Originally posted by Chriswok
The cynic in me says wikileaks sit on this info for as long as they can, drumming up interest and hype before selling the information on to Newspaper.

Its great the leaks are coming out, but its a shame that even this 'freedom act' of wikileaks evolves around money. I doubt the whistleblowers see any of it.

wikileaks pays to defend wistleblowers when neccery
this is a reason why IF wiki got paid i say yay

Is it me or is the leak more focused on showing what the Taliban is doing and not the allied forces..

Its like a semi-engineered leak...you leak it through wikileaks and so that way people will beleive it to be true...so you leak them stories about the big bad taliban..

Guys relax....according to some MSM outlets there will be much more leaks about Afghanistan and the CLIMAX end of this year

these leaks are just an "ENTREE" (92000 reports ? a small entree )...main course to follow, and the top stories like a chocolate cake desert around December.

[edit on 26-7-2010 by nagabonar]

This is great, finally we have got the trickle. He has done his homework good old Julian. He has given 3-4 media outlets (that aren't controlled under the D9) and has agreed in principle when the stories shouild be 'leaked' he has set up an encoded web site that will host the information. This is the start of things to come.

Watch out Blair your going to be next !

Originally posted by hillbillydudeman
THANK YOU WIKILEAKS!

I have no clue what we could do without it.

And what are you doing with it?

Originally posted by THE_PROFESSIONAL
Is it me or is the leak more focused on showing what the Taliban is doing and not the allied forces..

Its like a semi-engineered leak...you leak it through wikileaks and so that way people will beleive it to be true...so you leak them stories about the big bad taliban..

It's a big release and besides the headline items mentioned in the main articles, everything else that I look at seems tragic but in insufficient detail to say that anything other than the fallout of an illegal* war is happening.

(* illegal based on reams of intelligence and evidence not included in the WikiLeaks release, that is.)


I haven't seen anything yet that indicates the Taliban doing anything other than fighting the invading forces and their puppet government. So what are you basing your view on?

nice job wikileaks!

How did I mis this news yesterday?? I only learned about it when it was a headline in our local news this morning.
Wikileaks was not known amoung the general public before today. I hope with this leak that all changes and when they come out with more leaks in the future, the entire world will learn about it when the msm picks it up. Because be honest, most of the world only beliefs it when it's on the tv news!


edit to ask:
did anyone download the wikileaks site dump yet? It keeps disconnecting the server when I try...

[edit on 26/7/2010 by GypsK]

What fascinates me is that a few weeks ago people were wondering whether Wikileaks either had this information (that the whistleblower had been caught before the data was passed on) or that Wikileaks may get caught/stopped before they leaked the information. Clearly, on both counts the US gov/allies were unable to intervene and control the situation.

Now they have shown they apparently have the data and a route to publish, it will be interesting to see whether there is indeed more diplomatically sensitive material to emerge?

Originally posted by MemoryShock

• How the coalition is increasingly using deadly Reaper drones to hunt and kill Taliban targets by remote control from a base in Nevada.

Orchestrated war to field test new technologies?

I think that is a viable possibility...

Yeah, we sure didn't have enough opportunity in Iraq.

wikileaks is so amazing thats is hard to believe that what we get is what it is

about these files: Assange said that it represents the whole war! all reports by soldiers of every single person dead in the conflict, off course, that were archived by the soldiers

so ... its good content

I just had the morning news on in the background while I was on the computer, and I heard them say 1 line about this then quickly jump into other much 'urgent' matters... damn MSM needs to get on the right side of the fight. It would change the world as we know it.

//Edit: I kept the news on in the background (I like comparing the things that pop out at me to what I find out when I research the topic on my own) and they did a little snippet about Wikileaks.

What they said was pretty disturbing - they ended the small segment with a quote from I believe Obama (may be wrong, wasn't paying full attention) which was something along the lines of "Wikileaks is a nation security issue" etc etc...

Why that is so disturbing to me (as it should be for you all) is because we all know that they will kill terrorists or at the very least capture them and keep them in captivity while torturing them. Julian Assange better watch his back even more than he has been now, sooner or later the US will try to capture him and bring him to trial, or have a mock trial and charge him with treason and he will never be seen again... I hope this does not happen, but our government will do whatever it takes to keep their secrets hidden.

[edit on 26/7/2010 by highlyoriginal]

Just had a newsflash on Sky news that Julian Assange is to give a press conference at 12 noon; should be interesting to see. The news reporter has just said that the Pentagon are claiming that these leaks are embarrassing.

Some of these stories are of French/US troops firing on civilian buses with children on board.

I'm all for the whole thing being exposed for what it really is, but this isn't going to do relations any good IMO.. though I doubt that they ever will be..