Emerging Picture of War in Iraq and Afghanistan from Wikileaks Files: Devastating

Monday, 26 July 2010 16:11

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Wikileaks.org, over the past few months, has released some of the most damning evidence yet against theongoing occuptions in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Collateral Murder (released April 5, 2010)

Collateral Murder is the military's own video of 12 Iraqis being shot and killed from a UShelicopter circling above. No one has been charged in connection withthese killings. However, 22 yr. old Pfc. Bradley Manninghas been held incommunicado on military bases for several months now,suspected of leaking this incriminating video to Wikileaks. World Can'tWait is distributing copies of this harrowing video so that many morepeople in the US see what is being done in their names. For a copy, write to us.

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Message from Iraq Veterans Against the War:

What stands out to us at IVAW is the regular, seemingly commonplaceoccurance of civilian death depicted in the body of Wikileaksdocuments...

In a recent interview on Democracy Now, Wikileaks' founder, Julian Assange put out a call: "We really need the public, other journalists and especially formersoldiers to go through this material and say, 'Look, this connects tothat,' or 'I was there. Let me tell you what really happened. Let metell you the rest of the detail.' And over the next few days, we'll beputting up easier- and easier-to-use search interfaces, the same onesthat our journalistic teams use to extract this data."

These search tools will allow any soldier or veteran to look through thetrove of documents on Wikileaks and find reports of incidents they wereinvolved in to check for their accuracy and provide more details.
IVAW members are answering the call to humanize these 'war incidents.'Right now, we are mobilizing our membership to look through therelevant Wikileaks materials, and provide additional information forthe public.

For more information, see: ivaw.org

To help sift through the evidence released by Wikileaks, go to wardiary.wikileaks.org.

Afghan War Diary (released July 26, 2010)

Wikileaks released 76,000 military records exposing the truth of the unjust, illegitimate war in Afghanistan: revealing hundreds of civiliandeaths, execution squads, other war crimes. They have 15,000 morerecords from Afghanistan that they are holding back for the timebeing. For more on the developing picture emerging, see The Afghanistan War Logs on the Guardian UK and Wikileaks.org (both are being regularly updated). If Wikileaks is down, it may be overloaded. To see the files, go directly to wardiary.wikileaks.org.

Webcast: Anti-War Leaders and Veterans Respond to the WikiLeaks Revelations (recorded August 1, 2010)

Watch recording now: www.livestream.com/worldcantwait

World Can't Wait presents a national webcast of anti-war leaders and veterans responding to the WikiLeaks revelations. What should we doNOW, immediately to end the occupations of Afghanistan & Iraq?

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