Update: Wikileaks ‘confirms’ it has video of US massacre in Afghanistan
By Raw Story
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010 -- 9:42 am
The whistleblower website that posted video of a US Army helicopter firing on unarmed civilians and killing two Reuters employees is ready to do it again, its founder says.
Wikileaks' founder Julian Assange says he has obtained video of a US "massacre" that took place in Afghanistan in 2009.
The British newspaper The Telegraph claimed that the site had a copy of video from the attack in April.
"The clip will show previously classified footage from US warplanes that had been tapped to bomb Taliban positions in Farah province, Afghanistan last year," the paper said. "The Afghan government said at the time that the strikes by F-18 and B1 planes near Garani killed 147 civilians. An independent Afghan inquiry later put the toll at 86."
While denying again that WikiLeaks has the State Department cables, Assange acknowledges in the email today that he is in custody of the May 2009 video that shows the airstrike on the Afghan village of Garani, believed to be the most lethal combat strike in Afghanistan—in terms of civilian deaths—since the United States invaded the country in 2001. Assange writes that “we are still working on” preparations for release of the video of “the Garani massacre.”
The State Department and Pentagon did not immediately comment on Assange’s email message.
American officials have acknowledged in the past that they are concerned about the release of the Garani video, fearing that it could undermine public support for the American military campaign in Afghanistan both in that country and in the United States. Pentagon officials were outraged by WikiLeaks’ release of the Baghdad video this spring.
Shenon asserted last week that the Pentagon is "desperately" searching for the founder of the whistleblower website Wikileaks, out of concern he is about to publish classified US State Department cables.
Curiously, the piece cites an American diplomat as saying their chief concern is the leak of communications "prepared by diplomats and State Department officials throughout the Middle East, regarding the workings of Arab governments and their leaders."
The concern over US communications about Arab governments seems slightly surprising in lieu of the fact the cables also "contained information related to American diplomatic and intelligence efforts in the war zones in Afghanistan and Iraq," which would, in theory, be of greater concern to Pentagon bosses running US war efforts.
Authorities are said to be seeking Wikilieaks founder Julian Assange, who allegedly came into possession of secret US cables after they were leaked by a 22-year-old Army intelligence officer. The Army specialist, Bradley Manning, was recently arrested and is being held in Kuwait.
Re: Wikileaks ‘confirms’ it has video of US massacre in Afghanistan
Asalamu Alikum Wr Wb!
See! That is why I always say to my friends that Allah has His own plans. Pentagon can try as much as it want but if Allah wants the footage to be shown to masses and thus exposing truth, then it'll for sure happen!
Allah even takes work from non-Muslims. This person Julian Assange, is a non-Muslim, but just look how he is risking his life for the purpose.
Now I don't know what his actual motive would be ; e.g. fame, or enmity to the govt, but whatever it is, it is benefiting the Muslims!
The previous Iraq footage was hell of an eye opener! The US beasts opened fire on innocent civilians!
Re: Wikileaks ‘confirms’ it has video of US massacre in Afghanistan
format_quote Originally Posted by An33za
Asalamu Alikum Wr Wb!
See! That is why I always say to my friends that Allah has His own plans. Pentagon can try as much as it want but if Allah wants the footage to be shown to masses and thus exposing truth, then it'll for sure happen!
Allah even takes work from non-Muslims. This person Julian Assange, is a non-Muslim, but just look how he is risking his life for the purpose.
Now I don't know what his actual motive would be ; e.g. fame, or enmity to the govt, but whatever it is, it is benefiting the Muslims!
The previous Iraq footage was hell of an eye opener! The US beasts opened fire on innocent civilians!
Hmmm coming from Wikileaks i'd question its validity too many times there footages/documents have been edited before to incite progressive outrage, i remember the last one was similar to this in Iraq had a bit of clever editing, but if holds true then well here is another blow to the US army reputation hopefully people will see what they truly are
Last edited by S<Chowdhury; 06-18-2010 at 11:15 AM.
To my Akh's tryin to stay on their deen
It gets mean especially when u stay on the scene
And at the same try to stay out of trouble
But don't forget the blessing's in the struggle...
You gotta stay on your salats, your zakats, your Quran
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^ yeah good point raised brother! But I don't know what should be done about it. Your right that editing etc is done but very less can be done about it...
This now further highlights the importance of an unbiased and reliable media; a media whom both sides can trust!
Re: Wikileaks ‘confirms’ it has video of US massacre in Afghanistan
the US is more worried about the video leak and damage to public support than the fact that 150 civilians were wiped out by their barbaric terrorist army
He it is Who sends blessings on you, as do His angels, that He may bring you out from the depths of Darkness into Light: and He is Full of Mercy to the Believers. [Quran {33:43}] www.QuranicAudio.com www.Quran.com
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format_quote Originally Posted by naidamar
Can't wait to read the condemnation and disgusts by hordes of on board non-muslims who have been very critical of the talibans.
I've been critical of the taliban but I've never defended the Americans, in fact I've ranted about them a couple of times. If it did happen of course it's disgusting. Wikileaks is a questionable source.
I don't see why because someone doesn't like the taliban they must immediately be a big supporter of America.
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format_quote Originally Posted by LauraS
I've been critical of the taliban but I've never defended the Americans, in fact I've ranted about them a couple of times. If it did happen of course it's disgusting. Wikileaks is a questionable source.
I don't see why because someone doesn't like the taliban they must immediately be a big supporter of America.
Its funny you use the same method that the taliban supporters on this forum use - "If it did happen" and "questionable source".
Do you think the pious don't sin?
They merely:
Veiled themselves and didn't flaunt it
Sought forgiveness and didn't persist
Took ownership of it and don't justify it
And acted with excellence after they had erred - Ibn al-Qayyim
Re: Wikileaks ‘confirms’ it has video of US massacre in Afghanistan
format_quote Originally Posted by LauraS
I've been critical of the taliban but I've never defended the Americans, in fact I've ranted about them a couple of times. If it did happen of course it's disgusting. Wikileaks is a questionable source.
I don't see why because someone doesn't like the taliban they must immediately be a big supporter of America.
True, but the difference is I feel America could be capable of such things and don't blindly defend them and anything to do with wiki is a questionable source, because anybody can put anything like the fake death reports of different celebrities.
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format_quote Originally Posted by LauraS
True, but the difference is I feel America could be capable of such things and don't blindly defend them and anything to do with wiki is a questionable source, because anybody can put anything like the fake death reports of different celebrities.
Yh but decoded classified military video footage is not something any laymen can make up or get a hold of
He it is Who sends blessings on you, as do His angels, that He may bring you out from the depths of Darkness into Light: and He is Full of Mercy to the Believers. [Quran {33:43}] www.QuranicAudio.com www.Quran.com
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format_quote Originally Posted by aadil77
Yh but decoded classified military video footage is not something any laymen can make up or get a hold of
True but after initially getting hold of the video and converting it, the editing that video is something anyone can do with technology as it is , if you remember the Iraq Footage i can't remember exactly but the video was edited and scenes cut out from the video
Last edited by S<Chowdhury; 06-20-2010 at 12:09 PM.
To my Akh's tryin to stay on their deen
It gets mean especially when u stay on the scene
And at the same try to stay out of trouble
But don't forget the blessing's in the struggle...
You gotta stay on your salats, your zakats, your Quran
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Salaam
A new leak regarding the Iraq war has just been released today. (Post it here to save some forum space)
At 5pm EST Friday 22nd October 2010 WikiLeaks released the largest classified military leak in history. The 391,832 reports ('The Iraq War Logs'), document the war and occupation in Iraq, from 1st January 2004 to 31st December 2009 (except for the months of May 2004 and March 2009) as told by soldiers in the United States Army. Each is a 'SIGACT' or Significant Action in the war. They detail events as seen and heard by the US military troops on the ground in Iraq and are the first real glimpse into the secret history of the war that the United States government has been privy to throughout.
The reports detail 109,032 deaths in Iraq, comprised of 66,081 'civilians'; 23,984 'enemy' (those labeled as insurgents); 15,196 'host nation' (Iraqi government forces) and 3,771 'friendly' (coalition forces). The majority of the deaths (66,000, over 60%) of these are civilian deaths.That is 31 civilians dying every day during the six year period. For comparison, the 'Afghan War Diaries', previously released by WikiLeaks, covering the same period, detail the deaths of some 20,000 people. Iraq during the same period, was five times as lethal with equivallent population size.
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Leak aimed to bring out truth of Iraq war: Assange
Press Trust of India, Updated: October 23, 2010 17:15 IST
London: Thousands of classified Iraq war documents made public by WikiLeaks are aimed at bringing out the truth, that had been the first casualty of war, the website's founder Julian Assange said today, adding that he wanted the leak to have the maximum possible impact.
"This first casualty of war is the truth," Julian Assange told a news conference here, hours after the whistleblower released a fresh cache of classified military documents.
In what is the largest classified military leak in US' history, the website has released nearly 400,000 secret American documents on the Iraq war detailing graphic accounts of torture and the killing of over 66,000 civilians.
The website said it would now release another set of documents on the war in Afghanistan.
"We hope to correct some of that attack on the truth that occurred before the war, during the war, and which has continued on since the war officially concluded," Assange said.
He said the military logs documented 109,000 violent deaths in Iraq between 2004 and 2009, including 66,000 civilians. Of this, 15,000 deaths were previously undocumented.
"That tremendous scale should not make us blind to the small human scale in this material. It is the deaths of one and two people per event that killed the overwhelming number of people in Iraq," he was quoted as saying by local media.
WikiLeaks' spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson said the website would also soon release another batch of 15,000 secret files on the Afghan war.
Assange had earlier said that the fresh batch of reports shows "compelling evidence of war crimes" committed by forces of the US-led coalition and the Iraqi government.
Some documents show that the US troops did nothing to stop the abuse by Iraqi forces.
The Iraqi government, meanwhile, said the documents "did not contain any surprises".
Earlier this year, WikiLeaks had released 92,000 Afghan war-related documents.
Re: Wikileaks ‘confirms’ it has video of US massacre in Afghanistan
And the documents leaked by wikileaks is most likely just FRACTIONS of what really went on in Iraq in Afghanistan, as they are documented. I am certain that the undocumented "events" number to multiple times more.
It is interesting to note that our residents atheists, agnostics, christians and other assorted non-muslims who are normally very vocal at the first hint of "a plan for shoe-bombing (lol!) a plane is foiled!" have been resoundingly quiet (how deafening is the sound of their silence!) and have now gone back on hiding to their little caves under a rock.
a Hypocrite is always a hypocrite no matter how hard they are trying to hide their ignorance and hate under a disguise of "intelligence and peace and love thy neighbor" (lol!)
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