Wikileaks Gives Lazy Journalists Biased History Of War In Afghanistan: Pictures
NEWS of the War in Afghanistan comes in the form of 90,000 documents leaked by the Wikileaks website. It’s news of the war between January 2004 and December 2009, as told by US military to Us military. The Guardian, the New York Times and Der Spiegel all lead with the leak.
Why did Wikileaks and its founder Julian Assange target these organs? What of the sites’ biases? Interesting and clever to get the mainstream media on side – and with all those corporate lawyers and high visibility should things turn nasty. The full story needs to be invesitgated.
Wikileaks understands this – and it understands that journalists have gotten lazy. Why investigate the difficult story of a distant war – and all that need to talk to actual soldiers and experience it first hand – when you can just publish a load of hand delivered info on the web from your armchair?
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And what of the shocks?
Well, there are the “black ops” soldiers who seek out the Taliban to kill without trial. There are more civilian deaths than many might have thought because the Taliban are trying to kill local police and have increased their use of road-side bombs.
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The Guardian:
92,201 internal records of actions by the US military in Afghanistanbetween January 2004 and December 2009 – threat reports from intelligence agencies, plans and accounts of coalition operations, descriptions of enemy attacks and roadside bombs, records of meetings with local politicians, most of them classified secret.
US national security adviser Gen James Jones claims the leak “could put the lives of Americans and our partners at risk, and threaten our national security”.
Or these leaked documents could just tells us what we already suspect. There’s a war on. It’s not just what you see on the telly. You need to pick sides.
The public has a right to know! A right to know what? Every detail of a war that began in 2001?
And one question you might like to ask – and this is one which the Guardian does not, perhaps seeing these documents as a chance to seep out damning statistics like the Telegraph did with the MPs expenses scandal – who leaked the files and how do we know they are valid?
And where the hell is Anna Chapman in all of this?
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***NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT *** Phil Woodhams from Amputees in Action acts as a 'casualty' for Royal Navy sailors undergoing pre deployment training at Longmoor Camp near Petersfield in Hampshire. Improvised explosive devices are the biggest threat to soldiers in Afghanistan causing severe injuries to limbs. The trainees at Longmoor are thrown into scenarios where the amputees wear prosthetic limbs replicating an injury from an IED and must then offer medical assistance. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday March 18, 2010. Amputees in Action claims to be able to supply Trauma Casualty Amputees and walking wounded displaying any injury to any Casualty Simulation for any medical or emergency training exercise. Amputees add dynamics to a simulation with extra depth of knowledge and understanding gained from their experiences. Photo credit should read: Chris Ison/PA Wire.
Posted: 26th, July 2010 | In: Key Posts, Reviews Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
