Saddam Hussein aide Tariq Aziz sentenced to hang
BAGHDAD (AP) — The international face of Saddam Hussein's regime, Tariq Aziz, was sentenced to death by hanging Tuesday for persecuting Shiites just over three months after the Americans transferred him to Iraqi government custody.Iraqi High Tribunal spokesman Mohammed Abdul-Sahib did not say when the 74-year-old former foreign minister would ...
Danish PM demands answers over torture report
COPENHAGEN, Tuesday — Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen said Tuesday he had ordered the country’s defence ministry to provide a full report on allegations Danish troops handed Iraqi insurgents over for torture.Confidential documents published on Friday by whistleblowing website WikiLeaks showed that Danish troops deployed in Iraq from 2003 ...
UN rights chief urges US, Iraq to probe WikiLeaks evidence
GENEVA — UN human rights chief Navi Pillay on Tuesday urged Iraq and the United States to investigate allegations of torture and unlawful killings in the Iraq conflict revealed in documents leaked last week."The US and Iraqi authorities should take necessary measures to investigate all allegations made in these reports ...
Meet the Cartoon Character the Army is Using to Combat Wikileaks
Wikileaks has the Army totally freaked out, and it's stepping up its efforts to keep sensitive information out of unauthorized hands. This lame cartoon character it uses to train soldiers not to leak stuff doesn't seem up to the challenge.[...][Click here to read the rest of this post from Gawker]
US rebuffs Wikileaks Iraq torture claims
The US says it did not "turn a blind eye" to torture in Iraq, in response to allegations raised in files published by whistleblower website Wikileaks.[...]But Gen Casey told reporters on Monday that the policy during the administration of President George W Bush was to report abuse."Our policy all along ...
U.S. says did not under-report Iraq civilian deaths
[...]Pentagon spokesman Colonel Dave Lapan said the U.S. military never claimed to have an exact count of the number of civilians killed in Iraq. Lapan noted that estimates made by private organizations of civilian deaths in Iraq also have varied."Over the years, it has been impossible for the various organizations, ...
US Denies Downplaying Iraq Civilian Deaths, Condoning Prisoner Abuse
The U.S. Army general who commanded coalition forces in Iraq for 2 1/2 years denied allegations on Monday based on the WikiLeaks documents published last week that his forces undercounted Iraqi civilian casualties and condoned the abuse of prisoners by Iraqi forces.General George Casey, who is now Chief of Staff ...
'Crazy Horse' and collateral damage
In June 2007, a US army Apache helicopter fired missiles at two "bongo trucks" - flatbed pickups – allegedly transporting "multiple persons with weapons" south of Baghdad. It remained in the area for several hours, and went on to fire several more missiles, despite the obvious presence of civilians.UAV observes ...
NEW YORK – October 23 – The following statement may be attributed to Colleen Kelly, a founding member of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows The information made public by Wikileaks (NY Times, A Grim Report…10/22/10) emphasizes that 9/11 families have much in common with Iraqi civilians. In the more ...
Gulf states urge US to probe Wikileaks Iraq 'crimes'
The Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) has urged Washington to investigate alleged "crimes against humanity" in Iraq after Wikileaks published scores of war logs. The documents revealed by the whistleblower website suggest US forces turned a blind eye to widespread torture by Iraqi security forces. In a statement, the council said ...
Firm failed to report Iraq shooting error
PRIVATE soldiers now guarding Australian diplomats in Baghdad shot one of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's bodyguards by mistake three years ago and then failed to report it to coalition forces, a document released by WikiLeaks reveals.[...]President Talabani's bodyguard was in a truck behind the Unity guards. When his vehicle got ...
Soldiers shot President's bodyguard in error
Private soldiers now guarding Australian diplomats in Baghdad shot one of the bodyguards of the Iraqi President, Jalal Talabani, by mistake nearly three years ago and failed to tell Coalition forces, a document released by WikiLeaks reveals. The accidental shooting is the latest in a series of worrying incidents involving ...
Iraq war logs: Apache attack's child victims speak out
On a hot July day in 2007, taxi driver Salah Mutasher Toman swept his two young children into the passenger seat of his white minivan. He bade his brother, Sabah Toman, farewell and started making his way home, a short drive across the neighbourhood, through militia-held territory.The area had echoed ...
China paper slams US after WikiLeaks claims
[...]"The magnitude of the crimes should make every righteous person angry. It again puts a big question mark against the US self-proclaimed image as the world human rights champion," the China Daily said in a commentary."For years, the US has been wielding the banner of human rights to criticise others, ...
UK calls for US response to Iraq dossier on WikiLeaks
BRITAIN said yesterday that the allegations against US-led forces for previously unreported civilian deaths and ignoring torture carried out by Iraqi forces, contained in “leaked” military documents on whistle- blower website WikiLeaks, were “extraordinarily serious”.British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg told BBC television people were waiting for an official response ...
US under pressure over WikiLeaks allegations
Washington on Sunday came under increasing pressure to investigate the allegations in the leaked Iraq war documents published by WikiLeaks, which Britain's deputy premier called "shocking".Governments and human rights organisations alike put the focus on answers to the allegations made against US, allied and Iraqi troops as the whistleblowing website ...
Deserters hope to get more ammo from WikiLeaks
A U.S. army deserter says he’s hoping the new WikiLeaks release of thousands of pages of classified documents, containing accusations of human-rights abuses during the Iraq war, will bolster his bid to remain in Canada.Joshua Key, who fled to Canada after serving seven months in Iraq, said the latest release ...
WikiLeaks vows more revelations
WIKILEAKS plans to release another batch of 15,000 classified documents relating to the war in Afghanistan following its weekend disclosure of a ream of US army reports detailing civilian deaths and detainee abuse during the Iraq war. The new documents would be released in the near future, according to WikiLeaks' ...
Mullen condemns latest release from Wikileaks
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff accused Wikileaks of aiding enemies of the international coalition via Twitter.The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was among the the U.S. government officials who condemned Wikileaks latest release of almost 400,000 classified documents from the war in Iraq over the ...
WikiLeaks Snapshot: A Week in War
While Americans were wrapping up their Thanksgiving weekend and turning towards holiday shopping in 2005, the war raged on in Iraq. Through official reports, the Pentagon announced the deaths of 22 soldiers serving in Iraq during the week of Sunday, November 27, 2005 through Saturday December 3, 2005. [...]On Tuesday ...
An Iraq Surge Vet on Wikileaks
Dear members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and other willing parties, This is an anticipatory letter aimed to advise you on your response and responsibility for the coming Wikileaks release, expected on October 23rd. Based on the White House’s response to the last leak about Afghanistan, the ...
Journalists banned from major Afghan offensive
A statement from March Forward!Remember the massive military operation involving several thousand U.S. troops, heavy bombing and artillery that “made the sky light up,” carried out by U.S. forces in Afghanistan over the first two weeks of October? Probably not. Convenient logistical problems caused all the journalists trying to cover ...
VIDEOS: Systematically Trained Abusive Soldiers
These are videos I took from soldiers of Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry. If the name sounds familiar, it should. This was the unit I was in that was also depicted in the “collateral murder” video released by WikiLeaks.I started to “acquire” these videos and some pictures once I ...
360 Degrees of Rotational Fire
When we deployed we were told that the only way for us to effectively maintain control over our AO (area of operation) was to, in a sense, out-terrorize the terrorists. We were to make the people of Iraq fear us and the repercussions from us more so than the insurgents. ...
Protesters rally behind imprisoned soldier
QUANTICO, Va. - Chants of “Free Bradley Manning” filled the air Sunday afternoon at the Quantico Municipal Park during a rally in support of the Army private first class charged with the unauthorized use and disclosure of classified information.“We’re concerned because specifically we believe there are war crimes being committed ...
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