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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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    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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      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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        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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          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: 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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              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: 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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    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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      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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        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 (...)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: 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: 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: 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
                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 arean. We've had them for a few weeks - what have we found out? This is in a different league to the Wikileaks Afghanistan leak - there's a good case for saying the new release has made the war the most documented (...)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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                  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 (...)