WikiLeaks Iraq Documents Dump To Happen Early Next Week: Superbombs And Secret Jails

Wired:

The Afghanistan war logs were just the beginning. Coming as early as next week, WikiLeaks plans to disclose a new trove of military documents, this time covering some of the toughest years of the Iraq war. Up to 400,000 reports from 2004 to 2009 could be revealed this time -- five times the size of the Afghan document dump.

Read the whole story: Wired

Comments

[aliveoneinkiwiland]

06:17 AM on 10/19/2010

People at 700 news agencies and the Pentagon must feel really stupid considering Wired Magazine completely fabricated this story. Huffington was one of them.

Where do all these claims about WikiLeaks doing something on Iraq today (Monday) come from? A single tabloid blog at Wired Magazine!

That's right. Over 700 articles, newspapers all over the world, and newswires fooled by a tabloid blog - and each other.

Of course you won't see this blog cited, generally, in the mainstream press articles, because that would lessen the credibility of these articles back to where they belong: unsubstantiated, and indeed, false claims made by a source that is not credible. What is journalism coming to?

But Wired's blog is not just any source that lacks credibility. It is a known opponent and spreader of all sorts of misinformation about WikiLeaks. This dramatically ramped up since we demanded an investigation into what role they played in the arrest of the alleged journalistic source, US intelligence analyst Bradley Manning:

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/06/18/wikileaks

[tacevad]

10:18 PM on 10/18/2010

War is never pretty, that is why it should never be entered into lightly. The mistakes of the past will be paid for sooner or later.

[demma]

02:37 PM on 10/18/2010

Most of this crap happened under the Bush Admin- maybe this will force the President to go after them for war crimes. If the rest of the world is outraged and other countries are going after Cheney and Co. we need to follow suite.

[horsey]

11:58 AM on 10/18/2010

lost 200,000 AK 47's intended for Iraqi police and troops...pffff....you mean accidently on purpose someone lost them alright and then stuck the money in a swiss bank account.

bring it on Wiki leaks, we need you.

[Paulo1]

11:35 AM on 10/18/2010

If they didn't do anything wrong they have nothing to fear from having the documents published.

Its really too bad Obama backed himself into a corner with his orders not to prosecute or investigate war crimes. This all could have been in court and over with and we would all be sending Cheney and Rumsfield Christmas Cards in Gitmo rather than waiting for the Muslim world to explode when WikiLeaks publishes its latest stash of evidence.

[HumanityEqualsLaw]

07:15 AM on 10/18/2010

From a foreigner´s perspective there isn´t too much difference with China arresting people for speaking out and the US trying to contain info about their military misadventures (and possibly arresting leakers). In a real democracy this kind of info is the property of the people, and in a real democracy rule of law would demand prosecutions. But I guess the Empire is so unique it can get away with blatant BS, and often even have half the population cheering about it.

[Linda Williams]

01:50 PM on 10/18/2010

Sincerely, and since you are a foreigner, try this, "too much difference between China.....and the US....". That is clearer. Why not keep the argument to leaking of information rather than comparing protest and info leaking? Are China's and the US's governments the same? Trying to follow you but too many carrots are mixed with apples.

[HumanityEqualsLaw]

03:40 PM on 10/18/2010

I guess it was a kind of word salad, but the message should be clear anyway: if the US wants to posture as the good guys and preach others how they should behave, they should act accordingly and honor laws (domestic and international). Otherwise the sheer hypocricy won´t be fooling anyone outside the US.

[bhonest]

07:10 AM on 10/18/2010

Well, if one honestly wants to know the entire honest truth about that Iraqi mess, where do you go? :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln2pNcmIbyo

Australian TV, just couple of weeks ago....I honestly believe Iraqi's are so tired of this mess that they'll turn to ANYONE to find some sort of "peace" or order in the country. That "anyone" in my humble opinion has become Iran. I honestly believe U.S. is doing "fait accompli" and given up Iraq to the Iranian sphere...

I mentioned (half) jokingly in another blog about those Iranians and chess...U.S. "broke" it, "can't" afford to "keep" it, so giving it all up for "free" to them....Wow, That's what I call a government disclosure....

[muck-raker]

06:40 AM on 10/18/2010

Here is a first look, yes this is it: excerpt: Then, Fallujah revisited (1) with document after document revealing the depth of the darkest depravities towards others, which can be plumbed, by "some mother's son" - or daughter. Indeed, some child's father or mother, able to shoot the children, toddlers, babies of others, in cold blood, drive over them in tanks, leaving the pathetic remains to be eaten by stray dogs.

Photographs viewed have included many which even hardened investigators have deemed: "too disturbing to view." This is not a view I hold. If family members who have survived, emergency workers (when not incinerated by U.S., troops themselves) medical staff, if not shot, imprisoned, tortured, or tied up with a bag over their head) can view, identify, bury with love and respect - or in the case of medical staff, carefully photograph, and note time, location of finding, then number, wrap and retain for a period, before burial, hoping a relative will claim the charred, mutilated, or worse, remains. It is a duty for those with any "voice", from countries responsible for this first documentable U.S., U.K., genocide of the 21st century, to draw attention to it, in the memory of and in tribute to, the voiceless, nameless, uncounted victims, in the hope that eventually, legal recourse might result. this article is very long..do not look at pics

http://www.thewe.cc/weplanet/news/americas/us/war_crimes_fallujah.html

[James Croteau]

04:40 AM on 10/18/2010

This is what CNN had to say back in July:

“The top U.S. military officer said Thursday that Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, was risking lives to make a political point by publishing thousands of military reports from Afghanistan.”

and what CNN has to say now:

“The online leak of thousands of secret military documents from the war in Afghanistan by the website WikiLeaks did not disclose any sensitive intelligence sources or methods, the Department of Defense concluded.”

read the complete report

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/10/17/wikileaks/index.html

[senatortruth]

07:02 PM on 10/17/2010

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LaBrayne35

Why am I not surprised that our US military has not one friend in here...they protect and defend and the ilk in here wish them deeeaaaad...quite amazing.
********************************

WHY did TRAITTOR Buhs use "executive privilege" to COVER UP the

DEEEAAAATTTHHHH of Pat Tillman???

And people like YOU believe that Buhs is a "patriot" and not the

TRAITTOR against the USA that he IS...

QUITE "amazing", indeed!!!

[beatrice bboubes]

08:04 PM on 10/17/2010

Lay off the sauce, will ya?

[senatortruth]

10:58 PM on 10/17/2010

Stop thinking TRAITTORS like Buhs and Cheeney are "patriots",

will ya??

LOL!

[senatortruth]

07:01 PM on 10/17/2010

LaBrayne35

Why am I not surprised that our US military has not one friend in here...they protect and defend and the ilk in here wish them dead...quite amazing.
********************************

WHY did TRAITTOR Buhs use "executive privilege" to COVER UP the

DEEEAAAATTTHHHH of Pat Tillman???

And people like YOU believe that Buhs is a "patriot" and not the

TRAITTOR against the USA that he IS...

QUITE "amazing", indeed!!!

[m2b]

07:00 PM on 10/17/2010

I could not finish reading that article due to the extreme propaganda slant towards American Idealism.

What's up with this rediculous quote?

"Insurgents raided Iraq’s military weapons silos to jury-rig devices set off by a simple cellphone."

First of all, the majority of the insurgents were soldiers of the Iraqi army waiting for word from the US government for their next task in restoring order after the overthrowing of Saddam's regime. When Donald Rumsfeld and others decided to disband the army, who had mouths to feed, and had the keys to the weapons silos, became understandably pissed off and opened the front door of the weapons silo, as opposed to "raiding" it. I couldn't finish reading the article.

[knosiswar]

05:58 PM on 10/17/2010

I'm thinking this will lead to the prosecution of the US for war crimes, and we will be saddled with a hefty fine, and our tax rate will go over 50-70% and futher the effective loss of our soveriegnty to the bankers.

[Amryxx]

06:10 PM on 10/17/2010

"lead to the prosecution of the US for war crimes"

And who will put the leaders of the most powerful country on Earth to the docks?

[beatrice bboubes]

08:05 PM on 10/17/2010

f & f

[LiberalLee]

10:22 PM on 10/17/2010

Spain already has warrants out for Cheney.
Any other questions?
Or are you like Bush thinking US a$$holes are above the law?

[LaBrayne35]

05:41 PM on 10/17/2010

Why am I not surprised that our US military has not one friend in here...they protect and defend and the ilk in here wish them dead...quite amazing.

[Amryxx]

06:11 PM on 10/17/2010

"...they protect and defend and the ilk in here wish them dead"

Funny, I thought embarrassing the government so that they would get the US troops out of the quagmire is actually going to keep them alive.

[LiberalLee]

10:24 PM on 10/17/2010

Our military, as in our troops, weren't the ones giving the orders, planning strategies, and okaying abrogations of 65 year old treaties.
The BUSH administration was.
Big difference, Nobrayne.

[td69]

03:38 PM on 10/17/2010

WOW INCREDIBLE!!