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Gunman Hitched Ride With Doomed Medics

Militants 'had a plan,' lone survivor says

(Newser) - The doomed team of medics stopped to pick up three hitchhikers in the unforgiving Afghanistan terrain. When they came to a river, two jumped off the four-wheel-drive vehicles and went on their way, while the third, a man with a patchy beard, "quickly disappeared." The team crossed the...

WikiLeaks to Pentagon: More on the Way

Undeterred Assange to release 15K remaining docs

(Newser) - Julian Assange thumbed his nose at the Pentagon today, telling reporters in Stockholm that WikiLeaks is about halfway through a "line-by-line" review of its remaining 15,000 pages of documents, and will soon release them. "This organization will not be threatened by the Pentagon or any other group,...

Germany to Launch Afghanistan Offensive

Move will appease allies, but be unpopular at home

(Newser) - The German military intends to launch a major offensive against Taliban strongholds in northern Afghanistan, in part to appease NATO allies that have criticized the country for being too passive, the Wall Street Journal reports. But the move could spark a political backlash back in Germany, where the unpopular war...

Rights Groups Urge WikiLeaks to Censor Names

'There was no consideration about civilian lives'

(Newser) - WikiLeaks has won praise from human rights groups in the past but now several have added their voices to those criticizing its leak of classified Afghanistan war records. A coalition of rights groups has written to founder Julian Assange, urging him to remove the names of Afghan civilians from the...

US Asks Allies to Hunt Assange

Wikileaks founder may have worn out his welcome

(Newser) - The US has asked Britain, Germany, Australia, and other allies to consider arresting Julian Assange for leaking Afghan war documents. Washington believes Assange’s WikiLeaks, and organizations like it, pose a national security risk, and suspects Assange has worn out his welcome in many countries, officials tell the Daily Beast...

Pentagon to Wikileaks: We Want Our Files Back

Site needs to 'do the right thing' and return military records

(Newser) - Instead of asking the Pentagon to help scrub names from Afghanistan war records, Wikileaks should be handing back those records to their rightful owner without delay, the Pentagon says. "The only acceptable course is for Wikileaks to take steps to immediately return all versions of all of those documents,...

WikiLeaks Wants Pentagon Help Scrubbing Docs

Site asks for military help in making documents safe to publish

(Newser) - WikiLeaks—apparently heeding warnings it may have blood on its hands because of leaked Afghan documents—wants the Pentagon's help in scrubbing names from its next batch. The site has held back 15,000 more classified reports and it wants defense officials to help review them so they can be...

US' New Afghanistan Tactic: Targeted Killing

US gaining leverage by weeding out top Taliban

(Newser) - So much for winning hearts and minds in Afghanistan: The tactic that's working best for the US is the targeted assassination of insurgent leaders, reports the New York Times, rather than winning allegiance for providing stable government. Some 130 Taliban leaders have been taken out in the last five months,...

How Obama Can Save His Presidency
 How Obama Can 
 Save His Presidency 
william kristol
Jul 31, 2010 12:47 PM CDT

How Obama Can Save His Presidency

In three simple steps!

(Newser) - President Obama is on the path to a "failed presidency," writes William Kristol, but luckily for him, Kristol offers three easy steps to success in the Weekly Standard :
  • Freeze the Bush tax cuts for 2 years: "There would be some ineffectual sniping from the left, but it
...

WikiLeaks Suspect Transferred to US Soil

Army's Manning faces trial in another leak

(Newser) - The White House today implored WikiLeaks to stop posting secret Afghanistan war documents as the Pentagon brought the soldier suspected of leaking the information back to the US for trial in another case. "I think it's important that no more damage be done to our national security," Robert...

WikiLeaks May Have Blood on Its Hands: Mullen

Gates, Mullen warn Afghan leak will do great harm to US, allies

(Newser) - Julian Assange et al "might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that of an Afghan family," because of the massive leak of Afghan war records, Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen told reporters at the Pentagon yesterday. Mullen and Defense Secretary Robert...

Afghan Women Dread Peace With Taliban

TIME talks to woman mutilated by militants

(Newser) - It appears increasingly likely that the US exit strategy from Afghanistan will involve some form of reconciliation with the Taliban. But that’s a terrifying thing for many Afghan women, Time reports this week, plastering on its cover the grisly image of an 18-year-old woman who had her nose and...

Leaks Make It Clear: We Still Don't Have a Clue
Leaks Make It Clear:
We Still Don't Have a Clue
maureen dowd
Jul 28, 2010 12:59 PM CDT

Leaks Make It Clear: We Still Don't Have a Clue

We can create insurgencies, just not armies

(Newser) - Robert Gibbs may be correct in asserting that the WikiLeaks trove unearthed nothing fundamentally new, writes Maureen Dowd, but "it reflected one chilling fact: the Taliban has been getting better and better every year of the insurgency. So why will 30,000 more troops help?" We seem to be...

Afghans: NATO Strike Targeted Civilians

Villagers: 52 civilians killed in Helmand skirmish

(Newser) - Amidst the flood of leaked news of previously unreported civilian casualties in Afghanistan, angry Afghans say a NATO rocket attack on their Helmand province town on Friday deliberately targeted civilians, killing 52. "The foreign forces could see us," a villager who claims 17 members of his extended family...

Obama's Afghan Troop Surge Clears Congress

He gets money for increase of 30,000

(Newser) - The House today sent President Obama a major war-funding increase of $33 billion to pay for his troop surge in Afghanistan, unmoved by the leaking of classified documents that portray a struggling military effort. The House voted 308-114 to approve the spending boost for the additional 30,000 US troops...

WikiLeaks Revelations: Don't Hate, Congratulate

Website's motivations don't matter; full disclosure does

(Newser) - The inevitable backlash over the information in the WikiLeaks documents completely misses the point, writes the LA Times editorial board. "WikiLeaks and its media colleagues appear to have behaved thoughtfully," and "what motivates WikiLeaks to post classified material is barely even interesting, much less important." In...

White House Scrambles to Downplay Afghan Leak

Administration stresses files date to Bush era

(Newser) - White House officials on damage control after the massive leak of Afghan war records on Wikileaks are stressing that most of the records date from the Bush administration, and all of them predate President Obama's December 2009 shift in strategy. The leaked records back up Obama's decision to boost troop...

Pentagon Looks at Army Intel Analyst's Role in Afghan Leak

Bradley Manning only worked on Iraq war

(Newser) - Who could've given nearly 1 million classified Afghanistan war documents to WikiLeaks? The military is taking a close look at Bradley Manning, an intelligence analyst already charged with leaking documents to the site. Manning would be a perfect suspect, except for one fact: He was stationed in Iraq and had...

WikiLeaks Documents Are Not the Pentagon Papers

War logs don't match revelations of Vietnam skullduggery

(Newser) - The release of 92,000 classified documents related to the Afghanistan war has prompted many comparisons to the Pentagon Papers. But that's a bit superficial, writes Richard Tofel for ProPublica . "In terms of important disclosures, it's not even close." The biggest WikiLeaks revelations involve Taliban fighters' use of...

Wikileaks Boss: Afghan Log Like 'Opening the Stasi Archives'

Assange accuses US of 'war crimes'

(Newser) - Wikileaks founder Julian Assange gave an hour-long press conference at the Frontline club in London today, holding forth in front of an iconic Vietnam-era photo of a haunted-looking US solider, the Guardian reports. He defended his group’s decision to leak the documents, calling it “the equivalent of opening...

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