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Thus the term Slow Saturday.
And they even throw in some CENSORSHIP to boot!!!!
"Iraq war leaks: No US investigation of many abuses" by Raphael G. Satter and Michael Weissenstein, Associated Press Writers | October 22, 2010
LONDON --U.S. forces often failed to follow up on credible evidence that Iraqi forces mistreated, tortured and killed their captives as they battled a violent insurgency, according to accounts contained in what was purportedly the largest leak of secret information in U.S. history.
Why would they? They don't even follow up on their own.
The documents are among nearly 400,000 released Friday by the WikiLeaks website in defiance of Pentagon insistence that the action puts the lives of U.S. troops and their coalition partners at risk.
I'm sick of the manipulative games, folks.
See: Wikileaks Psyops Takes a New Twist
Wikileaks and the CIA - Third Rate Romance
Wiki-Leaks is Israel
WickedLeaks
Wikileaks Story Down to a Whisper
AmeriKan MSM Whistling While Wikileaking Lies
MSM Monitor Goes Deaf
Will You Still Love Wikileaks Tomorrow?
I am convinced now more than ever they are a propaganda front -- and I am SICK of the GAME!
IF you MAKE the PAPER you are PART of the PROPAGANDA!
Although the documents appear to be authentic, their origin could not be independently confirmed, and WikiLeaks declined to offer any details about them.
That never stopped the Zionist War Daily before.
The Pentagon has previously declined to confirm the authenticity of WikiLeaks-released records, but it has employed more than 100 U.S. analysts to review what was previously released and has never indicated that any past WikiLeaks releases were inaccurate.
The 391,831 documents date from the start of 2004 to Jan. 1, 2010, mostly by low-ranking officers in the field. In terse, dry language, they catalog thousands of battles with insurgents and roadside bomb attacks, along with equipment failures and shootings by civilian contractors.
The United States went to war in part to end the brutality of Saddam Hussein's regime, but the WikiLeaks material depicts American officers caught in a complicated and chaotic conflict in which they frequently could do little but report to their superiors when they found evidence that their Iraqi allies were committing their own abuses.
Yeah, it WAS NEVER ABOUT NON-EXISTENT WMD or "nook-u-lar" bombs!!
Nothing like GOOD OLD OBFUSCATION in the "newspaper."
WikiLeaks offered The Associated Press and other news organizations access to a searchable database of redacted versions of the reports three hours prior to its general release Friday. A few news organizations, including the New York Times, Le Monde, The Guardian and Der Spiegel, were given access to the material far earlier.
And they just sat on it, huh?
WikiLeaks describes itself as a public service organization whose mission is to "protect whistle-blowers, journalists and activists who have sensitive materials to communicate to the public."
And inform the government who is doing the leaking.
In July, despite objections by the U.S. government, it posted almost 77,000 documents from the Afghan conflict on its website.
Following that release, WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange drew controversy for comments that he wished to expose war crimes. He also became the target of allegations of sexual misconduct in Sweden that he has denied.
The military has a continuing investigation into how the documents were leaked. An Army intelligence analyst stationed in Iraq, Spc. Bradley Manning, has been arrested in connection with the earlier release.
Can you say designated scapegoat? How about lone patsy?
In Friday's release, names and other pieces of identifying information appeared to have been redacted but it was unclear to what extent WikiLeaks withheld names in response to Pentagon concerns that people could become targets of retribution.
Allegations of torture and brutality by Shiite-dominated security forces -- mostly against Sunni prisoners -- were widely reported during the most violent years of the war when the rival Islamic sects turned on one another in Baghdad and other cities.
Where? Not in the newspaper!
The leaked documents provide a ground's eye view of abuses as reported by U.S. military personnel to their superiors, and appear to corroborate much of the past reporting. They appeared to mostly be contemporaneous -- routine field accounts that junior officers in units deployed across Iraq sent to headquarters within Iraq during the course of the war....
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Let the rewrite add a few things:
"Iraq war leaks: No US investigation of many abuses" by Raphael G. Satter and Michael Weissenstein, Associated Press Writers | October 23, 2010
LONDON -- The documents describe a full gamut of a country at war: shootings at military checkpoints, contractors firing on Iraqis and savage acts committed on prisoners using boiling water, metal rods, electric shocks and rubber hoses.
Thank God we rid you of Saddam, 'eh?
A group that counts casualties from the war said the files also document 15,000 previously unreported deaths....
Oh, what a shock.
In some cases, the reports show the U.S. military intervening to protect detainees, but in many others officers did not act on what their troops described as clear evidence of abuse....
Why would they? They torture, too!
The leaked documents include hundreds of reports from across Iraq with allegations of abuse. In a typical case from August 2006, filed by the 101st Airborne, U.S. forces discovered a murder suspect who claimed that Iraqi police hung him from the ceiling by handcuffs, tortured him with boiling water and beat him with rods....
In another case, U.S. soldiers inspecting an Iraq army base quizzed their Iraqi counterparts about a scab-covered detainee with two black eyes and a neck which had turned, in the words of the report, "red/yellow." The prisoner said he had been electrocuted. Iraqi officials claimed the man received the injuries while trying to escape, according to the report.
All governments lie, folks.
In many cases, U.S. forces did not appear to pursue the matter because there was no allegation that coalition forces were involved. Many reports signed off with: "As coalition forces were not involved in the alleged abuse, no further investigation is necessary."
See no evil, right?
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One report describes U.S. troops finding evidence of torture at a police station in Husaybah, including large amounts of blood, a wire used for electric shocks and a rubber hose. It describes ensuing visits by the Americans, checking of detention cells and demands for records on every prisoner.
"The detention cell officers have been counseled on the severe negative ramifications to relations with the coalition forces if human rights are not respected," it reads....
That type of hypocritical rhetoric is sickening.
The documents also provided new details about one of the most contentious issues of the war -- civilian casualties.
The U.S. military has recorded just over 66,000 civilian deaths, according to the documents posted by WikiLeaks....
Try MILLIONS!
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Related: Secret files describe abuses in Iraq (By Greg Miller and Peter Finn, Washington Post)
I also no longer read WaPo updates provided by the Globe's web version.
