guardian.co.uk, Monday October 25 2010
- Simon Rogers
Wikileaks Iraq's huge data release has dominated the news this weekend. And, as part of our effort to explore the sheer mass of data, we mapped out every death recorded. This is one of the largest - and most sensitive - datasets ever to be released, and it does provide a huge source of information for anyone interested in finding out what really happened in Iraq. Officially k Wikileaks Iraq's huge data release has dominated the news this weekend. (...)
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Iraq war logs: America's virtual war
- guardian.co.uk, Monday October 25 2010
- Pratap Chatterjee
In Norse mythology, Odin is the one-eyed god of war and death who leads a noisy band of slain warriors across the sky. Legend has it that he left his other eye in the well of wisdom so that he could see and knows everything. In August 2006, General Richard A Cody of the US Army created an aviation battalion that took the Norse name as an acronym for "Observe, Detect, Identify, (...)war logs – the massive cache of secret Pentagon documents recently released by WikiLeaks – reveal hundreds of documents that provide a snapshot of what task (...)
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Today's media stories from the papers
- guardian.co.uk, Monday October 25 2010
- Monkey
Top stories on MediaGuardian.co.ukBBC 'close to meltdown' before last-minute licence fee deal BBC boss Mark Thompson insists settlement with government strengthens corporation's independence Eddie Izzard to play Long John Silver in Sky's Treasure Island Pirate drama will be filmed in Ireland and Puerto Rico and is scheduled for Christmas broadcast Will the arrival of i mean n (...)big institutions to open up their archives? The Independent Civil war at WikiLeaks. P1, 10, 11Google faces landmark fine for 'gross invasion of privacy'. (...)
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Humiliate, strip, threaten: UK military interrogation manuals discovered
- guardian.co.uk, Monday October 25 2010
- Ian Cobain
The British military has been training interrogators in techniques that include threats, sensory deprivation and enforced nakedness in an apparent breach of the Geneva conventions, the Guardian has discovered. Training materials drawn up secretly in recent years tell interrogators they should aim to provoke humiliation, insecurity, disorientation, exhaustion, anxiety and fear (...)after the Guardian published US military documents leaked to the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks revealing details of torture, summary executions and war crimes in Iraq. (...)
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Iraq war logs: US turned over captives to Iraqi torture squads
- guardian.co.uk, Sunday October 24 2010
- David Leigh and Maggie O'Kane
Fresh evidence that US soldiers handed over detainees to a notorious Iraqi torture squad has emerged in army logs published by WikiLeaks. The 400,000 field reports published by the whistleblowing website at the weekend contain an official account of deliberate threats by a military interrogator to turn his captive over to the Iraqi "Wolf Brigade". The interrogator told the p (...)a notorious Iraqi torture squad has emerged in army logs published by WikiLeaks. The 400,000 field reports published by the whistleblowing website at (...)
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Iraq war logs: WikiLeaks' virtual memorial
- guardian.co.uk, Sunday October 24 2010
- Pratap Chatterjee
A short, sharp burst of gunfire into their speeding vehicle killed three Iraqi police officers immediately, and wounded another. On the fifth anniversary of the US invasion of their country, the Iraqi police were on their way to help the 87th infantry regiment of the US Army just outside the volatile city of Kirkuk to defuse a possible car bomb. A trigger-happy US gunner, (...) (...)342:001) recorded by the US military is now available thanks to Wikileaks – three deaths from a list of 44 people killed on 19 (...)
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The final reasons for going to war are being swept away
- guardian.co.uk, Sunday October 24 2010
- Editorial
There was no single reason why Britain and the US went to war in Iraq. The motives that inspired George W Bush and Tony Blair have been variously dissected, analysed and psychoanalysed. It is too early for history to have formed a settled view on the war, but the case that it was a monumental error gets ever more compelling. Most of the official justifications for war, on grou (...)their own, as new leaked military documents reveal. The files, passed to WikiLeaks and reported in today's Observer, reveal how allied forces turned (...)
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WikiLeaks Iraq war logs: Nick Clegg calls for investigation of abuse claims
- guardian.co.uk, Sunday October 24 2010
- Jonathan Haynes, Mark Townsend, Jamie Doward and Paul Harris and agencies
Allegations of killings, torture and abuse in Iraq contained in leaked US military logs "need to be looked at", Nick Clegg said today. The deputy prime minister said any suggestion that the rules of war had been broken or torture had been condoned were "extremely serious". The almost 400,000 secret US army field reports show two cases of alleged involvement of British troops (...)which warned that the posting of classified US military logs on the WikiLeaks website could endanger the lives of British forces. Clegg told (...)
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Iraq war logs: The truth for Hanaan Hamood Matrood
- guardian.co.uk, Sunday October 24 2010
- Jim Duffy
Six and a half years after the "shock and awe" of the first days of war in Iraq come the Iraq war logs. For the Pentagon, they are devastating, documenting in fine detail the indifference with which Iraqi human life was viewed. For the British people, they ought to raise important questions as to what our forces knew. Aside from questions of complicity, however, the logs also (...)is fighting its spectre every bit as aggressively as the Pentagon berates WikiLeaks. And it does not end there. Aside from the abuses in (...)
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Iraq war logs: live reaction and WikiLeaks address
- guardian.co.uk, Saturday October 23 2010
- David Batty
9.53am: A massive cache of secret US military files passed to the Guardian via the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has revealed the devastating scale of the human rights abuses committed in the wake of the invasion of Iraq. WikiLeaks has passed almost 400,000 secret US army field reports to the Guardian and a range of other media outlets. The files are believed to have come f (...)secret US military files passed to the Guardian via the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has revealed the devastating scale of the human rights abuses committed (...)
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Wikileaks Iraq war logs: every death mapped
- guardian.co.uk, Saturday October 23 2010
Interactive: The Wikileaks Iraq war logs provide us with a unique picture of every death in Iraq. These are those events mapped using Google Fusion tables (...)secret US military files passed to the Guardian via the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has revealed the devastating scale of the human rights abuses committed (...)
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Iraq war logs: Obama must investigate torture claims, says UN envoy
- guardian.co.uk, Saturday October 23 2010
- Jamie Doward
The UN's chief investigator on torture says that if leaked US files on the Iraq conflict point to clear violations of the UN convention against torture, Barack Obama's administration has a clear obligation to investigate them. The 400,000 documents, released by the website WikiLeaks in the biggest leak in US military history, paint a disturbing picture of the relationship bet (...)obligation to investigate them. The 400,000 documents, released by the website WikiLeaks in the biggest leak in US military history, paint a disturbing (...)
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Wikileaks Iraq: data journalism maps every death
- guardian.co.uk, Saturday October 23 2010
- Simon Rogers
UPDATE: an academic who has worked with the data has pointed out some of its limitations - you can read his take here Data journalism works best when there's a lot of data to work with. Wikileaks' Iraq war logs release has dumped some 391,000 records of the Iraq war into the public arena. We've had them for a few weeks - what have we found out? This is in a different league t (...)works best when there's a lot of data to work with. Wikileaks' Iraq war logs release has dumped some 391,000 records of (...)
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WikiLeaks Iraq war logs: Why Iraq has the right to know the full death toll
- guardian.co.uk, Saturday October 23 2010
- Hamit Dardagan and John Sloboda
All information about the deaths caused in any disaster, be it a man-made war or a natural catastrophe, is public information which no state has a right to withhold indefinitely. Even in military circles, the latest thinking accepts this view, for a variety of reasons that include its own best interests. We argued exactly this point in a recent article in the British Army (...)
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Iraq war logs: British legal threat as UN calls on Obama to look at torture claims
- guardian.co.uk, Saturday October 23 2010
- Mark Townsend, Jamie Doward and Paul Harris
Britain's role in the alleged torture and unlawful killing of Iraqi civilians may be the subject of legal action following the publication of nearly 400,000 leaked military documents by the website WikiLeaks. British lawyers said the classified US army field reports embroiled British as well as American forces in an alleged culture of abuse and extrajudicial killings in Iraq. (...)the publication of nearly 400,000 leaked military documents by the website WikiLeaks. British lawyers said the classified US army field reports embroiled British (...)
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Iraq war logs: military privatisation run amok
- guardian.co.uk, Saturday October 23 2010
- Pratap Chatterjee
Shortly after 10am on 14 May 2005, a convoy of private security guards from Blackwater riding down "Route Irish" – the Baghdad airport road – shot up a civilian Iraqi vehicle. While they were at it, the Blackwater men fired shots over the heads of a group of soldiers from the 69th Regiment of the US Army before they sped away heading west in their white armoured truck. When (...) (...)A terse, 57-word dispatch in the Iraq war logs published by Wikileaks is the first public evidence of the shooting, as recorded by (...)
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Iraq war logs: UN calls on Obama to investigate human rights abuses
- guardian.co.uk, Saturday October 23 2010
- David Batty and Jamie Doward
The UN has called on Barack Obama to order a full investigation of US forces' involvement in human rights abuses in Iraq after a massive leak of military documents that detail torture, summary executions and war crimes. The call, by the UN's chief investigator on torture, Manfred Nowak, came as Phil Shiner, human rights specialist at Public Interest Lawyers in the UK, warned t (...)systematic and generally unpunished. Nowak said that if the files released through WikiLeaks pointed to clear violations of the UN Convention Against Torture the (...)
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Iraq war logs: secret files show how US ignored torture
- Guardian Weekly, Friday October 22 2010
- Nick Davies, Jonathan Steele and David Leigh
A grim picture of the US and Britain's legacy in Iraq has been revealed in a massive leak of American military documents that detail torture, summary executions and war crimes. Almost 400,000 secret US army field reports have been passed to the Guardian and a number of other international media organisations via the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks. The electronic archive is (...)and a number of other international media organisations via the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks. The electronic archive is believed to emanate from the same dissident (...)
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Murdoch explains why a turbulent press must survive
- guardian.co.uk, Friday October 22 2010
- Roy Greenslade
In his inaugural Margaret Thatcher memorial speech last night Rupert Murdoch stuck mainly to underlining his belief in the virtues of the free market. No surprise there. In those passages where he did touch on the media, there were no surprises either. But that's not to say it wasn't interesting. I am sure that some commentators will see a contradiction between those moments (...)and sometimes daring. And, if we take this to a macro level, Wikileaks is a brilliant example of what can be done by individuals (...
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Iraq war logs: WikiLeaks v Washington
- guardian.co.uk, Friday October 22 2010
- David Leigh
This weekend's release of a second gigantic trove of leaked US military material raises the stakes for two people. One is Bradley Manning, a 22-year-old dissident American soldier being held in a military prison outside Washington charged with leaking similar material. The other is Julian Assange, 39, the Australian founder of WikiLeaks. He is currently "in hiding" in London, (...)similar material. The other is Julian Assange, 39, the Australian founder of WikiLeaks. He is currently "in hiding" in London, according to his friends. (...)
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China activists plan WikiLeaks-style site
- guardian.co.uk, Friday October 22 2010
- Tania Branigan in Beijing and agencies
Attempts to create a "Chinese WikiLeaks" project could result in lengthy jail sentences for internet users who send sensitive materials, critics warned today. The Government Leaks project says it believes that sharing secret documents will increase transparency and lead to political reform. An unidentified representative said in an email that around 60 people, including well- Attempts to create a "Chinese WikiLeaks" project could result in lengthy jail sentences for internet users who (...)
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Iraq war logs: Apache helicopters kill 14 civilians in hunt for insurgents
- guardian.co.uk, Friday October 22 2010
- Jonathan Steele
US Apache helicopters killed at least 14 unarmed civilians in a series of previously unreported "gun runs" in eastern Baghdad only four days after the notorious killing of two journalists and 10 other civilians that was captured on a leaked cockpit video released in April. The footage obtained by the WikiLeaks website led to the arrest of Iraq-based US army analyst Bradley Man (...)a leaked cockpit video released in April. The footage obtained by the WikiLeaks website led to the arrest of Iraq-based US army analyst (...)
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Iraq war logs: An introduction
- Guardian Weekly, Friday October 22 2010
- David Leigh
The invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq has been one of the most bloodily divisive international conflicts of the past decade. The reputations of George W Bush and Tony Blair, are stained, perhaps indelibly, by it. Today's gigantic leak from that long-running battleground, of 391,832 previously secret US military field reports, details the unvarnished and often unknown (...)is currently facing a court martial charged with leaking similar material to WikiLeaks, the online whistleblowing activists. WikiLeaks has defied the Pentagon to pass (...)
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Iraq war logs: disclosure condemned by Hillary Clinton and Nato
- guardian.co.uk, Friday October 22 2010
- Amy Fallon
The US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, condemned the release of almost 400,000 secret US army field reports by whistleblowing website WikiLeaks claiming the disclosure could put lives at risk. Speaking to reporters in Washington before the documents had been posted on the website, Clinton said she condemned "in the most clear terms the disclosure of any information by in (...)of almost 400,000 secret US army field reports by whistleblowing website WikiLeaks claiming the disclosure could put lives at risk. Speaking to reporters (...)
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Today's media stories from the papers
- guardian.co.uk, Friday October 22 2010
Top stories on MediaGuardian.co.ukMurdoch applauds coalition's 'tough' approach News Corp chairman, delivering inaugural Baroness Thatcher lecture, says 'coalition must not be for turning' BSkyB spends £2m on News Corp bid UK satellite TV group reveals outlay on 'advisory fees', as it beats forecasts for number of new subscribers World Service considers hosting ads on 31 fore (...)obsession not helping dance, ballet star says. P6Pentagon warning to Iraqis over WikiLeaks. P21Google ordered to help trace stalker. P22Melissa Whitworth: Talent shows have (...)
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Iraq war logs: Apache crew killed insurgents who tried to surrender
- guardian.co.uk, Friday October 22 2010
- David Leigh
A US gunship crew was cleared to attack two insurgents on the ground even though the pilots had reported that the men were trying to surrender, the leaked Iraq war logs reveal. The Apache helicopter pilots killed both Iraqi men after being advised by a US military lawyer that they could not surrender to an aircraft and therefore remained valid targets. A leading military law e (...)urban Baghdad. The killings drew worldwide condemnation in April this year when WikiLeaks obtained video footage taken from the helicopter's gun camera and (...)
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange slams Wired magazine on Twitter
- guardian.co.uk, Tuesday October 19 2010
- Josh Halliday
The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, has launched a verbal broadside against US technology magazine Wired, claiming the publication "has [an] agenda, doesn't check facts and is not to be trusted". Assange, the editor-in-chief of the controversial whistleblowing website, also claimed the Condé Nast title is a "known opponent and spreader of all sorts of minsinformation a The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, has launched a verbal broadside against US technology magazine (...)
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- guardian.co.uk, Tuesday October 19 2010
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Today's media stories from the papers
- guardian.co.uk, Tuesday October 19 2010
Top stories on MediaGuardian.co.ukBBC fears coalition licence fee raid Ministers are considering passing £556m bill for free TV licences for over-75s on to the corporation. By Dan Sabbagh YouView gets go-ahead from OfcomBBC-backed project to bring video-on-demand to Freeview and Freesat approved despite Virgin Media and BSkyB protests ITV confirms The X Factor and Britain's G (...)morale'. P10Screen violence 'numbs teenage minds'. P13Sweden shuts door on boss of WikiLeaks. P15Vladimir Putin's TV performance raises rumours of divorce. P16EMI dispute (...)
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