Previously hidden details of US-led unit sent to kill top insurgent targets are revealed for the first time
The Nato coalition in Afghanistan has been using an undisclosed "black" unit of special forces, Task Force 373, to hunt down targets for death or detention without trial. Details of more than 2,000 senior figures from the Taliban and al-Qaida are held on a "kill or capture" list, known as Jpel, the joint prioritised effects list.
Further reading: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/25/task-force-...liban
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3Further details of the leaks in the Guardian
Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, explains why he decided to publish thousands of secret US military files on the war in Afghanistan
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2010/jul/25/julia...rlogs
From US military computers to a cafe in Brussels, how thousands of classified papers found their way to online activists
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/25/wikileaks-w...story
White House attacks Pakistan over Taliban aid
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/25/pakistan-is...ngton
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/series/afghanistan-the-...-logs
Many thanks to Julian assange of wikileaks for getting this information out. Great site, great guy.
this episode was atrocious:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/26/afghanistan...rines
Here's a link to the video that made wikileaks famous.
http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=http%3A//www...nU3G0
If they showed this kinda thing on prime time every night, the war would soon be over.
It's vietnam all over again.
Long live wikileaks. I'm off to make a donat6ion
With Wikileaks, They Want To Shoot The Messenger
By Mary Shaw
http://www.countercurrents.org/shaw270710.htm
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is in hiding. The U.S. authorities apparently want to shoot the messenger (hopefully only in a figurative sense)
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