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WikiLeaks decided to go ahead and spill out hundreds of thousands of U.S. military documents on Saturday. Nearly 400,000 pages tell tales of secret military field reports spanning five years, which is the largest military leak in history. Some of the classified documents show claims of abuse by Iraqi security forces, while others show that American troops did nothing to stop state-sanctioned torture. The leaked documents are the second slew of documents the website has released. ...
Whistleblower website WikiLeaks said Tuesday that it would not speculate on what or when anything would be released, amid intense concerns that more US military documents would be published. In a tweet on the micro-blogging site Twitter, WikiLeaks said: "We did not say we were publishing something on Iraq." The US Pentagon said last week it was going through Iraq war documents trying to prepare for the potential fallout from the expected release of 400,000 secret military files by WikiLeaks....
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A WikiLeaks spokesman told reporters today that the website will not publish the 400,000 secret military reports on the Iraq war on Monday, but would make new documents public "very soon.""There are rumors that have been floating around for some time, there is nothing you can do about it, they're obviously not correct. I can confirm that there's nothing coming out today," Kristinn Hrafnsson told AFP."I can say with certainty that WikiLeaks will publish something very...
As whistleblower website WikiLeaks gets ready to release some 400,000 secret military documents, the Pentagon said Friday it was scouring through an Iraqi War database preparing for potential fallout from such a release of information.The substantial release would dwarf the website's publication of 77,000 classified military documents in July on the Afghanistan War. The documents released then contained names of Afghan informants and other details from intelligence reports. WikiLeaks also...
NATO's secretary general warned Friday that the release of a huge collection of classified Afghan war documents by Wikileaks could endanger the safety of international and Afghan troops.Wikileaks released about 77,000 US military documents on the war in July and plans to release about 15,000 more despite warnings that it might place informants and other named individuals at risk.Wikileaks published the material with the collaborative efforts of the New York Times, Britain's Guardian and Der...
An anti-piracy raid across 13 European countries Tuesday evening resulted in 10 arrests and the seizure of more than four dozen servers used to illegally distribute movies and TV programs online.Belgian police told AP and AFP reporters Wednesday that the coordinated operation, which also involved authorities from the Netherlands, France, Britain, Italy, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Austria and Hungary, led to the shutting down of 49 servers used by four different...
Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder, said he believes the Pentagon could be behind the rape allegation against him that has already been dropped by Swedish authorities. Assange's website has fallen under criticism from Washington over the publication of secret Afghan war documents. The Aftonbladet newspaper quoted Assange as saying that he did not know who was "hiding behind" the rape claim, which prompted prosecutors to issue a warrant for his arrest on Friday. "But we have been...
The Swedish Pirate Party has signed an agreement to host several WikiLeaks servers in a move to protect the Web site from pressure over its release of roughly 76,000 classified documents related to the U.S. war in Afghanistan, the party said on Tuesday.The move will also aim to strengthen WikiLeaks' ability to disclose potentially controversial content in the future, said the party, which works toward promoting greater Internet freedom.Indeed, WikiLeaks is set to release an additional 15,000...
WikiLeaks, a site that publishes submissions and leaks from anonymous parties, has gotten more pressure from the Pentagon not to release new ocuments on the war in Afghanistan, saying they posed even greater risks than previously released files. "We still are hopeful that WikiLeaks will not publish those documents," said Pentagon spokesman Colonel David Lapan. "We are concerned that the additional documents that they have may cause even greater risks than the ones they released previously."...
