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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 logscompiled by the US army and containing hour-by-hour military field reports. The 391,832 previously secret(...)atrocities has emerged following the leak of a vast number of Iraqwar logs compiled by the US army and containing hour-by-hour (...)
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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 (...)(...)deaths throughout the eight-year war are 15,000 higher than...leaders who returned to remove Iraq from oppression toppled the (...)
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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 (...)(...)relations, Queen Mary, University of LondonThe revelations contained in the WikiLeaks Iraq war logs triggered a fierce political debate in Baghdad when they were (...)
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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 knownIraq-wide and results of their numerous raids are(...)seen as indiscriminate and predatory. The unit's reputation had been known Iraq-wide and results of their numerous raids are still bogged down (...)
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Steve Bell on the Iraq war logs
- guardian.co.uk, Wednesday October 27 2010
Cartoon:The leaking of more than 390,000 previously secret US military reports details the hidden realities of the war in Iraq(...)seen as indiscriminate and predatory. The unit's reputation had been known Iraq-wide and results of their numerous raids are still bogged down (...)
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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(...)release by WikiLeaks last week of 391,832 reports dubbed theIraq war logs, which revealed evidence of the systematic use of torture by (...)
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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 thewar 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 warin Afghanistan endangered Afghan lives. Little more than two weeks later, Gates admitted in a (...)(...)war logs, which show there were more than 109,000 violent deaths between 2004 and the end of 2009, a tally which, according toIraq...
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The trail of torture that leads to Iraq
- guardian.co.uk, Tuesday October 26 2010
What's the difference between acts of omission and of commission in the case of US authorities in Iraq (Iraq war logs,
23 October)? We now know that hundreds of reports of torture, rape and
murder were ignored by US officers. US troops stood by as abuses were
conducted in full view: they were obeying orders, in this case order
Frago 242 – what the Guardian calls "a licence to (...)(...)and of commission in the case of US authorities in Iraq (Iraq warlogs, 23 October)? We now know that hundreds of reports of (...)
Politics
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 logswhich
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 (...)Of all the extraordinary and chilling details about the Iraq war logswhich have tumbled out of Wikileaks' files into the pages (...)
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Like my Pentagon papers, these Iraq war logscan'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 warwhich 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(...)revealed repeated lies and cover-ups by the administration. The Iraq war logs, published this weekend by Wikileaks, could be even more (...)
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