Wikileaks :Afghanistan War Diary (2004-2010)

Release date

July 25, 2010

Summary

25th July 2010 5:00 PM EST WikiLeaks has released a document set called the Afghan War Diary, an extraordinary compendium of over 91,000 reports covering the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010.
The reports, while written by soldiers and intelligence officers, and mainly describing lethal military actions involving the United States military, also include intelligence information, reports of meetings with political figures, and related details.

The document collection is available on a dedicated webpage.

The reports cover most units from the US Army with the exception of most US Special Forces' activities. The reports do not generally cover top secret operations or European and other ISAF Forces operations.

We have delayed the release of some 15,000 reports from the total archive as part of a harm minimization process demanded by our source. After further review, these reports will be released, with occasional redactions, and eventually in full, as the security situation in Afghanistan permits.

The data is provided in HTML (web), CSV (comma-separated values) and SQL (database) formats, and was rendered into KML (Keyhole Markup Language) mapping data that can be used with Google Earth. Please note that the checksums will change.

• Complete dump of the website, HTML format 75 MB
• • (SHA1: 80adb634a0d218bd0f9a0f22734e3d2e7e67acfc)
  • This is a complete dump of the website at http://wardiary.wikileaks.org. Extract this to your local hard disk and open it with your web browser. Please check the project website http://wardiary.wikileaks.org for the most recent version.
• All entries, CSV format 15 MB
  • (SHA1: d6b82f955a7beb9589f92e9487c74669d1912a34)
  • Raw data in comma-separated value format for further processing.
• All entries, SQL format 16M MB
  • (SHA1: 9463f73ebbcd3f95899a138d6ba9817e1b6b800d)
  • Raw data in SQL format for further processing.
• All entries, KML format 16 MB
  • (SHA1: 34562c0c7722522161e40330d80ac9082014845f)
  • This archive contains all events in one KML file. This file needs much memory if opened with Google Earth.
• All NATO entries, KML format 209 kB
  • (SHA1: 088ff8999a316f30e5e398021375fa3b4fc6349e)
  • Contains the events that were tagged with NATO.
• Entries by month, KML format 16 MB
  • (SHA1: 01a5c0639e1e1e844b10e962a44849b2a521d092)
  • This archive provides the entries split by month. This makes it easier to browse the data in Google Earth on low power machines.
• Entries with scale filter, KML format 981 kB
  • (SHA1: 4669c721b87775a44472f6688e768305c686beff)
  • File that will show a scale corresponding to the number of incidents in Google Earth. Each incident begins with a 0.5 base score, and 0.1 has been added for each incident involving humans. This set of data provides only events that have a scaling of 1.5.
• Insurance file 1.4 GB
  • (SHA1: cce54d3a8af370213d23fcbfe8cddc8619a0734c)

To decompress the files you will need the program 7zip. A free client for Windows can be downloaded here. Please use your favorite search engine to find clients for other operating systems; these include p7zip for Unix/Linux and EZ7z for Mac.

Further information

Context

United States

Military or intelligence (ruling)

Central Command

Primary language

English

http://mirror.wikileaks.info/wiki/Afghan_War_Diary,_2004-2010/

#Afghanistan: #Russia allows #NATO to use air base.

Moscow: Russia has allowed the US and its NATO allies to use a Russian air base in Ulyanovsk city as a hub for transits to and from Afghanistan.

Moscow had announced plans to create a NATO transit hub in Ulyanovsk in March, and the decision was taken on June 25.

The decision sparked protests in the city, the birthplace of Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin....read more
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Pakistan:U.S. Enemy Number One - 3 in 4 Pakistanis now consider US an enemy as resentment grows.

 

 

Pakistani Islamists burn a US flag against the killing of Osama bin Laden during a protest outskirt of Quetta on May 6, 2011. (AFP Photo/Banaras Khan)

Approximately 3 in 4 Pakistanis now consider the US an enemy according to a new Pew research poll released on June 27th. The polls show increasing hostility towards the US and new lows in the already strained relationship between the two countries.

The Pew Research poll conducted by the Pew Global Attitudes Project has published stark numbers.  The poll, entitled “Pakistani Public Opinion Ever More Critical of US”, says 74% of Pakistanis now view the US as an ‘enemy’ up from 69% last year, while support for President Barack Obama continues to be exceptionally low.  A majority of Pakistanis hold the view that Obama has been just as bad a president as George W. Bush was in his last year in office.  Furthermore, approximately 4 in 10 Pakistanis believe that US military and financial aid is having a negative impact on their country; only 1 in 10 believes the impact has been positive.

Tensions have been extreme between the two countries due to unceasing US drone attacks inside Pakistani territory. Pakistan shut down a highly strategic NATO supply route through its territory into Afghanistan last November in response to a NATO air strike that killed 24 Pakistani troops on the Afghan border.

 http://on.rt.com/bj4qgj

Pakistan: War Criminal Hague Sued Over Pakistan Drone Strikes.

Human rights lawyers are going to sue British Foreign Secretary William Hague for allegedly using intelligence to assist American drone strikes in Pakistan, according to the BBC.
The case is being considered at the High Court in London, on behalf of Noor Khan, whose father was killed in a drone strike.

Khan's father, Malik Daud Khan, was part of a local council of elders holding a meeting in northwest Pakistan when a drone-fired missile hit the group, according to the law firm. Khan was among 40 killed in the attack, according to the Guardian.

The lawyers said that civilian intelligence officers who passed on information may also be liable as "secondary parties to murder," according to the BBC.

More on GlobalPost: Pakistan: Zaheerul Islam appointed new head of ISI
Richard Stein, the head of human rights at London law firm Leigh Day & Co., said, "We believe that there is credible, unchallenged evidence that the secretary of state is operating a policy of passing intelligence to officials or agents of the US government; and that he considers such a policy to be 'in strict accordance' with the law," according to the Guardian.
The lawyers plan to argue that those involved in planning the drone attacks can only claim immunity from criminal prosecution if they are "lawful combatants," according to Reuters. Since the staff working at the UK's Government Communications Headquarters are mostly civilians, they are not classified as combatants in an "armed international conflict" and could be prosecuted, said the law firm.

More on GlobalPost: US soldier held in deaths of 16 Afghans


http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/pakistan/120311/william-hague-sued-over-pakistan-drone-strikes

#Pakistan:Prime Minister Yusuf Gilani Disqualified .

The Supreme Court in Pakistan has disqualified Prime Minister Yusuf Gilani from office after declaring him "ineligible for office". He can no longer be a member of Parliament.
President Zardari is holding an emergency meeting to find a replacement.

#Pakistan A Hired Gun To Kill U.S. Enemies - Julian Assange.

Assange Episode 9 preview with Imran Khan: 'Pakistan a hired gun to kill US enemies'

http://fb.me/1YsS5dMB0 http://assange.rt.com/

 

#Pentagon says #airstrikes on #Afghan homes will continue.

http://www.kuna.net.kw/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2246871&Language=en