The Press conference held earlier Today October 23 2010 in London as Wikileaks published ~400 000 reports from the war in Iraq.
Wikileaks.org:
"At 5pm EST Friday 22nd October 2010 WikiLeaks released the largest classified military leak in history. The 391,832 reports ('The Iraq War Logs'), document the war and occupation in Iraq, from 1st January 2004 to 31st December 2009 (except for the months of May 2004 and March 2009) as told by soldiers in the United States Army. Each is a 'SIGACT' or Significant Action in the war. They detail events as seen and heard by the US military troops on the ground in Iraq and are the first real glimpse into the secret history of the war that the United States government has been privy to throughout.
The reports detail 109,032 deaths in Iraq, comprised of 66,081 'civilians'; 23,984 'enemy' (those labeled as insurgents); 15,196 'host nation' (Iraqi government forces) and 3,771 'friendly' (coalition forces). The majority of the deaths (66,000, over 60%) of these are civilian deaths.That is 31 civilians dying every day during the six year period. For comparison, the 'Afghan War Diaries', previously released by WikiLeaks, covering the same period, detail the deaths of some 20,000 people. Iraq during the same period, was five times as lethal with equivallent population size.
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*Edit: This link is an interactive map showing where all of the deaths in the Iraq war happened:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/datablog/interactive/2010/oct/23/wikileaks-iraq-deaths-map?
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geo321I can't wait for there to be a fallout from this tomorrow. If only to nudge people into studying what is happening in Iraq. The shifting in alliances has been rapid. Their going on about torture and civilian deaths is not what the US is concerned about. They can easily spin that to their population. I suspect that they are concerned about the US people realizing that there are no plans, or contingency plans for leaving 'strategic' military bases in Iraq.
gwiz665*quality *doublepromote
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notarobotFinally!
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Entropy001Well well well! If it isn't Good Old Uncle Sam showing his true colors!
handmethekeysyousays...Just an idea, don't have a guy named Shiner as your PR man.
YogiThought I'd post this here too. Cause I always need to be heard!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/online/secret-war-at-the-heart-of-wikileaks-2115637.html
This Article goes on about a Civil war brewing at Wikileaks. Although I find the timing of the Article suspect I usually trust the Independent.
Just as well if there are some former employees of Wikileaks that want to contribute more small leaks that will help shape reform in smaller closed off countries or corporations then how about they create their own Wikileaks? Someone should gather these people together...it's not hard it's all over the internet, and get them working on a smaller leak program. It wouldn't have to go after the American military machine because that seems to be covered...instead it could include all of what Wikileaks doesn't.
And hopefully the more of these programs pop up the more free our Media will become because they cannot simply ignore this stuff. Just look at when Blogs get ahold of something and it's all they can talk about...the media eventually has to comment on it. Lets put some pressure on them...start up more sites!
Payback>> ^handmethekeysyou:
Just an idea, don't have a guy named Shiner as your PR man.
Ya, Spinner would be more appropriate.
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